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So, I have my OC. What's the next step? Adding some clothes, of course. But I had a problem: I didn't have enough skills with Blender, and rigging it's a lot of work to do (I still have my Zoey model attempt unfinished).
Fortunately, pointed me to a basic tutorial to do it automatically, using "Export scene as .mesh (merge all visible models)". This way I could merge the skeleton of my girl with this outfit's.

But it wasn't so easy (of course): my girl has a moded body, so I had to "pose" the clothes to match her: I had to expand breast bones, resize boots... It was easy to do, but hard to adjust. I didn't choose this outfit randomly, I knew this will match almost perfectly because this was extracted from another model of the same author than the body (I'm noob, not stupid ).
The second thing was... I lost her head! Yes, the head mesh was lost after the merge :S This was technically the first time I had to copy the mesh section from one model's .mesh.ascii to another (I noticed the hair issue of the naked model a few days after this). This error will repeat in almost every mod I did later, so if you're going to use CTRL+M, be sure you don't miss previous models and save the new one in .mesh.ascii format (or use Blender, is safer this way).

Did all this effort worth it? Yes... and no. Because I had to resize some bones of the outfit, and I fit it as tight as I could, sometimes, in some rotations, body parts show over the clothes (you can see in the ankles), so maybe I need to adjust weights a bit to make it perfect... but for a noob model, it works quite fine!

So thanks to the modelers for the models, and XPS team for the program and tutorials... and Notepad++ team, of course
With this, I'm just uploaded the first three days of modding (yes: adding hair, video girl, Custom Girl and this, I did them in three days, this last one had to wait for XNAaral answer on tombraiderforums). And this is only the begining. After that, I was too excited to stop!!

Hitomi Body and Jill costume by
CoolSims - Long Flicked hair and Newsea - Battler hair by
Other optional items by ??? (sorry, I lost the source).
Meshmod by me.

Description
So, I have my OC. What's the next step? Adding some clothes, of course. But I had a problem: I didn't have enough skills with Blender, and rigging it's a lot of work to do (I still have my Zoey model attempt unfinished).
Fortunately, pointed me to a basic tutorial to do it automatically, using "Export scene as .mesh (merge all visible models)". This way I could merge the skeleton of my girl with this outfit's.

But it wasn't so easy (of course): my girl has a moded body, so I had to "pose" the clothes to match her: I had to expand breast bones, resize boots... It was easy to do, but hard to adjust. I didn't choose this outfit randomly, I knew this will match almost perfectly because this was extracted from another model of the same author than the body (I'm noob, not stupid ).
The second thing was... I lost her head! Yes, the head mesh was lost after the merge :S This was technically the first time I had to copy the mesh section from one model's .mesh.ascii to another (I noticed the hair issue of the naked model a few days after this). This error will repeat in almost every mod I did later, so if you're going to use CTRL+M, be sure you don't miss previous models and save the new one in .mesh.ascii format (or use Blender, is safer this way).

Did all this effort worth it? Yes... and no. Because I had to resize some bones of the outfit, and I fit it as tight as I could, sometimes, in some rotations, body parts show over the clothes (you can see in the ankles), so maybe I need to adjust weights a bit to make it perfect... but for a noob model, it works quite fine!

So thanks to the modelers for the models, and XPS team for the program and tutorials... and Notepad++ team, of course
With this, I'm just uploaded the first three days of modding (yes: adding hair, video girl, Custom Girl and this, I did them in three days, this last one had to wait for XNAaral answer on tombraiderforums). And this is only the begining. After that, I was too excited to stop!!

Hitomi Body and Jill costume by
CoolSims - Long Flicked hair and Newsea - Battler hair by
Other optional items by ??? (sorry, I lost the source).
Meshmod by me.