A combination and expansion of existing Cynder mods with new additions to add on to them.
This mod is an attempt to expand upon the idea of Cynder in the Reignited universe, with her own powerups (emulated by the character skins and effect recolors), and her being in Spyro's place as the main protagonist.
ExpanCyn uses the following mods (Links included):
What this mod adds on:
- Black and red color scheme as main textures for Cynder
- A recolor for Sting the Hornet (or Fritz in the Reimagined mod) that uses the color scheme based on Nicolas Kole's Reignited Cynder art concept
- Custom Steam Library Grid Cover, Background and Logo + Mod Preview images made from screenshots by Sparky the Dragon for MR.G's "SRT Mod Manager".
Plans for future additions to the mod:
- Powerup skins based on Cynder's elemental abilities from The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon
- Poison: Superflame and Green Orb Powerup
- Fear: Fairy's Kiss (Rageflame) and Supercharge (w/Blue Orb version)
- Shadow: Invincibility
- Wind: Ice Breath (Cloud Temples and Frozen Altars(?))
- Changes to in-engine voiced dialogue using voice replication AI to replace Spyro's name with that of Cynder for NPCs who mention the main protagonist by name.
Anyone who wants to give feedback or constructive criticisms, my Discord handle is SonicPrimus#6352.
It's very nice job. 5 Stars.
And yes, I agree. in relation to the NPC's. change their speech however. it may take a while I think. and even if you manage to do that you will still have a second question that can be very complicated. the Main Cutscenes. this I think it is not possible to change
Well, that is true. Mostly the pre-rendered cutscenes will be the issue. The in-engine cutscenes will be just as easy as NPC dialogue during gameplay.
this seems like a great mash-up of available mods to have a great cynder in reignited complete with her own powerups, dialog, menus & everything
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i do also appreciate the extra effort that will be going into updating all the npc voice-lines too!
thats something that always bugged me about every cynder & ember mod available,
that all the npc's you could talk with would all still refer to the player as 'Spyro'
i will be looking forward to actually hearing all the NPC's referring to you as Cynder instead
Hopefully I can set that up sooner than later. However that will be after the PowerUps are all set in. Plus I plan to set up some other text changes for Sting/Fritz.
bet thats going to be a hell of a lot work to do,
updating all the dialog from NPCs to refer to the player as Cynder,
given how absurdly much dialogs there across all 3 games,
and how often characters seem to refer to the player by name.
its already frigging awesome as-is, looking forward to more additions to the mod
oh one thing i did notice which would be great to have updated... is the main title-screen when you boot up the game
Yeah, the dialogue changes won't be easy. There is a lot of voice data I'll need to replicate Cynder being mentioned by characters who usually refer to Spyro. However, I hope that it will be worth it in the end.
Downloaded this and loving it so far. But i'm not sure what to do with the images in the steam library folder.
For the Grid cover, go to your Library, make sure to be on the main Library menu, and look for the Reignited game. Right-click on it and select Manage, click on "Set Custom Artwork", and then select the Grid cover. After doing that, go to the Library page of the game, right click the background and select "Set Custom Logo" and/or "Set Custom Background, and do the same as you did with the Grid artwork. That should set everything up.
Thanks
Thank you for making black and red her default colors, I never understood why they made her purple (yes I do know of DotD and Skylanders).
I also like the new colors for her wasp(?)companion too. It'd be cool if there's a way to port it to Omniswapper.
Actually, there is! Feel free to join the Mod the Dragon Discord server if you want to get started on modding SRT yourself!
Some of the text still talks about Sparx instead of Sting, most notably the signs and dialogue for the Sparx Missions in YotD.
Just something that stuck out to me considering how thorough you were swapping Spyro for Cynder.
Thanks for the feedback! I am already aware of the matter. All text will be changed to use Sting instead of Sparx when the next update comes out, which will include some powerup changes along with Sting.
This is a great collection of mods currently, and the stuff you say you plan to do sounds really cool. But i have to wonder if this is still being worked on? It's been quite a bit since release...
I'm sure this stuff takes a while, and you probably have other IRL stuff to deal with. I'd never want you to feel pressured, I'm just curious.
Right now the next update involves powerup colors and a brand new model for Sting, who will be the Sparx replacement. I haven't gotten back to the mod yet as of recent, but I appreciate your interest in the mod's future! I'll be back into it this weekend. After Sting and the powerups are done, I plan to do some Gmod related stuff regarding a new SWEP, so it'll be a while before I go back to it after the update.
When I play a Sparx level with Sting, her textures get messed up. Can you fix that in the next update?
Thanks for letting me know! I haven't touched this mod in a while, but I'd love to get back to it once I have the time. Life has been a bit hectic lately.
I would sell my kidney to help this mod's development if that's saying something.
It's really cool to see Cynder get even more love (from the community at least), hope that at least "Powerups" update comes out, since I know myself that using AI is pretty finnicky so it would most likely take a LONG while.
Good luck my man!
Is there a way to download only the mod to change Sparx for Sting/Frizz?
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