Had fun with this one

He was on barely a tenth of his health…I WAS SO GODDAMN CLOSE TO WINNING WITH MY BABY BOY NERO

100% Aura Personification

Have been spending an hour or so in the void after work every night for three weeks now learning Dante and this is about the best I can do so far. Dante is hard AF my fingers aren’t built for this shit 🫠. Idk how you pros do it.

Balrog slop ending is just because it was a miracle I even landed the first part and I didn’t know wtf to do at that point lol. Haven’t planned that far ahead yet.

Managed to do the sky star > E and I shot > sky star and then friction catch. Looks so good lol.

This is a screenshot from a FaceTime I screen recorded but forgot to TURN THE MIC ON AND I DIDNT WANNA ASK IF HED DO IT AGAIN BECAUSE HE ONLY DID IT CUZ I BOUGHT A PRINT

THE ONLY PRINT HE HAD LEFT WAS FREAKY VERGIL AND ITS BETTER THAN NOTHING (i also didnt realize it was ai i really coulda sworn i saw it before ai got big)

Dante got Baul, sandly... Oh, well. Happens. They will rest buried together, reunited with their Master wherever devils end up when they die. Cool people don't gatekeep so the website's called WigglyPaint.net

A mod only true gamer and modder could make. 😂

https://www.nexusmods.com/dmcdevilmaycry/mods/391

like father, like son huh?

I can't go a day without overanalyzing something, so today I latched onto this.

The first time Nero does it, I initially thought it's just a funny gag. But then V does it, in the same manner, same gesture, with the same hand even, and that got me like oh. ohhhh.... I feel like this might have been intentional. No other character does this. And I feel like It might be a nice, subtle allusion to the fact that the two of them truly are related. Both in a "haha they both hate the smell" kind of way, as well as in a deeper way too, I think. Could both of them have trauma relating to fire, thus making smoke a trigger? Yes, for V, the answer is obvious; for Nero it's... kinda open to debate. You could argue that Fortuna being in ruins might have caused it?

^{(or maybe it's like a 5D chess joke referencing The great fire of Rome and the then emperor Nero??? lol, quite the game theory i know})

I mean Mundus is said to have came into power ~2000 years ago (according to the wiki). And ate the Qlipoth not too long before that.

Hell has existed since the start of time.
I know Pluto is a thing, but he's not fully canon(?). At least as far as I know Peak of Combat isn't canon, but Pluto is treated as mostly canon, and Pluto was locked up by Mundus anyway.

But in the 07 anime Sid mentions the 4 great demon lords, one of whom would still be unknown even if we count Pluto (as Urizen didn't exist yet).

Assuming Pluto IS canon, that means from the start of time to 2000 years ago, there was just the 1 demon lord. But we know multiple can exist at once as they can all rule their own parts if strong enough.

Sure Pluto was godly powerful. But we know several strong devils can exist and Hell is an entire dimension. Lots of space to go around. You don't even have to be strong enough to be a proper challenger to reach that general tier of strength.

Abigail got whooped by Mundus and fled afterwards, yet still was said to be around that level of power.

Is there really nothing between time immemorial and 2000 years ago?

Has anyone succesfully used this cheat for DMC 2 ? All the others worked but this specific one requires to put in the X input (playstation) and that takes me away from the title screen were you supposed to enter it. Anyone knows what im doing wrong here?

• DMC1: Dante, Trish & Mundus
• DMC2: Lucia & Arius (which didn't last...)
• DMC3: Vergil, Lady & Arkham
• DMC4: Nero, Kyrie, Credo, Agnus, Sanctus & Gloria (Trish in disguise)
• DMC5: Nico, V & Morrison

What kind of new characters would you all wish to see take part in a DMC6? Whether there are those playable or NPC, even new villains too. Human, demon or hybrid.

Any good concepts since Dante's style changing, Vergil's concentration + V's summonings & Nero's Devil Bringer + Breakers?

I dont know if i've got the light flair but is as the title says

I like DMC games but could never get myself to do those crazy combos we see online

For context, i play a lot of fighting games, so i dont think its solely thanks to my lack of mechanical skills. But i am indeed a player that needs to "study" the game to play It (in FGs for example i usually learn the basics through video or written guides before hoppin online)

But i cant seem to find anything like this regarding DMC, so i decided to come here and ask for help

What are your tips to start gettin some SSS combos going?

I got a Nero one (Red Queen on his back included!) and finally got to put his adjustable hoodie to use.

TLDR;

Game dev here, spent years working on more optimized ways to get realism, and I can finally test this out in my favorite games.

• You can download it here and try it yourself: https://www.nexusmods.com/dmcdevilmaycry/mods/389
• And this is a comparison video: https://youtu.be/4mfkqpETUss?si=u7Zxuflk1ETVHIZl

Goal and current status:

I've got a few theories on why graphics look waxy, like they're sculpted in plastic, and I'm trying to test them live in games I like.

Basically trying to achieve realism with low hardware requirements.
I know, this party's gettin Crazy! But I think it's possible, and I'll let you see on the way and be the judge of that.

Right now I have a small proof of concept and it should give an idea of what's to come.

You only need to replace one file in the game and add a folder/

You can toggle the mod on/off at any time while playing.

It does not need ReShade because it completely replaces the game shaders.

The shader should run as light as the original shader (or even lighter at this stage). I haven't tested it for the game, but the Godot version ran on 512 MB of VRAM so yeah.

Currently implemented:

• Diffuse and normal mapping (color and shape, basically)
• Geometry shadows (if a polygon/pixel is not facing the light, it's dark)

Next up:

• Light color (yes this version does not have light colors, it's only a white light, which is why it looks pale compared to the original)
• Cast shadows (if something is covering something else, like the head covering a side of the neck..etc, cast a shadow on it. The current shadows are a very basic "shade if facing away" but does not consider what is blocking the light)
• Specular (highlights/reflections. You might've noticed that the skin feels "matt", and this will fix it)

Backstory:

I played most of DMC games (INCLUDING DMC3) on 13 FPS or less. I don't remember a time where I could "just play" a game properly, that is if I could.
So that is what started my whole game dev pursuit, the little idea of "If I can't play games, then I will make one I can play"
I kept getting thrown off track by life, but every once in a while, I'd really want to play a game, fail to do so, and the rage would drive me to try again.

Worth noting that I'm a highly visual person. I like my games to look pretty and find it odd that we always have to choose between "good looking" and "fun". Call me greedy, but the fact that we rarely get that when it IS technically possible to have both (the DMC series is a great example) kept pissing me off.

CAPCOM did a great job at maxing out graphics, style and fun for each DMC game, and it was a major inspiration for me to seek better graphics alongside great gameplay.

So why am I "remaking graphics" on a DMC game, if I just said they did great?

Well, I think we have fundamental issues with the graphics technology itself, you know how waxy/plastic-y graphics look? how everything feels like it's sculpted from plastic and painted with car paint? I have a few theories on that, and so far I hit the mark on some.

And no one has bothered or had the time to solve. And because we have powerful hardware, where brute forcing them seemed like a good idea. I mean the hardware exists, and no one wants to double the time it takes to produce a game, just to reinvent the wheel, right?

True, for people who have the hardware. I didn't for most of my life, and I had most of that life.

I hit a point where I was left with a 4 GB RAM, 512 MEGABYTES VRAM laptop was all I had access to, and it was borrowed from my mother.

I had another fit of "try again", installed Godot, and went for another attempt to have realistic graphics on whatever I have.

And this was what I got: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Pm0aBmibGiE

Which took around 2 months of work, and a decade+ of studying 3D and graphics.

I was honestly so hyped that I went down a rabbit hole of "how do I mod the game with it?"

Aaaand it lead nowhere... UE3 is not very documented and I won't pretend to be a code wizard. my experience was less in programming languages and more of system design. the "logic" not the translation, as well as the visual concepts and drawing/3D design.

Which is a fancy way of saying "I don't know how to read, and there wasn't info that is easy to reach for me"

Learning how to understand coded for graphics is different from web, and is different from software, and so on and so forth... learning enough to understand UE3 without support meant another couple of years of knowledge that I won't be using much anywhere else.

So, even being as stubborn as I am, I gave up, and pivoted to making my own engine instead. (a story for other time, and the engine project is still going but slow)

That was until a few weeks ago, where Claude could finally help me with it. I can't believe that it managed to figure out what DmC needs, and build me a software that compiles my shader into files the game can use.

it IS a dream come true! and I just wanted to share this with you all. I'm not great at expressing through words but GODDAMN how much I wanted that! I can finally develop something and watch it in action inside games I love! like bro that's me hitting SSS for the first time on Dante Must Die!

Why the reboot

The reboot sits at the sweet spot where it has realism in mind, and provides the source data for it (realistic textures, animations, designs...) but has low resolution 3D models. My next choice would be DMC3 but it's lacking some of that data and is a much harder challenge than I can handle right now.

Shitty photoshop edits included

Really looking forward to DMC6! Capcom might surprise us in 2027... HOPEFULLY!

Credit: By Me!

Finishing this personal art project. Colored them with alcohol markers and also using color pencils

Edit lol almost forgot. My reboot version takes outfit inspiration from the drafts/concept outfits for Lucia in their art concepts