Blade & Soul - Blood Raid (Jin Outfit) Mod

At about the same time when a viewer requested for a mod on the Ravenfall outfit, another requested for the Jin Blood Raid outfit. So for this week's mod, we will be looking at this outfit. The Blood Raid, unlike the Ravenfall, is from an in-game event during the patch that introduced the new Gunslinger class. It was also recently placed on sale on the online Hongmoon store, complete with its accessories which include a blindfold and backpack.

The Gunslinger class really gets a lot of love seeing how there are several outfits designed specifically for them. Such as the cowboy look-alike outfit - Dead Reckoning, the Blood Raid/Midnight Raid, Loose Cannon (Soha's outfit) and True Shot (Leerok's outfit). 😵  So, which outfit did you choose for your Gunslinger?  😆

Well, I made a mod for Soha's Loose Cannon outfit that can be seen in this video. But in this post, we'll be looking at the Blood Raid outfit, so let's first check out the original version below.

Front View - Original Outfit

As the name has hinted, the outfit is blood red in color. Well, the torso and arm portion at least.

The main design is a long sleeve jacket with a matching skirt, over a pair of black tight pants.

Front Close-up View - Original Outfit

One prominent feature of this outfit is the large number of straps that can be found on the two sleeves and on the torso portion of the jacket.

Rear View - Original Outfit

We can also see a lot of straps on the back of the jacket. 😲

Right Side View - Original Outfit

Left Side Close-up View - Original Outfit

On closer inspection, you will see that the torso portion is actually split into top and bottom half, with the top half ending at just below the chest area and visibly a layer over the tummy area.

If you move the camera around the character, you can see that the blood red color actually transitions to a black color and back. As I found out, this is due to the outfit itself being black in actual texture color but given a red glossy overlay (Specular reflection if you understand what that means 😅 ). What we are seeing is a black surface that reflects off red light, thus the transitioning (i.e. when the surface is not directly under light, it looks black; but when light shines on it, it reflects as red). 😲

Well, enough admiration of computer graphics advancement, let's get back to the mod.

As much as how I like the black pant, I prefer them as skin. So, the first thing I did was to recolor the black pants to skin layer.  😆 

Next, I tried to open up the cleavage area a little more. Unfortunately, I ran into some trouble there because the jacket layer, that runs over the cleavage region to the tummy, is a duplicate texture. That meaning the two duplicate layers extended out horizontally from the main jacket to form the two zipper layers. So, if I remove one of them, the other disappears too. That would reveal way more of the breasts that I had intended. And to make matter worse, there're holes just around the tummy region that those layers cover.  😧

In the end, I abandoned the idea and turn my attention to the tummy region. As it turns out, I managed to recolor the tummy, side and back of the bottom torso to skin color. The end result looks like straps being worn over naked skin.

Let's take a look at the mod version below.

Front View - Modified Outfit

Ah! My leggy legs.. 😍

Front Close-up View - Modified Outfit

Here, we can see that the cloth area around the tummy region has been recolored to skin. The two vertical straps that you see at the front torso are the duplicated layers that I have mentioned earlier. The vertical portion of the jacket above those two straps are also duplicated layers. 

The skirt is also given a little trim to compliment the legs.

Rear View - Modified Outfit

Rear Close-up View - Modified Outfit

We can also see the lower back in skin color with straps wrapped around.

Side View - Modified Outfit

Side Close-up View - Modified Outfit

Some eagled-eye viewers may have noticed that the zips on the front torso are gone! Well... I obviously forgot to put them back after I abandoned the initial idea to open up the cleavage area.  😓

That's the end of this post and hope you like the mod. Watch the video below for a better look.

Download Link:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1n3kNNXDWtLVAGlhSIMn-YZHc3SmO9HLM