This is merely a list I put together of good mods to use to get started with creating and playing ジンコウガクエン２ (Artificial Academy 2). I’ve posted this list before in other places but I’d like to repost it with more of my opinions and less objectivity.
AAUnlimited
This program unlocks the true potential of AA2. Body adjustment sliders, POV H-Scenes, H-Ai, card by card mesh editing, tans not restricted to finite slots with colorability, additional hair slots with advanced sizing and positioning, and an in-game poser to name only few features. The program is being regularly updated with new concepts and ways to push the game further and further. While not a mod, this program is a must have and immensely enhances the game. To use just run the exe after you start your Play/Make launcher on the startup window. Without AAU I don’t know if I’d still be playing this game today. With the new styles and triggers I find myself swimming in new possibilities for girls to make and ways to give each of them their own unique characteristics. When working on my clothing collection the Shadow Sets feature is invaluable by saving me so much time when checking my work. Also anytime I want to do some subtle edits to a game file I can preserve the original copy and just make a set with my little change. I’m really excited to see where the program goes from here.
There is this wonderful guide being updated for AAU if you find yourself at a loss on how to use it to its full potential.
AAFace
Relying on only the base game maker, you are presented with a dismal amount of options. The developers never intended for more than a set amount of choices for the various customizable selections so AAFace removes the slot restrictions on many different maker components allowing you to utilize extra faces, hairs, glasses, and and many more provided by other mods. Another program you launch in conjunction with your maker, this will help greatly with character creation. When newer faces were being made for the game there was originally no way to see what the face looked like until you actually put it on the girl and checked in the actual game. I remember someone edited the exes for the maker so they had face 9, 10, etc, but there were still only 7 slots so I found myself switching between them a lot. I remember when AAFace first got made I was reinvigorated with character creation and I could spend much longer with each girl. If you are using AAUnlimited, AAFace is already integrated as a script so its redundant to download.
AA2Install
AA2Install is the best tool for adding mods in proper zipped format to your game. Just add the archive to your AA2install mod folder and in the program check the mod you want to install then hit synchronize. Do not unzip the mods.
AA2Install ready mods can be identified by .7z archives with an AA2_Play folder or an AA2_Make folder on the top level. This format is also identical to the AAU Shadow Set format without the data archived. Creating your own AAU Shadow Sets is another way to install/uninstall mods easily. More information on Sets can be found in theAAUnlimited How-To Guide I posted before.
Tot Mods
Tot is an AA2 modder who is actively creating original outfits and porting high quality models to AA2 along with hair packs, accessories and the best uncensor. The mods here are much nicer than the general clothing collections so I would highly suggest picking up most of the releases here.
Clothing Collection Uncensors
When choosing an uncensor you have a few options.
Pick whichever you think looks the best. EX Series II is the same as MK-III but with significantly more pubic hair. Whatever you decide will determine what Clothing Collection you’ll need from the next section. Personally I think HEXA uncensor is butt ugly.
HEXA/SVII Clothing Collections
While the base game comes with about 10 outfits, the clothing collections add over 150 additional choices. Both collections contain the same outfits, the only difference is how each one is uncensored. Only download the collection corresponding with the uncensor you installed. For additional outfits not found in these collections refer to the googledoc clothing directory.
HEXA Hair Pack
This pack contains around 400 additional front/side/back and hair extensions to be used in the character creator. If you are downloading a card from somewhere else this pack is most likely going to be a requirement to display the character correctly. Aside from that it allows you to greatly improve your character creation.
HEXA Override Collection
This collection contains over 300 new faces and hundreds of additional hairs/glasses/lips/nipples to be used in the character creator. Like the hair pack this is commonly required to make cards you download from other people display correctly in game. AAFace is required to make use of these new additions in the maker. As another mod that enhances the potential quality of your characters this is a must have.
3D Rooms
When starting H with your partner the base game floats you in space over a faded background and, if you are lucky, you might get a little piece of furniture as well. The 3D Rooms collection adds fully 3D environments to all private areas and a few specific outside locations for use during H-scenes. Since H-scenes are a big part of the game this mod is one of the most important ones if you want to seriously improve your game experience.
More Cumming Positions
The More Cumming Positions mod translates most of the normal sex positions into additional climax positions while also adding a few new sex positions and slightly tweaking the layout. Like with 3D rooms, this is a big improvement to H-scenes so it is a strongly recommended mod. Note that if you are using MCP with 3D Rooms you are going to need the compatibility patch located on the 3D Rooms mega.
Texture Folder Hard Linker
Most outfits have the option to reference a folder in your data directory and freely change the texture of a piece of clothing, most notably the underwear and skirt. The problem with this is each outfit requires one unique folder for underwear and one unique folder for skirts. If you have 200+ outfits your texture folder size starts to increase excessively. The hardlinker improves this by having a single folder containing all of the textures you’ll ever need and then uses a batch file to create “hard links” for each outfit’s specific skirt and underwear texture folder that point to the root texture folder. This cuts the overall folder size to a fraction of what it could be to save significant disk space. The hardlinker also comes with most if not all of the released textures for underwear, skirts, shirts etc. and the batch file makes it so enabling textures for all your outfits is painless. Simple and extremely useful tool. Get this if you are interested in customizing your uniforms even further.
HEXA Personality Pack
This pack contains about 30 unique personalities either ported from Artificial Academy 1 or various other sources. While the quality of the personalities aren’t as good as the default ones in Artificial Academy 2, this pack will broaden your creative possibilities by giving you more options. This pack may also be required for many girls you find on the database so it is worth downloading. This is a mod that I personally wouldn’t miss losing. The only two personalities I use from it are Apricot and Wise and even those sound too awkward for me to take seriously. Ported personalities just can’t quite fit into AA2 in my opinion and I await the day to see a truly good new personality.
AA2 Data Reserve
While not a mod this is a good reference for understanding the game and finding game content.
Replacers (Outdated)
These three tools are used to replace the default highlight/sclera textures. Utilizing SB3Utility and batch file scripts these replacers take a texture of your choice and mass edit the default sclera shadow, hair highlight, and low poly model hair highlight respectively. While not necessary, these tools are frequently used and are considered staples of good character creation. The Low Poly Hair Highlighter is a little project of mine born from my love of how cute I find the low poly models to be. I couldn’t stand looking at the ugly default highlight on the low polies anymore so I adapted the Hair Highlighter scripts and went through each individual hair located in HEXA HP, OC and the DoLLs hairpacks to make sure they all got their new hair highlight. Highlight replacement and numerous other replacements can be achieved using AAU Global Overrides so these are mostly outdated.
Last Edited: January 26, 2022
