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Roe (Rochelle)

She's meant to be a "cartoon"-y version of Rochelle, but I feel she's a bit too different to warrant being straight up called Rochelle, so I'll just name her Roe. I was also going to leave this as friends only, but someone might like it, so here you all go. This was born out of my desire to create an anime-style survivor that actually looks like they make sense in the locale. So no flashy clothes or super short skirts.

• Less than 11k vertices; for comparison, default Rochelle is about 8k (which means it shouldn't cause problems w/ 5+ survivor games or if you use it with other survivor replacements that are very highly detailed)
  
• Facial Expressions
  
• Eye Tracking
  
• Viewmodel Arms
  
• HUD/UI Images
  
• Jigglebones in Hair (and nowhere else)
  
• Rochelle Animations (this does have to be said since so many survivor mods out there change a survivor's animations)

This is the first survivor mod I have ever made, so it's not the prettiest, but I'm not going back to fix or change anything because I want to move on.

One area for improvement is definitely the facial expressions. I got far into porting this model before I realized I had no easy way of face posing her in Blender. The model had no face bones; only basic shape keys came with it. So I had to make do with what I had and use & mix the default shape keys to make the valve expressions as much as possible. A few aren't even close. But I did not want to manually position each vertex to face pose every single expression or make my own bones for the face. By that point, I had used too much time working on this.

• There are rare moments where the finger posing isn't the greatest (both for the world & viewmodel).
  
• Her teeth sometimes look sharp. Just a side effect of the bad face posing that I can't really fix (easily).
  
• There is a small pyramid on her shirt that I put there that, due to the shading, can really only be seen from a very specific angle. It was a primitive solution to fix her leg slightly sticking out in that spot on almost every animation she has. Some of the pictures I used are actually from before I did this, so you can see exactly what I hid.
  
• You're all free to take the mod, change it, and reupload it if you wish. I just ask that you credit me in some way (if you use this exact, ported model. This was not easy to do).

Thanks to MrFunreal's custom survivor tutorial: https://gtm.you1.cn/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2225904754 . Without it, I would have never been able to do this. It was still incredibly difficult, especially since there were a few steps where I needed to do something completely different from what it said to do which took hours to troubleshoot, but still, it got me further than I would have ever gotten alone (which would have been not far and also would have been a lost cause).

• Me (Making initial model w/ VRoid Studio & porting it to L4D2)
  
• MrFunreal (for making the guide I used)
  
• Epsilon10 (for some shaders and .vmt coding I used from their Ai Ohto survivor mod)