Blade & Soul - Profane Shroud (Gon Outfit) Mod

First of all, I will like to wish you all a 🎄 Merry Christmas 🎄 for people who celebrated this joyous occasion; and for people who don't celebrate Christmas, hope you have a nice holiday too! Hope everyone will have a great new year ahead!  😃

For this week's post, I'll work on another Gon outfit, the Profane Shroud. Yup, this is the same outfit that I have shown before for the Jin race in a previous post. And since, I got started on the Gon skin, I might as well do up another one that I know.  😅

Anyway, most of the background story for the Profane Shroud has been described in the Jin post, so I'll go directly to the outfit itself. 

There is a slight difference between the Gon and Jin Profane Shroud, which is the tight fitting layer below the front shroud. As seen before, the Jin's outfit has a plain tight fitting layer,which has a grey color tone, under the shroud. For Gon's outfit, this layer is separated into a skin layer plus a black netting, which looks just  like plain skin layer, but darker, when look from afar, due to Level of Details (see note below if you are interested in LoD).

Let's take a closer look at the original outfit below.

Front View - Original Outfit

From a distance, the Gon's Profane Shroud looks exactly same as the Jin's outfit.

Front Close-up View - Original Outfit

But when we take a closer look, we can see the black netting on the torso over the skin.

Rear Close-up View - Original Outfit

Gon's outfit has the same fierce looking leg guards and creepy spine-tail.  😱

Side View - Original Outfit

Although I'm very tempted to do the exact mod of the Jin outfit, on the Gon's one, I decided to take a leap of faith to try out another concept which I have been thinking of.

I have reduced the tight fitting layer to plain skin layer as in that for the Jin outfit, but for the shroud, I tried something different. I recolored the shroud to a whole piece of talisman and then having it torn up.  😆

Compare the modified Gon Profane Shroud, as shown below, to that of Jin.

Front View - Modified Outfit

In the image above, we can see that the skin layer is now actually skin color without the netting.

Front Close-up View - Modified Outfit

And the shroud is now a huge torn-up talisman.  😅

Rear Close-up View - Modified Outfit

Side View - Modified Outfit

Side Close-up View - Modified Outfit

Also, drew two strings for the bikini bottom. But as you can see, there's a slight discontinuity at the side. This is due to the front torso and back mesh being stretched differently at the same point where they meet, and that's something that I can't mod. 😦

Well, I can just choose to forget about the strings but the panty area will look weird... as if only a black piece of something is pasted over it. It is fine with the netting because it can be considered part of the netting, but over plain skin, it can only be explained as a snap-on panty?  😲

So that brings us to the end of this post. After comparing both, do you prefer the Gon or Jin one?  😅

[Updated with video]

Side Note:

Level of Details, a.k.a. LoD, is an effect applied to textures in game so that the GPU (Graphic Processing Unit), or simply, the graphics card, can render less details on items or characters, when the player zooms out to see a bigger world. It also applies during loading of game or scenes so that everything can be loaded and displayed faster, and refreshing the textures with greater details can then be followed up.

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Blade & Soul - Profane Shroud (Jin Outfit) Mod

Following Wolfskin on last week's post, this week we shall see another outfit, Profane Shroud, in the video. This outfit can be obtained by spinning the Wheel of Fate at the Orchard of Souls near Highland Necropolis, and the token, Profane Jianghi's essence, is dropped off the field boss Profane Jiangshi.

As a little information on the Jiangshi, it is the undead vampire equivalent in Chinese mythology. These blood suckers mostly appear wearing ancient China Qing dynasty official robe with a yellow talisman, in red letters, pasted on their foreheads. They moved about in the night and hop around on both legs with hand raised perpendicularly to their body.

The talisman is supposed to put them in a dormant state and they will follow the command of the priest who place the talisman on their heads. If the talisman is removed, they will run or rather 'hop' havoc and bite any living human they see.

It is believe that these mythical Jiangshi got their appearance and movement from the ancient trade of body transporters in ancient China. In the times when roads do not readily exist between villages and cities, these corpse transporters would tie the hands of the decease on 2 horizontal bamboos or wood, leaving the body vertical. In this way, they can transport multiple corpses at the same time. The two transporters would be shouldering the front and end of the bamboos, with the corpses in between them. Thus, as they went on their way, the corpses in the middle would look as if they are 'jumping' with hand at right angle.

In Blade & Soul, the Jiangshi are created just like those in the Chinese mythology and the Profane Jiangshi is the largest and most ferocious of them all. The Profane Jiangshi is a creation of the Tyrian Cultists who are trying to resurrect their fallen leader through the use of incantation and body parts of an infamous necromancer, Nekuro. The end result is a mindless and deadly monster that the cultists have to keep sealed away.

The Profane Jinagshi is normally sealed away in a standing tombstone, guarded by five Tyrian Cult's Barrier Guardians. When these guardians are defeated, they will each drop a core that can be used to release a portion of the seal. When all seals are removed, the Profane Jiangshi breaks free!   😱

Take a look at the Profane Jiangshi below. It has a huge mouth in the middle of its stomach. 😱

Sealed Tombstone

A Barrier Guardian

Profane Jiangshi breaks free!

The Profane Shroud consists of a shroud over the front of a tight fitting suit, monstrous leg guards and red spine that extends into a tail. The adornments that come with this outfit includes a headpiece and a talisman that attaches to the character's forehead. Check out the outfit below without the adornments.

Front View - Original Outfit

Do you agree that leg guards look really scary?    😓

Front Close-up View - Original Outfit

Rear View - Original Outfit

That red spine is a bit creepy and it kind of reminds me of the creepy crawlers from the "Alien" movies...  😱

Side View - Original Outfit

The tight fitting suit is basically the skin layer given a slightly different color and texture. You can tell by how the body shape is clearly distinctive.   😮

Side Close-up View - Original Outfit

For the mod, I take the opportunity of the tight fitting suit, that is basically the skin layer, and repaint it to skin color/texture. So, it mainly becomes a shroud over the naked body. Well.. Just repainting to skin color isn't fun, so I cut the shroud into two small pieces and paint them into talisman, using them as bikini top.  😛

The outfit's bottom has a black piece covering the crotch so I extend two 'strings' to make it a bikini bottom.  😅

Check out the mod outfit below.

Front View - Modified Outfit

Well... the huge piece of cloth at the front is now reduced to two tiny pieces for the bikini top.  😅  Just giving the two pieces plain color is... hmm... just plain... So, I paint them into yellow talismans.

A Jiangshi outfit is just not complete without talisman, right?  😛

Front Close-up View - Modified Outfit

We can also see the two strings that I painted on to make it looks like a bikini bottom.

Rear View - Modified Outfit

Side View - Modified Outfit

Side Close-up View - Modified Outfit

You may have also notice the two strings dangling below the bikini top. The reason why I did that is because the mesh for the shroud exists only at the front, and if I want to draw strings for the bra, that runs to the back, they need to be painted onto the skin itself. This would cause the strings to be one layer below the bra, which will look weird without a direct connection.

So, I just draw the strings on the existing mesh and makes it looks like they are not tied up at the back... Well... plenty of sunbathers also leave their bra strings untied, right?  😛

To see the Profane Shroud in the video mentioned above, keep a sharp eye at 00:10:28. You may see some differences between the outfit in the video and here because I did a little changes such as adding the 'strings' and enlarging the talisman bra...

You can also check out the video below for the updated mod.