#uuu mod

Hey Prauf! Unfortunately I've never run into that issue before :( Tested Merrin with the pose editor in UUU4.11.3 to see if I could recreate it, but everything seems to be working correctly (sorry)

I double-checked your photos and you did include her in the Pyloon Music Party, very fun, but that rules out my "are you trying to pose her during combat" hypothesis. Her jacket does sometimes disconnect/separate from the rest of the character model when teleporting in and out of fights, but on Koboh that shouldn't be an issue.

You've probably tried these already, but: check different save files, different planets, and different story missions? Maybe create a copy of her model or spawn a new one with mods? I don't know if or how that would make a difference, but more data points could be helpful. UUU is a really cool tool but far from perfect (I can't select/interact with Cere in the Archive at ALL, can you???) and we may have different glitches since we're all using different PC hardware. Idk for sure.

Only a few times! The documentation and discord channel are a good starting point, though I've mostly learned through trial and error and I still don't think I'm using the tool correctly hah.

From what I understand, hotsampling "zooms in" your game window and allows you to capture multiple sections of your screen at full resolution. Then those sections can be stitched together to create a final result larger than what your monitor could normally capture. So for the photo above, I took nine hotsampled screenshots and merged them to create a roughly 8K final image. Super overkill for digital needs (in my mind) but I test printed it as a 3ft x 2ft poster and it looks really nice.

A dedicated virtual photographer could better explain the process / purpose of hotsampling, so I'll let you know if I see a good tutorial. But for reference: until this year, all my photos were either captured on a decent-but-not-great PC with a 2K monitor, or a standard PS5. Getting a "crisp" screen grab will be a mix of good focus (zoom in with photomode and nail your focal plane) and good lighting (contrast will feel sharper) with some additional editing if needed. I do edit almost all of my photos and try to be up front about that, since I know what is/isn't possible to capture straight from the game camera.

Ooh where did you see that specific animation / description? 👀

I know I've looked through all the Equip menu animations and don't remember this one, so it's probably a placeholder or was cut from the final game. But maybe I just missed it! I can check next week once I'm back home.

Good question!

For reference, here's the before and after of the Merrin poncho photos: first with only gameplay lighting, then my additional lights. That strong highlight in her eye is probably the open door of the Mantis. In hindsight I could've grabbed an object from outside and tried to block the doorway, buuutttt was too busy posing the poncho (priorities)

Since the "material" the game uses to render eyes is extra shiny, they reflect light more aggressively than almost any other texture. I'm also playing on PC with raytracing on, which adds even more reflections.

But most of the time, the existing light is helpful! Adding spotlights with third-party tools is (relatively) easy, lighting an entire game is the actual work.

Though one benefit of filming alt-angle cutscenes is watching the lights turn off when the default camera moves away. It's a helpful way to study the lighting artist's decisions and incorporate that visual language into my faux cutscene photos.

And there will definitely be more lighting breakdowns as I make progress on TI4. It's the most ambitious Jedi video I've made from a technical standpoint (help) and I'm pushing the limits of every technique I've learned over the last couple years. Stay tuned ✌️

No dumb questions when it comes to the UUU tools! They're not the easiest thing to figure out.

I've found three different ways to customize characters with the pose editor: 1) trigger an in-game body or face animation for that model's rig, 2) save a specific pose from a cutscene, or 3) build everything from scratch.

But since I only move the "bones" and not all the intricacies of the real character rig, facial expressions become really uncanny really fast. Cal's face has easily 80+ control points and without access to the rig hierarchy or "musculature," it just feels off. My best attempt is this photo of Cal and Kata, and you can see that making their (very awkward) smiles was a struggle. This later attempt didn't really work either. That's why everyone is always sad in my UUU photos :)

The in-game face animations I can trigger are either "idle" or "combat" or "pain" or "death" or some specific enemy finisher, so usually I stick to the neutral/idle face. Occasionally I can pull actual cutscene animations if the story progress and location line up right: like this faux cutscene of Cal listening to Mantis crew side dialogue, filmed right before (or maybe after) the "Merrin cloaks the Mantis" cinematic. But it's a 60/40% chance of crashing my PC so not always the best option.

Good questions! I mainly use the UUU camera in the Jedi games, with a few exceptions (Hell is Us and RDR2) so I'm not sure how Otis' tools are used elsewhere. But I'll answer with what I do know:

I found Cal’s dance animations (seen here and here) using the UUU camera tools created by Otis_Inf. Its Pose Editor has a dropdown to play individual character animations: there are leftover movements from JFO, and some unused animations that were developed but never made it into the final game.