KH3 Light vs. Darkness [PC mod]

Thanks 😊 We're trying to do our best!

- Using BBS anims that we had adapted around 2022, or anims from other KH3 characters

As it took ~3 years to finish him, the workload of one NPC was spread over time. Expanding the 7 that don't fully work out of combat (Riku, Ven, Lea, Kairi, Roxas, Xion, Sora) would multiply that workload a lot 😂

We're:
- Rebuilding an existing NPC Terra (left unfinished by Square-Enix) that had almost everything for combat
- Not expanding him beyond combat, as he only shows up during fights with our mod
- Re-using animations he has from the "Battle of Guardians" fight in Re Mind and from cutscenes

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Cropped screenshot of KH Wiki page for "Flood", highlighting its journal entry from "Kingdom Hearts III": "The Unversed equivalent of a Shadow. Agile, but otherwise unimpressive."

Funny thing, I think Jiminy even alludes to this in the Flood's Gummiphone entry 😂 It seems he didn't even want to write a proper description for them, just passively-aggressively redirecting to the Shadow's.

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AFAIK, when it released, "Birth by Sleep" was also criticized because its Unversed enemies were clones of some Heartless (gameplay-wise). It's probably why "Dream Drop Distance" didn't have matching Dream-Eater enemies, and why the Bruisers, Scrappers, etc. weren't in KH3 (to avoid clones).

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That would probably be tough, the "Birth by Sleep" 3D models would still need to be upgraded to match KH3, and adapted to match animations from existing Heartless.

The KH13 Heartless animations don't match either the BBS Unversed animations either, so that's a lot more porting to do :-/

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Many in-games maps would also need to be rebuild to add "navigational meshes" they need, aka hidden orienteering meshes that NPC (allies and enemies) use to know where they can or cannot go. This would probably bloat the mod by several gigas, more than what NexusMods allows us to host :-/ [2/2]

I think that would also be a lot of work 😢They don't have NPC logic set up for navigating maps, and we'd need to create or adapt new animations for that as well (jumping, climbing ledges like Sora, sliding rails or slopes, drawing in and out their weapon, etc.)

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I'm afraid that's a very tall order 😭

That would require reworking 3D models, textures (to match KH3's), animations (including new ones in KH3 like when hitting walls), making new NPC logic, VFX, SFX, etc.

And at the end of the day, they might be defeated too easily to make it worth the work :-/

Thanks a lot, glad you liked these changes!

About Cure, did you use the MP Safety ability? We know it cannot trigger MP Charge with Cure if that spell no longer costs all of your MPs. This seems to be a hard-coded behaviour, so we'll probably just remove the ability in the next 2.0 update :-/

[3/3] … and that experience allowed us to implement both old and new ideas that we couldn't do at the time (such as improving NPC logic, formchanges, etc.)

[2/3] … at least because the modding scene, tools, and our technical understanding of the game's structure and design have been better over time!

We've also all become better designers, programmers, artists, etc. over time, and thus went back to bugfix, improve or rebalance things we did early on…

Thanks for the kind words, we appreciate it a lot 😊

The v1.0 took roughly a year, from the moment KH3 released on PC (March 2021) to its release at March Caprice 2.0 (March 2022)

And you're spot on, it's taken longer to develop to due many changes since then… [1/3]

AFAIK they modified the input system for Steam, and the Epic Games version did not have this bug :-/

Luckily there's a mod for that by @lotruees.dev : www.nexusmods.com/kingdomheart...

AOE magic on Dark Form can be important against bosses with revenge mechanics.

AOE spells will have increasing revenge values, angering bosses faster with Firaga et. al.: bsky.app/profile/kh3l...

But you can also use that to deliberately trigger a boss's revenge, and counter appropriately ;-)

More formchange refinements, this time with Light and Dark Forms!

With subtle changes to magic, combos, VFX, abilities and weapon stats, they will no longer feel like clones.

Pick your form depending on the case: using all spells for healing, or min-maxing reprisal DPS with perfect guarding.

Note that our changes for Blitz Forms will only apply to the corresponding formchanges: Agile Claws, Twin Yo-Yos, Nano Arms, and Frying Pan.

Clones of these forms (e.g. Counter Shield) will not benefit from these changes, since they are attached to other forms (e.g. Guardian Form).

Animation Enhancement Overhaul (AEO) 3.1 The ultimate game-changer mod. Enhance your core KH3 experience by granting Sora completely new yet much needed capabilities!Additions are as seamlessly integrated as possible in order to

Credit to DavidRM99, the creator of the "Animation Enhancement Overhaul" mod, who helped us adapting and integrating some of this mod's features into our own: www.nexusmods.com/kingdomheart...

What if Blitz Form was even better in KH3? See some examples of additions from our next #gamemod update, aimed at making this form more interesting in combat.

(Freeflowing combos! Sonic Impact! Offensive Glide! Nano Arms with Quick Slash et. al.! And new form and weapon abilities!)

Are you still with us? 😟

Since the 25th anniversary of KINGDOM HEARTS is next year, I’m announcing the KINGDOM HEARTS 25th Anniversary -Fan Memoria III- book project! #kingdomhearts

They look fantastic (and comfy too), this is awesome!

YouTube video by OST Centre Kingdom Hearts Orchestra World Tour - Daybreak Town -The Heart of χ-

And the background music for the video at the top of this thread is Kaoru Wada's orchestral arrangement of Yoko Shimomura's "Wake Up, World!" (part of longer "χ" medley): www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oHt...

Animation Enhancement Overhaul (AEO) 3.1 The ultimate game-changer mod. Enhance your core KH3 experience by granting Sora completely new yet much needed capabilities!Additions are as seamlessly integrated as possible in order to

These changes are made with the support of DavidRM99, the developer of the "Animation Enhancement Overhaul", whose moves for Starlight are being adapted for our mod as well: www.nexusmods.com/kingdomheart...

Starlight deserved more than a clone of Second Form! We'll give it in our #gamemod its own Formchange, with new finishers, AOE magic, a new Shotlock, and Light Form's clothing and new abilities.

Some inspiration came from special attacks from Union χ, and from the KH3 QTE against the Demon Tide!

Join in the fun, sign ups close *today*!

You can also sign up to this online KH event if you have art, writing, music, cosplay, merch, or videos to showcaae, or if you livestream.

One of us found out that showimg backstage/WIP footage (alongside the finished stuff) shuts down easily any accusation of AI usage, and at the same time shows the breadth of your skills! Maybe that could help?

4 vertical banners displaying changes in form clothing assignment for formchanges, in KH3 with the "Light vs. Darkness" 2.0 mod, illustrated by corresponding Data Greeting photo shots in these formchanges. From left to right: - Blitz Form + Twin Yo-Yos (illustrated by Monster Sora in Monstropolis, with green fur and his Blitz Form green jacket) - Element Form + Blizzard Blades (with Sora in his blue outfit with white stars on sleeves, looking menacingly at the camera in Sköll's stormy and icy battle arena) - Light Form + Ancient Star (with Sora cheerfully brandishing an evolved version of Starlight from KH χ, wearing his white Light Form outfit against a white wall) - Dark Form + Doppelfeuer ("Double Fire" in German) (illustrated by Sora wearing his dark purple and black Dark Form outfit, looking at the camera threateningly while brandishing two of Yozora's guns against the backdrop of Shibuya… I mean Quadratum) At the bottom of the image, the logos of each of these formchanges are shown.

New year, new me? We've been working for some time (1+ year) on rebalancing all formchanges in KH3.

Sometimes, this meant reassigning new garbs and their abilities to some of Sora's formchanges… or reinventing cloned forms (like Second Form S for Starlight, now "Ancient Star").

More on that later…

You always have more skills than you think 😊 (that's what some of us discovered through modding)

Probably the cutest KH summon out there (and surprisingly useful against Xemnas IMO)