AION - Heavenly Breastplate & Greaves Mod

In the previous post, I have shown a mod on the Heavenly Jerkin and Breeches. So in this post, we'll be looking at its plate version (Breastplate and Greaves). Just to make it clear, the chest piece of this armor set does not include the pants (i.e. not 2-in-1 armor), unlike the newer armor sets, such as "Sauro Commander" or new abyss armor set, where most chest piece also contains the pants. Thus, I am actually mod-ding the chest and pants separately, which is actually twice the number of graphic files of a 2-in-1 armor.   >.<"

 

Anyway, this plate armor looks... surprisingly... like a real plate armor! Unlike the leather version which looks like a cloth dress. But who really cares if a leather or plate armor looks like cloth in a game anyway, as long as they are given the correct attributes, such as toughness. Right?

 

So let's take a look at this armor below.

 

Front View - Original Armor

Front Close-up View - Original Armor

As you can see, the chest portion of the armor has a plate metal texture and the pants is a shorts with plate leg-guard over a cloth stocking. The part of the armor that looks like a "skirt" is actually an extension from the chest piece, which gives the armor a kind of like-a-dress feel.

 

Rear View - Original Armor

Rear Close-up View - Original Armor

From the rear close-up, we can see 2 rings wrapping around her upper thighs, which I think looks weird. And the angle at which the "skirt" lifts off the waist is a bit exaggerating.   ~.~ 

 

Side View - Original Armor

Although the armor doesn't looks too complicated from the screenshots, the same cannot be said of the mesh. The torso portion of the chest piece is actually separated into 3 parts (bra, side-back, tummy) and this makes mod-ding more difficult because removal of wrong areas can leave holes, plus the impossibility to simply paint everything to skin color, due to discontinuity between the parts.  >.<"

 

Due to the design of the mesh, I have to keep the bra intact, with its neighboring areas, and add a belt at the waist to hide the discontinuity between the leg armor and the tummy. 

 

Let's see what I managed to do for the armor below.

 

Front View - Mod Armor

Front Close-up View - Mod Armor

As seen above, the tummy area has been modified to skin followed by a "belt" to hide discontinuity between tummy and leg.

Front Close-up View 2 - Mod Armor

The bra is mostly intact, except for the modification of the plate metal texture over the full breasts, into transparent mid and under. Simply using a dull metal plate to cover the sensitive points is... dull.... so I duplicated a little flowery design there.  XD

 

Rear View - Mod Armor

Rear Close-up View - Mod Armor

From the rear views, we can see that the extended "skirt" portion, that looks weird, has been removed and the shorts was converted into a panties style, without the 2 strange rings around the thigh.

 

Side View - Mod Armor

While recording the video, I have also noticed normal defects around the butt area. For those interested, normals are data points that tell the graphic renderer how light is bounced off a surface, so that the surface can appear curvedly smooth or angularly flat.

The designer probably did not need to pay attention to that area because it was mostly obscured by the existing "skirt". But it now becomes prominent after removal of the "skirt". How I wish I could mod the mesh too...   D:
 

Anyway, check out the video for more on the mod. 

 

 

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AION - Guardian Brigade General's Breastplate and Geaves Mod

In the previous few posts, we have looked at leather, cloth and chain armors, so I guess it's time for plate armor again. In this post, I will be working on another Abyss grade armor which consists of separate chest and leg pieces. What attracted me to work on this armor set is its uniqueness among its peers of chain, leather and cloth.

I can still remember when I first set foot in Inggison and can't help but to notice this group of "models" who are kneeling before the room of Empyrean Lord Kaisinel (they have been there since AION 2.0... and still "respectfully" on their knees in AION 5.1, after Kaisinel has been long gone     ~.~ ). If 2.0 and 5.1 doesn't seem that much of a difference to non-players, well... it's been 6 years in our world and given that 5 minutes in our world being equivalent to 1 hour for in-game time, that would work out to be approximately 72 years for in-game time!   @.@

But what's most prominent about this group is the one commander who seems to be leading the unrelenting "worship" by standing right in front of the group. Look at the image below and you will see.

Unrelenting Loyalty
(kneeling since AION 2.0 and still continuing in AION 5.1)

The commander just seem so outstanding (other than the fact that she is "out" of the group and "standing" instead of kneeling   XD   ) and authoritative... Somewhat like a Valkyrie, don't you think so?

Although I had previously complained about the difficulty in obtaining new Abyss grade armor, this older set, which is for level 55 characters, is much easier to earn by the time AION 4.0 is released. To make it sound even better, the same skin is also applied to lesser grade Abyss armors (e.g. "Guardian Patrol's" set) that cost much less (89,000 Abyss Points and zero medals) for both the breastplate and greaves. So for high level players, this is not difficult to achieve.

Let us now take a closer look at the original armor to see what can be further modified.

Front Views - Original Armor

The first thing that caught my attention is probably the 3 layers covering between the waist and upper thigh. Two of those inner layers are part of the greaves and the outer most layer is part of the breastplate. The 3 layers don't seem to offer more protection or warmth because they don't really cover much either.   -.-"  

So, I'll be trimming around that area for a better leggy view. Why hide the legs when the mesh gives it a thigh boosting effect, right? If you are confused by what I just said, well... I mean that the greaves' mesh actually boost the size of its wearer's thigh, something similar to the bust boosting effect of the "Sea Feast" chest that I mentioned before in my "Ballerina" mod.     

 

Rear Views - Original Armor

Side View - Original Armor

What else did I modified on the armor? Take a look below.

Front Views

For the first modification, I trimmed the waist area of the breastplate to show off more skin on the side of the thighs and trimmed the skirt portion of the greaves to cover only the front. But as usual, I got a little stingy with the material for that small piece of cloth, such that it doesn't fully covers the front of the panties as intended.  >.<"   But I guess that's fine because for the second part of the mod, she got more protection with a shiny plate panties as shown below.  :p

Rear Views

And for the last part of the mod, I removed the cloth on the tummy and modified the plate bra into transparent bra.... yet again!  XD    Fortunately, the frame of the bra beautifully hide the sensitive areas (a.k.a. nipples).   

 

Side Views

Eagle-eyes viewers may also notice that I had modified the stocking on her right leg to transparent one too.  :p   Unfortunately, most part of the stocking is covered by the sabaton and not worth mentioning. 

 

With this, I wrapped up this post and if you did not get enough look at the armor, check out the video. 

 

 

 

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