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I’m a bit sick and trying to catch some specific people to get their feedback, but I’ve come up with a possible improvement:

The first one, with the strap ends facing each others seem more structurally sound and most of the people I queried about it agree. From a technical standpoint, if I can get back in symmetry mode, it makes everything a lot simpler.

So yeah that’s my new project, and it has been long overdue. A bondage belt that matches my classic leather cuffs.

It’s a bit on the thick side, but that actually matches the bulkiness of the original cuffs and will hopefully make for some pretty generous fitting. After some deliberation I decided to put the locking strap on the back.

That’s what I’ve been telling myself several times today, and every time, I was wrong.

But not this time… I think?

Everything is (almost) ready for release.

I still gotta make the HUD but here we are!

I have done a LOT in the past couple days, I just don’t really have anything interesting to show for it.

• Re-rigged the suit to get rid of all the problematic issues.
• Rendered all the leather texture maps.
• Altered the torso for flat, small, and large chests.
• Split the models in two to get more faces (To have slices on the arms for gloves).
• Started re-rigging and re-shaping the neck for Linden avatar compatibility.

The flat chest is a bit iffy… like, really…

I’ll probably have to hand tweak the textures for each color because that’s really just the color map causing problems.

I just finished a bunch of test textures so I uploaded a quick and (very) dirty rigging test to get a feel of the final look.

Not bad at all I’ll say.

I’ve been working on the leather version today, this way I get to see the errors a little better.

I’m still trying to complete a set of textures to have the complete look before I begin rigging.

Granted, those are 4K normal maps.

But I think it looks quite convincing!

All done there. Unless I am mistaken, the low polygon model is complete, with the exception of the rigging.

Next step as usual: Make a few bake attempts and solve any eventual issue that comes out of it. So close.

I ended up splitting everything into 4 separate texture maps (one not represented), this puts the whole outfit quite a bit over 1024×1024 (about 1.5x) but i think it is worth it.

I’ve also done my face counting for the different bits and pieces and it was a little short (8 faces max per mesh) so I’ve cut the entire thing in half at the top edge of the corset, this should give me a few extra faces to make two slices on each arm (gloves!).

There are only a few things that still need modeling/unwrapping:

• Zipper pull (2).
• Bow for the corset laces. (I still haven’t modeled this one).
• Logo (probably on the zipper pull tabs)

Hopefully I can get it done by the end of Tuesday.