Gen-ma

SFM:
Rainbow dash with Alpha Wings
www.dropbox.com/s/vg4x6f1jey8s…

Hello all, this will be my final post for awhile or never. My life have left me in a position where I can longer work on these projects. This was the last thing I was working on, and it was still work in progress. So I am leaving it up for the public, to do whatever you want with it. You do not have to credit me, thank you all for the support! See ya. 

--The skin weights needed to flesh out for the fk rig.
--There are no Ik support atm, though you can use a human rig at lock it to the arms.
--Made presets so that folding the wings could be alot easier
--Presets are linear so the breaks in between areas during the transition from open to close
--Using the graph editor on these wings will break them, still figuring out the mirroring match
--Motion editor works really with them, however making them look even is time-consuming

Bone structure
10 Bones for the WingArms x2 (These drive the wings and moves the feathers with them depending on the bone selection)
21 Bones for the Feathers x2 
12 Bones for the Inside Feathers x2 


Left Wing = 43 bones
Right Wing = 43 bones

Total bones = 86 bones


These wings are experimental one model, without model swap. These open and close on a preset.

There are a few bugs in the wings. These wings heavily rely on FK Rig and presets and animation data. NO IK Solution.
I am still working on figuring out an IK solution.
In the meantime, I made presets so you do not have manual close the wings. They not a 100% mirrored.
They are about 95% mirrored. I had eyeball most of the bone relation between the left and right wing, beecause I was still figuring out how to get them mirror in the graph editor which did not mirror properly.

DMX animation has a cleanup file of the open to close animation



Blender Files:
www.dropbox.com/s/nh8upk7u2gx3…


References:

Rigging bird Wings
youtu.be/B0evyQJA_Ag?t=25

Inspirations:

[DL] Songbird Serenade (Sia)

Pegasus Wing Rigging Progress
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mcn0Y…

NO LIP COLOR TEXTURE REPLACEMENT: If you hate that lipstick color on the mouth, here is the texture replacement for it!!

www.dropbox.com/s/n2140ukljomo…

MODELS - V1.022 DOWNLOAD LINK:

www.dropbox.com/s/n2140ukljomo…

Eye Texture Swap Tutorial
youtu.be/5-qzm2gwE3M

Changes from V1.01 -> V1.02
This patch is basically removing animating textures, as well fixing smaller parts. I have added bumpmap and revector all the mane 6 colors. 

Pro Change:

++Reduce Textures: From ~200MB~250MB -> 50MB ~ 80MB (Each Model) Total with all six model present: 300MB~500MB
++Remove all animated textures to single frames. Will be follow up with folder dedicated for animated textures plus tutorial.
        *Skin 0 Pupil
        *Skin 1 Pupil medium
        *Skin 2 Pupil small
        *Skin 3 Pupil Big
        *Skin 4 Pupil Crazy
        *Skin 5 Pupil Star
        *Skin 6 Pupil Dead
        *Skin 7 Pupil Extra (This has no texture on it just use for texture swaps or any other eye textures)

++Fix bad jiggle ears shouldn't break anymore Copy Juicedane jiggle Codes. No more flickering well 99% of the time they work.
++Fix Fluttershy Mirror Mane size (was slightly off)
++Retexture all models more colorful
++Remove all extra body textures to another location following tutorial.
++Body Texture is 4096 x 4096 after re-vector

Neutral Change:
-+Changes in some jiggle code for Fluttershy (still not completely fixed, until I work on it for V1.03)
-+Body dirt texture being to move to separate folder called: Animated(will do hair, wings, hair, tail eventually)
-+Added bumpmaps to hair and horn except for Rainbow Dash (Might remodel Mane for Rainbowdash or re-texture) (nothing to add to her atm) (experimental)
                    *this line of code in the all models is "$bumpmap" to remove bumpmap just put "//" in front of the coded line in the vmt

EXAMPLE:

"VertexLitGeneric"
{
   "$basetexture" "models/VN_mlp/Augenh_Twilight/hairback"
   //"$bumpmap" "models/VN_mlp/Augenh_Twilight/hairback_NRM"

"$phong" "1"
"$phongexponent" "20"
"$phongboost" ".1"
"$phongfresnelranges" "[.3 1 8]"
"$halflambert" "0"
"$basemapalphaphongmask" "1"
"$lightwarptexture" "models/VN_mlp/common/lightwarp"

"$rimlight" "1"
"$rimlightexponent" "4"
"$rimlightboost" "2"

"$ambientocclusion" "1"
}

Con:
-- Whatever you do not delete anything from the hierarchy tab it will screw up your element viewer and cause it void out all the material in that section.
-- Do not Crtl Z in hierarchy if you mess up the settings 
-- The Hierarchy tab is messy, make sure  your organize

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Next the Update list ::

V1.022
++ Fix the bones mirror mane on Fluttershy
++ Fix the Color on Fluttershy Mane
++ Fix the body texture on Fluttershy


V1.023 Adding Dirt Body Textures update
++ Adding dirt textures to body
++ Adding dirt textures to hair
++ Adding dirt textures to wings
++ Adding dirt textures to tail
++ Rextexture Applejack mane there small areas where the bumpmap is weird.


V1.024 Individual Mane parts
++Separate Backmane and FrontFront as individual parts (with mirror)
            - better for hiding certain parts of the mane and reversal


V1.025 Jiggles Bones
++ Updating all the jiggle bones for hair so they have a lot more flow and less breakage.
++ Fluttershy jiggle bones (needs an update)


Parts model Packs:
Separate Models for all the parts
Mane, Tail, Horn, and some other parts, I might not know of....

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Normal to Dirt
Add Override Materials:
$Frame (Body, Tail, Tail straight, hair straight, Hair....)
Body:0-4 Normal to Dirt (Rainbow Dash 0-9)(Pinkie Pie 0-9)
Pinkie Straight Hair: 0-1
Pinkie Straight Tail: 0-1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SOURCE FILES:
www.mediafire.com/file/ip08xj9…
All the source files used: 
Textures: (Rainbow Dash has a lot textures inside (I would ignore them because those were all the test I did)
Adobe Animate 2017 Eye Files: (If you have experience in Flash you will see a jumble mess but I only did for exporting reason because I could change of the color of the eyes quickly and render them out fast)
Adobe Photoshop 2017 Body Files:  (This contains all the photoshop files for the body textures, also comes with argodaemon dirty textures that he used on Littlepip)(body only)
Model source files: (Mostly from AeridicCore pack but alter a little bit) (I reduce jiggle butt because it jiggles so much DX) (I might mess around with the jiggle ears as they are fickle)

Also I am leaving the source files of the mirrored manes here with the rest of the files I used. I didn't bother changing the tri into quads, because I was only mirroring manes model, and changing joint orientation for jiggle bones. The mirrors are not a 100% accurate with jiggle orientation with original more like 80% to 95% accurate but they will do.


Model Names:
Augenh_Twilight
Augenh_RainbowDash
Augenh_Rarity
Augenh_PinkiePie
Augenh_Fluttershy
Augenh_Applejack

Next on the list:
Augenh_Lyra
Augenh_BonBon
Augenh_Derpy
Augenh_etc...
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Credits:

MODELS:
AeridicCore Enhanced Mares DMX Kit
       - JDash42 Presets on Models
       - Poninnahka source pack
       - Stefano96 enhanced source pack
 JuiceDane Enhanced Models Flexes and Presets
Poninnahka SFM Pony Models (w/Team)
       - Chiramii-chan Model Designer
       - oogaboogaman - Orginial Model IMporter for Source Engine
       - CobbaltCO Model Resources / Designer
 KP-ShadowSquirrel - Orginal 3d Models
 Sindroom - Updated Horn Models

TEXTURES:
Cuitemarks - Found on MLP wiki and DeviantArt Credits go to vector artists
 argodaemon - Dirt Textures (I did some modification)
 Gen-ma - Eyes Animated Textures / body animated textures
     - GLEBOSS - Idea from original animated textures for eyes
 Chiramii-chan Show accurate eyes for SFM models

TESTING:
Public
Hellhounds04 
Gen-ma
XxTheoBanditxX
RedAceOfSpades

Thanks for testing!

PROGRAM USED:
CrowBar
Blender
Adobe Photoshop 2017
Adobe Animate 2017
Adobe Illustrator 2017
Source Filmmaker


If I missed in the credits politely leave a comment below and I will add on the list so I can credit you properly.
Also, I do not have all the answer but I will answer them to my best of my ability.