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This completes your delivery of Kitbash Cleanouts. For more on what the heck that's supposed to mean, see Kitbash Cleanout 1 . You may also wish to indulge in more weirdness at Kitbash Cleanout 2 and Kitbash Cleanout 3 . Thank you for your patronage. This has been a recording.

This one's actually a recent project; it's been sitting in my scene files for only about two weeks. She'll probably get used in a story sooner or later.

Why is this a kitbash? Well, it isn't really, but there are definite Shenanigans going on with the figure's skin surface. After I put on the Tears of the Sun outfit and resurfaced that to my liking, I needed to make her skin more dryad-ish ... but I was really not interested in the "bark skin" look here, and even though there are definitely some cybernetic elements here (notice the same sort of circuitry texture on her face as on the outfit, but at a finer scale), I didn't want to go overtly robotic either. What I really wanted was a sort of incomplete look, as though the skin was just as much part of the outfit as the outfit was, with dark gaps underneath. A void.

So I simply abused the surfaces a bit. Her arm, leg and torso surfaces have a tiling setting that's higher than 1. You aren't supposed to do that with "fitted" surfaces that have a particular shape (e.g. body skins), and this image illustrates why. The arms and legs are set to horiz/vert tiling of 2.00 and the torso is set to 3.00. The dark areas are parts that are now, effectively, unsurfaced because of this.

Her eyes use the same surface as the jewels on the suit. It looks like her right eye has a visible pupil; this is an accident of the surface and I really should have stopped the render and adjusted the surface offset until that wasn't there anymore. But I spotted it late in the render and I'm lazy.

Her hair is a clown wig which turned out, surprisingly, to be exactly the right thing for the job. It's supposed to be almost invisible against the background. Incidentally, this is one of my few renders to feature a G3 figure, a decision driven mostly by the fact that Tears of the Sun is a G3F outfit (the clown wig set is a G3F set as well).

As with the others in this peculiar little series, the only thing in the scene file is the figure; I have added the set and lighting for this render, because I try to give full value.

Description

This completes your delivery of Kitbash Cleanouts. For more on what the heck that's supposed to mean, see Kitbash Cleanout 1 . You may also wish to indulge in more weirdness at Kitbash Cleanout 2 and Kitbash Cleanout 3 . Thank you for your patronage. This has been a recording.

This one's actually a recent project; it's been sitting in my scene files for only about two weeks. She'll probably get used in a story sooner or later.

Why is this a kitbash? Well, it isn't really, but there are definite Shenanigans going on with the figure's skin surface. After I put on the Tears of the Sun outfit and resurfaced that to my liking, I needed to make her skin more dryad-ish ... but I was really not interested in the "bark skin" look here, and even though there are definitely some cybernetic elements here (notice the same sort of circuitry texture on her face as on the outfit, but at a finer scale), I didn't want to go overtly robotic either. What I really wanted was a sort of incomplete look, as though the skin was just as much part of the outfit as the outfit was, with dark gaps underneath. A void.

So I simply abused the surfaces a bit. Her arm, leg and torso surfaces have a tiling setting that's higher than 1. You aren't supposed to do that with "fitted" surfaces that have a particular shape (e.g. body skins), and this image illustrates why. The arms and legs are set to horiz/vert tiling of 2.00 and the torso is set to 3.00. The dark areas are parts that are now, effectively, unsurfaced because of this.

Her eyes use the same surface as the jewels on the suit. It looks like her right eye has a visible pupil; this is an accident of the surface and I really should have stopped the render and adjusted the surface offset until that wasn't there anymore. But I spotted it late in the render and I'm lazy.

Her hair is a clown wig which turned out, surprisingly, to be exactly the right thing for the job. It's supposed to be almost invisible against the background. Incidentally, this is one of my few renders to feature a G3 figure, a decision driven mostly by the fact that Tears of the Sun is a G3F outfit (the clown wig set is a G3F set as well).

As with the others in this peculiar little series, the only thing in the scene file is the figure; I have added the set and lighting for this render, because I try to give full value.