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On 1/9/2022 at 3:42 AM, JDChaos said:

SD
This version has the least bugs (Read "Bugs").
The file size is smaller (by almost a GB)
Most of the Pokémon are lined up in the summary screen boxes.
Battle Summary has manageable image sizes.
Front Sprites have reduced quality.
 

Shiny Hunter
This version includes Shiny front sprites only.
The larger non-shiny Pokémon will float. (It was that or 84% sink) This is to maintain the same design as SD.
 

HD (With bugs)
This version has the most bugs (Read "Bugs").
It has the highest quality front sprites.
It also has the highest file size.
Pokeball during catching will go underground.
Summary screen will not line up by feet. (Not as much of an issue on mobile)
Summary screen has Pokémon randomly too far to the right. (There is nothing I have done to cause this)
Battle Summary images are large.

 

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On 1/9/2022 at 2:42 AM, JDChaos said:

Battle Sprites Reloded is a battle sprite mod.

It was designed by me with influences and suggestions from four very dedicated testers.
Many thanks to EdRaket, GoKickRocks, NimbleHydra, and PrincessLolita

 

The purpose of this mod was to make a more vibrant mod that utilizes real-time lighting and shadows.
Each Pokémon is set to a scaled height multiplied by their actual Pokedex height. 
More information and math can be read under "How I Made This Mod".

I do not play PokeMMO, but I think the concept is great and I hope you all enjoy my mod with it.

Downloading this mod is not obligatory. If you don´t like any part of it then change it, make your own or use another one. I endorse Verdep´s HD Battle Sprites.


 

There are three versions listed at the bottom of this post. SD, HD and Shiny Hunter (HD is as is. There will be bugs.)
You only need to download one. Read the "Version Differences".

Version Differences

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SD
This version has the least bugs (Read "Bugs").
The file size is smaller (by almost a GB)
Most of the Pokémon are lined up in the summary screen boxes.
Battle Summary has manageable image sizes.
Front Sprites have reduced quality.
 

Shiny Hunter
This version includes Shiny front sprites only.
The larger non-shiny Pokémon will float. (It was that or 84% sink) This is to maintain the same design as SD.
 

HD (With bugs)
This version has the most bugs (Read "Bugs").
It has the highest quality front sprites.
It also has the highest file size.
Pokeball during catching will go underground.
Summary screen will not line up by feet. (Not as much of an issue on mobile)
Summary screen has Pokémon randomly too far to the right. (There is nothing I have done to cause this)
Battle Summary images are large.

Screenshots of SD (Thanks to GoKickRocks)

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Summary2.thumb.jpg.f116f12052676caaddc43e9842d560f9.jpg
Doubles3.thumb.jpg.145bccb5555871c41bb578fb868d1734.jpg


 

Please read the F.A.Q. and Facts before posting questions.


F.A.Q. and Facts

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1. I am a digital artist/front-end developer. I taught myself C#, the Unity engine and its tools to make this mod.

2. It took two painful months and hundreds of hours. I am not interested in making more 3D sprites at the moment.

3. I do not play PokeMMO or any other video game.

4. I don´t know much about Pokémon. I also don´t care if I got a small detail wrong because I wasn´t intimately familiar with Pokémon anatomy/lore.

5. This was done in a style that I wanted. It is not supposed to mirror your favorite Pokémon game.

6. The heights are relative to the Pokedex height and a math curve (More detail in "How I Made This Mod").

7. There were many bugs. I wanted this mod to cater to as many players as possible. Sacrifices had to be made.

8. PokeMMO uses GIF. Transparency in GIF is Binary: on or off. Transparent is invisible. There is no option for translucent/semi-transparent.

9. I will not be updating much past the first week or two of release. I have other jobs and projects. I may return for important reasons or if PokeMMO changes the way they handle mods.
 

Why did you make a mod for a game you don´t play?
It was requested. This is normal. Most developers don´t have time for games.
Why did you spell it reloded instead of reloaded?
It is a reference to my internet handle, the key word is lode: A rich source of something.
Can I join your Clan/Friends?
No (Reason 3)
Can I duel you?
No (Reason 3)
Can you teach me how to program/code/develop/photobash/etc.?
No I already have an apprentice and spend my free time teaching myself new things (Reason 1)
Can you make a special sprite for my favorite Pokémon, X?
No (Reason 2)
Why did/didn´t you make Bulbasaur or other Pokémon's height include his strange appendage sticking out of his back/head?
I felt like it (Reason 4)
Why don´t you include ears in the height?
Same reason as above.
Why aren´t there females?
Don´t give up hope, girls like Pokémon too. (Reason 2)
I can´t see the background through Solosis´s bubble or Pokémon X, why is it not transparent?
You mean translucent. (Reason 8
Umbreon is supposed to glow. Why did you just make it bright?
Post processing glow creates semitransparent pixels of light outside of the 3D model. This would cause a solid background. (Reason 8
Why don´t the VFX loop perfectly?
They were made in a living 3D world, not designed to loop in a GIF.
Why do Quilava and Typhlosion have burst spikes and Cyndaquil is more consistent?
Looping issues. Read question above.
I don´t like Cyndaquil/Quilava/Typhlosion, can I have their original naked forms back?
Yes, read "Instructions to replace Cyndaquil line" at the bottom.
Why don´t the colors look like Pokémon SWSH?
I think the world has seen enough white-washing (Reason 5)
Why does the Shiny Hunter version have floating normal Pokémon?
This was done to keep the shiny the same height in both versions. It was either float or sink (Reason 7)
Why are the front sprites lower quality than the back in SD?
This was done to accommodate Shiny Hunters and PvPers by normalizing smaller threshold GIF size (Reason 7)
If Pokémon X is half the height of Pokémon Y, why isn´t he half the size in your mod?
Small Pokémon would be too hard to see in game with real heights. We tested it. A curve was better. (Reason 6)
If Ekans is supposed to be as tall as Venusaur, why did you make him so small?
Based on animal shape, some heights correlate to length.
There is a bug, can you fix it?
Probably not, but while you are playing video games, think about how you would solve the issue and go for it. Or read "Bugs".

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Pokeball goes through the floor in HD.
This has to do with the Y-axis alterations. I didn´t design PokeMMO or TWL. Otherwise, I would change the anchor point for GIFs to bottom center.

Pokémon in Pokedex and Evolution screens are huge.
The developers didn´t add the same scaling to these screens as they did Summary. Only they can fix it.

Some Pokémon in the battle summary are huge.
This is because some Pokémon GIFs are huge. The battle summary uses GIF size instead of Summary scaling. Ask the developers to fix it.

There is a random line that appears on the edge/corner of the GIFs.
It happens randomly. The testers weren´t able to test it because it was intermittent.

Some Pokémon float in Shiny Hunters.
This is because some of my GIFs have their Y-Axis increased to keep them above ground as Shiny. There is no separate Y-Axis for Normal and Shiny. Only 16% of the Pokémon are floating.

In the HD version, some of the Pokémon are randomly too far to the right in the summary.
I don´t know what causes this. It is random and different every time I compile the Zip.


How I Made This Mod

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All models and textures were ripped from legally owned copies of Pokémon games and from websites that post 3D resources OR made by hand in Blender and photoshop by me.

Pokémon height data was taken from the pokemondb and bulbapedia.


I used the Unity 3D engine to render all of the models/shaders. The sharers and VFX were written by me after watching various YouTube videos (I can recommend Freya Holmér).
Blender was used to fix/adjust/create the Pokémon models and the VFX meshes.
 

PokeMMO uses GIFs. GIFs are antiquated versions of apng and video formats. 
For this, I couldn´t use cool semi-transparent effects. I also couldn´t use Post-Processing like Bloom. Instead I made HDR Intensity lighting on Emissive properties and split 3D models with translucent bubbles into 2 parts. The back would become solid and the front would be semi-transparent.
 

Unity has a wonderful Shader Graph tool that assisted me in the beginning until I found I needed more custom options only available in C#. (Most of those ideas became scraped. All things can be done with graph) I designed a base, metallic, gem, bubble, pearl and fire shader to deal with the many needs of the textures and models.
Using Unity Recorder, every frame was saved as a png.
 

All Pokémon animations were recorded in 4K and then trimmed and resized in Photoshop.
To normalize height into a mathematical formula, all of the GIF heights were set to 500px.
The height scale for the Pokémon is linear but not starting at zero. 

In order to keep the minimum size group of 0.2 meters (Diglett) and the maximum size group of 2.5 meters (Lapras) within a visible spectrum, the testers chose a pixel amount of 63 and 230 respectively. Then I created a formula to plug in Pokémon heights and get a desired pixel count.
pixelHeight =(0.145652*pokeHeight+0.0958696)*500

Because of dead space between the Pokémon head and the top of the GIF, I used a variable (oversized%) to multiply each Pokémon by if such space existed.
pixelHeight =(0.145652*pokeHeight+0.0958696)*500*oversized%
This had adverse effects on snake/fish/length based Pokémon. Onix when stretched from bottom to top of GIF only represents 45% of his total height. In this case I set an IF/THEN and multiplied the height by the Oversized%.
pixelHeight =(0.145652*(pokeHeight*oversized%)+0.0958696)*500
(I do realize that these formulas are not 100% accurate for the results I wanted. But this isn´t a paying job and I have real clients to put that effort into.)
 

This gave me the base value for all of the text documents that handle scaling in Summary, Battle (Front/Back), and Y-Axis coordinates in battle.

Originally all Pokémon were scaled down to their pixel count in summary and battle, but I kept the GIF size of 500. This gave crazy good quality (better than the HD version). 
However, the summary screen had Pokémon floating and sinking all over the box.
The battle summary screen in PvP was unreadable.
I had to make crazy Y-Axis formulas to push the Pokémon up/down based on how I had scaled them.
It also affected the original GIFs in game for shiny hunters, since shiny Pokémon in the mod needed Y-Axis adjustment. Some were sinking in the ground.
This is why the SD was designed.
 

Table-Front-Scale
The game scales combat sprites 2X. I wanted to scale all front sprites to 50%. This way, stretching them 2X is 100% quality.
First I manually changed every Pokémon front sprite to their pixelHeight. The ideal pixel height for the Pokémon to stand on the battle circle is 195px without Y-Axis adjustments. For every Pokémon under 195px, I added deadspace above them (for standing) or (above and below) them (for flyers). 
This solved Pokémon that were too small and needed to be pushed down. Good for Shiny Hunters.
It also made the majority of GIFs small enough to resolve the PvP battle summary issue.
 

Table-Summary-Scale
100% was a little too big for the boxes, so I reduced all Pokémon less than 359px to 90%. Then anyone bigger than 359% was manually changed to 70% or 60%.
This fit a majority of Pokémon into the Summary boxes, while still fitting their height roles.
 

Table-Back-Scale
The back sprites are only used in combat. They are also the closest to the player on the screen. 
I decided to keep the sprites at 500px for the best quality I could and scale them down in the text document so that they would remain the correct pixelHeight.
TRUNC(pixelHeight*0.001),3)
 

Table-Coordinate-Mods
For front sprites: anything at 195px or lower didn´t need adjusting. Anything above this would be bigger and need to be brought up. I tested several heights and created a formula to raise large Pokémon.
Y-Axis = IF(pixelHeight<195,0,TRUNC(0.00267388*pixelHeight-0.506423,2))
For back sprites: Pokémon are all over the place and the formula is more complex.
Y-Axis = TRUNC((0.00253592*pixelHeight-0.508922),3)

Some Pokémon over a certain pixel count (Steelix, Legendaries, etc.) had to be capped in order to remain visible for the player.

 

HD Version
The HD version followed the same process, except all Pokémon at 300 pixelHeight or lower had their GIF set to 300px.
All I had to do was multiply the back scale by 5/3 (500px/300px), since the back sprites are all 500px and the new fronts are 300px.
And divide the pixel height by 300 before multiplying it to the existing Summary formula.

Table-Front-Scale
TRUNC(pixelHeight*0.001*(5/3),3)
Summary
TRUNC((pixelHeight/300)*0.9,2)

 

Instructions to replace Cyndaquil line

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Inside all 3 mods are the fire-less versions of the Cyndaquil line. They are named by the Pokémon.
If you rename and replace them with 
pokedexNumber-front/back-normal/shiny like so:
155-front-n
157-back-s
Then overwrite the current version that you don´t like, you can continue the game freely without them.


Downloads (You only need one)

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SD Version - MediaFire| SD Version - Mega
Shiny Hunter Version - MediaFire| Shiny Hunter Version - Mega
HD Version - MediaFire| HD Version - Mega


Patch Notes (Latest: 16/01)

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16/01/22 - Version 1.1 - Fixed shiny Steelix's sprite size. All three versions had a different size sprite because of a scripting error.



I hope you all enjoy the mod. If you don´t, feel free to use Verdep´s. I think his is great.

 

Somebody can explain me the sprites mod on android? Because it need a .mod file and i dos not found it

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45 minutes ago, Om4r said:

Somebody can explain me the sprites mod on android? Because it need a .mod file and i dos not found it

Please use translator i finded the Solution to this problem (only android) guys al descargar el archivo no lo descomprima abra el pokemmo y vallase a la opción administración de mods y dele a añadir mod insertar mod seguido vallase a la carpeta dónde se encuentre el .zip que contiene el mod dele un click al archivo .zip si este se abre y se añade el mod no pasa nada ya puede jugar pero si le abre el .zip y lo lleva al contenido de esta en lugar de añadir el mod hágale un long press (presione por bastante tiempo hasta que se seleccioné)  al archivo .zip luego de ello dele a abrir y ya estaría 

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hola como estas? tengo el mod y es espectacular, una consulta, podrías publicar el link de tus iconos de gen 8 que se ven en las capturas de pantalla para android? se ven espectaculares, le da un aire nuevo al juego

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On 7/26/2022 at 12:58 AM, tommyshe said:

hola como estas? tengo el mod y es espectacular, una consulta, podrías publicar el link de tus iconos de gen 8 que se ven en las capturas de pantalla para android? se ven espectaculares, le da un aire nuevo al juego

Desafortunadamente, no juego este juego. Un probador me dio las capturas de pantalla para monstrarlas aquí para anunciar mi mod. 
tendrás que buscar mods de gen 8 en los foros.

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On 9/21/2022 at 11:46 AM, MetManMc said:

There's something I don't understand: if we don't take the Shiny version, will we get the Shiny sprites for shinies?

Yup, the shiny version was made to Shunting, bcuz some other mods of Shiny hunting will trigger music/imgs when shinies are in the screen, so in order to use those mods and the reloded mod you'll use this version

tl:dr all options will get shinies pokemons..

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3 hours ago, ThoroBR said:

Yup, the shiny version was made to Shunting, bcuz some other mods of Shiny hunting will trigger music/imgs when shinies are in the screen, so in order to use those mods and the reloded mod you'll use this version

tl:dr all options will get shinies pokemons..

Thanks for clearing my doubts!
Btw I played the mod since, really like it. Thx creators.

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On 13/1/2022 at 3:44, Kyunimo said:

¡¡ME ENCANTA MIERDA!! Sin embargo, tomó tiempo instalarlo, me tomó 5 intentos antes de finalmente hacerlo funcionar en Android porque sigue fallando cuando importo el mod... ¡Pero vale la pena! Y no me importan los errores de sprites de pokedex en absoluto, tener sprites de batalla en 3D es suficiente para mí xD, gracias por el mod JD, ¡sigue así! :D

Amigo te pasa lo de 99.99%? Que recomiendas hacer si pasa eso, juego Android y se queda así por más de 10 min y no sucede nada 

 

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Tengo un bug, El mod muy bueno lo probé en la pc y esta hermoso pero el bug vienen siendo en el Android 

Cuando importó el archivo se queda en 99.99% y ayer dure desde las 10 hasta las 5 y nada no carga man 

Alguna solución ya e borrado el archivo y lo e descargado y no pasa nada ayuda por favor 

Screenshot_20221001-010049_PokeMMO.jpg

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On 10/1/2022 at 3:48 PM, VNZItachi said:

Tengo un bug, El mod muy bueno lo probé en la pc y esta hermoso pero el bug vienen siendo en el Android 

Cuando importó el archivo se queda en 99.99% y ayer dure desde las 10 hasta las 5 y nada no carga man 

Alguna solución ya e borrado el archivo y lo e descargado y no pasa nada ayuda por favor 

Screenshot_20221001-010049_PokeMMO.jpg

He installado el juego y el mod otra vez para probar este problema. La experiencia era muy rapido (menos de diez minutos). Pero, tengo un movil HuaWei con un procesador de 8 núcleos.. 
Otras personas en el foro dijeron que pueden ser más de dos horas.

No hay un bug con el mod (Es solo un archivo - sin métodos). Podría ser el poder del movil.

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On 10/1/2022 at 10:48 AM, VNZItachi said:

Tengo un bug, El mod muy bueno lo probé en la pc y esta hermoso pero el bug vienen siendo en el Android 

Cuando importó el archivo se queda en 99.99% y ayer dure desde las 10 hasta las 5 y nada no carga man 

Alguna solución ya e borrado el archivo y lo e descargado y no pasa nada ayuda por favor 

Screenshot_20221001-010049_PokeMMO.jpg

Si eso pasa con archivos grandes depende de tu dispositivo algunos se traban por más que esperes

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On 10/1/2022 at 9:42 PM, VNZItachi said:

Amigo te pasa lo de 99.99%? Que recomiendas hacer si pasa eso, juego Android y se queda así por más de 10 min y no sucede nada 

 

Sorry for the late reply. I posted this a long time ago in this thread but as far as I can remember, I recommend not touching the phone screen while the mod is installing. It takes a while so you might want to adjust your phone's sleep timer in the phone settings or just tap the volume buttons to prevent it from sleeping. The mod should be installed and working fine after that. Hope it helps!:D

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I cut the mod into 3 files so that low end devices wont crash if they try to import it into the game.
JDChaos's Battle Spirtes Reloded. (the labeling of the icons got messed up here)

Part 1 (980mb)
https://mega.nz/file/lFMwjCQI#mEap0cBXHrw59lTYYtR4gwSHqabG_D4b7ZIL6mBxDUc 
Part 2 (1gb)
https://mega.nz/file/4I1QXKhA#6sahudrZ69o69xwwmGrHnolzRm8V91ThWJO0Onrv3eY
Part 3 (720mb)
https://mega.nz/file/hZVQyaKL#C0FWEY4bbQTe5CgLAdDV1mP2VvJzgKSuy4IVhBCn0bk
Total (2.7gb)


Also Made a No Shiny Version 
Part 1 No Shiny (484mb)
https://mega.nz/file/EQs0XD4Z#bcCMS9uom7Q4y4eOJuRvGLsXGpLmRR6D3vqBx2GGg3g
Part 2 No Shiny (514mb)
https://mega.nz/file/FBERHB5R#gJU1jUQMkvgxHdeSTuFRdIMBY-H-iKZBfj0n2aWjApQ
Part 3 No Shiny (369mb
https://mega.nz/file/BU8UHQyL#5kaLueEEE1sdXpJdG80bwH6RLbUjEWlBIneHg5F6Kb8
Total (1.3gb)

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