Laura Bikini
My first bikini contribution to Street Fighter V.
Hi folks,
So with a lot of barefoot modding, I was dying to do something better like a proper mesh mod with color customization, physics etc. I have made a lot of bikini outfits for SFxT and USF4 and it's time to do my first contribution to SFV, the obvious choice of character is Laura because she's a character that's always ready for these kind of outfits. She's hot and she's lively, a perfect choice for bikini mod.
I actually completed a body mesh for her sometime ago, I didn't used her XNALara body because it has some issues like broken UVs and pelvis area that is slimmer than her original body. I completed missing regions of her body making sure that they match her body dimensions perfectly along with new textures.
Another important feature of this body is the fact that I fixed her shoulder and elbow rigging. Whenever we extract original model from the game using Gildor's tool, we loose several weights due to 4 bone limitation of the tool thus resulting in uneven vertices and bad stretching around shoulder and elbow parts, on top of this Laura's selection screen pose highlights her shoulders and elbow pits, making them look ugly with uneven rigging so I took my time to fix her weights, hard call but it's worth it, now her shoulders and elbow pits are as smooth as original or pretty close.
In addition to this the mod is carefully mesh modded so there are no visible gaps between her bra/panty and body, the outfit also doesn't deform badly so it looks pretty clean during the movement. Her hair physics are also updated and now have less chance to get stuck with other bodies, breast physics also got a revision with two variants, one with more bounce and another with less bounce. I might also add another variant with no breast physics. This is because physics have very fast frames, they aid in better movement of the object but if you pause them then they make the object look deformed, since SF games pause after you win or loose a match, sometimes her breast looks deformed because of physics and the only way you can fix this is by limiting the physics greatly but that also limits the bounce which kind of eliminate the purpose of having soft physics so I'll include a no bounce version for those who prefer it that way.
The mod is also has color customization with remixed original colors, I ended up using her original sandals because they look perfect bikini sandals but I changed the color scheme such that the sole is permanently black while straps match the bikini color, looks pretty good imo.
Finally all her bikini strings are properly animated. She also wears a nice bracelet now which is also animated ;) yes I love to work on small details, they put new life into the mod.
I think I might have just bored you with all those details but they are important part of this mod so I loved to share them. Anyway enjoy the mod and stay tuned for more !
