Hello,

I'd like to make a weeb undertaking of making a mod which basically replaces all characters with anime characters.

This not an overly original idea, yet has never been actually thorougly done before :-( .

It has already been shown how easy it is to replace hero assets, however I'd like to:

1. Reach out to fellow modders on whether it is even possible to replace faction screen/faction leader assets.
   (check, it apparently is, we good on this front)
   Ok, turns out I was mislead to believe it is, it is not, this part is unatainable with assets outside the game.
   Two weeks later using proper keywords to research yet another 3 asset linking paths I finally got it.
2. Reach out to community to provide suggestions on assets themselves as to individual anime universes to replace each faction.
   Example:
   Replacing various Horatios with various incarnations of JoJo, and hopefully the theme too.
   Using a sum of gundam/nge mechs to replace riftborn, or instead use MLP characters...
   Take a faction, list heroes, link imgur pics, make suggestions based of your favourite anime and try to achieve a reasonable fit with the original faction.

If you want to participate in providing assets for suitable replacements, you can also go above and beyond by using Cali's utility tool for designing custom heroes

Current conception is that we'll make mods faciton by faction to be used at once or separately at will, although that will probably not work, so we just gonna make one big mod instead.

Here's how to participate:

1. Provide ideas
2. Provide assets and content - as in the properly sized pictures on agreed/potential versions of your chosen anime/faction little of it will go to waste as we can simply flood the game with extra heroes if need be
3. Playtest the mod once available

Girls und panzer line up for UE?

It's not that hard, all we really need is an idea for a particular faction and then 3 pictures for each hero, probably one splash for faction as a whole or leader.
Thanks for the count though! ^_^
Assignments would be really simple, take a faction and reimagine it in waifus from a specific anime.

Then following Cali's hero creator provide assets for each hero.
Neutral hero sources can be then just replaced with random stuff, like JoJo, pokemon, gundam, EVAs, Angels... you name it. But bonus points if we really manage to make it all waifus.

Idrinth wrote:

koxsos wrote:

Then following Cali's hero creator provide assets for each hero.
Neutral hero sources can be then just replaced with random stuff, like JoJo!

From my understanding there would be name replacements afterwards, to make sure all heroes are actually replaced, because the way it's build the generator generates an additional hero afair.

This is correct, after we have the assets, we would do the actaual replacement of each hero, including bio and such.
But creating a use-ready package for individual heroes with properly tested and sized pics will help a long way in doing so ^_^.

I would not worry about skill trees, the primary goal is to make a purely cosmetic change, not an actual functional change.

We should be able to get that going simply by relinking assets, with proper assets provided via the tool.
We can then dump a bonus pack of random heroes into it if we actually go above and beyond our original goals, but for now I would focus to go faction by faction with suitable replacements.

What's good for unfallen? Please drop in actual pics and examples. As I have not seen majority of your picks, while you probably have not seen majority of my picks.

I might goober around with the custom creator tool and report back, but is there a particular preference on transparent backgrounds for the character art?

Also, looking at it a bit, it would be pretty difficult to make every faction 100% waifu if you intend to have each faction homogenous to a singular series, and also retain some sense of similarity to the base factions. There's a few shows with all-female casts that would totally work (Girls Und Panzer for the United Empire is basically a given), but it would open up a lot of fun series if the only criteria was to try and match themes. Cravers could use the Overlord cast, for example.

Ok, so as for my next trick, I shall try and deliver a "proof of concept" by making horatio into quintiplets, 

hopefully in the near future, when I feel like it and all, should have probably done it during the weekend but then I had things to play,

meanwhile we can iron out suggestions, spread awareness, get more input, learn to mod....
To extract from CallyyllaC's guide here's what picture sizes you need per hero:

Large:

Format: PNG

Width: 360px

Height: 180px

Meduim:

Format: PNG

Width: 180px

Height: 240px

Mood:

Format: PNG

Width: 1324px

Height: 712px

So I started with Yotsuba,

first you want a base picture, that can be them resized to fit the individual picturesso I find a high resolution pic at https://images2.alphacoders.com/989/989163.png 

I then resized it down to individual requirements 

and there you have it. Yotsuba is ready to be used as graphical element replacement.

Each hero takes about 3 minutes simply using MS paint and figuring out the quirks.

On top of individual hero assets I'll also need to following, size underfined AFAIK but we can always size down

<Icon Size="Small" Path="Gui/AffinityHoratioSmall" />

            <Icon Size="Medium" Path="Gui/AffinityHoratioMedium" />

            <Icon Size="MediumInverted" Path="Gui/AffinityHoratioMediumInverted" />

            <Icon Size="Large" Path="Gui/AffinityHoratioLarge" />

            <Icon Size="Leader" Path="Gui/AffinityHoratioLeader" />

            <Icon Size="Mood" Path="Gui/AffinityHoratioMood" /> <- seems to be used for diplomacy, greetings, intro screen and faction selection screen

            <Icon Size="SmallExtended" Path="Gui/NotificationMajorEmpireMetHoratioSmall" />

            <Icon Size="MediumExtended" Path="Gui/NotificationMajorEmpireMetHoratioMedium" />

            <Icon Size="Loading" Path="Gui/LoadingScreen06" />   <- loading screen obv 

So far I am struggling as part of the icons is not loading/replacing original assets properly, so I departed to seek wisdom and guidance from the modding gurus and will carry on once I have climbed the mountain of discovery.

Here's some preview of what does work: