Hello everyone and welcome back for the first post of the week. In this post, I'll be showing a mod that I have done on the Astronaut's costume. As for the reason why I chose this costume; it is because I wanted to perform an extended experiment on transparent material. XD If you guys can remember, I had tested partial transparent material on the "Adma Jerkin" and translucent material on the "Archangel Outfit" last week. And so, this time round, I wanted to see how that will look on a full costume.
However, I am not talking about just simply making a surface "disappear". As we can recall in my post on "Remodeled Danuar Helm", I had talked about how material cannot be made translucent unless they are specified so, in the material meta data. Thus, for any material that exist above the skin surface, we can only either make them "disappear" (provided that does not leave a hole ~.~ ), redesign them in color/pattern or simply leave them alone. We cannot turn that material into a transparent, glossy glass-like surface that reveals the skin below, if it wasn't specified in the meta data.
The type of transparency that I am talking about here is for skin-tight material, where the material is basically wrapped tightly around the body. Thus, not every armor or costume can be used for the purpose of this transparency mod. Although, there are also several other costumes that can fit the criteria, such as the "Burlesque Bunny" (a.k.a. Playboy Bunny) or the many swimsuits, the factor that led me to choose the "Astronaut's Costume" is that it not only allows me to test the full body transparency but it also has patterns running on the suit that conveniently cover those sensitive areas, and that's a plus because it saves me the huddle of finding ways to hide those areas. In other words.... lazy~~ XD
The type of transparency that I am talking about here is for skin-tight material, where the material is basically wrapped tightly around the body. Thus, not every armor or costume can be used for the purpose of this transparency mod. Although, there are also several other costumes that can fit the criteria, such as the "Burlesque Bunny" (a.k.a. Playboy Bunny) or the many swimsuits, the factor that led me to choose the "Astronaut's Costume" is that it not only allows me to test the full body transparency but it also has patterns running on the suit that conveniently cover those sensitive areas, and that's a plus because it saves me the huddle of finding ways to hide those areas. In other words.... lazy~~ XD
So many words... I am not sure if you guys can understand what they mean so let's look at the before and after images to get a clearer picture.
I had chosen the dungeon named "Aturam Skyfortress" for the image and video shoot as it kind of resembles a space port with the Balaur battleship "Dredgion" in the background.
I had chosen the dungeon named "Aturam Skyfortress" for the image and video shoot as it kind of resembles a space port with the Balaur battleship "Dredgion" in the background.
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| Front View - Original Costume |
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| Front Close-up View - Original Costume |
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| Rear Close-up view - Original Costume |
So... Has anyone already started to imagine what the costume will look like when made transparent? Well... no need to imagine because the answer is below. :p
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| Front View |
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| Front Close-up View |
There we go, all transparent and glossy except for those blue lines running along the suit. It may not be obvious due to the specular reflection on the chest area but the tummy area will show more skin color. And notice the neck area which I left unmodified because of the constraints I mentioned earlier? The ideal modification is to turn it into a translucent material without skin color but I can only either make it disappear or re-color it. If I ever try to do the same thing to it, that I had done for the rest of the costume, wouldn't you agree that it will look weird? D:
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| Rear Close-up View |
Well... Like the neck area, the butt also needed special treatment. Err... That just sounded wrong? >.< Anyway, the explanation here is that since the costume is plastic-like material and transparent, would you agree that we will be looking at her butt line if the "V" shape is not there? And since the butt line is actually a 3D groove structure (well, we all know what a butt line looks like so there is no need for me to describe in details :p ), it cannot be simply drawn onto the 2D surface of the material. Therefore, I chose to conceal the butt line with a pattern on the material.
That's all for the "Astronaut's Costume", if you find the images unconvincing, you can watch the video. A picture is worth a thousand words but a video shows many, many still pictures so it's like a few million words? XD
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