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Yay! Finally an interesting distraction. Things have been slow moving for the last couple of weeks. Probably some low grade burnout since no ideas piqued the motivation meter. I've had in minde of few nemesis contenders for XCraft, but one such character was in question. I have an appreciation for Street Fighter, but I cannot stand the art style or mechanics of Street Fighter V. However, I still appreciate some of Street Fighter's characters, and finally took the plunge to rip some stuff. Juri has been one of my favorites since her reveal in SSFIV. I'm disheartened by Capcom's pandering to political ideology in some of their designs, so I decided that I could follow suit with the modding community to undo some design flaws. With initial challenges out of the way, I think Juri will compliment the XCraft nemesis roster nicely.

From a technical standpoint, some of these UE models are getting to be a nuisance. So many textures these days are unshaded, so recreating the correct colors is annoying. Also, the inconsistency in character models is annoying after working with DOA models for so long. It took four costumes (not all even from the same character) just to get the base model stitched together. Even then parts have different meshes and texture seams.

So, initial versions are done, but I still see areas for improvement. Here's to my first Street Fighter rendition. :-/

Edit (08/23/2018)

Started on some updates. I got the Biker suit finished by re-balancing some materials. I have a handful of hairstyles done, but I will add the others with re-bakes of the Swimsuit or her Classic. Just added the long hair for something new at least.

Edit (08/25/2018)

I got the summer mod re-balanced and switched out for the hairstyle from the bikini costume. I just have the classic version left.

Edit (11/2/2018)

The classic costume was brutal. No wonder it took a few months to get the motivation to finish it. This costume already suffered from some stupid PC modifications which I wasn't about to accept. It was difficult to stitch my base parts with the existing base because of all the straps in addition to adjusting the top without making it look terrible. At least it's done. Now just to wait for some Mecha Juri parts.

Edit (02/08/2019)

I finally tracked down Juri's Mech costume. Initially, I wasn't crazy about parts of it, and considered doing a custom edit, but ultimately decided to run with its normal state. In recent weeks, I've been working on some different life projects which have taken me down a path of learning PBR methods. Since Unreal models have different material methods and textures, I decided to tinker with better understanding these methods. It took me a bit to make sense of the Street Fighter materials again, but this time around I think I finally figured out a much simpler pattern, and made it look even better in the process, at least for the metals. I know the skin doesn't match the others, but I decided to roll with it since it's more robotic anyway.

Extracted with miscellaneous modding tools
Imported using Blender
Edited, Modified, Rendered in Blender 2.79
Resolution: 9600 x 3840
Samples: 900-1200

Credits
Street Fighter Assets (Capcom)
DOA Assets (Koei Tecmo, Team Ninja)

Description
Yay! Finally an interesting distraction. Things have been slow moving for the last couple of weeks. Probably some low grade burnout since no ideas piqued the motivation meter. I've had in minde of few nemesis contenders for XCraft, but one such character was in question. I have an appreciation for Street Fighter, but I cannot stand the art style or mechanics of Street Fighter V. However, I still appreciate some of Street Fighter's characters, and finally took the plunge to rip some stuff. Juri has been one of my favorites since her reveal in SSFIV. I'm disheartened by Capcom's pandering to political ideology in some of their designs, so I decided that I could follow suit with the modding community to undo some design flaws. With initial challenges out of the way, I think Juri will compliment the XCraft nemesis roster nicely.

From a technical standpoint, some of these UE models are getting to be a nuisance. So many textures these days are unshaded, so recreating the correct colors is annoying. Also, the inconsistency in character models is annoying after working with DOA models for so long. It took four costumes (not all even from the same character) just to get the base model stitched together. Even then parts have different meshes and texture seams.

So, initial versions are done, but I still see areas for improvement. Here's to my first Street Fighter rendition. :-/

Edit (08/23/2018)

Started on some updates. I got the Biker suit finished by re-balancing some materials. I have a handful of hairstyles done, but I will add the others with re-bakes of the Swimsuit or her Classic. Just added the long hair for something new at least.

Edit (08/25/2018)

I got the summer mod re-balanced and switched out for the hairstyle from the bikini costume. I just have the classic version left.

Edit (11/2/2018)

The classic costume was brutal. No wonder it took a few months to get the motivation to finish it. This costume already suffered from some stupid PC modifications which I wasn't about to accept. It was difficult to stitch my base parts with the existing base because of all the straps in addition to adjusting the top without making it look terrible. At least it's done. Now just to wait for some Mecha Juri parts.

Edit (02/08/2019)

I finally tracked down Juri's Mech costume. Initially, I wasn't crazy about parts of it, and considered doing a custom edit, but ultimately decided to run with its normal state. In recent weeks, I've been working on some different life projects which have taken me down a path of learning PBR methods. Since Unreal models have different material methods and textures, I decided to tinker with better understanding these methods. It took me a bit to make sense of the Street Fighter materials again, but this time around I think I finally figured out a much simpler pattern, and made it look even better in the process, at least for the metals. I know the skin doesn't match the others, but I decided to roll with it since it's more robotic anyway.

Extracted with miscellaneous modding tools
Imported using Blender
Edited, Modified, Rendered in Blender 2.79
Resolution: 9600 x 3840
Samples: 900-1200

Credits
Street Fighter Assets (Capcom)
DOA Assets (Koei Tecmo, Team Ninja)