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Swapping skies mod

By Rossi's Puffs and 1 collaborators

This will get you stages with different sceneries (ghz sunset night etc)
you'll need sonic generations archieve editor by sonicmike2, quickbms probably and dario ff sonic glvl (for later stuff) and gmi

for ex
1.open ghz100/200 (depending on what you want) and ghz103 packed ars and extract them to a seperate folder with the sonic generations archive editor
2. go to ghz103 folder you extracted a search for sky, it should show all things that relate to that, select all that shows up and paste them to that other ghz folder with the extracted stuff (reolace obviously).
3. go back to ghz103 extracted folder and now search for light.
all light related files should appear (be aware that lightlightlist possibly crashes in my experience so you should just take that list light file out of that ghz200/100 and put it back to replace if the stage crashes)
do the same like you did for step 2
4. now extract #ghz100 or 200 and #103 and do the same as step 1 (put a # before it)
5. open the terrain stg xml of #ghz103 folder with notepad
6. If you are using notepad go to the last terrain select that to stage
It should look like this (*note it won't say that unless it was #ssh101)

</Terrain>
<Light>
<DataName>ssh101_Direct01</DataName>
</Light>
<Sky>
<Model>ssh_sky</Model>
</Sky>
</Stage>

select it and copy

open the terrain stg of #ghz100 or 200 it should show it similar with an extra skymodel for sky proxy crap anyways select that last </terrain> to </stage> and paste then save
8. copy scene effect in #ghz103 folder and place it in #ghz100/200 folder
9. open sonic generations arch ed again. select all in #ghz200/100 folder and put it in the arch editor and Save as #ghz100.ar.00 or #ghz200.ar.00 (somewhere like like desktop mostlikely)
10. select new on sonic gens arch editor and go to ghz100/200 extracted folder and do the same as step 7 (but call it ghz100.ar.00 or ghz200.ar.00)
11. Get a template mod (search something like sonic generations template mod or something related to glvl) to place and you should have a successful swapped sky
12. If this doesn't work talk to franksmash
13. This will not give things like swapped waters or effects
That requires glvl (ask sonicboom5 or yellowthunder1712 for that cause that's annoying to explain do and even I screw up on that)
14. If they deny oh well
15. beware this affects other things like missions
16. same for boss rival stages
17. If all is a success it will be like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAc4tjdvbIw