Harry Palmer, we miss you!

[Holden - DOAHDM]

It's hard to overstate the contribution Harry Palmer has made to DOA5 modding, and it's hard to not notice that he's been gone from Loverslab for months. Whether or not he's left LL or merely on hiatus, it's important to recognize his value to us.

 

As the author of the original functioning nude mesh for DOA5LR PC, he provided the groundwork for almost every DOA5 mod under the virtual sun, and he continued to make great mods and give us the tools and knowledge we needed to move forward. I've had my differences with him on a personal level, I'm afraid he might even dislike me, but it can't be argued that he is invaluable to this community.

 

On April 19th 2015, less than a month following DOA5LR's release on PC, he provided the very first nude mesh through painstaking effort not guided by the convenient tools that came about later. Prior to that point the only thing we had was shitty uMod textures that pasted nipples on featureless breasts, a far cry from an actual nude mod. DOA5's TMC format is a unique proprietary format even from the console versions that required god knows what kind of work to realize before the Doutoko's blender plugins came into existence.

 

To this day his meshes are used as a basis for essentially any nude mod available that I can think of, and the ones that deviate further from his originals were made with his guidance and assistance, as he frequented many different forums with different languages to help out users on the prominent Japanese BBS Pink Cafe as well as the Chinese 3DM forums.

 

Just as a fun throwback, here's the very first image he posted of the first real nude mod for DOA5, which I still laugh thinking about because he didn't provide an image of the front in the most un-glamorous way possible, which seemed absurd because of how much of a breakthrough his mod was. I also remember having to wait for Harry to fix it for AMD users like me. 

 

 

 

[dogcookie]

Yes, he is a legend in the mod world. Haven't heard him for a while, what is he doing now? A secret project?

[Holden - DOAHDM]

Who knows? Maybe we'll find out soon. 

[Holden - DOAHDM]

Well I'm sorry but you're completely off base. To even compare the people who pasted nipples on uMod textures on a pre-existing mesh to Harry's work is frankly ridiculous. It's like you didn't even read my post. You're also implying that by asking for donations while making his motion mods that somehow undoes all the contributions he's made to the community. The idea that making a 3 GB makes this LGMOD person more valuable to the community than Harry Palmer is frankly ridiculously stupid. I don't mean to disrespect LGMOD but I'm sure he would agree. 

 

As for the part about his personality, I'll agree his rough around the edges and can be petty sometimes, but is that really important? Does being mean to you or other people somehow undo the massive contributions he's made to the community? Of course not. 

[gui0007]

Totally true, Palmer helps a lot in the DOA5 mod improvement. I personally miss him A LOT and i hope that he'll back with more awesomeness.

[Harry Palmer]

There had been lack of motivation from the beginning.

It was something like meaninglessness.

 

And I suddenly felt that I reached at a point where I can't go further.

It isn't about that things I can do are not left anymore.

 

It is more like my will is not working any longer.

 

Even if I can be back, I can't sure that I'll still be Harry.

[Holden - DOAHDM]

 

 

Even if I can be back, I can't sure that I'll still be Harry.

 

Uhh, are you having an existential crisis? 

[kevinspacey]

As a spectator seeing how the modding evolved from simple texture swap to total mesh transformation mods, truly amazed me. I also agree that Harry Palmer has contributed invaluable know-how and tools, without those, making mods would be more difficult. Every time I see new mods now, I remember the times when I started to mod, the tools and techniques just wasn't there, but then Harry came up with tools and answers. And every new obstacle was slowly removed. It's funny how I see the DOA5lr modding evolves, cuz many discovery and developments that helped doa modding came from the darker area of modding nsfw, but has helped tremendously for the more mainstream non-nudity mods.