AION - Heavenly Tunic & Leggings Mod

In this week's post, we will be looking at the cloth version of the Heavenly set's chest and leg armor, which are 2 separate pieces. As compared to the plate set, which looks uncomplicated, and the leather set, that looks like cloth armor; the design of the cloth set is very unique (or some would say weird), looking like a hybrid of flower, butterfly and chameleon.    >.<

What do I mean by hybrid of flower, butterfly and chameleon? Well.. the first cue is that flower in the middle of the chest and the extensive uses of colorful layered petal design, which resembles petals forming a flower. This layered petal design can be seen prominently on the skirt, the bottom extension of the chest armor and the trumpet-styled sleeves.

The butterfly-feel comes from the neck lace, which extends upwards into a collar, that looks like butterfly's wings that are stacked together.

But the most prominent aspect of the dress is probably the curvy chameleon tail that trails  from the back of the skirt. 

Let us look at the images of the original armor below.

Front View - Original Armor

Front Close-up View - Original Armor

Would you agree that the armor gives a very flowery feel by looking at the two images above?  :D

Other than looking similar to butterfly wings, I think the collar also resembles some part of a plant, isn't it?

Rear View - Original Armor

Ahhh... Here we can see the curvy tail. It doesn't have the exact same texture or shape of a chameleon's tail, but that curvy part at the end really reminds me of one.  XD

Rear Close-up View - Original Armor

Nice bare back there!   :D

Side View - Original Armor

For the mod, I kept all the designs because I find them so unique.  :D   The exception is the trumpet sleeves that looks so 70's.  ~.~

So, let's look at the modified armor below.

Front View - Modified Armor

First of all, the skirt and chest bottom extension are trimmed to show off more of her leggy legs. But you can see the flowery design remains though.

Front Close-up View - Modified Armor

Secondly, the trumpet sleeves are shortened with the intention to reduce the circumference of the opening. But it seems I ended up trimming too much though.  >.<"

Front Close-up View 2 - Modified Armor

Third part of the mod is on the chest, repainting the cloth covering her cleavage into skin, and of course, at the same time, I have to remove the flower that blocked my view.  XD

Other modification on the chest also includes turning the cloth texture, on the torso, into transparent texture. Fortunately for me, the straps, that run right through the middle of the breasts, can sufficiently cover the nipples, so I don't have to crack my head trying to find ways to conceal them.   XD

Side View - Modified Armor

We can also see the transparency on the sides as well.

Rear View - Modified Armor

The rear view looks almost identical to the original armor because I kept the tail and its accessories. On top of the fact that, the back is really bare and has nothing else to modify?  XD

Just one last thing that I find on the chest armor is that it seems to have some kind of bust shrinking effect, as opposed to the Sea Feast chest armor's bust boosting effect.   -.-"

So, that's all for the mod and you can watch the video for more details of the mod.

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AION - Noble Sky Dragon's Tunic and Leggings Mod

Welcome back for the second post of the week and in this post I'll be showing another level 55 armor set, but in this case a cloth set. This particular armor set belongs under the category of "Balic" design, in which the armor pieces are crafted by players using "Balic" materials, which are looted off defeated Balaur (NPC Dragon race). If you are thinking that it is pretty gruesome to kill something and then fabricate their bones and skins into an armor, you are probably right... But think of those animal skins that some people wear or use (crocodile leather bag, animal skin winter clothing as examples) and you will know this happens in real life too.    D:

Anyway, back to the topic, this armor is actually one of the first few that I had tried to mod on, but was not very successful due to lack of experience. I got frustrated after several failed attempts and thus, left it sitting in a folder for the past few months. Recently, I took a peek into the main folder and there it was, quietly waiting to be rediscovered.

The main problem faced with this armor was that I lack the means to see overlapping layers and what texture is being drawn onto the mesh or simply skipped (as in a hole when top layer is removed  ~.~  ); thus, the armor ended up with holes and loss of continuity of character skin layer.    >.<   But after these few months of doing mods, I think I have finally learned enough to complete it.

Let's us now look at what the original armor is like.

Front and Side Views - Original Armor

Rear Views - Original Armor

From the above images, we can see that the original chest armor does not really look that extraordinarily special, except for some draconic essence (scale and claw like design). The leggings consists of 2 pieces of cloth (front and back) with a pair of stockings. Well, well. Cloth again... We know what's going to happen to them.   :p

The problem that I encountered was with the chest piece, where I tried to reveal more skin at the side of the torso. Let's see what I have managed to do now, that I had failed before.

Front Views

As you can see, I got the chest piece to reveal a little more skin and kept the modified bra from the initial mod. That's why there's no transparency (which I have applied in overdose in the past few posts) here.     >.<



Rear Views

The back was also trimmed off a little and off goes the 2 pieces of cloth to show off her leggy legs.  :p

Side Views

Oh and by the way, just for information, this chest armor is one of those that have the full body skin underneath the bra. This means that if the bra is taken off, we can see the full breasts (Yeah! No hole   :D  ). But since I am not doing that, I did not bother to include the nipples; so even if the bra is taken off, we will only be seeing something like a mannequin, such as the one in my previous post "Tiamat Guard's Jerkin".   XD

Finally, check out the video for some great views. The video was taken at an elevated location and you can see the lake, sand and even wild life, if your eyes are not too focused on the mod, that is.  :D

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