Feral Heart

I have no idea what Kov was thinking when he made the floppy ears, but xD

to go along with my idea of the cat ears being replaced, after looking at the floppy ears... well, I've got an idea for a replacement of those, too.  They just generally look kinda wierd and their anatomy just doesn't work. They're oddly fat at the top and then at the bottom they just kinda flatten unnaturally and... well, they don't really look like accurate floppy dog ears xD

sO, I've come up with a little mockup idea for a replacement of them.

Example images:

ORIGINAL:





MINE:




just like with the cat ears, I'm going to try and make a mod to replace them. Unfortunately, my cat ears replacer keeps failing to export correctly and crashes my game when I try to use them ;'D

If I can get the cat ears to work, I'll move on to doing this, too. I might even make a mod for the other 'flopped' ears, making one go up and the other kinda flop over German-Shepard-Mutt style like Charlie. xD

also as a sort of add-on idea here: a shorter wolf tail. Actual wolf tails are actually short, not long like in FH. Will also try modding that. xD

I have, as I stated in another thread, been trying to redo the cat ears. Unfortunately, no matter what I do, selecting my new cat ears ingame crashes the game.

I've changed every vertex name and etc. to the same name as the original cat ears, applied the vertex groups and materials and all that, as well as used a placeholder skeleton thing which I then changed in the ears .xml to fbody.skeleton as I was instructed by someone on KITO.

However, none of this worked and it keeps crashing my game whenever the cat ears are selected.

How exactly do you export an item, body part replacer, or whatever into the game properly without crashing it?? what exactly do I need to do in the blend file?

I've tried pretty much everything here and the person I initially asked poofs from Skype the split second I send any messages to them for some reason. Pretty sure it's a Skype glitch, had the same issue whenever I'm at school and try to message another one of my friends- but I'm not even in school now so idk why it does that. :/

So... can someone help out here?

I TRIED TO REPLACE THE CAT EARS MESH INGAME AND I



WHAT HAVE I DONE

I SHOULD STOP TRYING TO OGRE EXPORT

One thing I'd suggest for an update would be overhauling the general animations to be more realistic and just generally better looking- for example, the run. Animals don't lift all four legs at once when running.

Maybe use some animations similar to AquaChocobo's for the walk, sit, lay, etc.- of course, probably not the buttswing, headbang, and etc. replacers, though roar could use Aqua's anim or something similar.

I dunno, I think it'd be nice to have something like that- or even a mod that keeps buttswing, headbang, and etc. as-is but fixes the walk, run, and etc.

Alright, so, I'v e got a couple of ideas for newer versions of the game, now that it's become clear that FH IS in fact updateable.

I'm going to try and steer clear of ideas that would require the source code to update, and I'm instead only going to suggest things that I think will be possible to do without it based on what's been done already.

Anything marked with a "*" is something I'm not sure of whether or not it'd be possible.

-A world map to put somewhere on the forums, maybe in the 'help section or something. Just a drawn map showing the different continents, regions, areas, and etc., with game map and portal locations pointed out.

-Arctic/snowy regions, with things like snow-covered trees, frozen lakes, 'tundra' areas with small bits of vegetation, snowy caves, etc.

-A new parkour-ish map, maybe with instead of floating square rocks to jump from, its this huge tree or something to you have to climb up using parkour 'steps' such as branches or things lodged in the tree. Then at the top, there's a portal to a new sky map- maybe a city in the sky type of thing.

-Rainforest map.

-A desert map.

-Mountain regions.

-*Because this was achieved with a hack, I'm assuming this is in some way possible: Increased slider abilities, such as the ability to make bigger/smaller characters, shorter characters for stubby-legged creatures, etc. I mean, it doesn't have to be /too/ insane, like elephant sized or something, but just a bit of an increase would be nice. It'd definitely be useful for cat roleplays, so people could actually be properly sized kits!

-*New animations, not replacers. For example, paw licking, nuzzling, etc. And maybe change the name of 'Buttswing' to 'Moonwalk'.

-*New manes, tails, etc.(I'm honestly not sure if the standing mane was there before. I don't think it was and I'm pretty sure it's new... but I could be wrong. I'm suggesting this based on that bc I honestly don't remember that ever being there.)

ITEMS:

-Bandanna
-Claws
-If new manes arent possible, maybe mane /items/ that come in a few pre-set colors? At least it'd be something.
-Same idea as above, but with tails? I believe there is a tailless option, or at least a bobtail. Maybe they could be fitted to match the bobtail at the base.
-Tuft items with alpha planes for a furry look.