AION - Veteran Hunter's Jerkin Mod

Welcome back to AION Skin mod and today we'll be looking at an old armor set, all the way from AION 2.0. The "Veteran Hunter" armor sets are sold by the Fortuneers organization and can only be bought using the Fortuneer tokens, which are given as rewards for completing their daily/weekly tasks. There are several reason why I had chosen to mod this old armor and it's a long story from the new "Archangel Outfit" to the "Stormbringer Regalia".

So, the story goes like this... When the "Archangel Outfit" was released in AION NA 5.0, I had my first look at it and I go "Oh my! This can work?". I mean there're only 2 pieces of cloth running down from the shoulder, covering a little more than half of each breast and leaving the center and lower portion of the torso wide open.   O.O  Take a look at the outfit and decide for yourself.

Archangel Outfit

Stormbringer Regalia

If you are wondering how is it related to the "Veteran Hunter" armor, the 2nd part of the story goes like this... That total open-mid-concept design somehow triggers my memory of the "Stormbringer Regalia", which I can say is somewhat opposite of this design, with center portion covered while leaving the sides open. Then I think to myself, why not do something like the "Stormbringer Regalia" but following that "stingy" style (of only covering half-half) of the "Archangel Outfit". And there you are, the idea is born!

Finally, I have to find an armor that has the mesh (surface structure) that allows me to carry out the mod. If you are asking why don't I just use the "Stormbringer Regalia" since I'm doing something similar to it? Well, the problem with the outfit is that I cannot afford to be stingy on the material because there is nothing below the cloth. This means that if I were to trim even slightly on the cloth, we will be looking at holes..  ~.~

So, I started to look at some armor skins and found the "Veteran Hunter's Jerkin" that can fit my criteria. It has a cloth running from neck to lower abdomen and covering the cleavage while maintaining the shape of the breasts on the side and bottom. It also has nice decoration on the left waist that I had decided to keep.

Let's take a look at the original armor so you can better understand what I meant.

Front Close-up View - Original Armor

With the target armor chosen, I got off to work on it by trimming the torso and stripping the arm. What's left of the armor combined with the pants that I had modified previously for use in Jungle Jane Outfit, became a sexy bare-back party skirt.   XD

Here's the screen capture of the modified armor.

Front View

Front View - Close-up

Rear View

Rear View - Close-up

Side View

After looking at the images, would you guys agree that the modified armor looks like a really sexy party blouse? 

Eagle eyes viewer may also notice that I was less stingy with the cloth on the left side. The reason is that if I were to trimmed the cloth on the left side anymore towards the center, it would inevitably partly reveal the cleavage (while there is none on the mesh); and that would makes the mod looks weird.

Hmmm.... the other way to make the left side equally sexy is to shift the top of the cloth towards the bottom center of her neck. Would you guys prefer that?  :p

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AION - Veteran Hunter's Chausses

As promised in previous post, I'll show you guys the leg armor (pants) which I had used to create a match for the Rebel Chain Chest armor. The pants that I used is in this post's title, namely the Veteran Hunter's Chausses. This leather leg armor can be bought from the "Fortuneer" NPC who are stationed at Cygnea or Inggison fortress, with their special reward tokens which are given for completing their daily quest.

 

By the way "chausses" is used as the standardized naming convention for leather leg armor since Aion 4.X, similar to "hauberk" which means chain chest armor. I actually googled those terms, when Aion NA started using them, and they are actual terms used to describe armor in older days (12th to 15th century). See.... we do learn something while playing games :p

 

Anyway, for people who are wondering why my character is wearing both chain and leather at the same time, it is because they provides different character stats (e.g. chain has higher physical defense, while leather provides higher evasion rate). Another reason is because, the original matching pants, Rebel Brogans (i.e. Chain Leg armor) cannot be altered to what I need due to the mesh not following a tight leg shape, as illustrated below.

 

Can't change the baggy pants into a tight fit leg :(

As the image above has shown, I can't modified the "baggy" pants into a tight leg shape if I cannot change the mesh, which determines the surface shape of the armor skin.  :(

 

With everything explained, let's now look at the before and after modification images.



Front view

Rear view

Close-up view

Some people, who has an eagle-eye for fashion, will probably frown at the mismatched chest and leg armor in the above images, but I had actually used that leather top because it has a neat cutoff at the waist line, such that the leg armor can be shown clearly without any obstruction. I modified this leg armor to match another chain armor, remember?   :)

 

To prove my point about the matching, watch the video below for the chest and leg armor worn together.    :)

 

 

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