This is a Clothing Item – The Junaida Armor
This is a sacred piece of armor that provides protection for the wary adventurer.
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Context
This is the first release of a complete set of clothing or clothing in general as a complete project.
This initially was supposed to be part of the new release or a new character, but the more I worked on it the more it took life on it's own to the point of becoming something completely separate with it's own identity if I may say.
Making this armor taught me many things about clothing creation, as I used to approach this haphazardly but now it's more methodical and with purpose, details and layers. I could dare say I could actually attempt creating clothing in general too with the knowledge gained from this. But that still up for debate as I never really released clothing and reception to it would show if I should continue or not.
Making this armor set took a very long time, much longer then I expected honestly, first there are 15 individual layered pieces. Each has high fidelity detailed baked on a very primitive version, which means the clothing set is very performance friendly. Then managed to make different pattern/color variant while sticking to the theme.
I think one of the drawbacks is that I used 8k textures, I did not pay attention to this until I was packaging the clothing item and found the size file 😥... So we are looking now for around 8.5GB of a download, this honestly was not expected and to fix it I would probably need another week just to reduce the file size to half of this, I honestly think this is not worth it for the effort. This means 15 pieces and each piece has 4 different color variant. so grand total of 60 individual variant that would need to be reworked. To make matters worst each of these variants have 4 maps so basically were talking about 240 maps..... Just to get the file size to half of what it is.
But, lessons learned, as each variant 4 textures would be around 250MB max, which is as anyone would expect the standard of what you download from the hub today anyways, but I guess I forgot I'm doing this for 15 items, which means it's like downloading 15 different clothing items 🤣 , I'm sorry!
Anyways, please feel free to provide feedback as usual, I could tackle simple 1 piece clothing too as I have several concept I could revisit too ✌
Links:
-Junaida Armor - Link in Discord
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Notes:
-Troubleshooting - You need 1.19 Beta Opt In to access the AddonPackage.
-Inside - Junaida Armor + 4 Color Variants + Mask Asset.
-Look - The look is not included but it's Fayha from a previous Release in this Post
