Others Completed Artificial Academy 2 [MiniPPX v8] [Illusion]

[Spartaemos]

Spartaemos Short of creating/editing the card yourself - doubtful. Considering the only clue would be the comment on BepisDB and your statement that you went through the available outfits, I suspect whoever created that card used custom textures and forgot to provide them. Or the BDB uploader grabbed it somewhere else and never bothered to grab the link for the additional textures the original source might have had.

Thanks for your answer, after some investigation from the discord server, it seems this card is too outdated. So there is no short solution, I need to override if I want to remake it and I don't know yet how to do it. ^^'

 

[AwfulArchdemon]

The only obvious benefit (other than something like the "test reward" or being attractive for NPCs preferring smart/athletic types) is movement speed from training Athletics. The rest are in the

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, as well, but grinding the stats is a waste of time, anyway, since whatever teeny-tiny benefits you do get are borderline useless. I feel like saying "not much lost", but that would imply something was lost, and that already feels like an overstatement.

I meant actual grades, not training benefits. I avoid gym training cuz that makes my girl stronger than the ones who are trying to force a little fun on her. If my girl's stronger, she's unfuggable, so I gotta keep her weak n' pathetic.

Plus you can adjust PC movement speed in options. I set everyone to 0.9 / 90%.

I'm assuming there's some kinda final exams and end of school year. I mean, if not, testing becomes pointless, and the game would be infinite, which is fine if there's like a Year 2 kinda continuance. I admit I never got through a whole school year. I always find some thing I wanna change about a student or teacher, and just start a new game.

 

[sptkc]

I meant actual grades, not training benefits. I avoid gym training cuz that makes my girl stronger than the ones who are trying to force a little fun on her. If my girl's stronger, she's unfuggable, so I gotta keep her weak n' pathetic.

Plus you can adjust PC movement speed in options. I set everyone to 0.9 / 90%.

I'm assuming there's some kinda final exams and end of school year. I mean, if not, testing becomes pointless, and the game would be infinite, which is fine if there's like a Year 2 kinda continuance. I admit I never got through a whole school year. I always find some thing I wanna change about a student or teacher, and just start a new game.

The grades are for the "reward event" only afaik, unless there's module that take those grades into account. The reward sex is pretty good for high virtue class playthrough though, since it can bypass some of the restrictions that apply to girls at higher virtue.

 

[AwfulArchdemon]

The grades are for the "reward event" only afaik, unless there's module that take those grades into account. The reward sex is pretty good for high virtue class playthrough though, since it can bypass some of the restrictions that apply to girls at higher virtue.

As soon as I started reading your comment about a reward, I was like "Would be pretty cool if you got reward sex" and then I read the rest of the comment.

I'm assuming your PC is the one who gets the reward, and not everyone who did well? If that's the case, theoretically it wouldn't matter at all what your virtue is. You can do anything and anyone you want. Unless of course you're talking about a high virtue class that you can't fug. I don't think I could make it through a whole school year as an incel. Sex is like the only thing to do, since everything else equates to text on a screen.

This game would benefit from mini-games for training and studying.

 

[sptkc]

I'm assuming your PC is the one who gets the reward, and not everyone who did well? If that's the case, theoretically it wouldn't matter at all what your virtue is. You can do anything and anyone you want. Unless of course you're talking about a high virtue class that you can't fug. I don't think I could make it through a whole school year as an incel. Sex is like the only thing to do, since everything else equates to text on a screen.

Pretty sure the npc can also get the reward, they have to be on a good relationship though.

This game would benefit from mini-games for training and studying.

True, especially a simple one where it wouldn't take too much time and give result that doesn't rely on rng.

 

[Tsugumi]

I'm assuming your PC is the one who gets the reward, and not everyone who did well?

Assuming the NPC that promised you a reward also promised the same reward to other NPCs - everyone (of course, they need to interact after the test, same as you ). Since the requirement is to "do well enough", rather than "be first".

I meant actual grades, not training benefits.

Oh - I was talking about both, since I perceive them to be of the "potayto, potahto" variety: grades being the result of training Wisdom, athleticism - Strength. Same ol' stat grinding, down to the buttons to press, just in different locations.

 

[6102hej]

I can't get the AAU update to work, it just crashes the game when I try to launch. tried to look up some tutorials and they all say to run the install file. I don't have that in the latest release of AAU there's only a repatch which crashes the game, can any one help?. also is there a difference between artificial Academy 2 and artificial Academy 2 mini?

 

[reyonathrow]

I can't get the AAU update to work, it just crashes the game when I try to launch. tried to look up some tutorials and they all say to run the install file. I don't have that in the latest release of AAU there's only a repatch which crashes the game, can any one help?. also is there a difference between artificial Academy 2 and artificial Academy 2 mini?

Regarding AAU:
Yeah, the latest public release on Github for some reason didn't include the installer batch file. I'm uncertain why this is the case. When I did it, I poached the batch file from 1.7.3 and used it to install 1.9.1. In cross-checking it against other releases, it seems the code for that file tends to not change between versions, so I would assume it's got a lengthy list of compatibility, both forwards and backwards.
With that said, support for trying to run the original AA2 is for the most part non-existent. Almost all guides and instructions, including those for applying AAU, seem to assume that you are running AA2Mini. When I tried applying AAU to the original AA2, it mostly broke my game. To this day I do not know exactly what it does that breaks the client, but frankly, it's probably better that way. AA2Mini is simply that much better.

Regarding AA2 vs AA2Mini:
For the most part, it is what it sounds like. AA2Mini seems to retain most, if not all, of the functionality of the original AA2, but highly compressed. It's also substantially more user-friendly to mod, too, which is a nice touch, and it also comes with a myriad of pre-applied scripts to for you to use to optimize and customize your gameplay. Of note is that all of the pp files from the original game's data folder have been centralized to a single file.
Currently, there are two versions depending on the type of encoding used: PP2 and PPX. The download in the OP of this thread is for the PP2 version, which for the most part has lost its community support. A link to the PPX version can be found in the

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. Whichever one you use, you'll want to make sure that any mods you apply follow that convention: AA2Mini (PP2) can only take pp and pp2 files, while AA2MiniPPX can only take pp and ppx files.

 

[BanjoSock321]

Regarding AAU:
Yeah, the latest public release on Github for some reason didn't include the installer batch file. I'm uncertain why this is the case. When I did it, I poached the batch file from 1.7.3 and used it to install 1.9.1. In cross-checking it against other releases, it seems the code for that file tends to not change between versions, so I would assume it's got a lengthy list of compatibility, both forwards and backwards.
With that said, support for trying to run the original AA2 is for the most part non-existent. Almost all guides and instructions, including those for applying AAU, seem to assume that you are running AA2Mini. When I tried applying AAU to the original AA2, it mostly broke my game. To this day I do not know exactly what it does that breaks the client, but frankly, it's probably better that way. AA2Mini is simply that much better.

Regarding AA2 vs AA2Mini:
For the most part, it is what it sounds like. AA2Mini seems to retain most, if not all, of the functionality of the original AA2, but highly compressed. It's also substantially more user-friendly to mod, too, which is a nice touch, and it also comes with a myriad of pre-applied scripts to for you to use to optimize and customize your gameplay. Of note is that all of the pp files from the original game's data folder have been centralized to a single file.
Currently, there are two versions depending on the type of encoding used: PP2 and PPX. The download in the OP of this thread is for the PP2 version, which for the most part has lost its community support. A link to the PPX version can be found in the

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. Whichever one you use, you'll want to make sure that any mods you apply follow that convention: AA2Mini (PP2) can only take pp and pp2 files, while AA2MiniPPX can only take pp and ppx files.

It worked thanks!

Also some of the cards i've downloaded have bugged shading, like half of the body is just black. I think it might be a missing skin texture mod, but i'm trying to edit the cards in AA2edit but I can't seem to find a option to change the skin to a vanilla skin. any idea how to fix?

Edit: figured it out. needed to update to 35_hipixel_skin_v4.7

 

[Tsugumi]

6102hej reyonathrow In regards to AAU updates: those "tutorials" are outdated by now - even more so than the game version attached to OP in this thread (which is saying something). The instructions to refer to when updating AAU should be (try not to laugh) the page you download AAU updates from - its GitHub. Instructions there are as clear as day: "copy the folder, overwrite if asked". There are no "install"s to run anymore, the process is as streamlined as can be: download, extract, copy with overwrite, run the game as usual.

 

[BanjoSock321]

6102hej reyonathrow In regards to AAU updates: those "tutorials" are outdated by now - even more so than the game version attached to OP in this thread (which is saying something). The instructions to refer to when updating AAU should be (try not to laugh) the page you download AAU updates from - its GitHub. Instructions there are as clear as day: "copy the folder, overwrite if asked". There are no "install"s to run anymore, the process is as streamlined as can be: download, extract, copy with overwrite, run the game as usual.

that was what I tried to do from the beginning, just paste and all done but it just crashed my game. nevermind I got it working but someone should do a repack with some mods

 

[Tsugumi]

BanjoSock321 How did you get it working? What turned out to be the culprit? Maybe I can learn something new Or at least have something to refer to should someone else run into a similar problem in the future.

 

[6102hej]

BanjoSock321 How did you get it working? What turned out to be the culprit? Maybe I can learn something new Or at least have something to refer to should someone else run into a similar problem in the future.

I downloaded the OP and a bunch of cards, but alot of them either crashed my game or had a skin texture bug. so I suspected that AA2unlimited was outdated and maybe I didn't have the required mods. so I downloaded and installed most of the mods in the mega pp2 collection, next I tried to update AAU and that's where ran into to the most problems, at first I grabbed the latest version and followed the install instructions.
I ended up breaking a couple of game folders and had to do a fresh install, good thing it's not a big download lol,

but the first time I tried I just pasted the new AAU folder into the old, that didn't work. next I did a fresh game install and pasted the new folder into the old like before but then tried to run the install.bat as per instructions, but the latest version of AAU dosen't have that bat file so I followed reyonathrow advice and grabbed an old version of AAU v1.7.3 which does come with an install.bat.
so then I first pasted the latest version of AAU into my game then I opened up version 1.7.3 copied the install.bat from that and pasted it into my updated AAU folder and ran it, and pathed the exe. and it worked

next was the skin texture, it was just an outdated mod 35_hipixel_skin so I just updated that.

do you know how to get better FPS? in scenes my game is abit choppy it might just be because the game is old because I have a pretty powerful rig. and yes I did run the windows 10 fix

 

[Tsugumi]

6102hej Thanks a bunch for the info.

As for FPS issues: I recall the wiki troubleshooting page mentioning things to try. The game changer for me was going to win10fix settings and selecting another variant (DXVK in my case). It hates other software adding overlays, though (RTSS metrics are one, NVidia Overlay, too, probably) - I gladly paid that price in return for stable 60 FPS (compared to some low 20s during interactions). So I recommend starting there.

 

[Callandor]

Ok, I've given up, how the hell do you convert .pp to .cloth? I cannot see or find absolutely anything on how to convert the 2 or make .pp compatible with AA2Edit.

 

[BanjoSock321]

6102hej Thanks a bunch for the info.

As for FPS issues: I recall the wiki troubleshooting page mentioning things to try. The game changer for me was going to win10fix settings and selecting another variant (DXVK in my case). It hates other software adding overlays, though (RTSS metrics are one, NVidia Overlay, too, probably) - I gladly paid that price in return for stable 60 FPS (compared to some low 20s during interactions). So I recommend starting there.

well I can get the game to launch with DXVK but it crashes shortly after loading a save

 

[Tsugumi]

BanjoSock321 Total guesswork here since I never ran into issues with saves, only the game itself: for example, if the win10fix setting were to conflict with something, the game would crash much sooner than "trying to load a save" (DXVK crashed on startup for me until I turned RTSS overlay off).

I suspect the save to be broken, and would start troubleshooting by creating a new playthrough. This would double as a test: if the new game exhibits the same "crash shortly after loading" behavior, then more digging is needed. If not - the old save is somehow incompatible. If the latter is the case, I would backup the new save, and then use AA2QtEdit to export data from the old savegame and re-import it to the new one. If the new one works fine after that - yay; if it breaks - I would say "old save borked" and just give up on it.

 

[AwfulArchdemon]

I'm just shocked the Win 10 fix works for people. I leave mine off. Turning it on gives a fatal error every time I try to run the game with it on. Yep, using Win 10.

 

[BanjoSock321]

I'm just shocked the Win 10 fix works for people. I leave mine off. Turning it on gives a fatal error every time I try to run the game with it on. Yep, using Win 10.

try going into the win10 script setting in the launcher and enable dgvoodoo2 or DXVK

 

[BanjoSock321]

BanjoSock321 Total guesswork here since I never ran into issues with saves, only the game itself: for example, if the win10fix setting were to conflict with something, the game would crash much sooner than "trying to load a save" (DXVK crashed on startup for me until I turned RTSS overlay off).

I suspect the save to be broken, and would start troubleshooting by creating a new playthrough. This would double as a test: if the new game exhibits the same "crash shortly after loading" behavior, then more digging is needed. If not - the old save is somehow incompatible. If the latter is the case, I would backup the new save, and then use AA2QtEdit to export data from the old savegame and re-import it to the new one. If the new one works fine after that - yay; if it breaks - I would say "old save borked" and just give up on it.

I tried it and it didn't work. I started up a new game and was adding characters to the roster and it crashed after I added 4 cards.

you said DXVK dosen't like overlays like Nvida, maybe something like that might be the problem? I've closed nvida in the bottom right hand taskbar but it still crashes