Wreckingcanon decided to figure out what Krystal might have looked like if she had appeared in Star Fox 64. He worked with concept artist Alain J. and found The Regressor, a 3D modeler and rigger who specializes in making low-poly, N64-style rigs. With this information in hand, the Krystal Archive funded the development of this rig, affectionately called "Krystal 64". After complete, we also got some assistance from King-Jion to make a Blender-compatible version.

This rig features a blaster and holster, as well as a sleeveless jacket to show off Krystal's tattoos. Krystal looks pretty good in purple, I think!

As with Warfaremachine's rig, this is a completely free rig available for download, use, and remixing, just check the README for requirements. Thanks to everyone involved!

Check out the Krystal 64 page for more details, concept art, renders, animations, and the download. The rig is available in Blender, Maya, FBX, Wavefront OBJ, and COLLADA formats.

Krystal 64 Rig by The Regressor

Using the just released Warfaremachine Krystal Rig, Falemirous made numerous upgrades to his previous Half-Life 2 Alyx Mod. As before, the mod replaces Alyx, the secondary companion character, with Krystal. But there's so much more:

• The model and rig are updated to the new, much higher quality version of Warfaremachine's Krystal Rig Version 2, including a fix so the feet don't clip through the floor in-game
• There are 4 variants: Adventures with Gatling Gun, Adventures with Blaster, Assault with Gatling Gun, and Assault with Blaster
• The EMP tool is replaced with Krystal's Staff, now with improved Mikiel2171-based model (with more accurate textures), glowing effects for the crystals, and open/close animations
• Enhanced textures, and new normal maps, for both the Gatling Gun and the Blaster
• Gatling Gun has proper animations and is held more naturally
• In-game TVs showing animations of Alyx have been replaced with Krystal animations, both for Adventures and Assault outfits
• Krystal now holds the Gravity Gun correctly
• Tons of other little fixes and adjustments to the rig
• And just as in the last one, this mod has facial animations, tail physics, and various jiggle bones

You can find more details, a lot of screenshots, a tutorial video, and downloads on the mod's official page.

User ALM5252 made a custom build of Project M called Project M EX. Project M is a huge Brawl mod that runs on actual Wii hardware featuring tons of new characters, stages, and dramatically rebalanced gameplay, with his variant including lots of other mods preloaded. It can even work without jailbreaking your Wii, apparently.

Not content with all that, ALM5252 has been working on a custom stage using the distinctive version of the Great Fox from Star Fox Adventures, going for that rusty, out-of-work look. The stages has characters fighting on the back and sides of the Great Fox before transferring to Arwings in a dynamic stage inspired by Smash 4's Orbital Gate stage. He's even working on a custom theme song for the stage to be composed by TroyAnthony. The Arwings are clearly Star Fox 64 versions, though I'm not sure if they are placeholders or the final intended models.

Cool to see the Adventures models getting some love.

KingJion, with help from several other members of the Krystal Archive Discord Server, has been working for the last two weeks on Star Fox Adventures versions of Fox McCloud and Krystal rigs to make them suitable for use in VRChat, the online world experience that's exploding in popularity and where people often go to find out about "da wey." Thanks to his hard work, and the help of several others in the server, you can join this worldwide silliness simulator as your favorite Star Fox character, or Fox McCloud if you don't want to play as Krystal today.

The Krystal VRChat Rig was based off of the MMD rig by Schattenkitsune666. KingJion even added in Krystal's staff, which is held in place with her bra strap, as you can see below.

The Fox McCloud VRChat Rig was based off of some Star Fox Adventures Rigs by dionn12345678910 that have sense disappeared from the internet.

With KingJion's permission, I will be hosting these VRChat rigs here on the Krystal Archive, but not yet. There is a small technical issue with the mod downloads that I'm working with KingJion to get corrected. Once that's done, I'll put up a page, gallery, and download links. For now, you can get the original downloads below:

• Krystal VRChat Rig Download
• Fox McCloud VRChat Rig Download
• How-To Tutorial - You will also need Unity version 5.6.3p1 installed, the SDK package from the VRChat website, and an account on VRChat to use this.

As you'll see from the video above by Hard4Games, Hugo Peters has been working hard to find ways of getting new model files off of the Star Fox Adventures in-store kiosk disc. Of note this time are several near-complete in-game locations, a model for Krystal's companion Kyte, a beta Fox McCloud model, Krystal's first-person hands, and the log that Krystal rides on in one screenshot from Dinosaur Planet.

Check out the original forum post where Hugo Peters first started talking about this, as well has Hugo Peters' Twitter announcement.

2Tie (who apparently has been working side by side with Hugo Peters) created an open source project that purports to be a Dinosaur Planet Model Viewer. Not sure if it actually works, but it was posted about here. Hugo Peters appears to have integrated the Dinosaur Planet viewing tools he made into his Warlock Engine, which doesn't appear to be available for public download at this time. However, if you're interested in tools for Dinosaur Planet (and other games), Hugo Peters made several of his older tools available on a project page for Dinosaur Planet Leftovers.

For even more Dinosaur Planet research, check out Heck Yeah, Dinosaur Planet!, this massive forum post about extracting the script (where 2Tie's Dinosaur Planet Model Viewer project appeared), The Cutting Room Floor's Star Fox Adventures entry, and a huge info dump by user Gilgamesh. Lastly, our very own site reader, kokorogensou, has both Story of Sauria, a blog dedicated to recreating the story and gameplay of Dinosaur Planet, and an organized Dinosaur Planet script using text found in the demo disk.

Thanks to Rozurabu and FoxTrot for some info found in this post.

That was fast! Schattenkitsune666 was able to quickly adjust the new Warfaremachine Rig to work in MikuMikuDance. He said it was under a day to make the changes. So check out his brand new video featuring both the Assault and Adventures variations of Krystal dancing to "Glide" by Cillia.

Sound warning! This video is from CommanderD. The Star Fox team gets in on the Nintendo cardboard madness. If you were living under a rock for the last few days, this is Nintendo Labo.

Artwork by ユッカ.

Sorry for the lack of updates this week. I have a lot to post, but all of it will take a bit of time to research, and I haven't had time to do it. And by not have time, I mean I've been playing through Super Mario Odyssey. I hope to get that settled next week (I beat the game two days ago).

1PupSuits sent me an email back in December about a glitch they had found in Star Fox Assault. If you used the sniper rifles in multiplayer mode with multiple characters, and stood at the right spot, the low-poly version of your character would appear instead. I did some tests and it worked! I also found that it had less to do with the sniper rifles and more to do with where your camera was and certain angles. This is a glitch with the level of detail (LOD) system in Star Fox Assault. Normally, LOD is used to make small objects in the distance use less resources. Star Fox Assault does this, however it looks like you can trick the system sometimes.

I made this video to demonstrate. I played the game at ludicrous resolution on the emulator so that after I cropped the fourth of the screen from the four-player split screen, you could still see a lot of detail. Hope you enjoy!

It's with much pleasure, and a little trepidation, that I officially announce the creation of a new website: StarFox.org. First mentioned on the Krystal Archive Podcast #40, this site will soon be home to official Star Fox media, interviews, and other content. It is not intended to compete with or replace other Star Fox fansites, such as StarFox-Online.net, which focuses more on community and day-to-day news.

One day last year, I just so happened to find that the domain "starfox.org" had become available. It had previously been a Star Fox fansite under different ownership for many years. After the owner let it expire, it sat unused in various cybersquatting services until even they gave up on anyone buying it. Now it's mine!

I had been wanting to find a place to post more general Star Fox related content for many years. Until now, I'd been posting it to subdomains of the Krystal Archive, such as the Star Fox Adventures Voice Acting page and Star Fox Command: All The Words. Now, this type of media will be posted to starfox.org instead.

What all can you expect?

• Promotional art, videos, and other materials
• Voice acting clips
• Music
• Cutscenes
• Official website backups
• Scripts
• Non-game canon sources, such as official comics, instruction manuals, and player's guides
• Canon analysis articles and infographics (for example, an illustrated, interactive timeline of the Star Fox series)
• Secret stuff found in source code
• Interviews about Star Fox and with people who worked on Star Fox
• Merchandise
• Cameo appearances
• And every scrap of Dinosaur Planet info we can find!

What won't be there? (At least at first.)

• Forums
• Discord
• Daily news
• Fanart, fan fiction, fan videos, mods, fan games, etc. (Unless it's really impressive.)

Another thing that will be different: this site will not be using the Wordpress blogging engine. Instead, I will be using a static site generator such as HUGO. This will allow more control, better performance, and better security while sacrificing a little ease of use. On the plus side, since this will largely focus on being a data-driven site, rather than a content blog, the site's content will be more easily created through tooling. I plan to open source the site's code so you can view it, try it, and maybe even help out.

So where are we now?

As of now, there is no content. I do have an official Twitter account and GAB account for the site. The Arwing image you see if you go to starfox.org is an SVG of my own design. Have a look at the source code and see how it was made. I'm very proud of it, and it will probably be integrated into the final site design somewhere. Other than that, the site itself is currently bare.

As for content, I mentioned previously that I had several pieces of existing content that will be moved there (mostly voice acting). I have a huge cache of Dinosaur Planet info I've gathered over the years, as well as a very knowledgeable fan who has agreed to help with the content and history of Dinosaur Planet. Lastly, I have a large amount of content I plan to post that I had created back when I used to work for StarFox-Online that was either never released (no time) or has since fallen into disrepair (links no longer work at SFO). Other information will be gathered or created as time allows. But rest assured, when the site fully launches, it will feature content that doesn't exist anywhere else on the internet!

One more thing. The Krystal Archive is, and will remain, ad-free. However, I'm considering allowing ads on starfox.org because: A. It will be a huge endeavor that will eat up a lot of my time, and B. It will end up costing a lot more in hosting because there will be a large amount of media there, and that media will be downloaded more often. I'm open to discussion on this topic, so leave a comment about what you think, and if you have other ideas for generating revenue for the site.

Sorry for missing yesterday and being late with content. I had an extremely busy weekend working with some projects that aren't ready to release yet.

It took me a while to edit, but it's finally done! The Krystal Archive Podcast that I recorded on Tuesday, January 9th, is here.

In this audio-only podcast, I gave a year-in-review summary of everything in 2017 up until the last podcast. After that, I reviewed the news stories since then in much more detail. Finally, I talk about several big projects coming up this year, including the need for a couple volunteers. If you're interested in becoming a moderator on the Discord server, or helping with fanart, please contact me.

Enjoy!

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