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Making Custom villagers in Animal Crossing New Leaf Welcome Amiibo Tutorial
(Note: Currently, I am still working on V2 of the pack, as V1 was taken down due to including some files from the games romf, witch is illegal, hence why there are no example villagers, as I need to make a patch that doesn't include any files from the romf, though I am currently working on that. All the information in the post is for V2, as I have everything about it planned)
(Note 2: I forgot I made this, hence why I haven't made a new pack yet. I have a new computer so I need to set everything up again. The thing that reminded me this existed was when I went to my moms town and saw every villager name was blank, witch is a side effect of me thinking adding characters to villager names was easy, its not, you need a tool to do it (same with items). Anyways, I'm going to continue to try and document Villagers in New Leaf as, from what I have heard and can tell, we don't know too much about them (An absolute nightmare for someone who hasn't done any rom hacking before) and since I have a goal of adding some new villagers and personalities and even dialog to the game (I know its possible (at least villagers and dialog) as the devs had to do so to make the WA update))
(Note 3: I am still trying to find out what Constpack.bin does, as its, weird? It controls the house with some values, but others go ignored? And I think it also controls the jingle that plays when talking to a villager (the jingle that changes depending on species) and it also controls if the villager exist, though seemingly only for the Amiibo camera, but (from what I can tell) WA didn't change the file in anyway. Oh yeah, the game has also made it 100% more difficult to test constpack.bin due to the fact that, even from a freshly dumped cia, as long as I have luma patch Constpack.bin, it crashes the game. So yeah, this file is, well, a haunted blob of confusion to say the least)
Incase you didn't know, theres a small community that makes custom villagers, and though there are a couple of tutorials online on how to do this, they don't tend to go too in-depth into the process, as nobody has really looked too far into how the villagers work in new leaf. I was kinda mad at this fact, so I dug around a bit and found out how to do some things myself, and decided to make this tutorial the best ACNL custom villager tutorial out there! I have even started modding the game myself to further make this tutorial better.
I'm still working on the pack, so so far,I've only made a template texture for the Rabbit/Bunny/Hair or what ever you want to call it, though I am going to make ones for other animals in the future
This will be updated over time, as I want this to be the best tutorial for making a custom villager!
I am currently working on a patch that replaces Bonbon with a custom villager just as an example on what this pack lets you do
Anyways, here's what you'll need:
Animal Crossing New Leaf: Welcome Amiibo. If you know what your doing, you can do this on the original with the Welcome Amiibo update, though currently, this assumes you have the WA version.
A modded 3DS with Luma CFW and GodMode9
Ohana 3DS: https://gbatemp.net/threads/wip-ohana3ds-tool.392576/ (download from the dropbox links)
Any hex editor, I'd recommend HxD
MSBT editor: https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/1242/ (you'll need to use this to modify some UMSBT files)
Any image editor (I'd recommend Medibang paint)
Anyways, the pack includes the entire tutorial!
If your wondering, the tutorial includes the following things:
How to obtain, and dump the Animal Crossing New Leaf Welcome Amiibo cia file
How to change the textures of the villager
How to change the name of the villager
How to change the name the villager reacts to when using the megaphone
How to change the pictures texture
How to change the villagers favorite saying
How to change the villagers dream
probably other things I'm forgetting
If your wondering what else I'm planning for the tutorial, I am currently working on the following:
Changing Villager Personalities
Adding Personalities
Adding Villagers
Changing Villager default items
Changing Villagers style
Changing Villager House model (I know how to, but not to the point I feel safe including it in the tut)
Making a custom villager for Happy Home Designer (I don't think people have looked too far into HHD, so I'm on my own)
also, I would greatly appreciate any help with making the template textures, as the rabbit one took quite some time.
Oh yeah, if you make a custom villager, I'd like to see it!
I will try to respond to any questions. Hopefully I don't forget about this, and just for good measure, I'm putting this on my home page.
Pack versions:
V1: the best guide sofar, though not good enough
V2: Not released yet
(Note 2: I forgot I made this, hence why I haven't made a new pack yet. I have a new computer so I need to set everything up again. The thing that reminded me this existed was when I went to my moms town and saw every villager name was blank, witch is a side effect of me thinking adding characters to villager names was easy, its not, you need a tool to do it (same with items). Anyways, I'm going to continue to try and document Villagers in New Leaf as, from what I have heard and can tell, we don't know too much about them (An absolute nightmare for someone who hasn't done any rom hacking before) and since I have a goal of adding some new villagers and personalities and even dialog to the game (I know its possible (at least villagers and dialog) as the devs had to do so to make the WA update))
(Note 3: I am still trying to find out what Constpack.bin does, as its, weird? It controls the house with some values, but others go ignored? And I think it also controls the jingle that plays when talking to a villager (the jingle that changes depending on species) and it also controls if the villager exist, though seemingly only for the Amiibo camera, but (from what I can tell) WA didn't change the file in anyway. Oh yeah, the game has also made it 100% more difficult to test constpack.bin due to the fact that, even from a freshly dumped cia, as long as I have luma patch Constpack.bin, it crashes the game. So yeah, this file is, well, a haunted blob of confusion to say the least)
Incase you didn't know, theres a small community that makes custom villagers, and though there are a couple of tutorials online on how to do this, they don't tend to go too in-depth into the process, as nobody has really looked too far into how the villagers work in new leaf. I was kinda mad at this fact, so I dug around a bit and found out how to do some things myself, and decided to make this tutorial the best ACNL custom villager tutorial out there! I have even started modding the game myself to further make this tutorial better.
I'm still working on the pack, so so far,I've only made a template texture for the Rabbit/Bunny/Hair or what ever you want to call it, though I am going to make ones for other animals in the future
This will be updated over time, as I want this to be the best tutorial for making a custom villager!
I am currently working on a patch that replaces Bonbon with a custom villager just as an example on what this pack lets you do
Anyways, here's what you'll need:
Animal Crossing New Leaf: Welcome Amiibo. If you know what your doing, you can do this on the original with the Welcome Amiibo update, though currently, this assumes you have the WA version.
A modded 3DS with Luma CFW and GodMode9
Ohana 3DS: https://gbatemp.net/threads/wip-ohana3ds-tool.392576/ (download from the dropbox links)
Any hex editor, I'd recommend HxD
MSBT editor: https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/1242/ (you'll need to use this to modify some UMSBT files)
Any image editor (I'd recommend Medibang paint)
Anyways, the pack includes the entire tutorial!
If your wondering, the tutorial includes the following things:
How to obtain, and dump the Animal Crossing New Leaf Welcome Amiibo cia file
How to change the textures of the villager
How to change the name of the villager
How to change the name the villager reacts to when using the megaphone
How to change the pictures texture
How to change the villagers favorite saying
How to change the villagers dream
probably other things I'm forgetting
If your wondering what else I'm planning for the tutorial, I am currently working on the following:
Changing Villager Personalities
Adding Personalities
Adding Villagers
Changing Villager default items
Changing Villagers style
Changing Villager House model (I know how to, but not to the point I feel safe including it in the tut)
Making a custom villager for Happy Home Designer (I don't think people have looked too far into HHD, so I'm on my own)
also, I would greatly appreciate any help with making the template textures, as the rabbit one took quite some time.
Oh yeah, if you make a custom villager, I'd like to see it!
I will try to respond to any questions. Hopefully I don't forget about this, and just for good measure, I'm putting this on my home page.
Pack versions:
V1: the best guide sofar, though not good enough
V2: Not released yet
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