Leclerc - Saintblade by JeNeDiraiRien
"They are the sons of the Angel, the blooded host, the defenders of Humanity. They are strength. They are nobility. They are the Blood Angels, and I say to you there are no more loyal or determined servants of the Emperor alive today."
After over a month of taking any free time I had to work on this skin, it's finally done! I haven't skinned a tank in years, so it was a bit of a shaky start, but I believe those who like the Leclerc will find it worthwhile. This was quite a technical work, with some serious layer styles used to pull this off; I ended up doing tests with twenty or so configurations just to get the embossed look I wanted, as well as a lot of testing of mipmaps to find a good middle ground that wouldn't have too many sparks but wouldn't lose quality.
The tank itself wasn't too bad to work with, although there were quite a few pieces that weren't terribly obvious to find. I worked on nearly every visible piece I could to try and give it a handcrafted look, and the parts that are exactly the same are generally because of mirrored pieces on the texture. You'll find that there are a lot of nifty details for you to check out, so go ahead and take a look at it in replay whenever you can!
I want to give a special thanks to @BHmaster for helping me get up to speed with tank skinning again, it's been a while. Thanks to @Sidescrepe for his help as well, he was instrumental in making partfinding easier. Another special thanks to @Ysno and @Atsuk0 for helping out whenever I needed something in the Public Creative Server; thanks also to all those in PCS as well as those who participate in Jennia, I truly appreciate all the great skins the community makes. Thanks to @pathaber for being the first to believe in my skinning ability, and to @Petranera , @MightyArrow , @Vauchez for always inspiring me with their awesome work.
By popular request, here is a lower resolution version: https://mega.nz/#!tn5xHS5b!fXCfMBHVuQleMBiD-4_c0ysA_uBywOOgIppLEU7xqEs
"They are the sons of the Angel, the blooded host, the defenders of Humanity. They are strength. They are nobility. They are the Blood Angels, and I say to you there are no more loyal or determined servants of the Emperor alive today."
After over a month of taking any free time I had to work on this skin, it's finally done! I haven't skinned a tank in years, so it was a bit of a shaky start, but I believe those who like the Leclerc will find it worthwhile. This was quite a technical work, with some serious layer styles used to pull this off; I ended up doing tests with twenty or so configurations just to get the embossed look I wanted, as well as a lot of testing of mipmaps to find a good middle ground that wouldn't have too many sparks but wouldn't lose quality.
The tank itself wasn't too bad to work with, although there were quite a few pieces that weren't terribly obvious to find. I worked on nearly every visible piece I could to try and give it a handcrafted look, and the parts that are exactly the same are generally because of mirrored pieces on the texture. You'll find that there are a lot of nifty details for you to check out, so go ahead and take a look at it in replay whenever you can!
I want to give a special thanks to @BHmaster for helping me get up to speed with tank skinning again, it's been a while. Thanks to @Sidescrepe for his help as well, he was instrumental in making partfinding easier. Another special thanks to @Ysno and @Atsuk0 for helping out whenever I needed something in the Public Creative Server; thanks also to all those in PCS as well as those who participate in Jennia, I truly appreciate all the great skins the community makes. Thanks to @pathaber for being the first to believe in my skinning ability, and to @Petranera , @MightyArrow , @Vauchez for always inspiring me with their awesome work.
By popular request, here is a lower resolution version: https://mega.nz/#!tn5xHS5b!fXCfMBHVuQleMBiD-4_c0ysA_uBywOOgIppLEU7xqEs
