And another piece of my soul goes away after playing Life is Strange. Highly recommend anybody who hasn’t played it to do so, one of the best games I’ve ever seen.

..I really want to know what kind of fucking filepath these are supposed to be lol.

Chicken wing spin. Brrrrrrr.

Bones! This is interesting cause the function to draw them is left over in the game. I just called it.

These Character debug options should have been there since the beginning, but better late than never I guess

Yey :D

In the IGN debug footage for DS2 there was a clip of CPU and GPU budget being displayed as an overlay. I wanted to reimplement that. Here's the progress so far:

I finally figured out the right spot to place debug draw code. Right now, debug drawing gets antialiasing (which makes it look smoother) but not all the other post processing effects such as bloom, depth of field and motion blur. I believe I found the spot where the devs originally placed it.

Another fine addition to my collection. (EventKeyGuide display + info)

Event key guides!

Somebody asked me for help with bitmap font creation, for a Persian translation of the game, and ended up giving me a new program to generate bitmap fonts (called bmfont, which is avaiable for free). I made a new CCM tool to convert fnt to CCM, and the result is SO much better.

Finally, in app log windows!

Managed to restore Void Engine console (not the in game console, that's different). This is an ugly ass console fr.

So... I kinda got bored, and decided to reverse engineer Dishonored 2. I can use the developer console (through CE for now), and made a simple program to redirect console output to the standard terminal. This took me 3 hours in total lol, cakewalk compared to DS2.

Fun fact: Iron Keep lava has two killplanes. Collisions here are colour coded, green is camera collision, red are killplanes. Also, a brief fun fact about killplanes themselves: touching them is not enough, you need to start falling to die.

Looking quite promising. This is pretty much 1:1 with what morphemeConnect generates. (I generated this mcn).

We're getting closer. My strategy for writing mcn is the following: 1) Create a .json manifest for each node lua manifest in morphemeConnect. 2) Use this json to create the node. 3) Add the node to an existing mcn. The merge option will be available in morpheme:connect itself,

After months of radio silence, I can proudly announce that I'm back working on DS2AnimToolset. On the tool to deserialize xml to mcn for editing within connect 3.6.2 to be more specific.

Bro runs like a fucking Looney Toons character lol

Highly informative video by Metalhead about player damage reduction. I’d recommend you watch it youtu.be/8LtRS0AW9Qg?...

I decided to release DebugManager’s backbone, FRPG2Lib. It’s a set of headers and functions that wrap Dark Souls 2 classes and their functionalities. github.com/LordRadai/FR...

Complete filter editor using ingame data. But it's japanese

I found very interesting code in the KatanaDrawScene initialisation routine. There are functions that set objects called MetaInfo to filter classes. These are functions that dictate how the filterparam is read, and where to store each value. (1/2)

I'm refactoring DebugManager's code that uses FromSoft's GuiFramework, and I asked myself: "How did they handle debug windows that read data and that data got deallocated?" So I looked at how DS3 does it, and the answer is simple. They don't.

This is how the physics world looks like. Only collidable shapes are shown (except for High Hits cause that would clutter everything if combined with low hits)

Things are starting to take... shape. Starting to feel like the real thing (1/3)

It's done. The texture now shows up correctly!

DS2 does not provide us with the code for the GUITexture viewer. No problem, I looked how it works in DS3 and ported it over. It's almost done, it's missing the actual texture draw code. It's not supposed to be black, but I need to figure out how that works first in DS3

Found some more debug draw code leftover in the game.. but I'm not sure what these are supposed to be. It has to do with models, specifically a class called MdlObj in the Flver namespace. If anybody here is familiar with the format and has something to say, they're welcome to do so

I'm almost finished porting the old code to use the game's drawing engine. Now the worst part, which is choosing new debug draw colours cause the shader effect they apply nukes pretty much all transparency effects and makes everything brighter...

Forgot to post this, but I did implement the debug freecam in the end youtu.be/5vW7kbU2D4A

Figured out how to 100% use the game rendering engine. I'm redoing all debug drawing using that. The blur you see here is cause the game is applying motion blur at this stage of rendering

These are drawn using the ingame draw engine

IT DRAWS THE MODEL VIEWER GRID!

...I'm not drawing these. I think I found the first ever debug draw flag leftover in the game's code. I am not even running DebugManager at this moment

Crabs have become a fairly popular enemy in the Souls series, starting with their debut in Dark Souls III, but it seems we missed out on getting a whole other giant crustacean just a few years prior. youtu.be/6PW8vIXx-Wo

Fixed the issues with debug time stop mentioned in the last post. Also fixed save corruption issues when warping maps, so now it’s safe to use the debug boot menu. Tomorrow I’ll work on free camera controls

Closer look at the enemy "Raymire" (Lamia) from King's Field III, described as an evil creature with the magic attribute of water. Certain snake-woman boss from DS2 has a very similar design. #King'sField #DarkSouls2

here, take these high fidelity DS2 vibes

The shell of Debug Freecamera. There are things that needs to be adjusted, like the frustum culling you're seeing here, but the basic idea is to have a debug freecam that lets you move the camera while stopping time, and letting you advance the game by one frame

There is a bug with the ParryBreak_Start (the falling down animation) animation of Amana priestesses. It's supposed to enable guard break riposte while she's falling down but they mistakenly put the event for it to start after the event ends...

I've opened a ko-fi page for those who want to support my work. I will keep providing free updates, nothing I do for Dark Souls II is ever going to be locked behind a paywall. It's just for those who want to support me :3 ko-fi.com/radai

Mirror Knight looks like he's very happy when he jumps! (In reality he doesn't know how to fall, so he just keeps fucking walking in mid air)

Next version includes a bunch of QoL changes. As an example, when a model is loaded it will be scaled down accordingly, frame display now shows frame numbers at a fixed 30 rate even with high resolution editors (track editor has been upscaled to 3000 fps to fix some bugs)

Did you want an hour long video about pigs being weird in Dark Souls 2? Well even if you didn't, here it is! Pig Secrets and the Pickaxe Quest -pickaxe quest overanalyzed -rumors confirmed/ debunked with 1/1000 rare pig -Elana's summoning rules finally figured out -& more! #DarkSouls2Dissected 🔗👇

Spookies!

The new level of information that's displayed with the Damage Info option on

I've made capsules a bit smoother! They have three mid rings now instead of just one

Fixed issues with post-processing in #darksouls lighting engine. Here are few shots of FOFG. Cinematic screenshot mode.