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Maddoktor2 — [WIP] Miku Append CF 'Off' Version
Published: 2017-08-27 16:10:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 1840; Favourites: 12; Downloads: 37
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One of the Gravure poses I created for Miku to use on the KSP Flags that I recently made inspired me to try and make an "Append Off" version of her using just the Append Leotard as her outfit instead of dressing her in casual clothes/shorts, and to my very pleasant surprise it actually turned out to be a pretty nice looking 'school-styled' swimsuit.The Carbon Fiber honeycomb texture underlay I added to it really looks nice!
So what exactly am I doing to her? Well, basically... erm... I started by chopping off her arms and legs...
After I gave her new sets that I harvested from 2 different bases that I had previously made, I went and mangled the crap out of her tie. Its body_green2 material will be used on her [now] exposed chest and belly skin as a glowing tattoo instead, but I haven't gotten around to that just yet because my build outline plan [yes, I use one, and so should you!] says that I need to finish 'smoothing' her up where hips meet swimsuit before adding her tattoos.
In fact, the only piece I did keep from her original arms and legs was the "01" tattoo I carved out of her arm. That's currently buried beneath her skin until I get around to adding it - the chest and belly tattoo made from her tie comes first because I was right in the middle of editing her tie when I had the bright idea of taking a WIP pic.
I did leave the custom Anklet I made for her alone, though - I really didn't want to waste that [but I'll make a slider to hide it].
Miku CF by me
Effects used: Autoluminous4, WorkingFloor2
I hope you like her.
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Comments: 2
Looks really good. Would consider changing the suit texture if I were you. Something summery would be nice. Floral perhaps?
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Thanks, I actually did briefly consider changing it to a nice sakura pattern, but then she'd be just another Miku in a pink[ish] swimsuit, and there's already plenty enough of those out there as it is, wouldn't you agree?
The thing is, I really wanted to build something original using the Append outfit as raw material similar to what I did with the Convergence Series, and I'm a lot more experienced now than since I first made those, so I decided to go all out and remesh her Append outfit instead because it turns out that it's way easier to flare the bottom of it than it is to remesh the skin of her hips to fit inside of that damned constriction at the leg openings after spending a couple of hours whittling what started as a full set of hips with a crotch down into the Append legs we all know and love and then cramming them up into the leotard.
Fine. The constriction is gone now. Bye-bye, annoying and almost impossible to work with hems, you will not be missed!
But, think about it for a minute - how many Append-based swimsuits are there? Not too many of those - in fact there's none at all, so here's the first one!
I also finally finished both tattoos [her arm number and the body_green2 'experiment']. Redoing the number tattoo to match her new arms was pretty straightforward, but the Body_Green2 material was a rolling bitch to get working right due to the fact that it was rigged to the now deleted tie parts. That actually took longer than anything else due to having to re-contour its mesh to match that of her midriff skin so it would move along with it correctly, but I finally got it right and it looks damned good!
I've been working on her going on 10 hours straight now, and here's the [final] result at last: 'Clean' Miku Append CF .
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