Agung Paramtapa's Journal

  Idk what's wrong with the tool lotsbiss provided but this is just  miserable 😞; the tool that I tried and got from Mod DB is  at best  used as a model replacer on its own, and when I tried to extract the model (I tried the A-10A as an example), it turns out to be a weird square-y and like, boxy model that to me, it looks like someone has put together a drawing on a piece of paper and colored it with a crayon or smth 😄.  The same thing happens with another example model that loaded with 3D Object Converter app that it got  bad polygons  that turned up to be  this bad , to which I highly doubt if it's even usable as a reference point for aircraft modeling and replacer.  TBR with ya, I've heard of the name lotsbiss, and in the translated Readme, he's a Chinese modder (mod maker), one of the legends that once made the AC7ModTools app for texture viewing. No offense, but it seems to me that, back when he was the king in H.A.W.X. modding, he ...

Pretty much what the title says on the tin. While I found out skin mods in H.A.W.X. works in H.A.W.X. 2, the modding in its entirety is highly focused on H.A.W.X., and even then it was pretty much limited, bare bore, and there's nothing new to come by in 2025 (going 2026 in 2 months). On top of that, Microsoft ended Windows 10 support by the next day (it probably has happened on the other side of the world), and I'm not gonna bother my ass off on switching OSes to like, CachyOS, whilst doing modding works and/or video editing that only works on Windows (such as 3ds Max and VideoStudio), even though SOG (SomeOrdinaryGamers) encouraged people to  not  updating to Windows 11. TBH, I'm fairly surprised that the Rafale skin mod from Skyline only works in H.A.W.X. and not H.A.W.X. 2 due to different UV map used, and that the Super Hornet skin has wrong mapping on the tail rudder and flipped UV map. It's even no surprise that Nexus has only 2 mods in place for H.A.W.X. 2 , and...

 Welp, TBH, I didn't want to expect the worst because it's 2025 and AI is evolving, but here it is. For tonight, I spent my time figuring out how the hell I can make the raw H.A.W.X. 2 models  readable  in 3D modeling environment, but it pains me to say that Google spits out  nothing relevant to my searches  😞, to the point that the only possible way to do this now is to rip the models  directly  while the game is running, which is by no other way than using Ninja Ripper. Yes, Ninja Ripper. I've already talked about it several times already in several posts before and to me, it's nothing new. The Lock On Mod Manager (ModMan) is quite universal when it comes to read CDDS archives, but not with the old AdA-Mod that I managed to pull out before LockOnFiles website was no more (Tom_Weiss has A LOT to answer for 😅). The CDDS archives the AdA-Mod author (BarbsMan et al) made is, for some reason, using new algorithm that weirdly enough, works flawlessly in ...

I'm back with good news and bad news, to start with this blog post. I'll just start with the bad news first just to explain what the title is all about. TBH, my loyalty over the Blazededge's "Get Home, Be Home, Stay Home" Discord server, especially since my first ARSON Squadron rodeo back in 2021~2022, was worth it, to which I established a fame and a name for myself as one of the pioneers of advanced modding through trial and error procedures. I spent 3 years frequenting myself in that server that Blaze claimed to be  his  home, and I was quite happy that all these years, everything was sailing smooth... until  I got an announcement that the server owner himself, Blaze, has gotten his new low that I do not want to disclose more. Initially, the admins and moderators agreed to let him out of the server to sort things out, but it didn't go according to the plan as Blaze has come down having mental breakdown, going to turn away against the truth so that he will c...

 Idk if I should be doing this, but I think I should because what I create is quite revolutionary. I'm pretty sure you have heard or  at least  played with Skies Restored mod by now. A revolutionary mod created by the one and only, Calamitous (often known with the display name CloakedEnigma on Nexus), that brings you improvements over the overall AC7 gameplay. Although I dare say what he created is enough to impress lots of people within the modding community, there's a good chance that it's not as polished or perfect as I hoped to be. Sure, there are some issues pertaining dialogues in missions, and some original dialogues might've been cut in favor of cut content restoration, but get this; as much as I love Calamitous' work, ofc I wanted my own fixes and improvements. However, as of this writing, I've been asking for permissions in improving his mod on Blaze's "Get Home, Be Home, Stay Home" (G[B]S) Discord server (now I'm not in there anym...

 I simplify all map-based mods I have into this one big post. The mods I cover are based on map editing that I discovered while I was developing the 3.0 update of my SPW Swap and VisMod Collection. I gotta hand it to kokeo1 who discovered the idea of actor injection from one mission map to another; although theoretically we  can  edit missions to make a new one, the mission itself is "cooked" in a way that we can only edit what's available at hand. Creating a new mission requires us to have a reverse-engineered source code and dev assets to work with, which is not easily obtainable due to Ace Combat 7  is not even an  indie  game. That didn't stop some modders to modify the existing ones. I'm pretty sure you have heard the Ally F-22A Mobius One mod by now. This accomplishment alone made me interested in learning how kokeo1 (the author) modify such mission in a way that Mobius 1 (for all we know and love in the Ace Combat franchise)  canonically ...

 If you read my old post pertaining Ace Combat 6 emulation through Xenia app that ended up bad (it's been 5 years, holy shit 🤣), well, I have good news for you readers who still care about my blog (as I start to neglect it even more due to more of my daily life updates are spent on Blaze's "Get Home, Be Home, Stay Home" Discord server).    If you have watched it, then you know what I'm talking about 😏. It was out 2 days before my birthday this year (like, holy shit I can't believe this 😱) and TBH, it's not even my birthday gift that I want.  So, what's going on here? Let's start up with the fact that emulation isn't perfect. Sure, you can say that such thing can be perfected from time to time, but TBH, the fact that I wanted to have a try on AC6 even though I don't own Xbox physically is getting my patience dry, so based on what I experienced 5 years ago , the Xenia application was at its infancy. It's not as perfect as today (to wh...

 Well, I come back with two good news. Storm Connections Modding = Storm 4 Modding I'll have to say, the modding techniques used in UNSC is similar to that of UNS4. Encrypted CPK archives, same method to replace images with the hex editor... TBH, it's not far off considering UNSC is a reskin of UNS4 with new features, bug fixes, and more, which makes UNSC as if it's a brand new game. Also, UNSC is the first modern Naruto game entry to return the use of two different Ninjutsus similar to that of Ultimate Ninja 5 on PS2 (no idea if Storm 1 is having that, correct me if I'm wrong tho). Apparently, since I joined Nexus back when I was hyped with Fallout 4 Modding, there is a new game category dedicated to UNSC (I'm surprised since Ik that only VGM is the main source of the mods for Naruto Storm games), and not even a year or two it's filled with model mods, like, bwoaaaaaaaaaaah... I moved away from AC7 modding for some time in a hope that I can enjoy other games w...