Blade & Soul - Divine Emissary (Gon/Yun Outfit) Mod

Immediately after I posted the Jin Divine Emissary, a new patron asked if it can be applied to Gon and Yun. I explained that all races and gender have their own individual package, except for special cases like the Cutting Edge outfit. I also promised to add the two to my TO-DO list, so we shall be seeing these two outfit mods in this week's post.

The reason I can do both mods is because the missing meshes issue  in the Jin mod is not present in both the Gon and Yun mod. As such, the recoloring to remove shadows can be performed without much fuss. Also, the layout of the meshes (other than skin layer) in the UV map for all three races are aligned, so I can easily copy-paste-delete the unwanted portion. The aligned meshes also make it easier to copy the addons and alterations, including the Diffuse, Mask, Specular and Normal, from the Jin over to the Gon and Yun. 😃

As mentioned above, the UV maps for the three races are the same. So as expected, their outfits would also looks exactly the same.

Since I have already talked about the outfit in details in the Jin Divine Emissary post, I will skip that for the Gon and Yun. Instead, let us look at the original outfits below. For the sake of non-players, the one on the left is Gon and the one on the right is Yun. Players probably can easily tell from their pose and inherent body shape. 😄

Front View - Original Outfit

Front Close-up View - Original Outfit

The outfits look exactly the same but the tattoo just below the bra seems to be rounder on the Gon as compared to the Yun.

Rear View - Original Outfit

Rear Close-up View - Original Outfit

Everything looks identical from the rear too.

Side View - Original Outfit

Same for the sides.

Side Close-up View - Original Outfit

For the two mods, I tried to give them the same look as that of the Jin. This is possible for the Yun because skin layers under the bra and skirt are all present. The Gon outfit, on the other hand, gives a bit of a problem due to the missing skin layer on the outer sides of the thighs. 😓 The leg guards, in addition to the skirt, actually hides the missing mesh so it is not a problem for the original outfit.

However, I intend to modify the leg guards and remove the skirt completely, so inevitably exposing the missing layer. 😓 There are two ways to solve this. One is to keep the leg guards as they are (i.e. cowboy style leg guards) and remove the skirt completely. The second method is to modify the leg guards, to the Jin style, but keep the side portions of the skirt to hide the missing layer.

Well, the cowboy style leg guards does not look that attractive to me 😆 so I chose to go ahead with the second mod. However, just simply keeping the sides of the skirt, while cutting away the mid center and rear portions seems weird. Thus, I modify the retained portions of the skirt into armor pieces like those on the shoulders. Let's check and compare the two modified outfits below.

Front View - Modified Outfit

The leg guards in both have been modified to that in the Jin mod.

Front Close-up View - Modified Outfit

The bras on both outfits have been modified and the tattoos below them have also been removed. This was due to recoloring to remove the shadows.

The skirt on the Yun is totally gone but something remains on the sides of the Gon's outfit. You can see them more clearly in the side image.

Rear View - Modified Outfit

Rear Close-up View - Modified Outfit

The shadows beneath the bra straps have to be taken care of too.

Side View - Modified Outfit

You can see the Gon mod included two armor pieces by the sides of the waist. They are used to hide two holes between the edges where the thighs meet the waist.

Side Close-up View - Modified Outfit

I just realized from the image above that my Gon has such thin torso around the abdomen and my Yun seems to be top-light and bottom-heavy. 😓

After seeing all three versions of the mod, which one do you like most? Personally, I think it looks best on the Jin. Not sure if it is because of bad customization on my Gon and Yun though. 😰

That concludes the Divine Emissary for all three races. Watch the video, captured in the in-game Tailorshop (since I did not have the outfit on my Gon and Yun), for a better look.

Sorry for the late post and if you actually read my last previous post, you may have guessed why it is late. 😓 This video creation was not without incidents too. If you are interested to know what happen this time round, you can read about it just below this video.

If you don't want to read about it, you should probably stop now...

The video creation was completed two days back, but I guess I got to experience the sequel of "Curious Case of Missing Video" as explained at the bottom in the Gon Grand Enchantment post. 😱

Well, after that horrible experience prior and defiant to pay for another license, I uninstalled the new version and reinstall the older version of the editor, as suggested by the developer's customer support. But now, it seems the editor is chunking up even more problems in my face.

For the first compilation, I left the editor compiling through the night (which I mostly do because video compilation can take a looonngg time). In the morning, the dialogue box appeared, as usual, to indicate that the compilation is successful. But to my dismay, it gave me an eleven seconds duration video which should have been one minute plus.  😓

For the second time that I tried, the editor crashed at ten percent of compilation. 😰

And on the third run, it finally produced my one minute video. BUT! The footage froze at the ninety percent mark of the video while the music continues playing.

The fourth try gave me an eleven seconds video again..... And the fifth try, footage froze at ninety percent again.... 😱

Finally, I gave up and downgraded the output from 4K definition to 2K definition. It finally gave me my video in its entirety. 😩

Wow! I have produced over fifty videos without much problem (but only the last four videos are made with 4K definition) and now, it starts to throw all sort of tantrums? Especially after the developer has the newer version to sell? I am beginning to become paranoid that my usage of the editor is being monitored. 😱

Sorry to make you guys read this yet again.. 😥 Maybe I should ditch this video editor that I am using.. Any suggestion for a better video editor?

Download Link for Gon 
Download Link for Yun

Blade & Soul - Divine Emissary (Jin Outfit) Mod

It seems we have not looked at a Jin mod for five consecutive weeks, and thus, we have the rather new Jin Divine Emissary outfit in this week's post. This outfit was first made available for limited time sale in September 2018 on the online Hongmoon store, together with the Shadow Walker.

For some reason, I find that the Shadow Walker outfit looks kind of like the black Superman costume in comics. And it looks good too even for a mono-color outfit. If not for the burglar style head band, I might have considered buying it. 😅

The Divine Emissary's style on the other hand, is based more on a mixture of ancient civilizations. The helmet for male characters look like headdress worn by ancient Korean military officials, while the female head crest, which looks like a Valkyrie's, leans towards the Norse Mythology. Finally, the bird like structures on the shoulder guards emit ancient Egyptian essence. Not forgetting the decorative trinkets that is of oriental decent. In a descriptive word often used in my country - Rojak. 😅

Just for some fun fact, Rojak is an oriental style fruit-vegetable salad which ingredients can include pineapple, mango, cucumber, bean sprout, smashed peanuts with palm sugar paste. However, the ingredients may also vary across different culture and countries. For example, Indian Rojak kept the ingredients, chosen by customer (which may also include seafood), separate from the sauce. As such, the food name also becomes a descriptive term for mixture or eclectic mix. 😆

But that being said, it does not mean that being rojak is bad, because it depends on how well the different parts can be mixed to give an elevated final product. Fortunately, the Divine Emissary is able to achieve this result. 😄

Let us take a look at this rojak outfit below.

Front View - Original Outfit

Hmm.. Which culture is the leather skirt and leg guards from? Game culture? 😆

Front Close-up View - Original Outfit

The bra is made up of two layers where two metal caps rest upon a cloth which wraps around the body.

Rear View - Original Outfit

Rear Close-up View - Original Outfit

We can see the golden bird head structure on the shoulder guards.

Side View - Original Outfit

Side Close-up View - Original Outfit

A series of tattoos can be seen wrapping around the upper arm and just below the chest level. However, the characters or symbols are just scribbles that do not give a hint of what they mean. 😓

For the mod, I first removed the skirt because the panties actually looks the equivalent of a leather sport shorts. After removal of the skirt, it was revealed that the outer side of the leg guards actually join with the outer side of the shorts. It looks something like the cowboy style of wild west. As such, I trimmed the top outer side of the leg guards so that they no longer touches the shorts.

Next, I took a look at the bra and found that there are actually two layers. So I took away the cloth layer leaving the metal caps which covers the entire lower part of the breasts. Having a bit of room to play around with, I trimmed a slight curve into the metal caps to reveal a little portion of the under boobs. 😅

Finally, I need to recolor those darker skin areas which are affected by shadows. Because of this, the tattoo just below the chest level was also erased.

Take a look at the modified outfit in the images below.

Front View - Modified Outfit

As seen above, the skirt has been removed and the top part of the leg guards trimmed. It is shown as 'modified' in the image because it is not just a simple erase but shifting of pattern textures in all the texture files to give it a presentable look. 

Front Close-up View - Modified Outfit

We can see that the cloth portion of the bra that wraps around the body is no more. Only the two metal caps remain in place.

Rear View - Modified Outfit

Rear Close-up View - Modified Outfit

There were shadows from the bra and skirt, on the back and thighs, so I have to repaint the skin layer to remove them.

Side View - Modified Outfit

Side Close-up View - Modified Outfit

This mod should have been pretty simple but I had some trouble repainting the thighs to remove the shadows. It is due to missing meshes in the UV map for the thighs and butt area. For some reason, the mesh for those areas are not saved into the UV map. Thus, I cannot see the boundaries or edges of the meshes and have difficulty trying to match their color. In the end, I had to make estimation and that ends up causing that dark patch around the thighs. 😰

That brings us to the end of this post. Take a look at the video to have a better look at the outfit.

Download Link