AION - Kunax's Jerkin & Boots Mod

Finally, we have come to the end of this series of mod. Some might be wondering why did I, as a leather wearing class, not mod the Kunax's Jerkin until now? Especially since, I have already done so for the Hauberk, Breastplate and Tunic.   >.<   Actually, this is one of the mod that I have done very early, even before the birth of this blog. But because I love this armor and the mod so much, I decided to keep it with me for as long as I could.  XD  Plus, I have that tingling feeling, that has been lingering in my heart, that this will be the last mod that I will show, if it is ever published. After completing the previous post on Heavenly Hauberk, I have a strange feeling telling me to show this very last piece of the Kunax's chest armor. Does this signifies the end of this little adventure or just a season finale? Hmm... I don't know either.

 

Anyway, the Kunax's Jerkin is a very beautiful full-body armor, which has a really tight fit, showing off all the curves very nicely, without distracting accessories that distort the smooth flow. I find this armor perfect except for well... that "tail".   ~.~"  In fact, the very first time that I mod this armor is basically just to remove that tail.  :p  But then, if you know skin design or mod, you will know that the area under such accessories will be greyed out, to give it a shadow. And thus, when I removed the tail, the dark patch is clearly visible on the butt.  >.<

 

After some time, I got frustrated with that dark patch and so, I tried to recolor it away. That's when I realized I could probably repaint all the cloth areas to skin color (well... this was when I was still new to skin mod-ding). And that's what I did! Stripping away all the cloth until only the frames are left.. with vital points covered though.  XD

 

However, to show this mod in the blog, I have done some more alterations to add in transparency and cover up more, especially at the butt area.  XD

 

The images below show the original armor before mod.

 

Front View - Original Armor

 The above image shows the full body armor.

Front Close-up View - Original Armor

What a great view of the cleavage area. :p  Also, the skin color here is actually of a darker shade, like a thin translucent layer above the skin.

And that bronze color, sun-like thingy is not part of the chest armor, but the shoulder guard.

Rear View - Original Armor

Here, we can see the unique "tail" with a hook and the end.

Rear Close-up View - Original Armor

And it totally covers the butt area.  ~.~

Side (Left) Close-up View - Original Armor

Side (Right) Close-up View - Original Armor

Looking at the sides, we can see those patterns, with 3D depth, that seem to overlay the skin.

 

From the above images, do you agree that this is a really nice armor?

 

So, as mentioned earlier, most of the cloth are replaced with either skin color or transparency. And this is what it looks like after mod.

 

Front View - Modified Armor

Specially for this blog, I have tuned the darker skin shade to true skin color. It will probably be more obvious in the video.

Front Close-up View - Modified Armor

From this image, you can see the cloth has been repainted to either skin or transparency. The skin area are on the inner side of both legs, while the transparency area covers the front torso, waist and outer side of both legs. 

Front Close-up View 2 - Modified Armor

Well... the black frame ran directly through the middle of both breasts, and that saves me from the crackling headache to try to find ways to hide the sensitive points.  XD  

Rear View - Modified Armor

Gone with the tail but at the expense of a nice décor on the outer side of the left thigh, because they share the same texture.  D: 

Rear Close-up View - Modified Armor

Like what I have done for the butt area? The back here is modified on the earlier mod to cover up a little more. It used to be just a G-string over a bare lower back!   >.< 

Side View - Modified Armor

I find the patterns on the outer side of both legs interesting and so I kept them. But because they have a bit of 3D depth, I can't just simply leave them plainly on the skin as that will seem like ring-worm on the skin. Therefore, I have to add the transparency layer on them.

 

Side (Left) Close-up View - Modified Armor

Side (Right) Close-up View - Modified Armor

So that is all for the chest armor mod. But since I often use this mod, and the unmodified boots looks really weird when worn together with the modified chest armor, due to a sudden discontinuation, I had also modified part of the boots to skin color, while retaining the side patterns. I usually don't do this for the other mods such as Sauro Commander's Tunic.  :p

 

And last but not least, the video.

 

Note:
AION 5.3 has just been launched in NA two weeks ago and NCSoft seem to have added a lot more armors and costumes into the game.  :D  The last skin package number has been increased to 104, overwriting all the filenames of my previous mods. But don't worry though, just change the filenames to 105 and it will be fine.   For example, change "Mesh_Textures_101.PAK" to "Mesh_Textures_105.PAK". The same goes for the "Mesh_Meshes_XXX.PAK" package. This instruction can also be found in the readme.txt that comes with the mod package.  :D

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