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Tech Suit - highpoly WIP

- Here's an update on this, or rather the first time I'm saying anything about it. Been chipping away at this slowly for the past 3(?) weeks. I took a break from it for 4-ish days to port the now released FE Armor to Skyrim, but other than that this has been my primary focus.

- I would've posted something sooner, but honestly, there wasn't that much to see, visually at least, up until recently. A lot of progress and refinement has been done in the past couple of days, with most of the time before being used for concepting and preparation. Problem with this project/concept art is that it simply left too much up to my interpretation, I only had the upper torso to work with. I'm not really a concept artist, so I struggled finding something that I liked to work with this quite a bit. A lot of time was unfortunately just spent on trying something, finding out I didn't like it or it didn't work with the rest, deleting and starting over.

- The body itself is fully covered and as such, I used a custom body mesh to model this. You might've noticed a difference in shape/proportions than what I normally use, so that is why.

- Since I had total freedom for the back (or almost, still needs to connect to the front somehow), I wanted some sort of jetpack/thruster thing in there. The reason for that is Starfield. It is coming out soon and even if I don't move on to it, I would still like to have an armor set ready to go in if I want to. Since this looks like something that would belong in there aesthetically and has other convenient factors going on for it (like no skin showing, making bodymeshes irrelevant), this is a very good candidate for that. Looking at gameplay for Starfield, the character was able to hover in air, so I wanted this set to allow for that, functionally.
TLDR for this chunk, I did also design this with Starfield in mind and it will most likely make its way there at some point (if or when mesh modding is possible).

- For the feet, I went through a bunch of iterations and eventually just settled on those weird-ish sci-fi sneakers thingys. I'm not sure even now if I like them, but they're better than what I had before and I had to commit to something at some point. They're also not fully integrated with the upper legs like some of the other things I tried to do, so I can also split them off from the main armor and have them be separate pieces.

-- Anyway, I think I have a pretty solid base now with most of the things on this outfit figured out, ready to be polished and placeholders replaced (some pieces in there are already final).

- Ideally, I wanted to just have this done and released all at once, but that is probably just not feasible, I'm not sure if I can finish the whole thing before the year ends :(.
I will very likely split off the feet soon after finalizing some more details on the body and focus on/complete/release those for now, so those should be coming soon.

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