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I've wanted to ask for a while, but what do you guys hack and what made you choose it?

I animate. I found it very very fun =3

What made you want to animate?

try som'in new since I failed at making skins and model editing. A Naruto animation sounded fun to try. I made the animation (Mind you this was before mod set was out) and turned out really good. And was fun like I thought and look where I'm at today with my kit and cerebella animations XD

That's interesting enough.

Would you like to animate something that means more to me than anything I've ever released?

i dont know why, but i just do

Sonic? You mean you just Import? No idea what made you want to port things?

I just make CSPs.

Why did you choose to make CSPs? Were the ones being made not how you felt they should be?

i guess i hack because im bored of brawl and find it fun

I knew deep down that I could be the very best. Undoubtedly like no one ever was.

After messing around with Action Replay on Melee, I really wanted to be part of Brawl hacking from the beginning. I remember BigSharkZ helped me learn how to make textures with that 'ash' method back when that was started. I always wanted to have Dark Samus in the game, so I think (I might be wrong, but...) I ended up making the first Dark Samus texture hack of any kind. Of course, it was basically just a dark gray-ish Samus with a blue visor and little blue dots on the shoulder armor, but I still enjoyed that. I never did much, but I also wanted to put my own music into the game, which I've converted a few of my old outdated tracks into BRSTMs, but nothing very good.

@ SJS Are you the very best?
@ Mochtroid  Sounds like you've been here for a long time. I never even heard of an ash method. Nor did I know Melee could use Action replays.

@ SonicBrawler  So just boredom?

Well, it doesn't seem quite as amazing with the hacks we have now, but back then, being able to play as Giga Bowser and on all the Target Test and other 1P stages was so fun. I never did quite figure out all of the Debug Menu.

ash was basically a folder where you put it in your program files, then insert a PAC and it opens all of the textures. You edit them, then when you're done, it converts them back into the PAC file. In fact, I specifically remember that you couldn't edit any texture files with +1 or +2 in the name without hexing them manually, which I never bothered to learn, but now Brawl Box does all of that for us. :D

Hmm, sounds complicated. I don't know anything about texturing though. I fuse PSAs for now and intend on becoming a fulltime PSAer when I get a computer. That way I'll have time to learn and experiment as much as I want. The reasoning behind me wanting to do that is more out of... Hmm. Well I have ideas that I can't trust anyone to get perfect aside of myself. I have certain ways that I think a character should feel and no one else seems to notice it. Prime example being the Sephiroth PSA, when I get better I'm going to make one that feels accurate to how one would expect Sephiroth to play. Then there are also Sora PSAs that all feel wonky in their own ways. I plan to fix things that I feel are out of place as well as to create new and interesting PSAs for characters no one else has bothered to bring into Brawl. My top priority for now being Vaati.

I mainly do BRSTMs, seeing as how they're the easiest hack out there. I even started making BRSTMs before I joined KC:MM (noobish ones that I made before I learned about the 14336 rule). I sometimes make single recolors of characters cuz I want the character, but over a team color.
Did you want to capture the perfect images? Did you train people to your cause?

SJS we all know I inspired you. (http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m202/antjor_s38/Xat%20Avis/smirk.gif)

And I make pretty much anything of course my forte being Menus/interface.

Animations, for the most part, though I do thoroughly enjoy stage-making.

Hmm, Mr Vile what was your name before now?

Gamma Ridley

my forte is stage imports and character rigging... and thats bout it

i was inspired by mewtwo2000 when stage making was possible and i started to enjoy it. as for characters, just cause i wanted to ^_^

Ah. Rigging sounds difficult. I don't understand all of the technical terms and whatnot of models so I stick to what's easy and I just PSA.

Huh....
a lot of people sign up for this website because
they want to show their skills on hacking brawl..

Well anyway i hack brawl because i was inspired by Julz and LenSho :) :) :)
and it makes me wanna make some hacks like they do
But i am not good as them  :srs:

and that is not the only reason why..
I enjoy making PSA, Textures, and i like vertex editing too

I do [censored] because I want to. Extremely rarely do I pamper to someone who has a request.

I didn't take it as a bad thing. And you like my hacks? Do you... use any of them? You know it takes me day and night to make each one? (Minus Pit which is why he is going away soon.) I never sleep on days when I PSA, not joking in the least.

so u stay up all night working on a PSA? srsly dude? do u even have a life? o.o

No I don't have a life D. I've learned to accept that fact, live with it, and use it to my advantage. On days when I PSA, i spend the entire day and night testing until everything is to my liking or out of my comprehension.

I thought you said you were a womanizer on the IRC?

Anyways, I do BRSTMs, CSS stuff (CSPs/BPs/Names/Stock Icons), PSAs, Model Importing, and now working in a Stage.

Alba that was such a long time ago. I didn't know you even realized I'm the person who said that. But i said that I was "good with girls." Not a womanizer.

i best like coding in PSA (cuz thats almost like programming and is a good training to do real programming) and since i am study "soon" programming it is just perfect for me
make animetions i am sometimes too lazy to do but thats fun to do sometimes

i also like to do model imports (mainly crossover outfits like my sonic the saiyan/plumber)
i dont like so much to just rig a model from a other game since thats no fun at all
only the rigging (maybe HD texture if needed) is yours work but nothing else
but i still do rig these models if my requests is not made

Stages hacking i think i will do alittle of soon like a onepiece stage i have been planing (cuz we really needs a onepiece stage since we got 0 of them) and maybe a new stage for DBZ  time chamber (with some of my own ideas)

So, a little bit of everything? :af:

I model, texture, rig, import, animate, psa, mod sfx, make brstms and stages and code in new stuff I can't do already.
:srs:

I forgot to mention that once I understood the power that's inside Photoshop I was able to make decent textures. It was hard at first, but my courage pulled me through.

...Okay, MMBN2 pun aside, my strengths are animating and model work, and I have a pretty decent amount of PSA knowledge.

As for why, it's because I wanted my favourite character back from Melee, so I practiced and practiced animating to aid in that. My modeling capabilities came rather naturally, whereas PSA was the most difficult for me to grasp of the 3.

And your textures came out amazing. :srs:

It's because my heart's so true.

Your journey has pulled you through. You teach me, and I'll teach you.

Pooooookeeeemaaaaaaaa-*Cough*


...Aherm.

Anyways, this thread contains some useful info. Seems fun.

Lets see here. I Animate, Vertex/Model, Rig, PSA, Port, Import(Materials/etc), and Texture. Animating and Modeling being the stronger points...

I learned about hacks after ]Syntax Error[ got taken down. Tried to use ASH/STASH/CUPASH/Etc. got confused, learned BrawlBox existed, learned BrawlBox instead.

The first thing I worked on was edits to Kit's Naruto animations, actually. I wanted to make a "better" airdodge. I started porting because I thought the old Wheelie model import over Lucas was the best thing since sliced bread. I started texturing because I wanted full recolors for said Wheelie. I started PSAing so I could finish all the things I ported. I started vertexing in Blender because I thought Starwaffle was the frigging BEST. I started importing so I could import PMD models and get them working. I started rigging so could import stuff I've always wanted that WEREN'T PMDs. I learned the Importing rules about materials and stuff so I could make things look cool and I wouldn't have to bother BJ with noob questions. I started Modeling because I saw it as "vertexing without limit." That, and I wouldn't have to scrounge the internet for rare and obscure models of my obscure interests. lol Billy Hatcher and Blinx.

So there ya go. Chronological start to finish, lol.

I PSA! I loved brawl in 2010 and i thought it was possible to unlock shadow there! Then i saw a video by mastaklo and this gave me this site, and the possibility to download Hacks. It was more PSA's i wanted and then i decided to Get some knownlenge with smash attacks in 2011 by copying/studying others codings. Then i made my first hack :) Mecha Soni :)

I texture, I don't always feel like I do the best job at it, but I have fun anyway.

I texture, Make CSS, CSP, Icons and models. I'm still learning a bit about models I'll get it though.

Blackjax You sound amazing yet I've never heard of your hacks. I don't see how I can respond to all of you because I'm on Wii... but You all have some pretty interesting stories.

To the guy who liked to rig, would anyone be interested in converting a file to work in brawl? I have no idea what the orignal file type is but I think brawl uses DAE?

@Thany since I know quite a bit about your reasoning behind your forte already... you really find PSA harder than modelling? Your models look amazing and your PSA knowledge has fixed both of my Roy hacks so far, not to mention made them better.

I do [censored] I feel like doing. That's about the extent of my being here :af:

Texturing is my main form of hacking. I've tried dabbling in animation, I can do pretty good, but nothing on the level of perfection Kit dolls out.

The main reason I do textures is because art is my biggest talent. I can draw IRL, and pretty darn well. I've also had several years of experience in Photoshop. I already had the skill, the trouble was adapting them to textures.

As for Animation: None of my hacks are animation related, but like I've said. I've dabbled in it, and I'm not half bad, even after some time of being absent from trying it.

Awesome me too

Secretly I'm learning about all of you. Memorizing speech patterns, personality traits, and putting them to names.

Hi I'm pervy. I'm perverted, not to smart, and make a [censored] load of typos in msn. My speech patterns can't seem to choose a dialect and are always changing yo. There, I've foolied ya plot boy!

You didn't. I learned that you mix up to with too. Unless that was a part of your plot... Hmm... Anyway, I gotta stop straying off topic.

I make textures, some bad CSP and BRSTMs

but mainly make textures lol

it was just probably the easiest thing to do after i got bored from CSPs

huh, lots of interesting stuff here.  as for me, i can do pretty much anything Brawl hacking related.  that tends to happen when you're with the community for over 2 years and refuse to wait for others to do the stuff you want.  granted though, a lot of it may not be the best, but still decent.  i'm best with models, glitch fixing, and rigging.

I now like Snoopy. Il probably learn multiple skills in time. First i wanna get psa down. Then stage making, texturing, and maybe animating.

LOL :)
Kienamaru nice topic!! :)

Like Snoopy, I came in cuz if you want something done it's best to do it yourself. Waiting for someone else to do it will usually get you nowhere.

I know how to do everything except PSA. Though I guess I'm most known for my vertex edits and model imports, I'd like to think of myself as a texturer.


As for why? I like my Brawl to have a cohesive feel to it and I feel textures are the most important part to contributing to that.

Well, I'm Flygon, probably I'm not well known here but well, two years ago I used to mdl0 import models, really bad but I did it untill I gave up, then I dedicated my time on making csp untill a quitted and when rigging came out I was about to leave hacking but suddenly I got access to 3ds max and look me now, I'm a rigger, bad rigger, but I'm becoming better hack by hack

I make music.  Why?  It's certainly not because there aren't enough people making BRSTM's.  Far from it.  First, I have zero artistic talent.  I can't make textures to save my life (I tried), I can't make stages (I tried), and I couldn't vertex hack (I tried).  BRSTM's were really the only thing I could make that wouldn't be looked down upload because of an obvious lack of quality.  

Second, I just love video game music.  I mean, I really love it.  My iPod is full of nothing but VG music (and remixes of it) and I've looked into buying games just because of their music.  I wanted to put some of that music into Brawl so that I could rock to it while playing the game.  After a bit, I realized, hey, if I'm making BRSTM's, why don't I upload them to the Vault so everyone can enjoy them?

I know the stuff I make isn't tough to do and they aren't the most glamorous hacks on the Vault, but I'm proud of them nonetheless.

Vic. I have a bunch of VGM music on my iPod as well :af2:

I tried hacking, not my thing.
I joined because I did videos for my brother's hacks, which he has stopped now, but I'm still visiting since I know quite a few people here.

@ Beyond and Victory

I love both of you all's reasoning behind what you do. It's quite inspiring.

@ Victory ONLY You listen to the music from...

Musashi: Samurai Legend?
Timesplitters Series
Crystal Chronicles series?
Rogue Galaxy?

Those games have some really inspiring music for me and I sometimes write to it. I'm not too artistic but I am a writer/poet and I have really good ideas.

@Flygon, actually you're one of the few people I have heard of.

Eh, with the questions you've been asking most of the people that post here, it was pretty obvious you were after several things including this one. ._.

Bahahahaha! It's not my fault people find it a good topic. I just like to ask things from people. Never know when someone might agree to lend a helping hand. I mean, I do free PSA Fusions for crying out loud, only a few people know because only a few people have asked me.

@Victory I love VG music too. Everyone usually assumes that because I mostly listen to metal means that I hate every other kind of music. Not true. Metroid Metal is among my favorites just because it combines my two favorite things, although everything from Metroid, F-Zero, LoZ to Resident Evil, Gears of War, Metal Gear is my collection. I even ended up covering VG music after I started playing guitar, mainly because I was and still am so into Metroid Metal. I'm even hoping I might get to go to MAGFest at the start of next year to see them live.

Speaking of VG Metal, I like Artificial Fear.

You talk to me on purpose so I could help you didn't you? :notimp:

What? No. I didn't even know what you did at the time. And you haven't helped me yet. Not like there's some rule that says you have to. Anyway, derailing here. just message me.

lol The last couple of pages of this thread. xD
But yeah, I mainly do character hacks and occasionally stage hacks as well. I don't do model/vertex or PSA hacks and probably never will. Just not really something that interests me. =)

i mainly do recolors, cus there easy & fun. but i also (kinda) doo PSAing, for a project me and a team are working on.

Not interested in psa? That seems impossible.

Maybe cuz they're hard? They seem pretty hard for me, at least.

Felt like hijacking Brawl because I got the homebrew channel and I stumbled upon the glory of Brawl hacks and said yes.

I stumbled upon Brawl hacks before I even knew what homebrew channel was. Brawl Minus has become my only reason for having a Wii. I like to PSA, and testing things and glitch finding is fun to as long as you're making progress. It's really great to have the power to take someone elses work and fix it to your liking. I gotta learn how to texture someday too.

Haha, well I don't know if they're hard or not (I've never attempted them before) but I actually don't even use PSA's at all. I enjoy making textures much more. But the main reason I don't is because I focus on vBrawl and making hacks that others can use without "leaving" vBrawl. If any of that makes any sense.

Wow Kienamaru this topic seems a little crowded ^-^

xD

Crowded? that was the point. To see how many hackers would tell my why they hack what they hack.

And yeah? I don't make Vbrawl hacks at all because I like Minus and Balanced. Vbrawl has too many technical flaws and balance issues.

i don't use homebrew, i use geko

Well I do Textures, why because I love making outfits and enjoy seeing the end results. Imagine your favorite character with a outfit you designed thought of. Like in your signature imagine Link really looking like a samurai. That will be utterly beautiful. 

This answers your question:

http://forums.kc-mm.com/index.php?topic=47223.0 (http://forums.kc-mm.com/index.php?topic=47223.0)

Dude. br3 has to do more of those. They're sweet.

That will be beautiful. I actually plan on making a version of that called the Six Sage Samurai.

Back on topic, I do PSA because I like to change things up with a characters attacks. Sort of how in ALTtP Link got the medallions with Bombos. Well wouldn't it be cool if the last hit of his spin attack used that to explode and ht a wider area? I started to do stage textures pretty much for the same reason as your character texturing. But it's more of the fact that many of the melee levels don't have any good texxtures that fit into Brawl so I decided to try and make some.

If somebody could get a model, I will do the texture for you. A Samurai Psa Link. (Future Project) but then I used to psa i used to psa because of the joy of making a move set that i utterly love, making a dream come true move set like mario with a fire beam kamehameha. That will be beautiful.

I actually started with Character Textures. I wanted to actually create stuff for my game. I saw many people being able to so I said "why not learn?" Since I did not have a SD I had to wait for it. But I think I'm getting better. I made an epic Wolf Texture (curently not uploaded) that has flaming pants & a lot of Blue. Sounds dumb but if you saw it you'd like it. Currently learning Animating cuz I want my own movesets & I find it neat & fun. I'm also learning PSA on the side cuz I like it.
1 final thing.
I do like making CSPs outa pics from the internet more than from Brawl but since sometimes I can't (original creation or something) then I think of what kind of personality he'd have & create a CSP that matches it.
Overall I love using my imagination :p