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Where to start ... It's been a year since I started working on Ninja Gaiden Sigma content. Naturally, I had this Kasumi costume on my list. Having to rig everything was daunting so, of course, this got put on the back burner. I figured it would be nice to eventually make a mod out of it. Heck, it would have been nice to do anything with it since, it's never been use-able in any Ninja Gaiden OR Dead or Alive game. It's only seen for a few brief seconds as Kasumi made a cameo in Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, and her face isn't even seen at that. It has a nice unique variation to her traditional default costume. I know this costume was requested along with other Ninja Gaiden costumes for DOA5's 5 year DLC life cycle, and yet nothing came of it. AND THEN Team Ninja decides to use it NOW as a Pre-Order incentive for DOA6... insert hashtag angry face exclamation point. I was reluctant to finish this and wait for new assets, but then I settled on finishing it anyway because there is still one at least one factor that separates it from the ever-nerfed-SJW-pandering modern designs that Team Ninja wants to sell out to these days... insert more rage faces here.

I don't think Kasumi has been a favorite of mine since maybe the first couple of DOA games, but I really like this costume for her. It definitely added a more casual vibe to her classic default. I'm more partial to medium blues over light blues, plus the blue and gold are a nice scheme. It's also unusual for her to have much red mixed in. In game, she has loose hair, so the hair pin affixed to her belt was a neat touch too even though it isn't quite visible from this angle.

What I did to it: Definitely, had to use some DOA5 reference rigging including borrowing weights for the cloths from the DOA5 counterpart, and even did custom rigs on the ribbons & sword strings. I had to make custom meshes for the kunai rings and straps since the garbage Vita meshes were so low poly that no amount of subdivision was going to help them. Lots of mesh tweaks were needed since subdividing low poly meshes does not look good in some areas. Per usual, it's using my latest tricks minus physics along with some small improvements to my skin shader and hair material.

What I did not do to it: After learning the hard way with the Ayane port, I decided not to bother with using the original body frame since it has to be scaled a lot to match DOA5. I also did not perfectly scale the torso. Ninja Gaiden proportions are more exaggerated and since I already spent a lot of time on Ayane's port I re-used some of her assets since regardless of game her assets are usually similar to Kasumi. I also did not bother with the loose hair from the original, too much time. I at least did modify the textures to more closely resemble her classic lighter hair color.

Thankfully, I was able to knock this out in about 2-3 days. I'm really happy with the end result, and hope to now have a full roster of Ninja Gaiden's leading ladies. Enjoy!

Extracted with miscellaneous modding tools
Imported using Blender
Edited, Modified, Rendered in Blender 2.79
Resolution: 1080 x 1920
Samples: 1000
Render Time: 34 Minutes

Credits
Ninja Gaiden / DOA Assets (Koei Tecmo, Team Ninja)

Description
Where to start ... It's been a year since I started working on Ninja Gaiden Sigma content. Naturally, I had this Kasumi costume on my list. Having to rig everything was daunting so, of course, this got put on the back burner. I figured it would be nice to eventually make a mod out of it. Heck, it would have been nice to do anything with it since, it's never been use-able in any Ninja Gaiden OR Dead or Alive game. It's only seen for a few brief seconds as Kasumi made a cameo in Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, and her face isn't even seen at that. It has a nice unique variation to her traditional default costume. I know this costume was requested along with other Ninja Gaiden costumes for DOA5's 5 year DLC life cycle, and yet nothing came of it. AND THEN Team Ninja decides to use it NOW as a Pre-Order incentive for DOA6... insert hashtag angry face exclamation point. I was reluctant to finish this and wait for new assets, but then I settled on finishing it anyway because there is still one at least one factor that separates it from the ever-nerfed-SJW-pandering modern designs that Team Ninja wants to sell out to these days... insert more rage faces here.

I don't think Kasumi has been a favorite of mine since maybe the first couple of DOA games, but I really like this costume for her. It definitely added a more casual vibe to her classic default. I'm more partial to medium blues over light blues, plus the blue and gold are a nice scheme. It's also unusual for her to have much red mixed in. In game, she has loose hair, so the hair pin affixed to her belt was a neat touch too even though it isn't quite visible from this angle.

What I did to it: Definitely, had to use some DOA5 reference rigging including borrowing weights for the cloths from the DOA5 counterpart, and even did custom rigs on the ribbons & sword strings. I had to make custom meshes for the kunai rings and straps since the garbage Vita meshes were so low poly that no amount of subdivision was going to help them. Lots of mesh tweaks were needed since subdividing low poly meshes does not look good in some areas. Per usual, it's using my latest tricks minus physics along with some small improvements to my skin shader and hair material.

What I did not do to it: After learning the hard way with the Ayane port, I decided not to bother with using the original body frame since it has to be scaled a lot to match DOA5. I also did not perfectly scale the torso. Ninja Gaiden proportions are more exaggerated and since I already spent a lot of time on Ayane's port I re-used some of her assets since regardless of game her assets are usually similar to Kasumi. I also did not bother with the loose hair from the original, too much time. I at least did modify the textures to more closely resemble her classic lighter hair color.

Thankfully, I was able to knock this out in about 2-3 days. I'm really happy with the end result, and hope to now have a full roster of Ninja Gaiden's leading ladies. Enjoy!

Extracted with miscellaneous modding tools
Imported using Blender
Edited, Modified, Rendered in Blender 2.79
Resolution: 1080 x 1920
Samples: 1000
Render Time: 34 Minutes

Credits
Ninja Gaiden / DOA Assets (Koei Tecmo, Team Ninja)