Here I'll be bringing you some updated and new skins for DE's ladies. For Sandra you have 2 options. -Updated original pale -New tan with tanlines instead of tattoos Unfortunately we only have 1 Sandra at the moment so you'll have to choose one of the two packages. Installation Drop Sandra's files into \materials\models\Nahka\Sandra Drop Chell's files into \materials\Evil-Ash\chell_nude Credits Nahka for Sandra Deus ex Nihilo for Sandra - Diva Evil-Ash for Chell Feel free to alter the skins if you want Downloads http://filesmelt.com/dl/Pale.rar http://filesmelt.com/dl/Tan.rar http://filesmelt.com/dl/Chell.rar --- New Release HD Excella This will only replace her default skin, however this is subject to change.(Tanlines in the future perhaps ) Drop the files in \garrysmod\garrysmod\addons\Excella Nude\materials\excella_nude Credits Evil-Ash for Excella As with my other skins, feel free to edit them Download http://filesmelt.com/dl/Excella.rar --- New Release HD Ashley Williams Drop the files in \Ashley_nude\materials\models\DxN\MassEffect3\characters\Ashley Williams Credits Deus ex Nihilo for Ashley As with my other skins, feel free to edit them Download http://filesmelt.com/dl/Ashley_Williams.rar --- New Release - HD Miranda Drop the files in addons\miranda_nude\materials\models\DxN\Miranda Lawson http://filesmelt.com/dl/Miranda_HD.rar Credits Deus ex Nihilo for Miranda As with my other skins, feel free to edit them --- If you are installing these for the first time please shoot me a private message or post here if you run into any issues

These are pretty much the only skins on the site aside from Fang, Daria, and Abigail that don't have the dreaded gray square issue under 100% RGB gamut. Excellent work.

HD Miranda? I'm sold :D

Not seeing a download link for Miranda. Anyone else? Great work here, Shaotek, I especially love Sandra's version :great:

Same for me, can´t find a download link. But my boner demands that skin for Miranda now. :mrgreen:

Fixed

Thanks buddy ;)

Brilliant, simply brilliant :great: Thx to repost that on the new forum. :hat:

Wasn't there a HQ Zoey skin too? What happened to that?

"Lonely A$$" said ...
Wasn't there a HQ Zoey skin too? What happened to that?

Here http://filesmelt.com/dl/Zoey_High_Quality_Skin.rar

"Rastifan" said ...

"Lonely A$$" said ...
Wasn't there a HQ Zoey skin too? What happened to that?

Here http://filesmelt.com/dl/Zoey_High_Quality_Skin.rar

Thanks Rastifan!

"Lonely A$$" said ...
Wasn't there a HQ Zoey skin too? What happened to that?

Imo, Ash's HQ Zoey is much better than the one I released, so I didn't bother copying it over to the new forum(plus if I recall the skin is still very much a WIP that I abandoned once Ash released his)

New Release HD Sheva - BETA This will replace her normal skin and her tribal skin Credits Nahka for Sheva As with my other skins, feel free to edit them Download http://filesmelt.com/dl/HD_Sheva.rar

Looks nice. Very coincidental, too. When I got up this morning (about 5 minutes ago), I thought to myself, "I should re-hack Sheva Alomar to give her better rigging, and rebuild her faceposing." If only she had a higher-quality skin, though... Mostly because I want to make an extended animation with her. :P Looks really good, shaotek. I love your high-resolution reskins.

"LordAardvark" said ...
Looks nice. Very coincidental, too. When I got up this morning (about 5 minutes ago), I thought to myself, "I should re-hack Sheva Alomar to give her better rigging, and rebuild her faceposing." If only she had a higher-quality skin, though...

Indeed it is. And this is even better news! One thing I notice from this promo shot is that Sheva's body skin tone has a slightly more yellow-ish tint than her face. Is that a result of this mod?

Ah nice. Thanks :mrgreen:

"TooL" said ...

"LordAardvark" said ...
Looks nice. Very coincidental, too. When I got up this morning (about 5 minutes ago), I thought to myself, "I should re-hack Sheva Alomar to give her better rigging, and rebuild her faceposing." If only she had a higher-quality skin, though...

Indeed it is. And this is even better news! One thing I notice from this promo shot is that Sheva's body skin tone has a slightly more yellow-ish tint than her face. Is that a result of this mod?

I think it's the lamp hitting her. Could be mismatched too however, I have a new monitor and I'm still tweaking the colors n shit so thats possible. This skin is a beta, she has some misalignment near her inner thighs and I plan to tweak the vag more so if anyone finds things that need fixing let me know.

Great :great:

"shaotek" said ...
I think it's the lamp hitting her. Could be mismatched too however, I have a new monitor and I'm still tweaking the colors n shit so thats possible. This skin is a beta, she has some misalignment near her inner thighs and I plan to tweak the vag more so if anyone finds things that need fixing let me know.

Could the body skin tone be edited to match her face more? I spawned her myself to make sure and it's pretty noticeable, both with and without these textures, so it's not your monitor.

Awesome sauce :D

YAY SHEVA. Will test under lighting tomorrow, my monitor is actually color-wheel calibrated, so inconsistencies are pretty easy to spot (Fang, Rebecca) I'll hit ya with a pm after looking it over.

sweet

I was gonna send this in a pm to Shaotek since I was the one whom requested Sheva in the first place, but as we have several other budding artists artists here doing stuff, I figured some of you might pick up a tip or two, or not *shrug* 1. Never use gray, white or black balancing for highlighting skin tone. Ever. eevvuuuuuur. Even professionals do this when they are pressed for time, and unless the game they're working on has an AMAZING lighting model, it's going to look awful, even on dudes with scraggly beards. Even Capcom did this, which is why Sheva has a 5:00 shadow and looks like she needs a shave in the first place. Check over close ups of Raven, Christie, and Eddy from Tekken. That's how you shade dark skin. That is to say you take an original sample, and then you BLEND in a derivation using the base color as the shading modifier, and blacks are used for moles and hair, there is zero gray to be found anywhere. so: As we see, there's gray banding on her arms (especially on the inside of her elbows), gray patches across from her aureola on either side, enough gray on her jaw and lips that you could stick a bandana on her and she could pass for Solid Snake (capcom's fault there), and another band just under her breastbone, and the entire area from below her navel to her butt.

27X, I can't see any of that at all, wtf are you talking about

Then the color and contrast on your monitor aren't set correctly. More than likely your color level is too low (especially reds) and your contrast is too flat. yeah it's great for that edgy omg noire omg gaming so edgy and dark omg omg, but it sucks for anything else, especially for doing artwork. Now I'm not about to tell you how to set your personal stuff, but the thing is when you're making art, your personal stuff doesn't matter. (shock, gasp) You're making it for a wide audience with differing equipment and the best way is to try to find a balance if you can. (unless you don't a give a shit) These areas should be given a color offset that simply isn't a darker tone than the base before it's shaded, and her hands oddly enough are the best match for this. She's got mixed heritage and the rest of her skin should reflect this. Pretty sure one of her parents isn't a grey from xcom. Also overshadowing below the breasts and on the undercurve of them and then everything below the navel and inside of the thighs is another one. That shading is there in pics because of where lights are usually placed in glamor/amateur shots. Yes, it enhances curviness automatically, but it's also 100% artificial, and looks fake as hell in anything other than a standing straight pose, so you might consider how strong you actually want to make it. All you should be doing is adding definition and subtle curvature, not making any shading decisions. That's what lighting is for. Enhancing is one thing, artificially boosting is another, and the result can be pretty jarring if you're not careful. ( Check Lillith and Ellidin and Sandra, then look over Jill and Claire, the shading on the RE girls is WAY WAAAAAAY overdone for neutrally or additively lit stuff) The easiest way to spot this is to A: jack up the color on your card/monitor to 100% and see if anything on the texture literally turns another color compared to what it used to be. If it does, that's actually what color it is and you should probably think about matching it to the rest of the texture better. (and it shouldn't be gray unless you're making an Alien from ALIENS) Also on your final pass, make a copy of your texture and then paste it onto the same texture again and multiply it 100% (both GIMP and Photoshop have this function). If a part of the texture turns into a giant super dark or ultra colored [insert color here] blotch that doesn't match the rest of the texture tone, you've over done it big time. Anyways, back to Sheva: I would use her hand textures as the color and tone base for the rest of her body. Right now it's too desaturated (and has gray) and literally has no pale or pink tonal work, which is what it should have, as we can see from her face, feet, and hands. Also of course her face needs to rezzed up and super mega ungrayed so it doesn't look like she has skin cancer, especially around the lips and chin. Hope that helps.

Nice write-up, 27X. I didn't get a "she's got cancer" vibe, just had a naked-eye feeling that something was off. Seems it's more complicated that I thought. This is apparent in the default nude Sheva as well, so it's not Shoatek, but I'd absolutely love to see how she looks with these reformations.

Yeah, it's certainly not Shaotek's fault by any stretch, but in uprezzing the skin, the issue capcom introduced have been replicated over, and it's really really noticeable on a color corrected monitor, and as stated gray is never EVER a good thing on skin tones, any skin tones.

New Release HD Aurora + Aurora Bonemerge Starter Kit(3 Hairstyles) REQUIREMENTS: The Bonemerge STool The Original Aurora model(Provided incase you missed the farewell megarelease) This will completely rework LordAardvark's Aurora. The HD skin can be applied to any of the 3 Aurora models however the bonemerge hairstyles will only work with the original Aurora model. Note: There is a slightly noticeable seem between the head and body. This is caused by the normal map and I'll leave up to the user to fix it when they edit their pictures using this model because frankly I can't do normal maps to save my life Credits LordAardvark for Aurora As with my other skins, feel free to edit them Download http://filesmelt.com/dl/Aurora_Starter_Kit.rar

:boing: Superb job, Shaotek. This is a rare moment indeed, where the creator themselves downloads an update to their own creation, done by someone else. I am slightly confused on the three models, though. Have you provided the three hairstyles as a separate model each, and the hairs being bonemergeable, or something else? At any rate, she looks even farther from her original model than ever before. I honestly wonder if anyone could even recognize her face as originally being Liara's from Mass Effect now. More importantly, I wonder if any copyright holders could, and if this could count as original content enough for me to be able to use without fear of legal repercussions... :frotfrot:

"LordAardvark" said ...
I am slightly confused on the three models, though. Have you provided the three hairstyles as a separate model each, and the hairs being bonemergeable, or something else?

Yea each hair style is it's own prop that you bonemerge to her. Spawn her, spawn the hair, bonemerge It's the same process you'd go through when you add hats to TF2 models

Where can i get the bonemerge tool

And now, Liara has oficionally has gone full-circle: from being Lara Croft expy, she has human version, and now it has Lara's hairstyle!

Great :great:

After some testing, I have discovered that Lara's hair is broken, as it stretches out when you pose the neck, and not Lara nor Aphrodyte ones have bones to Joint tool pose them with.

"DoomPatrol85" said ...
Where can i get the bonemerge tool

In the workshop, but it is "Joint tool"

"Evil-Ash" said ...

"DoomPatrol85" said ...
Where can i get the bonemerge tool

In the workshop, but it is "Joint tool"

No its simply called Bone Merger but yea its on the workshop

"Red Menace" said ...
After some testing, I have discovered that Lara's hair is broken, as it stretches out when you pose the neck, and not Lara nor Aphrodyte ones have bones to Joint tool pose them with.

They don't have bones, they essentially weld onto the bone they are parented to which if memory serves is Valve.biped neck 1. Could you post a pic of the broken hair? I haven't run into any problems

I can verify the broken Lara hair, because I spent some time last night hacking into onto Aurora's body permanently as a part of an update for her. The last two rungs of vertices of her ponytail are rigged to ValveBiped.Neck, rather than ValveBiped.Neck1. Discovered this as I was giving the hair jigglebones. By the way, the skin and hair are both absolutely gorgeous. I may actually use Aurora again because of this. Thank you very much. :).

"shaotek" said ...

"Evil-Ash" said ...

"DoomPatrol85" said ...
Where can i get the bonemerge tool

In the workshop, but it is "Joint tool"

No its simply called Bone Merger but yea its on the workshop

Ooooh ok with separate words "bone merger" ok i have find it. ;)

Great work

Alright here's a fix and bonus. New Release Lara Hair Fix HD Eyes Uncompressed body texture Mesh Outfit Credits LordAardvark for the new eyes(took em from the re6 models :lol: ) As with my other skins, feel free to edit them Download http://filesmelt.com/dl/Mar_26_Update.rar

I am so impressed with your work shaotek :great:

Although the path should be addons\Aurora Starter Kit\materials\models\shaotek\Aurora\Fishnet Make sure of that or you get checker tiles. Or here is a fix for the fishnet outfit if you are unfamiliar with the folder setup in Gmod http://filesmelt.com/dl/Aurora_Starter_Kit1.rar Put in addons and overwrite.

Wow impressive :)

Wow Shaotek, she's gorgeous! :shock: Many thanks for the new skin/outfit and hairstyles! :mrgreen:

Awesome work on the HD skin. :) Was Aurora ever released officially by LordAardvark or was she only released in that WIP dump that he had?

"Mescool" said ...
Awesome work on the HD skin. :) Was Aurora ever released officially by LordAardvark or was she only released in that WIP dump that he had?

I don't think she ever received an official release.

"Mescool" said ...
Awesome work on the HD skin. :) Was Aurora ever released officially by LordAardvark or was she only released in that WIP dump that he had?

She was http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14222450/3D%20Models/Aurora.rar

Have you got plans to HD-skin the nude Femshep? That'd be super useful :D

Hey Shaotek, where can I get that pupil color for Sandra?

Come to think of it I don't recall ever publicly releasing it. So here ya go http://filesmelt.com/dl/pupil.rar

New Release New Eyebrows New Normal Map 3 New Hairs 3 New Outfits Download http://filesmelt.com/dl/Aurora_Update_2.rar

Woah omg fuck damn argh jesus :o :yahoo:

lol ash.

That's a big file :mrgreen: Looks amazing, but that seam on her neck is pretty noticeable from the promo shot.

The Auroras on the sides look really cute for some reason :D So can't wait til my SFM issue is fixed.

"TooL" said ...
That's a big file :mrgreen: Looks amazing, but that seam on her neck is pretty noticeable from the promo shot.

Yea its from her face normal and it's something I can't fix. Nothing a little smudge and healing tool can't fix in editing

Nice job, i'd actually use them if i worked out how to attach the hair in SFM XD

"The 'Strayan Snip3r" said ...
Nice job, i'd actually use them if i worked out how to attach the hair in SFM XD

The same way you would attach TF2 hats. Just lock all the hat bones to the bones on the body and zero their position.

Wow! :yahoo:! Aurora bursts out of the months of total obscurity she's been residing in and just takes the world my storm! It's so nice to see her get the attention she deserves. Loving the stoner hair and the leather corset, I won't lie.

"shaotek" said ...

Holy fuck :woahh:

Here is a complete addon with all the updates in one http://www.slingfile.com/file/DOGaw0qz1t DA release http://rastifan.deviantart.com/art/Big- ... tifan&qo=0

"LordAardvark" said ...
Wow! :yahoo:! Aurora bursts out of the months of total obscurity she's been residing in and just takes the world my storm! It's so nice to see her get the attention she deserves. Loving the stoner hair and the leather corset, I won't lie.

And to think this all started with me simply alpha'ing her pigtails away :lol:

"Rastifan" said ...
Here is a complete addon with all the updates in one

x1 Winner

"shaotek" said ...
Yea its from her face normal and it's something I can't fix. Nothing a little smudge and healing tool can't fix in editing

Indeed. Not everyone is into post-processing so that's why I note these subtleties. Looks even better in-game :twisted:

Gave Aurora red hair and green eyes on request from DA. http://filesmelt.com/dl/Red1.rar Put the hair in Aurora\materials\models\shaotek\Aurora\Hair Put the eye in Aurora\materials\models\LordAardvark\Aurora And overwrite. Only one hair type is red for now.

Shaotek, do you mind if I update the Aurora model itself with these new hairs, clothes, and textures, as well as the improved flexes and jigglebones? IE make all your improvements official?

Go for it

"Rastifan" said ...
Here is a complete addon with all the updates in one http://www.slingfile.com/file/DOGaw0qz1t DA release http://rastifan.deviantart.com/art/Big- ... tifan&qo=0

Hello! Strange, but I have not run hair and clothes?

"DNA" said ...

"Rastifan" said ...
http://uppix.net/7/3/0/96cd707a96da66b638b91de13df5b.jpg Here is a complete addon with all the updates in one http://www.slingfile.com/file/DOGaw0qz1t DA release http://rastifan.deviantart.com/art/Big- ... tifan&qo=0

Hello! Strange, but I have not run hair and clothes? http://i53.fastpic.ru/big/2013/0411/c8/ ... 1efcc8.png

There are some models in same folder. Use bonemerge tool from workshop to combine different hairstyles and clothes.

its a big pack i like it (10/9)

"nonoon" said ...
Why is my model of Liara and yours looks like they're models of humans? I demand to know why this is! P.S. I jsut skimmed this thread so I don't know much of what's going on.

Aurora is basically a reskin of Liara.(just look at her face) The Asari head part is covered up by the different hairstyles which are separate models. In Gmod you can use the bonemerge tool to apply the hair model to the body. In Source Filmmaker you can apply the hairstyles the same way you would attach TF2 hats. Just lock all the hat bones to the bones on the body and zero their position. Edit: where did that post go?

"Ganonmaster" said ...

"nonoon" said ...
Why is my model of Liara and yours looks like they're models of humans? I demand to know why this is! P.S. I jsut skimmed this thread so I don't know much of what's going on.

Aurora is basically a reskin of Liara.(just look at her face) The Asari head part is covered up by the different hairstyles which are separate models. In Gmod you can use the bonemerge tool to apply the hair model to the body. In Source Filmmaker you can apply the hairstyles the same way you would attach TF2 hats. Just lock all the hat bones to the bones on the body and zero their position. Edit: where did that post go?

I realised by idiocy immediately and, after playing with the hair for a bit since there seems to be a nine year-old girl somewhere inside of me, I deleted it before I thought it could do any harm.

Ok, this thread might be old but, has anyone payed attention to Sandras ear? in game, her ears are a lot paler than her than skin. I double checked everything and made sure i did everything right and replaced all the files correctly. But, it wont budge. It bothers me alot especially when im trying to pose her. Her tan skin is also alot brighter then the one in the pic. why is that?

Someone please reply and try to figure this problem i have. Please?

I know they are meant for GMOD, but I have some issues in SFM, anyone has idea how to fix it? This is the Sandra model: [spoiler:22azrqtf][/spoiler:22azrqtf]

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"Ganonmaster" said ...
https://digitalero.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=1010

Thanks, that worked ! If anyone has the same problem, just use the above mentioned procedure with normal texture. (In my case FemaleBody_n)