Happy Anniversary
One year ago today, the first version of this mod was published to the gamebanana. Persona 3 Reload was released on the second, and within the day we had both Ray's very funny early import of Jinster's P3D Femc model, and my own experiments of early importing to get her in game.
Over the past year the mod has not only trail-blazed a lot of things related to P3R, but also fostered a community I'm incredibly proud to be apart of. From fixing the buttcheek hair we had at the start, to now making new hair. Or the griddy animation we imported forever ago fixing an issue that plagued custom animations for a few weeks out of the blue. The amount of incredibly talented Femc fans who have contributed to the mod whether directly, or even just giving their two-cents on an asset or issue, is mind boggling.
The initial goal I had with this mod was just model replacements, and ui replacements, as I thought that's what I could at the very least handle myself. In just the first couple of weeks people hopped into the discord I made on a whim to not spam the pmodding thread and hit the ground running. People were combing through the entire game's script to replace pronouns, and start on what custom events might look like. Custom music was being made, people were asking if they could contribute voice lines in both English and Japanese, various people were making art and giving pointers on what could be improved, Rirurin randomly jumpscared everyone with pink lemonade menus, and every other update the bathroom door in the dorm was breaking somehow. We even managed to make the skirt not shoot down to her toes!
Now, a year later, my original goal of 2d and 3d assets, has been reached, and blown out of the water really. We have every 2d asset replaced, 3d asset replaced, along with custom music, custom voicelines, gendered audio, a plethora of options for 2d assets, and even more on the way.
Over the next year our focus will mostly be on custom animations and custom events. Custom animations are fully figured out, and slowly being worked on. Custom events are still a WIP, but proven possible, and scripts are being written in preparation, along with assets being made. Plans are also underway to revamp the github very soon, to move some things off it like raw files onto another repo so people can download the whole repo without like a gig of assets. These plans also include making it very easy to contribute various assets such as 2d, and to make your own costumes for the mod, to encourage people working on the mod, and getting into P3R modding in general.
As a final note, I want to give another heartfelt thanks to everyone who's contributed to the mod. The mod and the community around it are something I am extremely proud to be apart of, and I am looking forward to what we all make this mod into over the next year too. While the patchnotes for this update are small, the progress we've made over the year is not.
Patchnotes
2D
- Updated Bustup By Lisa
- New Shop Kotone SEES Final day by Esa
- New level up art by shiosakana
- New alt level up art by Ely
- Updated alt shard art by Ely
3D
- Main menu model implimented by Mudkip
Audio
- Gendered audio for 15 new events by Giowno
Text
- Gio did something
Backend stuff
- Emily and Ray edited the SPR layout files so Level up art is much easiere to impliment.
And now 5 months later... Found a way to also use them without breaking stuff :D
This is why shiosakana level up art was not implemented yet.