HC Mods corner (SotTR, HFW)

[mpnck]

24 minutes ago, hornycopter said:

but I have no plans to make pants.

even if only for the vanilla body type? completely understandable if not, considering the extra work for something that most people who downloaded the mod aren't looking for, lol. (hell, this is so specific it almost feels like i'm commissioning lmao)

good luck on the update, anyway!

[hornycopter]

3 hours ago, Qertz0 said:

Was Hoping the butt would kind of be like your your Lara thick mod, from all angles lara butt looks amazing and round in all the right spots lol

In "T-pose" both models (Voluptuous Aloy and Voluptuous Lara) are almost identical (Aloy just has slightly smaller shoulders). So difference looks like mostly in how skeletons and deformations during animations work in both games.

Also Lara has jiggle bones (repurposed hacked cloth bones to be exact) that lift buttocks a bit with in-game physics while standing and lift them quite more while running - it was never my original intention, I've noticed it only much later. Also looks like I can't fix it without disabling butt jiggle altogether, so it's gonna stay 😅

 

 

2 hours ago, mpnck said:

even if only for the vanilla body type?

If I add them for only one body type - I'm sure I'll get bombarded with suggestions to add them to all body types. 😄 Anyway I think shorts gonna fit better for SFW variations of Nora Anointed. Maybe I'll add tight leather pants for some other Nora outfits someday, but it's not gonna be soon.

 

Edited April 5 by hornycopter

[mpnck]

29 minutes ago, hornycopter said:

Maybe I'll add tight leather pants for some other Nora outfits someday, but it's not gonna be soon

and i'll be waiting patiently for that day!
appreciate the attention o7

[alexraven77]

 

 

 

Yep, this is pretty much how I imagine her to look like in my head. There is absolutely no way she is doing the things she is doing without some sort of muscle. Hell, she actually has less definition than the first game! There are lots of women in the game with muscle but she doesn't? It's so weird. I still like to believe that Gaia did something extra curricular to her body for her to be able to home run machines like she does. Thank you HC for all that you do!

[Qertz0]

2 hours ago, hornycopter said:

In "T-pose" both models (Voluptuous Aloy and Voluptuous Lara) are almost identical (Aloy just has slightly smaller shoulders). So difference looks like mostly in how skeletons and deformations during animations work in both games.

Also Lara has jiggle bones (repurposed hacked cloth bones to be exact) that lift buttocks a bit with in-game physics while standing and lift them quite more while running - it was never my original intention, I've noticed it only much later. Also looks like I can't fix it without disabling butt jiggle altogether, so it's gonna stay 😅

 

 

If I add them for only one body type - I'm sure I'll get bombarded with suggestions to add them to all body types. 😄 Anyway I think shorts gonna fit better for SFW variations of Nora Anointed. Maybe I'll add tight leather pants for some other Nora outfits someday, but it's not gonna be soon.

 

Gotcha I will pray one day for for a fuller lush booty xD 

[Batcreature]

On 3/20/2026 at 2:02 AM, TrissMerigold1 said:

Can't wait for this body type looks so good. How long will it be to release? Thanks

@hornycopterHi!! I don't know what I'm doing wrong, In the screenshots it looks great, the size and nipples look pretty and natural, but in my game it looks a little out of place. The nipples appear exaggerated, swollen like those of a pregnant woman.

Edited April 5 by Batcreature

[hornycopter]

49 minutes ago, Batcreature said:

The nipples appear exaggerated, swollen like those of a pregnant woman.

They are not swollen, that's exaggeration too 😉, but yeah looks like they are bigger them before in WIP screenshots of Busty and bigger then in Amazon body type - that's wrong - they should be the same as in Amazon. Good catch! 👍

Most likely I've missed to enable some shapekeys in Blender before export of Busty body model. Will try to fix that and wrong necklace for Vanilla body type on next weekend.

Edited April 5 by hornycopter

[SpermyWhale]

2 hours ago, hornycopter said:

They are not swollen, that's exaggeration too 😉, but yeah looks like they are bigger them before in WIP screenshots of Busty and bigger then in Amazon body type - that's wrong - they should be the same as in Amazon. Good catch! 👍

Most likely I've missed to enable some shapekeys in Blender before export of Busty body model. Will try to fix that and wrong necklace for Vanilla body type on next weekend.

Oh no… now i want that pregnant nipple look in my game 😅

[chooo]

12 hours ago, hornycopter said:

Hmm, looks like I've mixed things up at some point and deviated from my original plan. It's really hard to keep track of all variations now, when body types are in the mix.

"NH_20VN - Loincloth" - should have necklace with beads, but "NH_20VN - Shorts" should have smaller necklace without beads.
 

 

Oh? Awesome, so your intention happened to be exactly what I wanted but something went wrong.  Sure, take whatever time fixing it, I will have this game installed for a very long time.

 

For now, I'll be 'Petite' when in that outfit

 

[Akizka]

haven't played in a bit but had everything updated but i cant seem to get the current nora huntress look to show in game i tried removing everything made the mod manager was updated re installed the the main file and both Nora Huntress skimpy and reducer but still cant get it to show in game just still shows the default non modded look any idea why or can someone tell me the exact order i should use that would work thanks?

[chooo]

2 hours ago, Akizka said:

haven't played in a bit but had everything updated but i cant seem to get the current nora huntress look to show in game i tried removing everything made the mod manager was updated re installed the the main file and both Nora Huntress skimpy and reducer but still cant get it to show in game just still shows the default non modded look any idea why or can someone tell me the exact order i should use that would work thanks?

You have the MAIN file installed right? Starting easy here because we don't have much info to go on.

 

HC Aloy - A Main One

HC Aloy - NH - Skimpy

HC Aloy - NH Xtras - Reducer

 

Is all you would need installed, and to be wearing(or have the look of) Nora Huntress outfit.

 

 

Edited April 5 by chooo

[chooo]

@hornycopter These are still my two favorites by far. I love the really busy outfits that are actually functionally nude hah. Thanks again!

                                      

 

 

Edited April 5 by chooo

[Akizka]

50 minutes ago, chooo said:

You have the MAIN file installed right? Starting easy here because we don't have much info to go on.

 

HC Aloy - A Main One

HC Aloy - NH - Skimpy

HC Aloy - NH Xtras - Reducer

 

Is all you would need installed, and to be wearing(or have the look of) Nora Huntress outfit.

 

 

yeah i have just though's 3 added at the moment but i finally found out why for some reason not sure why  this happened once before but  when i saved it to the preset and just was not saving it so i did a fresh install of the manager and now its saving properly  

[chooo]

47 minutes ago, Akizka said:

yeah i have just though's 3 added at the moment but i finally found out why for some reason not sure why  this happened once before but  when i saved it to the preset and just was not saving it so i did a fresh install of the manager and now its saving properly  

 

Huh. Oh well, glad it's working. Cheers.

[Akizka]

by the way i don't know how i didn't realize this sooner but when they do make a horizon 3 we probably will never see it have a PC version since Sony change there stance a bit go about their first party games

[macaulken]

what version of the game is recommend? bro tried to install on mine but nothing works, kinda sad :c

[chooo]

12 minutes ago, macaulken said:

what version of the game is recommend? bro tried to install on mine but nothing works, kinda sad :c

Requirements:

• HFW game version 1.5.80 with clean files (no manually modded core.stream files).
• HFW Mod Manager version 0.9.2 or newer.
• Load to game world at least once to let HFW create all necessary files inside game folder.
• Run Mod Manager at least once to select your game folder.

[hornycopter]

5 hours ago, Akizka said:

by the way i don't know how i didn't realize this sooner but when they do make a horizon 3 we probably will never see it have a PC version since Sony change there stance a bit go about their first party games

Yeah, also there is now a possibility that Horizon 3 will never be released at all if Guerrilla Games gonna fumble Horizon Hunters Gathering. It's not a huge possibility, but still. Numbers for second game were already quite lower than for the first one, other spin-off games and HZDR were moderate success at best.

Even in the best case scenario Horizon 3 looks like will be released somewhere around 2029 - so we stuck with HFW and HZDR for awhile (on PC even longer, until emulators), might as well mod the heck out of them 😁
 

Edited April 6 by hornycopter

[bonifide]

Plus the story was a major downgrade in 2. You can tell Sony forced Guerilla to put forced stories in there. Now they claim their games not doing good on PC. Well if you release it day one on PC you would have more money. I'll be damn I pay $899 for a ps5 pro. 

[VonRaschke]

3 hours ago, bonifide said:

You can tell Sony forced Guerilla to put forced stories in there.

[Qertz0]

Also HC is there a chance of a futa add on in the future?
I wanna learn how to make mods so bad so I can make futa mods xD

[hornycopter]

13 hours ago, bonifide said:

Plus the story was a major downgrade in 2. You can tell Sony forced Guerilla to put forced stories in there. Now they claim their games not doing good on PC. Well if you release it day one on PC you would have more money. I'll be damn I pay $899 for a ps5 pro. 

Most interesting part of first game for me was symbiosis of story about mysteries of ancestor's world and exploring remains of said locations in gameplay. But you can only do story about uncovering some mystery once. So second game was doomed to be weaker in that part.

Don't think there was some conspiracy with Sony "master minds" for second game, just regular corporate shit - demand for second game release as fast as possible, weaker story premise for sequel, no time to figure out something more interesing (production for second game for sure started right after first game sales numbers came in). Also, most likely one third or half of the team was already new people with different ideas - it's quite usual for big studios now.

Where I can see influence from the top became demands - it's Horizon Hunters Gathering, looks like numbers for second game were disapointing for upper management despite for lot of profit still - so we get push for "next big thing" - live service game. I think this decision pushed even more developers from the studio, so today Gurialla Games is maybe 10% of the team that made original HZD.

 

4 hours ago, Qertz0 said:

Also HC is there a chance of a futa add on in the future?

Sorry, "not my cup of tea"
 

4 hours ago, Qertz0 said:

I wanna learn how to make mods so bad so I can make futa mods xD

You can try to start with odradek to search and preview HFW game accets, then figure out HFW Export-Import Tool and Blender to mod them.

Quite some time after I've started my HC Aloy - I think it was uncovered that there is indeed one single complete female body model present in game files. It's some random buff female NPC from Regalla's Rebels - this model can be used as good base for your mods😉. Also it will by default work with Aloy skeleton (but not perfectly) and support my body textures (except custom crotch part) because all females in-game use same UV layout (and my models use most of it too) and skeleton.

As we stuck with first two current Horizon games - I think demand for mods will be present for years - so you have quite some time to get familiar with modding. Also HZDR may have some unexpected potensial if modding tools will be introduced for it too. A lot of players skipped HZDR for now, me included - but it can change with mods, it may have quite a spike of new players.
 

Edited April 6 by hornycopter

[bonifide]

6 hours ago, hornycopter said:

Most interesting part of first game for me was symbiosis of story about mysteries of ancestor's world and exploring remains of said locations in gameplay. But you can only do story about uncovering some mystery once. So second game was doomed to be weaker in that part.

Don't think there was some conspiracy with Sony "master minds" for second game, just regular corporate shit - demand for second game release as fast as possible, weaker story premise for sequel, no time to figure out something more interesing (production for second game for sure started right after first game sales numbers came in). Also, most likely one third or half of the team was already new people with different ideas - it's quite usual for big studios now.

Where I can see influence from the top became demands - it's Horizon Hunters Gathering, looks like numbers for second game were disapointing for upper management despite for lot of profit still - so we get push for "next big thing" - live service game. I think this decision pushed even more developers from the studio, so today Gurialla Games is maybe 10% of the team that made original HZD.

 

 

Sylens the best part of the story for me. It just that ending fight was so bad lol. I don't even mind the romance but it was so forced in the DLC. I wish she just got with someone we already knew not some random new stranger. 

[hornycopter]

8 minutes ago, bonifide said:

Sylens the best part of the story for me. It just that ending fight was so bad lol. I don't even mind the romance but it was so forced in the DLC. I wish she just got with someone we already knew not some random new stranger. 

Yeah, back and foorth with Sylens was quite entertaining. also I've liked a lot of side quiest - some were surprisingly big and detailed with nice contained stories, this part was better than if thirst game. Romance I think was laughably undercooked and lacked chemistry - so you can just ignore for whole DLC, just one more companion running around. I say only final scene is sticking like sore thumb, but you can never go to final meeting too 😄

On other topic - Music videos anyone?

 

 

[Qertz0]

7 hours ago, hornycopter said:

Most interesting part of first game for me was symbiosis of story about mysteries of ancestor's world and exploring remains of said locations in gameplay. But you can only do story about uncovering some mystery once. So second game was doomed to be weaker in that part.

Don't think there was some conspiracy with Sony "master minds" for second game, just regular corporate shit - demand for second game release as fast as possible, weaker story premise for sequel, no time to figure out something more interesing (production for second game for sure started right after first game sales numbers came in). Also, most likely one third or half of the team was already new people with different ideas - it's quite usual for big studios now.

Where I can see influence from the top became demands - it's Horizon Hunters Gathering, looks like numbers for second game were disapointing for upper management despite for lot of profit still - so we get push for "next big thing" - live service game. I think this decision pushed even more developers from the studio, so today Gurialla Games is maybe 10% of the team that made original HZD.

 

Sorry, "not my cup of tea"
 

You can try to start with odradek to search and preview HFW game accets, then figure out HFW Export-Import Tool and Blender to mod them.

Quite some time after I've started my HC Aloy - I think it was uncovered that there is indeed one single complete female body model present in game files. It's some random buff female NPC from Regalla's Rebels - this model can be used as good base for your mods😉. Also it will by default work with Aloy skeleton (but not perfectly) and support my body textures (except custom crotch part) because all females in-game use same UV layout (and my models use most of it too) and skeleton.

As we stuck with first two current Horizon games - I think demand for mods will be present for years - so you have quite some time to get familiar with modding. Also HZDR may have some unexpected potensial if modding tools will be introduced for it too. A lot of players skipped HZDR for now, me included - but it can change with mods, it may have quite a spike of new players.
 

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, I did learn how to use blender and confident I can make all the shapes for a nude body but after that I get confused with creating the textures and uvs and bones lol, wish there was a good vid on making nude mods start to finish