Blade & Soul - Alpha Hunter (Jin Outfit) Mod

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Well, that get the announcement out of the way, so let's get into the mod for this post. 

In the last six weeks, I have been filling requests so in this post, I will be working on an outfit which I have been looking forward to work on from awhile back. I had actually played around with it a bit when I first got my hands on the outfit, but was disappointed when I found out that the skin surface is missing a large portion under the bra. I had intended to streamline the bra to leave just the stripe in the center but alas... 😞

By then, some other outfits grabbed my attention so the Alpha Hunter was 'relocated' to the back of my mind. 😅 

It was after NCWest introduced the Alpha Agent that my interest in Alpha Hunter reignites. For information, the Alpha Agent looks much the same like the Alpha Hunter, except that the red cloth has been replaced with a purple color, and that NC decides to suddenly be more conservative and covered up the under boobs. 😅

A patron thus requested to have that cover (you know what cover 😏 ) removed. Unfortunately, it seems like the textures for  Alpha Agent is saved using a different format and thus can cause the game to crash upon repackaged. I tried many methods but still could not get it to work so it was left on the shelf. However, this led me once again to the Alpha Hunter which is in the same package and so we finally see it here today.

Alpha Hunter is a very beautiful outfit with design concepts from Roman and Iron age Europe. The layout of the red cloth is similar to tunic worn by ancient Romans, while the armor pieces has the essence of Iron age Europe. And since it has hunter in its name, leather component is also an essential part of the outfit, for example, the half-pants and side guard.

Take a look at the images below and decides for yourself.

Front View - Original Outfit

From the front view, we can easily identify the three types of material that are used in this outfit. The cloth and armor pieces have the essence of Romans and Iron age as mentioned above. But what about that bra... 😆

Front Close-up View - Original Outfit

The bra looks like a modern day sports bra, except that it uses metal, leather and nettings as material, and left the under boobs exposed. 😅

Rear View - Original Outfit

The way the red cloth is loosely drape on the body has the essence of the Romans' tunic.

Rear Close-up View - Original Outfit

The leather pieces reminds me of the Romans' gladiator's outfit.

Right Side View - Original Outfit

The leather pants, or rather, half-pants covered only the left leg. The right leg is instead protected by a leg armor.

Right Side Close-up View - Original Outfit

Although I mentioned that the armor pieces have essence of Iron age armor, they also possess an element of fantasy.

Left Side Close-up View - Original Outfit

Does the outfit looks alpha enough for you? 😃

As mentioned earlier, I had tried to mod the bra area at start but found holes waiting under the bra. 😦 So, this time round, I simply remove the netting on the chest area, leaving the bra otherwise untouched. I also need to get rid of the shadow beneath the netting layer.

Next, I took off all the red cloth and leather hoping there will not be any more holes. Luckily for us, there isn't any. 😄

Finally, looking at that half-pants, I am really tempted to recolor the entire left leg to skin. However, I notice that the leather pants is actually a layer above the skin layer as seen from the left side image. If I recolor the pants to skin, we will have a thicker left leg, which will look unbalance. 😰

So, for the final mod, I left it at the removal of netting, cloth and leather. Check out the simplified outfit below.

Front View - Modified Outfit

As seen above, all the red cloths and the leather protector on the left waist have been removed.

Front Close-up View - Modified Outfit

The netting above the bra on the chest area is now removed. If I try to remove the black-grey area of the bra, we will immediately see holes pop up. 

Rear View - Modified Outfit

The half-pants can be seen much clearer now that the leather and cloths are gone.

Rear Close-up View - Modified Outfit

I kept the netting, on the bra, at the back because it does not look nice with just three wires as the frame. 😰

Left Side View - Modified Outfit

As mentioned earlier, the proof that the pants is a layer above the skin can be seen in the image above, where the skin of the outer left thigh is exposed under the pants.

Are you wondering why I did not remove the entire pants then? Well, the exposed skin is just what it is - a small texture of the outer thigh. If you still do not get what I mean, it means that if the pants is removed, we will only see the outer thigh while the entire left leg went missing. 😨

Right Side View - Modified Outfit

I kept the red cloth on the arms because the arms may become disconnected if the cloths are removed.

Right Side Close-up View - Modified Outfit

With this we have come to the end of this post. Hopefully, I can find time to post another mod soon.

Before the short (or maybe long) goodbye, check out the video which was captured in the Forgotten Forest - a playground for the alpha, in the Gunwon City map.

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