Final Fantasy 7 The Shinra CHARACTER overhaul MOD.

Backstory:

I started modifying FF7 characters as early as in the year 2006 -2007 using the earlier versions of the Kimera program. However, the program stoped to function on my computer and as such my work from back then were never released or finished. I had already tried to convert Aerith into Scarlet of the Shinra, Cloud into Rufus, Tifa into Elena, Vincent into Hojo and Barret into Dyne - some of these characters had finished models such as maybe a field-model done, but each character in the game consist of multiple models for various roles during the story - such as one model for battles, one in the field, one in the parachute scene, one in the Honney Bee Inn scene etc, and additional models of the characters when they are kids.

My skills back then weren't great, and of course the models looked fat in my eyes many years later. I got the program to run again on a new computer in 2013 but then it stoped working again. This i didn't solve until the summer of 2015 when i searched the entire internet for hours to get the correct DLL-file - i even got a virus on two of my computers and had to struggle with removing it for some days. Still - i did backup that file and since then the most recent version of Kimera is working fine. And so i decided to continue my project from 2007 when i was only 17 years old - starting with turning Aerith into Scarlet of the Shinra.

Since the summer of 2015 i have done the following:

Summer 2015 - Scarlet battle-model were created from scratch using the field-model from Bootleg as the base, and this took me a lot of struggle when riging it to all the models animations without one part of the model disconnecting with the rest, and i had to redo certain models such as the field-model three or four times - as i did also finish the Avatar and the other models which only needed to be copy/pasted unlike the battlemodel. Copy/pasted in the Kimera program - while it is still work required it isn't a 13h job like the battle-model. I can copy/paste one model in maybe an hour. And as such i could do many models in 13 hours unless they are extra detailed (certain models are harder). The Scarlet character, unlike all the other characters - didn't have a battle-model and that is why i had to create one out of the field model. That took 13 hours of struggle. In any case i finished Scarlet in her first version during the summer of 2015.

March 2016 - I completed the improved and superior battle-model of Scarlet. The older one used my very old body for the character and it was remade. I did also almost finish new animations for her, but i did only release the battle-model as i wasn't done with both animation-files.

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July 14 2016 - I released the update with improved fitness of Scarlet's model, as well as new walking/running animations and a new victory pose made out of the field models animations by copy/pasting certain numbers in the Kimera program manually. Let's just say a five sec animation could take a couple of days of siting for hours doing the same thing. Like i sat for 8 hours doing the same boring copy/pasting, then a pause - and then another 8 hours. This continued for a couple of days per anim. So lot's of hours spent on those short animations. Of course Scarlet feels more like Scarlet with the animations and i did regard the character as done - the mod was called a Scarlet Mod by this point as only this character were done.

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June 9 2017 - I finished a Cloud to Rufus overhaul. This were the only character done in 2017. Unlike Scarlet it already had a battle-model, and didn't require new animations as it were using the NPC animations.

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