Looking for someone to extract and put in sprites from Shantae: Half Genie Hero Ultimate Editon (1 Viewer)

[Icantevenname]

The title says it all. I've requested for a nude mod of the game in another form. Someone is willing to edit the sprites, but he doesn't know how to extract or put in the sprites. Heck, I think he even does things here. The sprites have been extracted onto the Spriter's Resource, but he doesn't seem to trust their quality. Either way, we still need someone who can deal with the sprites. He left some links that could help.

meh2481/wfLZEx

Luigi Auriemma

Don't worry, I've clicked on them before to try to make heads an' tails of 'em (and failed) and they're safe to go to.

Steam Store link Save 10% on Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition on Steam

 

[Felldude]

My thoughts.

Best bet would be to find someone with an animation program that does 2D art with skeletal rigging and come close to a recreation of all the animations...Would still likely be 100's of hours of work.

Trying to redraw each sprite would be the other option...assuming 1000 frames of animations at 10 minutes each, that's 160+ hours per character.

 

[Icantevenname]

My thoughts.

Best bet would be to find someone with an animation program that does 2D art with skeletal rigging and come close to a recreation of all the animations...Would still likely be 100's of hours of work.

Trying to redraw each sprite would be the other option...assuming 1000 frames of animations at 10 minutes each, that's 160+ hours per character.

Skeletal Rigging? Like Adobe Animate? Or is it like this other program I know called Spriter?
Oh, and about the workload, Shantae should be easy since the Ultimate Edition comes with a blue bikini outfit for Beach Mode, which ditches the jacket the default red one has. Since Shantae's outfits share a number of sprite sets, editing the blue bikini should help a lot in the long run.

 

[Felldude]

Skeletal Rigging? Like Adobe Animate? Or is it like this other program I know called Spriter?
Oh, and about the workload, Shantae should be easy since the Ultimate Edition comes with a blue bikini outfit for Beach Mode, which ditches the jacket the default red one has. Since Shantae's outfits share a number of sprite sets, editing the blue bikini should help a lot in the long run.

I know Moho (Anime Studio) uses rigging not sure about the ones you mentioned, sprite work or even animation in general is not my thing.

The little sprite work I did made me realize how labor intensive it could be.
I want to say one xna file which had about 128 frames/cells of animation took me half a day.

I do think hand drawing would give more natural results, and the bikini texture would speed it up.

Collaboration would difficult but not impossible, I think the game would have enough fan/artist support.
Just posting the converted/extracted sprites and asking artist to remove the clothes but not add any anatomy might be one route.

 

[Icantevenname]

Just posting the converted/extracted sprites and asking artist to remove the clothes but not add any anatomy might be one route.

I already found someone willing to put in the work of editing the sprites. We just need someone to extract and replace the sprites. Know anyone that can do that or a site where I can find someone like that?

 

[Felldude]

I think you posted the links for the source code.

I found a tool for Wayforward games on xentax that includes both a unpacker and repacker...it might work with Shantae
I don't own the game to test so: (Also exe so use at your own risk)
Also it appears they had some issues with .anb files...and this thread has been dead for two years

games-gen.com/soft/DuckTalesTools.exe
XeNTaX • View topic - DuckTales Remastered (*.PAK) Extractor

 

[Icantevenname]

I think you posted the links for the source code.

I found a tool for Wayforward games on xentax that includes both a unpacker and repacker...it might work with Shantae
I don't own the game to test so: (Also exe so use at your own risk)
Also it appears they had some issues with .anb files...and this thread has been dead for two years

games-gen.com/soft/DuckTalesTools.exe
XeNTaX • View topic - DuckTales Remastered (*.PAK) Extractor

Works like a charm, pal! Only problem is that I have no idea what .anb and .pfb are. I oughtta jot this down on my original post.