Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Blade & Soul - After Midnight (Jin Outfit) Mod

Closing up the After Midnight series, we have the Jin version in this week's post. For a comparison with its other two sisters, the Jin version is more similar to the Yun's than to the Gon's. Both Jin and Yun version sports a pair of stockings and an armguard on the left arm, while the Gon version has full sleeves and tight pants.

However, there are some differences on the armguards and stockings. For example, the Jin version's armguard is a full piece of cloth as compared to the netting type of the Yun, and the Jin's stockings has much more blue circles than that of the Yun. We can also notice that all three races has slight design differences on their front torso, but the most noticeable would be the tail cloth. You can view the images below to see the original Jin After Midnight outfit.

The images and video are captured at the Yehara's Mirage, based in the Scorching Sands, on the Cinderlands map. I chose the location because it is the other place that has a day and night version, like the Skypetal Plains versus Midnight Skypetal Plains.

Yehara's Mirage is an inn run by the gracious hostess Yehara, aunt to Yunwa - the last of Mushin's bloodline. Yehara established the Mirage right in the middle of the desert so she can more easily obtain information and learn the secrets left behind by the Naryu (with regards to Mushin), in order to find her missing niece. Yehara is also part of the "Ashes in the Fall" storyline which rewards the outfit with the same name.

The day version of Yehara Mirage is actually an enclosed dungeon in itself. But it can be simultaneously accessed by all players, after their initial visit (where the player witness Soha and Juwol making a mess in the inn 😅 ), and act very much like any other town. The night version, though, is a questing dungeon where only a party of maximum six players are allowed to enter. The party has to defend the Mirage against a corrupted division of the "Shadowless" which is out to forcibly acquire Yehara's collection of Naryu relics, in her absence.

Getting into the night dungeon is a little confusing at first, especially for players who breeze through contents or bypass all dialogues without reading them thoroughly. 😆

To get into this night version Mirage, the player has to enter another dungeon (Yehara's room) within the day version of Yehara's Mirage dungeon, to start the quest by talking to a NPC. When the player exits the room, they will be automatically sent to the night version Mirage. As you can see, this is where it gets confusing if player does not pay attention to the dialogue or know what they are doing. 😅 It is like going into a room and then exiting the same room to be greeted by a changed surrounding.

If the player gets into this night version Mirage and does not procced with the quest (by wind striding to somewhere else), they will always get into the night version Mirage every time they return to the Yehara's Mirage. 😰

I guess that's all for the dual version of Yehara's Mirage. 😅

Front View - Original Outfit
The same black-blue color theme applies to the Jin outfit.

Front Close-up View - Original Outfit
The cutting at the bottom of the blouse is slightly different for the three races.

Rear View - Original Outfit
Though the upper back portion looks similar for Gon, Jin and Yun...

Rear Close-up View - Original Outfit
The tail cloth is unique to each race.

Side View - Original Outfit

Side Close-up View - Original Outfit
In the Jin mod, I tried give it the shoulderless and no panty feel design like in the Gon and Yun mods. That includes modifying the bra, the stockings and the tail cloth.

However, the Jin 3D model has a huge hole right in the center of each breast and the entire abdomen region is missing. As such, I cannot trim any of the cloth on the abdomen and the Yun's modified bra cannot be applied to the Jin version without revealing the hole. ðŸ˜°

Instead, I used the Gon's modified bra without the shoulder portion. Even with that, I still need to extend the top portion of the bra to fully cover the hole. 😥

Let's compare the modified outfit below.

Front View - Modified Outfit
As seen in the first picture, the lower part of the stockings has been repainted to skin layer.

Although the thigh bands don't look that good, I really like those tiny moon-lit decors. 😅  Maybe I should make them similar to the Yun mod? Hmm...

Front Close-up View - Modified Outfit
The bra has been modified to a strapless bikini top with the shoulder part removed.

Rear View - Modified Outfit
The tail cloth has been trimmed to give a no-panty feel. 😈

Rear Close-up View - Modified Outfit
If you look carefully, the shoulder part isn't totally removed. The collar has to be retained to hide a hole at the back of the neck. 😥

Side View - Modified Outfit

Side Close-up View - Modified Outfit
Eagle-eyed viewers may also notice the tan-lines on the thighs. They are actually the artefact of some color matching that I had done. But since they look fine, I left them as they are. 😆

With this I will wrap up the After Midnight series. Catch the video to get a better view of the outfit in the day and night version of Yehara's Mirage.


Download Link:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1dZJoVpC0fHeOEVu9XrNKa96flv_8lgyX


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