Ok, the pauldrons took a bit more than just copy/paste but really just revising the names of some objects and copying some “bones” over. I’m really getting close to being done with this CHSBHC model version, and it will be better than my original because the blue pants are part of the armor this time, not a separate body texture that applies to ALL Khajiits!
So, the latest. First, I still have the problem that I can’t reduce the size of her below max, so I know you’ll all think I’m some sort of big-boobs pervert. I may be a perv, but not for unreal silicone. I can appreciate them as well as the next hetero type, but I KNOW this can’t be Katia with those mammoth mammaries. I’ll try to explain as best I can what the problem is.
As I mentioned before, there is an actual body underneath all armors (that have any sleeveless, breast or leg showing anyway). But I can’t just paint the legs blue to simulate pants – if I do, ALL khajiits will have blue legs. I want them to come-and-go with the armor though. Well, I did figure out how to do that. Inside I now have TWO bodies. The lower half is separate from the upper half, with transparent texture on the upper half so you never see it. Very fortunately, I found a mod that had an upper-half-only body too so that’s what we see for the arms and chest. Problem is, that mod ONLY had the full-size body. It didn’t have the corresponding minimum size body. So I’ve been looking for a mod where someone has just the upper-half as a minimum size for CHSBHC shape. I’ve not found a SINGLE ONE! Everyone is just creating single-size CHSBHC mods…
or their armor is full-coverage and thus there is no minimum body or it’s a full body. And I can’t use a FULL body – the lower half must not exist. While I can make the upper part of the blue pants body transparent, I can’t do the same for the lower part of other body because the other body’s texture is used by ALL female khajiits. They would be floating around legless! I’ve got an idea that I may be able to use a non-CHSBHC upper body though – so I’ve still got hope. Meanwhile, I HAVE gotten a lot of other stuff done…
Pauldrons obviously, and I fixed the texture issue with the pants – and made them shiny. (I like shiny things.) I even tried making the main armor shiny, but – though these screencaps show the shiny version – I’ve gone back and put back the duller version so it wont have the sheen you see here (except her leggings – like I said, I like shiny!)
WARNING – MORE KHAJIIT BUTT AHEAD! HIDE THE CHILDREN!
Anyone who has worked on textures knows the bane of the “seams”. Seams are hard to avoid when you have a 2D texture laying over a 3D model.
Two are quite obvious here on her butt. I could try and minimize them, but then I realized that, in this particular case, they’re actually a benefit! While in reality her “pants” are really just bodypaint for all practical purposes. But those seams, normally a bad thing, help create the illusion that the pants ARE leggings and not just paint. Ok, not MUCH, but a little bit at least. So I’m going to leave those as-is.
I had another problem – hard to see in screenshots, but just above her tail there was a section where both the upper body AND lower body textures were in the exact same place. Causes weird flashing colors when that occurs as one texture gets slightly over the other and then vice-versa. I solved that with some VERY careful editing of the blue texture to just the point where the upper body starts. End result is good as the tail actually joins with the upper body texture and not “poking through” the blue.
If you look close, you’ll spot a bit of clipping (blue poking through the armor) at her hip. I should be able to fix that too with some careful texture work. So I’ve got quite a bit of tweaking to do when I’m finally finished with the last major hurdle – the ability to tone down her curves to a reasonable level! But I’ve a fighting chance now and the end is in sight.
So, with some luck on my current plan to use a non-CHSBHC model for the upper half minimal-size version, I might just be able to pull this off yet! If it works, the next update may actually show Katia’s sammich-loving sister trimmed down and with some breast-reduction and butt reduction – they go together. Just so you needn’t fear that her butt must always be so… well… round?
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