But do not think it was completely un productive, actually this week was VERY productive.
I've been doing alot of thinking and preparing for the City mod which is technically in the VERY VERY beginning stages, for instance atm I am just gathering the ideas discussed and now I am trying to organize them so we can get to work.
Because of all of the planning for the city I will take it slow but better. See I recently changed my style of modding, granted while I still use the same techniques I am trying to make more improved meshes and textures. One of my issues with the past is I would have the whole outfit pre planned (good and bad) and I would only want to do it by the day. Like literally if I did not finish a whole piece in one day I'd scrap the work. Then do something else, now adays instead I am able to use scrapped resources and implement them into future works. Like with this outfit, I spent about 5 days working on it. (maybe even more) I am not even done, so far all I have are the Top (which may have a couple of small things added to them). The bottom which will be kept as they are, and also the arms which are final. I still need to make 1 One handed Wep 1 Shield 1 2 Handed wep 1 amulate and a pair of boots which I am still brainstorming idea's with 3 Concepts already made. Then maybe the set will be 100% ready. I will say this is probably one of my more Lore friendly mods though I typically stray from that :p.
At First Glance
At first I did the normal process which I do not often show in my blog as I rush to grab a texture and toss it in an ESP and play as is, but this time I stopped that. But before I even figured out the texture I've noticed that the arm movement was yuck. The buldrons do NOT look like they did in blender. In blender they stood and this time they lean and follow the arms (which in a sense is desirable but not what I am looking for.
This is far from acceptable, so because of this I forced myself to tackle bone weighting, it was hard to go "outside of the box" build but it actually worked out pretty well.
I played around and then figured out how to make it work.
The issue is the pauldrons do not move upward with the shoulders much but tbh how high would you move them in real life? So there is often a little clipping there. (TBH unless dying I do not notice as dying to rag doll rather randomly) with movements like most pose mods it seems to work fine.
Here is the fixed version.
Now this looks better, not perfect but much better then before.
Texturing
After finally tackling the issue with the Pauldrons AKA Spoulders I had to figure how to texture it, sometimes in Blender I do somewhat of a texture that I want though I have no idea how to make textures or make them stay in blender, kind of wish I did as blender does have decent textures even if it is plain white it looks better and more realistic then me going to paint and just saving a 512 DDS image of a white background. None the less after much debate and playing I've found a desirable texture and here it is.
This is not the official outfit not even yet, as noted I am using older works as part of the rest of the armor.
Now I needed to plan for the other parts. So after seeing this and I did like it (I tend to use these gauntlets alot) so I needed to change it a bit and make some new custom ones and also figure out which bottoms to put on so the outfit does not look so bare.
The other Parts
Pauldrons
I've played a bit with the concept of these and I've actually changed them. I took a photoshoot which I shared with my good friend PoonTank and he told me it looks good but feels like the front and back should match. So because of what he said made perfect sense I decided to not make them 90% match as I liked the little hanging tassle in the front only, but I did add the little bolts to the Front and the back as the original only had them in the back.
The Gauntlets
Besides the Panties the Gauntlets are my personal favorite to the outfit, I feel that they give the outfit a bit of an exotic, seductive and yet a Serious look all at the same time. This was something I just had to do with it, they took a whole day to play around with as I wanted to get it as nice as possible and sadly I forgot one small little tweak which may be fixed upon official release.
The Skirt
Texturing can do some amazing things, Granted the Skirt IS in fact the skirt from the Seductive Frill set but it is also a little bit different.
At First the skirt was just a straight retexed skirt with no alpha channel like the Seductive frill (to hand the lace part). Keep in mind this skirt is retexed just with the intention of doing something that matched the outfit.
Now I decided even though it looks nice as is when I make the official bottom I will add more too it though the official bottom was slated to be like this but a better mesh but since a few people told me it is perfect as it is I've decided I will keep it and I guess it saves time on making other resources for not just this but the rest of the city mod. It is also amazing how much difference a retexture does for it. So since I decided the feedback for this outfit was so great, I decided to accessorize it a bit and add a belt.
The Panties
I am sure many remember the defunct Classic Panty set, well the set itself will not be released but it will be released with a fixed up version. Remember how in the classic set the cotton bottoms were kind of in a wierd shape? Well with this one it takes this strange shape.
Now it looks a bit more realistic in regards to how the cotton bottoms are placed with the actual panties. Also a small not about the panties they will be the ones used for this set but I may make an alternate set with a thong version of the panties if anyone ask's. Sadly I know many people like my panties but wish I've made more thongs. I could go into a rant about why I do not by default but this does go for this mod and any other mod I make (I will put an official read me one day). If you like the panties but do not like that I made fullbacks or other cuts just message me the link of the panties that I made and tell me you would like to see them in a thong/G-String and if I have time I will do that, most likely they will be same textures just a thong style of it, I already have the concept for these as a thong in mind ;p.
Some more Random shots (Some of the repeats)
Sorry if my character is too hairy for some peoples taste, I do personally love my pussies hairy ;).
