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[SA2PC MOD] Chao World Extended: The Biggest Chao Mod.

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Thanks to @Setenzas/@Setenza_Art for the arts!
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Chao World Extended is a mod for the Chao Garden in Sonic Adventure 2 that can change the system of the Chao Garden depending on what you choose. Chao World Extended also brings back unused content and adds a variety of ways to get Jewel Chao and Special Chao without the use of Chao Editor.
You can also edit the difficulty if you're looking to spice things up!


The Mod has been Moved to Gamebanana!
This will be the Place to Download and Check any info about the mod itself!

https://gamebanana.com/gamefiles/6336

Chao World Extended also have it own Chao island Wiki Page!
This is probably the Best place to get any single details of the Mod, knowing which feature do what, and how to use it.
However, unlike Gamebanana, the Wiki can be outdated if a new version recently release, but don't worry! it will take time to update~

https://chao-island.com/downloads/pc-mo ... -extended/

Thank you Everyone for your support, it's all thanks to your supports that Chao World Extended made it this far, we now are a Team to work together and adding more contents to the mod for a Better futur of Chao World!

Who know? Maybe that will wake up Sega~
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I'll still leave this here, have fun looking all the old Changelog~
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v1.0 : first release
v2.0 : http://chao.hippotank.com/forum/viewtop ... 5#p1551625
v2.1 : http://chao.hippotank.com/forum/viewtop ... 9#p1552289
v3.0 : http://chao.hippotank.com/forum/viewtop ... 4#p1559654
v3.2 : fixed the problem of v3.0
v3.4 : http://chao.hippotank.com/forum/viewtop ... 8#p1561158
v4.0 : http://chao.hippotank.com/forum/viewtop ... 3#p1562513
v4.5 : http://chao.hippotank.com/forum/viewtop ... 8#p1564058
v5.0 : http://chao.hippotank.com/forum/viewtop ... 1#p1569321
v5.1 : http://chao.hippotank.com/forum/viewtop ... 2#p1580312
v5.5 : http://chao.hippotank.com/forum/viewtop ... 3#p1582793
v6.5 : http://chao.hippotank.com/forum/viewtop ... 5#p1586885
v6.6 : http://chao.hippotank.com/forum/viewtop ... 5#p1587845
v6.8 : http://chao.hippotank.com/forum/viewtop ... 1#p1590791
v7.0 : http://chao.hippotank.com/forum/viewtop ... 9#p1595069
v7.1 : http://chao.hippotank.com/forum/viewtop ... 8#p1597828
v7.3 : http://chao.hippotank.com/forum/viewtop ... 2#p1604202
v7.3.2 : http://chao.hippotank.com/forum/viewtop ... 0#p1604640
v7.5 : http://chao.hippotank.com/forum/viewtop ... 5#p1613195
v8.0 : viewtopic.php?p=1624209#p1624209
v8.1: https://gamebanana.com/updates/44524
v8.2 : https://gamebanana.com/updates/51121


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Re: [SA2 MOD] Chao World Extended

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this is p cool

if only i had a pc to play sa2 on
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This IS pretty neat! :D
As you can see, I'm trying to work on a minecraft texture mod, the only problem is that the leaves and flora refuse to stay alpha-channeled, making the area around them black. Any ideas on what I can do to fix that? :thinking:
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BlackLuigi7 wrote: This IS pretty neat! :D
As you can see, I'm trying to work on a minecraft texture mod, the only problem is that the leaves and flora refuse to stay alpha-channeled, making the area around them black. Any ideas on what I can do to fix that? :thinking:
i don't know what do you use for edit texture/image but i made a tutorial about texture here
if you use photoshop or someting you can acces to "channels", try to check the alpha channel if he's here or not
if not, creat and edit it, black = invisible, white = visible :blink:

hope that help
(btw nice garden!)
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DarkyBenji wrote:
i don't know what do you use for edit texture/image but i made a tutorial about texture here
if you use photoshop or someting you can acces to "channels", try to check the alpha channel if he's here or not
if not, creat and edit it, black = invisible, white = visible :blink:

hope that help
(btw nice garden!)
I've done both, and neither have worked. :chaocry:
I'll try and see if there's some kind of forum post on the Nvidia forums that'll help.
(thanks~)
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BlackLuigi7 wrote:
DarkyBenji wrote:
i don't know what do you use for edit texture/image but i made a tutorial about texture here
if you use photoshop or someting you can acces to "channels", try to check the alpha channel if he's here or not
if not, creat and edit it, black = invisible, white = visible :blink:

hope that help
(btw nice garden!)
I've done both, and neither have worked. :chaocry:
I'll try and see if there's some kind of forum post on the Nvidia forums that'll help.
(thanks~)
Did you try to disable Mipmaps ? (viewtopic.php?f=7&t=44337)
sometime mipmaps make the alpha texture problem for some reason :chaoangry:
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DarkyBenji wrote:Did you try to disable Mipmaps ? (viewtopic.php?f=7&t=44337)
sometime mipmaps make the alpha texture problem for some reason :chaoangry:
Oh! :surprise:
I hadn't thought of that. I'll try that out next time I'm making a texture. Thanks~

Also, I have an ATI card, so I can make a tutorial for it if you want.
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Neat.
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Now this is some interesting stuff! I'll load it up and give it a whirl, see what happens.

I'm thinking - can you make it so that Chao might cry when they trip over or try to swim when they can't or chance an encounter with jack-in-the-box or possibly coming out worse in a karate match?
Come to think of it, is it possible to code them to tear up in your arms when their cry meter is up? Possibly tear up in the karate arena?


(I'm a tear vampire.)


Possibly get the exclusive animations into the gardens somehow...?

Or is that being too extravagant?
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These look beautiful, in concept and application.

Although I don't have SA2 HD, still, much applause to.
I am very curious on the 3rd/"Mega" evolution.
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FrankT wrote:Now this is some interesting stuff! I'll load it up and give it a whirl, see what happens.

I'm thinking - can you make it so that Chao might cry when they trip over or try to swim when they can't or chance an encounter with jack-in-the-box or possibly coming out worse in a karate match?
Come to think of it, is it possible to code them to tear up in your arms when their cry meter is up? Possibly tear up in the karate arena?


(I'm a tear vampire.)


Possibly get the exclusive animations into the gardens somehow...?

Or is that being too extravagant?
i guess i can't for chao cry after drown (or jack-in-the-box) cause i don't the value animation (or that don't exist)

for karate... it's possible, and like the animation, i need to find the value.. and i know this one exist... so it's possible ! i guess :blink:
Mamkute wrote:These look beautiful, in concept and application.

Although I don't have SA2 HD, still, much applause to.
I am very curious on the 3rd/"Mega" evolution.
i have a idea.. but i hope that will work like i want :walkback:

here a small preview of the code : more than 99lvl
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yep.. when the level go to 99.. he go back to 00 so you can level up your chao again !
and again.. and again but the stats will stop to 4000
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DarkyBenji wrote:yep.. when the level go to 99.. he go back to 00 so you can level up your chao again !
and again.. and again but the stats will stop to 4000
Do you think it would be possible to add new, harder races? I don't even know where to look for the files that load up specific chao and levels for each race, but in theory we should be able to at least change the parameters, and at most add new chao in. It would go really well with your "overlevelling" mod, as races are pretty easy to complete.
Is there a problem with the chao flying off stage/disappearing during the race? I remember my hacked chao, at high enough levels, would go zooming out of the skybox when it jumped off a ledge.
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BlackLuigi7 wrote: Do you think it would be possible to add new, harder races?
i guess i can harder the race if i found the other chao value :darkblink:
but add it's very different so i guess it's not possible
Is there a problem with the chao flying off stage/disappearing during the race?
No, the game stop the stats at 4000.. so you're chao can't break the race
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DarkyBenji wrote:for karate... it's possible, and like the animation, i need to find the value.. and i know this one exist... so it's possible ! i guess :blink:
That'll be dandy. :surprise:

Now - since the option is available to me, I'd like to push my mod packs out here. That's allowed, right?
Here they are

And... here's a second thing: when it said that the Better Chao World mod would "add more object for hero and dark garden", I thought it meant it'd place the rocking horse, television and/or radio in all of them - but no, it says here. "edit the object placement". But... putting all the toys in all the gardens is possible, right...?
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FrankT wrote:And... here's a second thing: when it said that the Better Chao World mod would "add more object for hero and dark garden", I thought it meant it'd place the rocking horse, television and/or radio in all of them - but no, it says here. "edit the object placement". But... putting all the toys in all the gardens is possible, right...?
No. sadly no :chaoangry:
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Oh. That's a shame. :no:
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In fact, how does this coding thing work? I'd like to give it a try myself.
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Darky Benji I was very suprised with textures but what you do with this is JUST AWESOME this is super good work keep working! this is awesome ideas and good moding :chaohappy: :chaohappy: :chaohappy: :chaohappy:
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krzys2 wrote:Darky Benji I was very suprised with textures but what you do with this is JUST AWESOME this is super good work keep working! this is awesome ideas and good moding :chaohappy: :chaohappy:
thx :chaohappy:

also, i finish more sick chao, more level, mega evolution acces code :blink: it's gonna be hard for other code to make
FrankT wrote:In fact, how does this coding thing work? I'd like to give it a try myself.
use notepad++ and open code.xml... if you're good a hex edit, you can try :blink:
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...no, you're going to have to step me through it; I have NO idea what any of that code stuff means. Is it possible to change mouth configurations outside of idle states?
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FrankT wrote:...no, you're going to have to step me through it; I have NO idea what any of that code stuff means.?
You might need to take some online classes/tutorials on how to HEX edit and use unpacking tools.
FrankT wrote:Is it possible to change mouth configurations outside of idle states?
If you mean what their mouths look like when they're crying/angry/etc, it's possible. It'd be the same as changing the idle stairs, except your looking for the "angry" mouth, etc., and changing those. Texture editing is a lot less work than coding, to be honest. ^^;
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BlackLuigi7 wrote:
FrankT wrote:Is it possible to change mouth configurations outside of idle states?
If you mean what their mouths look like when they're crying/angry/etc, it's possible. It'd be the same as changing the idle stairs, except your looking for the "angry" mouth, etc., and changing those. Texture editing is a lot less work than coding, to be honest. ^^;
I've already made a texture pack, I just want to alter the code to make them appear!
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Chao World Extended v2 coming soon with :

Mods :
- HD chao texture is separate with "Better" Chao World
- FrankT mods is added to the mod list

Codes :
- Update : Hungry's difficult, now the chao cry before lose the hapiness
- New : More chao sick, your chao is sick whatever your doing wrong with him.. like stomach if you give too many fruit and force him to eat
- New : More than 99lvl, that delete the limit level.. you can get 4000 at all, use this for the futur code !
- New : Mega/Monster evolution (need more than 99lvl), your chao 2nd evolution is on Mega when the stats get 4000 point :
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- New : Medal chao make jewel chao, if your chao have garnet medal, he can make garnet jewel chao or Ruby Chao !
beginner medal to back the chao mate normal
Diamond medal make moon chao or pearl chao
challenge medal to make ALL jewel/texture chao randomly

- New : More and random chao face, simple... you chao have many face than the actual game when he born
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- New : Egg Colors Advanced, The egg have the color of the chao so you can have two-tone chao egg colors !

-New : Normal chao can make chao color, when your normal chao color is on 2nd evolution.. he can make the chao of his own color, so you can have transparent chao if you enabled Mega/Monster evolution code
because for unknow reason.. normal chao are transparent when he's "over evo"
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Release date : 31/01/2014 (after my Birthday! :chaohappy: )
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FrankT wrote:
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FrankT wrote:Is it possible to change mouth configurations outside of idle states?
If you mean what their mouths look like when they're crying/angry/etc, it's possible. It'd be the same as changing the idle stairs, except your looking for the "angry" mouth, etc., and changing those. Texture editing is a lot less work than coding, to be honest. ^^;
I've already made a texture pack, I just want to alter the code to make them appear!
What do you mean by that?
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I'll draw it out:

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