Interesting. But I'm even more turned off about making a character because I've heard that even the best modders say that it's a pain in the a** getting AT models, attacks, animation, bones, voices and all that stuff so I wouldn't know the first thing about starting. But it's ok
Oh, it's much worse sometimes like the entire character model is programmed to do something. Case in point: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and Jetstream Sam. In the DLC, I believe he was programmed normally meaning the sword had nothing to do with him aside from giving him a hitbox and a tangible weapon. As a boss, it as his cybernetic arm and his sword that were programmed with animations, properties, and such meaning that you could not mod that model of Sam to use as a skin. I think if you do, it just ends up with an armless Sam or something swing a(n invisible) sword.
Another happened in MGSV: Ground Zeroes where you could mod it so you could play as Kazuhira Miller, Skullface, and Hideo Kojima, but their sunglasses, hat and coat physics, and glasses were treated as separate objects that didn't work with Big Boss's animations, model, whatever. I think they're trying to work on it, but it's still a pain.
There's only so much a modder can do on the upper levels of the game's code. You have to be the game programmer to delve deeper and mess around with stuff and that can be an issue too since messing around could just kill the game.
Oh hey, Ffamran. Seems like you became a mod just recently. How's the #ModLyfe goin'?
It feels like I have a red name, a red banner, and... that's pretty much it. Nobody's on the SSB4 Falco section last time I checked and there's like no activity going on today. The people there are few and I think most of them are competitive since one user mentioned he was going to a tournament where guys like Nakat, Nairo, etc. would be going to. So, a casual like me is just there... Bored... Hell, I think most Falco players are competitive players. Others have Falco as a secondary or whatever or just lurk... COME ON, WE DON'T BITE! WE LIKE BREAD MORE THAN YOUR TASTY FLESH!
Edit: And we've only had one "troll" - before I was modded - who was there once and never came back after saying Falco got nerfed and sucks horribly. Others say he is nerfed, but there's hope, we can work with him, I'll play as him, but not competitively or not too much, etc. They're all chill people.