[Sinclair Rabbit Hex]: Adding Support for Custom Rabbit Models

[BoschyBee]

YOU'RE GONNA LOOK ADORABLE!!

It took a few days but I've released my first ever mod which adds a bunny version of all 32 occultists in the game! https://gamebanana.com/mods/646039 This is something that I have suggested before and I've seen many others suggest it too, so I decided to try my best and make them real. The idea was to have characters turn into a bunny version of themselves when hit by Rabbit Hex.

Unfortunately, from what I could piece together and from talking to other mod creators it seems like there is a limitation within the game and you are only replace the single default bunny model (although this could be wrong). Anyway, enough of the deadlock community on reddit suggested I post about it here on the forums in case there is a chance this limit could be circumvented, so here I am.

I really wish the Rabbit Hex ability would check if something like [hero_name]_rabbit.vmdl_c existed, before defaulting to the normal one. I know the reason it uses the single Arnabus model for everyone is probably because it would basically be a waste of time to make all the models when things are in flux. I mean it took me about 3-4 days so I know first hand, but I digress and having the option would be incredible!

 

[outofnameideas]

this is so cool yoshi should give you 1 deadlockillion dollars for this

 

[alvesmiguelm]

This just goes to show how cool a game can be when players have power! Hope they're planning a server browser and workshop!
They probably will implement that, in case they don't, there's some workarounds to at least let you choose the model of rabbit you want to use, but using the mod manager is easier anyways, you could also make it randomize the bunny per transform so that might be cooler than just choosing

 

[BoschyBee]

After looking into this more, I think this could maybe be done with body groups? I'm trying to figure out how the selection works for those though. I'll have to keep digging I guess haha

 

[Stark Trist]

Yes please!

 

[atomiccheeseball5]

this is peak

 

[BoschyBee]

FYI I am still looking into this a bit. If anyone has any ideas please dm me or comment them here I guess.

The big issue is that I left the official discord forever ago (because I didn't realize the link in game was a single time thing) and so now I can't join the modding discord to pick more knowledgeable peoples brains about the viability of this. I messaged the forum mods like it said to in the modding discord, but I really don't want to be a bother so all I can really do in that regard is wait tbh

 

[BoschyBee]

I forgot to update this, but since I just updated the mod I might as well haha. I did eventually get into the discord servers. After asking around to people much more knowledgeable (who were also very kind about it so thank you) I have had no luck.

I believe there was a randomize option using Body Groups that should at least allow randomization of the Rabbits on game startup, but it seemed to be completely disabled. Again I am really flying blind on this, so I could have just been doing it incorrectly. I was hoping there was something with the new items like the Shrink Ray, but there didn't seem to be anything useful there either after I poked around.

Character specific bunnies still seems completely impossible without a small intervention from Valve. Ideally there would just be like a json file that is used to get the rabbit.vmdl when the animal_curse modifier is cast or something.

Alternatively, Valve you are 100% welcome to use these models if you want to add them yourselves. I will happily send you all the blender files, so you can have the raw versions!

On a side note some people pointed out that adding this mean extra work when a new occultist added. However, after making 39 of these silly little rabbits I feel this can be a completely automated process. Even if it can't, I think with how insanely talented the Valve team is they could do it by hand in a quarter of the time (It took me ~30min/Rabbit). I may be falling for the Dunning-Kruger effect here, but that's how I feel!

Wait... 39 Rabbits?
Mhm! I added all six new occultists from the Old Gods/New Blood update!
....oh uh and Slork because someone really wanted them

 

[atomiccheeseball5]

slork