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Dissidia 012 Character Creator & Recomp (How I made Noctis)

88 points · submitted 1d ago by u/dissidia_fan · Duodecim

Here’s the recomp I used to make Noctis. It runs Dissidia 012 natively on Steam Deck, Linux and Mac and comes with tools for adding your own characters:

- The PSPrecomp folder, which needs your copy of the game iso.
- A Blender plugin for exporting and importing animations and models
- Dissidia Studio for creating and modifying moves and effects.

To add custom characters, follow the steps in the root's readme to build the game for the first time. (I have only tested on Mac and steam deck, so results may vary)

Once built, open index.html in the /studio folder (In Chrome or Edge, otherwise save will just download the files). You need to first point it at your game iso and the /mods folder, then you can view and edit existing characters moves, effects and sounds, as well as create custom characters.

Go to Character > Body to replace the model. This needs blender open with the Dissidia plugin installed. Using the plugin, you again point to the iso and the mods folder, and from there you can replace the model for the base character and their weapons. It accepts FBX, glTF, VRM, OBJ and .blend files.

Noctis himself will be bundled separately, as he was built with an older version of the studio that baked his data into the mod, so I'll have to do some work to make him shareable.

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Mogrymilian 25 points · 1d ago

Is this sub spiraling into an AI slop sub now? 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

Hinaloth 3 points · 1d ago

So, will you also release Ramsa? I don't really dig him, but by this point I'm down for any new fresh blood!

Emotional-Map-878 3 points · 21h ago

Can't wait to check out the results dude ^^b I'd probably just word everything like you did in the other noctis focused post and just say AI did pretty much everything since this and that post have such different reactions. (or just plainly state and point fingers at AI doing it 100% to please the imminent backlash lol)

RemyAsaylea 15 points · 1d ago

Oh good, another AI post.

I'm tired, so I'll just quote a great comment from the other one.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dissidia/s/9vcf8cDR1A

In this particular case, because it negatively impacts these same hobbyist communities with people using AI to fast track this stuff for results, without anyone knowing how it was done, nor how it could be fixed if there's an issue with it later.

In the grand scheme of things though, because it's all shit, and it's like making a deal with the devil.

It results in a lack of critical thinking skills, and a loss of learned experience. It's been used carelessly in legal proceedings and business decisions. It encourages people to commit suicide or murder. From the beginning it has stolen the work of artists and writers, with zero compensation, while proponents taunt those same artists whose work was needed in the first place, and a Microsoft CEO admitted it's the "largest theft of labor in human history." The data centers cause noise and environmental pollution, leading to insomnia, miscarriages, and possibly cancer, while they are all placed in locations of the disenfranchised, with little political power to change anything or defend their communities.

And you have to pay for it, putting money in the pockets of some of the worst fucking people on the planet, who have a vested interest in you being so dumb you need their product, while then using that money to pay off politicians to make life abjectly worse for everyone.

And even just for me, myself--I'm a writer, editor, and translator, my industries were some of the first impacted by dipshits using AI. I've lost work because developers decided machine translation would suffice. Good luck making any of that future content striking without the guys who made your dialogue stand out and named your fucking iconic systems. One of us found out after they had just had a kid, so that was extra cool.

So pardon me for not being stoked about the machine that drinks lakes to be wrong. AI is one of the most useless, if not deleterious things in recent years, and we got by just fine without it. Letting any of this slide, in any aspect, is to support the rest of it, because it's all coming from the same places and people that want money at the cost of human creativity, ingenuity, and lives.

But you don't care about any of that. You got a native port of a game that worked fine on an emulator! Hot damn, literally.

Most_Quarter_6988 4 points · 1d ago

thank fuck I'm saving this post

Albafika -7 points · 1d ago

I hear you, but also, I just want to get the mod with a playable characters and not to build it.

ConinGray 0 points · 18h ago

you're right. however, I want to play noctis, so I don't give a fuck.

ClericIdola -2 points · 1d ago

It's a weird logic to apply to someone basically modding/hacking/using the foundation of an IP they don't own.

dissidia_fan [OP] -14 points · 1d ago

Not saying I disagree with you about the negative effects of ai, and there are many, but this was a challenge that is so difficult that it is impractical without it. I'm not saying to use ai to do the actual building of characters, as that would take the joy away, but decoding millions of lines of data is not something that I would call critical thinking.

RemyAsaylea 5 points · 1d ago

I think you can figure it out if you put the time into it. Other people have, it's not impossible. Weigh the small "convenience" against the plethora of bad.

If you truly see the problem and understand the negative effects, you know how dire it is and should act on that knowledge.

Batmans_9th_Ab 6 points · 1d ago

It was challenge because Square didn’t want you to steal their fucking code. 

ElShaddollKieren 5 points · 1d ago

This game isn't even sold on its original platform anymore. It is literally impossible to buy it in a way that supports the developers. What theft could be happening here?

bananamantheif 4 points · 1d ago

And why should anyone care about square and what they want?

Jeido_Uran 4 points · 1d ago

It’s incredibly funny to see you all suddenly care about things like piracy or using assets from an IP which was never an issue before, but since you decided that AI is the ultimate sin, you just flip the morality switch on everything else, suddenly piracy is very bad, or now modding is really not okay because Square « owns » the code. But if we remove AI from the equation, then suddenly all is good? Y’all are insane.

Bryonetta 3 points · 1d ago

Ikr

Fit-Plenty-1047 0 points · 1d ago

You’re ridiculous Square abandoned the fucking game and a fan is picking up and modding it just bc he used AI yall are throwing a fit.

BJ_Hardick42069 -4 points · 1d ago

Lmao is it hard to use a keyboard with a billion dollar companies balls in your mouth

False-Cloud6646 1 points · 1d ago

They sure love that corporate cock sliding down their throats, its embarrassing

HapticFeedback247 0 points · 1d ago

You are not going to talk sense into people who want to hate on the current thing because they have nothing else to their personality.

mayweather2small 0 points · 1d ago

It's very impressive. Very cool to see the process.

HapticFeedback247 -3 points · 1d ago

No one cares it happened anyway. I want you to take this, put it into an LLM tell it to triple it right, and find out that he did it anyway. come back with a better solution.

Tienda53 -15 points · 1d ago

Wow, make me feel bad for using Ramza in a videogame.

Upset-Act-1946 7 points · 1d ago

Incrível como tem gente sem noção na comunidade de Dissidia, a square abandona esse game cheio de fãs e quando alguém tenta fazer algo são criticados

E por isso que eu não me importo com esse jogo mais tem uma das piores comunidades e merece todo capitalismo na square no seus cool

DilapidatedFool 0 points · 1d ago

1000%

DueResponsibility972 2 points · 17h ago

Too much hate this game would be dead without the community, he isn't using it to create ideas or claim they are his. We want to be able to play this game in a decent way and even better with new characters.

-NootNoot_ 2 points · 12h ago

Dont pay attention to the haters, keep the good work brother!!

cooptheactor 7 points · 1d ago

You didn't make shit, you told a machine to do it for you and it hacked together something crappy

dissidia_fan [OP] 1 points · 1d ago

AI made the tools required to then make the character. I'm not saying I did it all, and without AI I wouldn't have been able to do any of this.

From this point forward characters can now be added in with pure modelling, animation and ideation.

HapticFeedback247 -8 points · 1d ago

I am pretty sure regardless of you saying that he is going to do it again anyway.

Hope this helps!

cooptheactor 3 points · 1d ago

He sure might! And in the process he'll be aiding the destruction of our environment and the disruption of communities in their physical health, mental health, and access to critical supplies like clean water.

Hope this helps!

DilapidatedFool 1 points · 1d ago

Jesus virtue signaling christ.

Jeido_Uran 1 points · 1d ago

You should stop using Reddit then, after all it heavily uses datacenters, actively supports AI and disrupts communities by allowing people like you to bully, harass and run witch-hunts on others simply because they chose to use a specific tool you don’t like, which in turn affects their mental health.

Hope this helps!

BJ_Hardick42069 -1 points · 1d ago

Cry more pussy. It's not going anywhere and if anything it's going to get worse for you and all the mouth breathers defending a property that hasn't made money since 2011

Jeido_Uran 0 points · 1d ago

I would bet anything they really don’t give a fuck about the intellectual property and only defend it here because the project used AI in any capacity and hating AI is the only thing they can barely do properly in their miserable lives.

HapticFeedback247 -2 points · 1d ago

You couldn't do anything better than copy what I said? You should use A.I to think of a better one liner.

cooptheactor 0 points · 1d ago

bro skipped the whole comment

Jeido_Uran 0 points · 1d ago

I mean, your comment is essentially what googling « what are the most generic arguments against AI » would display, you’re just parroting the same shit you all keep repeating without ever citing a proper source and most importantly without ever simply minding your own fucking business. What did you accomplish in life that makes you think you can shit on someone proudly showcasing their mod like that? I never see any of you showing anything you made, which is interesting. However you’re there without fail whenever you feel like you can harass someone and telling them they should have made it without any AI assistance. But where is your no-AI project? Surely you have something to show right? It can’t be you just acting like a big guy to hide the fact you’re nothing, right?

HapticFeedback247 -1 points · 1d ago

Yeah youre stupid thats why. You think me reading any of that crap is going to go anywhere?

LunarisOrion2001 0 points · 22h ago

Cry about it

Fit-Plenty-1047 -1 points · 1d ago

Keyboard warrior to the rescue for the environment. Wake up buddy large corps use AI you’re fighting against 1 singular person

TripleXLT-Shirt -1 points · 1d ago

synau

Fit-Plenty-1047 2 points · 1d ago

Keep the great work man fuck the haters as a Dev myself I’m happy you’re atleast attempting to make something

Iecerint 3 points · 1d ago

Sorry people are giving you a hard time, thanks for your effort

NightmareMMZero 3 points · 1d ago

This is really impressive, don't let anyone ruin it for you. Anyone who's actually tried to use AI to create anything knows that to do anything this specific and elaborate it requires a lot of work and oversight on the human's part, this was clearly a passion project and a lot of work went into it. People who create nothing will try to make you feel bad, but all they've contributed is negativity, so their opinions don't matter.

BroccoliFree2354 1 points · 1d ago

I am anti AI for some things, but using it for a project like this is pretty sick ! Even if you didn’t write every single line of code you still had the idea and you took the initiative. This is pretty cool, you can be proud.

Bryonetta 2 points · 1d ago

No matter what, don't EVER give a fuck about these cringe ass hypocrites who have nothing better else to do literally in their miserable lives and suddenly cares about piracy, lmao it's just so funny. Thank you for your efforts, and continue with them!

greyvangelist 1 points · 1d ago

On top of the AI shit, this isn’t even Noctis

Orphenlegato 10 points · 1d ago

Noctis is in the other post he made...

Jeido_Uran 1 points · 1d ago

I don’t usually post for that, but seeing how negative, unhinged and toxic most people are here, I just want to let you know I’m impressed by what you did and really happy you want to keep this game alive. Don’t feel ashamed by the fact you used AI, it’s obvious you knew what you were doing and even if you did not and just let the AI build on your idea, it’s still yours, you’re the one who had this idea, and you led the project to what it is now, the AI didn’t prompt itself but apparently that’s hard to grasp for the children here, and most importantly, you’re doing that while some others are just spending their time being miserable pieces of shit here, dogpiling on you hoping you stop, but working on that is always better no matter the amount of AI assistance, because you at least have something to show and to be proud of at the end, and it all came from your original idea.

AyeBathingApe 1 points · 19h ago

People spiraling over AI, this shyt is cool. I don’t give a fuck!

eternity_ender -1 points · 1d ago

I don’t give a fuck about your AI

ClericIdola 2 points · 1d ago

And apparently SE doesn't give af about the Dissidia brand so it runs it into tbe ground with trash mobile games instead of a proper sequel to Duodecim or AT LEAST a CC Reunion style remaster.

So yeah, I could care less if someone uses A.I. to basically hack/mod an IP much faster than without to give us what we've been begging the IP owner for. This isn't generative A.I. art.