The VG Resource

Hey,

I've been scrubbing through some of my archives and noticed that a few of the ripped models I have sitting around aren't publicly available. I want to correct that, but I know it will take some time for many reasons, so I want to make this thread to show what's happening before trying to get them on the site. 

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Currently I have Amy, Eggman, Knuckles, Metal Sonic, Perci, Shadow, Sonic, Sticks, and Tails. There are certainly other characters who've been ripped before but I assume they were kept for private use. I only vaguely remember what I used to do this 7 years ago, so I won't be going back for more at this point.

The ripping from this game leads to a few quirks due to it using the Cry Engine. 

• All of the models I have come as textureless but rigged SMD, so I'll probably re-export into a .dae to preserve the rig and material changes I have to make.
  
• There are a few missing textures, mainly eyes, so those will have to be remade from scratch. I already have my own eye texture, and I don't mind keeping those in the download. 
  
• A few textures export translucent but with some material tinkering you can get them to display as intended in a different engine- I am using Blender's eevee. As far as uploading to this site goes would leaving the textures as is be fine or do they need to be corrected in the upload?
  For reference, you can fix sonic's translucent body texture by color dodging the color and alpha channels together. Dunno how that math works or if it'll work on other character's textures but thought I should note that now.
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Lastly, if anyone is interested in helping with this endeavor, let me know. I highly doubt anyone cares about sonic boom models at this point but I could use the help.
Thanks for readin'