Loba Andrade: An experiment in Culture
Entry posted by Trapp in Modding for Absolute N00bs
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Making this a quick one because I'm in slavery mode. I recall some time ago, somebody went and shared some assets to recreate who, in my humblest of opinions, is one of the sexiest characters in recent videogame history. Unless you've been living under a rock, not interested in gaming or haven't been paying attention to the Rule34 website, then this babe needs zero introduction. Apex Legends' best girl: Loba Andrade.
Yes, yes, I've been on a Loba porn kick, whatever... Side note, her face reminds me so much of a RL friend. It's almost as if SHE was the base for Loba's face, but I digress.
The problem with creating textures for TK17 for noobs like me is that I don't usually know what the hell to do so I can only experiment with skin textures and look up PNGs for any tattoos I might want to add. And being that I still run a potato for a computer, 4X textures take a heavy toll on my system, so I have to settle for 1X instead, and you don't need me to state the obvious here, but TATTOOS LOOK FUCKING HORRIBLE IN 1X RESOLUTION. So, I came up with a workaround.
For this experiment, I decided to use my Brazilian cutie Amanda Soares and take her to town on this.
First of all, I changed her skin to "Skin Fitness V2" which I don't remember where I got it from and downsized all those 4X textures to 1X. And of course, when trying the tattoos on the skin, they looked absolutely atrocious and heavily pixelated. I then remember I had one skin for another girl that had a 4X sized body texture and the rest of the things were 1X, so with that in mind, I located the skin and after some trial and error, baked it in Photoshop. Side note, you CAN edit skins in Photoshop while being in-game.
After editing the body texture and changing the genital area from 1X BACK to 4X and using the Brush and Smudge tools to add Loba's trademark makeup to the face texture since finding a vector for that make up was unfruitful to say the least, this is the result:
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The makeup looks quite blurry for some reason, but again, I didn't want to waste time resizing everything to its original resolution and risk using the 4X Mod and having my game crash, so I kept the head, hands and feet on 1X. There is still a distinguished line between the texture joints, but that was bound to happen anyway because of the nature of the skin. For what it's worth, as un-pretty as it looks, I think I managed to do a good job with the look of the face, despite Mandy being half Loba's canonical age of 36.
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As for the tattoos, Loba allegedly only has the one neck tattoo of the wolf, which I found on Twitter (I REFUSE TO CALL IT X) and was of a great quality. And with the 4X resolution on the body, it looks fucking amazing. Same with the Mandala tattoo under Mandy's boobs. Like I said, I baked the Skin Fitness V2's body texture with the one of the other skin called Full HD Skin Reworked and gave her some much needed abs definition because that shit gets me hard as fuck.
After adding some clothes, this is the final result of my makeshift Loba model. And yes, you bet your ass I'll be making a comic focused on her. Just remind me to change her eye color for this.
Also, I'll need to update Mandy's download as well to include the new baked skin. I need to test and see how it looks on 1X resolution first. I'll let you know once I get there.
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