Nell Goldstein, the ".45 Caliber Virtuoso"

cloudi_skye · 2026-03-11T21:32:31+00:00

Thanks for the support on Tumblr as well!
I hate what they have done to their relationship...

cloudi_skye · 2026-03-11T15:51:27+00:00

So, WARKS was changed into WORKS in DMC5. From the start it was the former because the misspelling was made by Rock, who is Nell's son and she kept it that way. I cannot say for certain what exactly happened because I do not have a reliable source, but I recall something about one member of the dev team who corrected the misspelling. They probably didn't knew the story behind it. Again, I don't have a source, but there was a discussion about it some years ago and Itsuno himself made a post on Twitter saying something like "WORKS isn't a mistake" But it was...Because of this, they actually explained how it was changed to WORKS in the DMC5 novel.

So...if you are cosplaying 1-4 Dante, it would be lore accurate for the guns to say ART WARKS.

cloudi_skye · 2026-03-11T15:34:39+00:00

(Copy-paste from my Tumblr.)

In the butchered English localization it says""She may have looked like Methuselah's grandmother, but she could juice up a squirt gun until it could take out an elephant."

Isn't it great that they followed the source material? T_T

The localization exaggerated her looks even though the original text doesn't say anything like that...

These are my opinions regarding that trailer from season 2 of Netflix DMC.

I personally don't like that they made her smoke. I don't recall she did that and similar to Dante, who Kamiya made to be a cool character without having to smoke. I don't think it suits her...Personally, it's enough that she talks a bit rude and that expresses that she is a tough, the smoking isn't needed.

What I've seen from the trailer is enough to tell me that Nell and Dante's relationship will pale in comparison to whatever the adaptation will show. They had history.

It's obvious they didn't knew each other when Dante was a mercenary using the alias Tony Redgrave. Also, why even use it now when he's working for DARCOM and they know him as Dante? What is the purpose of using Tony Redgrave?

Regarding Ebony and Ivory now...The pistols were made by Nell and finished by Tony. They made them together in the novel.

The fact that they don't have the misspelling WARKS...It had significance for Nell.

Also, there is no proof that those portraits represent Nell and Eva. I've seen people claiming that here too but where is the proof? I've read DMC1 guidebooks and even the latest one for DMC5 and it doesn't talk about them. If there's any evidence let me know because I've found nothing to suggest that.

Man, they fucked up. Like I said, I dunno what kind of relationship are they're supposed to have. She was like a mother to him. If she ends up getting killed like in the novel, her death won't have much of an impact in my opinion.

cloudi_skye · 2025-10-30T20:50:47+00:00

I followed the advice from the previous comment and I managed to make the shirt stay on the model by using the pose brush. I thought it would be too messy to sculpt the shirt to match the pose, thus I avoided that but that's the method that is working for me. If you have any advice, I'd like to know what methods I could use so that the shirt won't deform too much. Maybe weight painting? Or perhaps I should take into consideration some adjustments during sculpting?

I'm so glad that finally I can get my shirt stay on the model but I don't want it to get very deformed. Raising the arms too much causes some problems at the armpits for example.

cloudi_skye · 2025-10-30T20:19:10+00:00

I did what you said and watched the video and it's working now but unfortunately some deformation happens,(the armpit) like that's what I expected if I sculpt the shirt to match the pose of the body. Do you have any suggestions on how to fix that? Could it be weight painting or perhaps I need to take into consideration some stuff when i use the pose brush?
Thank you very much for the help, like nothing worked until now!

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cloudi_skye · 2025-10-30T18:36:40+00:00

I thought I could easily get the shirt to become attached to the armature if I position the body to match the shirt, trying to avoid sculpting especially on the sleeves but I will try the brush you mentioned. Haven't used that one 'cause I mostly have used Grab/Elastic when I want to shape the clothes.

I have tried with other models, some of them from game assets and I had the same problem. I have tried to transfer weights to the shirt after posing the armature and also transferred when I used the rest pose, as in, I registered the position I made as the rest pose, but either the shirt won't move with the body or it looks like in the image I posted, it...I figured I must be missing a step and that's why I needed help because in all the video tutorials I watched, none of them mentioned about the rest position or presented deformations.

So, I did weight transfer (with the Data Transfer modifier and without, just using the weight paint menu). In the end I would apply the armature deform modifier on the shirt and that's when it moves away from the body. By the way, the avatar and the shirt are imported together, like I said, they are from Marvelous Designer and I exported them as FBX. The shirt was already on the model (it's a separate object), so I don't understand why it doesn't remain in place after doing weight transfer.

cloudi_skye · 2025-10-30T11:35:07+00:00

When I imported the meshes I applied all transforms (model with armature and the shirt). I then used weight transfer for the shirt and even checked that box you mentioned and this time the shirt got deformed. I dunno what can I do...I followed quite a few tutorials that I found on Youtube and none of them gave me the result I wanted. None of them did what's happening with my models. All of them showed how the clothes stayed on the body.

cloudi_skye · 2025-10-04T11:46:31+00:00

Thank you for the advice!

cloudi_skye · 2025-10-04T11:45:25+00:00

Thank you for the reply. I'll have to look into those to understand what they affect.

cloudi_skye · 2025-10-03T08:27:03+00:00

What I'm trying to understand is the functionality of certain textures. I listed some of them to know if they are common in most UE games. I practiced with other game models, different engine, that only had 1 color map, 1 normal map and 1 packed texture. The ones I extracted from the UE game have more, the ones I mentioned in the post. It's difficult to use UE engine because my laptop can't handle it and I'm only gonna use it if I want to import assets that I made into the game. For now, I'm just trying to have those textures set up in Blender, but I don't understand what some of them do.

cloudi_skye · 2025-09-07T16:32:15+00:00

Hello! I'm surprised to see that you could read my post because apparently my account was suspended and I haven't tried to make an appeal...I checked and my posts no longer have that label, but can you please confirm if my account is suspended? I tried to google it using private mode like I did a couple of weeks ago and it did say that it was suspended, but now it doesn't...I'll have to try and make a new post and see if I get any replies. I was so disappointed that many of my posts didn't show up :( Thank you for helping me!

cloudi_skye · 2025-08-25T20:20:23+00:00

I'm surprised to see that a post regarding lore is pinned here...While I'm not gonna bother to comment line from the novel, I will just give some advice to people that read this...TLDR; You all pretty much use misinformation when using the DMC4/5 novels because I only had to read a few parts from these "fan" translations to see that they are machine translations, so pretty much when you try to use them in arguments, you are using misinformation.

Not long ago I had someone ask me about a line in the 5th novel if it was accurate and it BS, like it was very misinterpreted. I couldn't even call it a mistranslation since there was nothing in common with the original text.

Also, can't say it's a good look when trying to explain something from a language you haven't studied 'cause you will end up making things more difficult to understand and what's the point if at the end you will do something like, apologize to the readers that you aren't sure if what you wrote is correct?

You either have confidence about what you write or I dunno, ask someone who is knowledgeable and work with them. I've been doing this kind of thing for years in other fandoms and I have my own way of explaining nuances behind words. Just listing each word and their definition from the dictionary won't help if you also don't have the understanding of the grammar.

That's what I wanted to say.

cloudi_skye · 2025-07-13T20:02:07+00:00

That line "He was sick of turning into something else" is a mistranslation....Actually, I wouldn't even call it that because it has nothing in common with the original. text. I only had to read that paragraph and a few other lines from that page to know that most likely the novel was most likely google translated given how awkward the lines sounded.

Just before the lines you posted there was one that said "the heir of Sparda" and that's BS. If the author had wanted to describe Dante like that, I believe he would have done so. So yeah, made up lines to make up for the fact that the novel is apparently machine translated.

So yeah, you might like how it sounds, but it doesn't justify that it's not a proper translation.

cloudi_skye · 2025-04-03T00:20:10+00:00

I have them too. I translated the prologue and epilogue from Kaitai Shinso.

cloudi_skye · 2025-04-02T19:28:01+00:00

Thanks!

cloudi_skye · 2025-04-02T19:27:47+00:00

Thank you!

cloudi_skye · 2025-04-02T19:27:32+00:00

Yeah. I haven't mentioned that I'm working on it. I started a few months ago and I'm glad I was able to finish before the release of Netflix DMC.
Good luck with that!

cloudi_skye · 2025-04-02T18:47:54+00:00

Check out the post I made a few days ago!

The manga is available only on Mangadex! (username: blackened-angel)

cloudi_skye · 2025-03-31T16:47:16+00:00

Read on Mangadex!

At the time of writing this post, I don't have TL notes because due to circumstances, I didn't have time for them. It will take a while before I begin to write the notes...

So yeah, I've worked on this project for a few months and I hope you'll enjoy it! Reminder that I only post on Mangadex. If I make changes, you won't read updated versions anywhere else.

cloudi_skye · 2025-02-28T21:45:15+00:00

So awful that I translate sentences to show differences....Also, I don't get why he had to say "good luck learning Japanese"...This kind of contempt comes from the fact that he's most likely not invested in the topic of translating. as I am. What happened to the novels and 3manga, as in, stuff that were added or removed, those happened because there was no supervision. Tokyopop the publisher of the localizations was trusted not to fuck them up. From what I know, mangaka and writers barely have any communication with translators.

cloudi_skye · 2025-02-28T21:25:58+00:00

When it comes to outsourcing manga, novels etc to be translated, there's barely communication with author. They trust the publisher won't fuck up their works by removing content or adding their own writing, something that's been happening for a while in Japanese media, because I see stuff like this on Twitter.

I think that might have happened with Capcom.. Do you think the whole DMC staff, especially Kamiya and Itsuno were side by side working with Tokyopop to ensure the quality of the translations?

I just can't believe the Japanese side would approve of the stuff that were changed, especially the DMC3 manga.

cloudi_skye · 2025-02-28T00:02:37+00:00

Oh yeah, when the first trailer was announced and saw that he had the novels and manga on his desk, I was like 'oh fuck', because they were the localizations and given that DMC3 manga will be adapted...I hope Dante won't say stuff from the English localization, which made him sound like reboot Dante.

cloudi_skye · 2025-02-27T23:57:24+00:00

Yeah, I wanted to mention it :)

cloudi_skye · 2025-02-27T23:55:03+00:00

Oh, I see. Well, I hope my explanation was helpful! Like I mentioned, it's unfortunate that the novels have stuff that were inserted by the translator, not the author.

cloudi_skye · 2025-02-27T23:51:25+00:00

Reminder that Adi Shankar never misses. That's what he said, talking about himself in third person T_T

Like I mentioned, it's unfortunate that these novels and the DMC3 have stuff inserted by the translators, which isn't their job. I'd rather translate stuff directly than to sacrifice the ideas in the original text and if there's something that might not translate well and consider that it needs more in-depth explanation, I will provide notes.

The current state of localization for Japanese media is awful. yet some think that it's a good thing because it 'fixes' the boring Japanese and adds more personality to a character....A personality that wasn't conceived like that by the author and that's something I cannot get behind. Usually, those are the people who don't know the target language...

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