SciFI Crop Jacket - highpoly (Patreon)

been working on this jacket thing for the past few days, completed a highpoly model for it. Also on something else alongside it, though that piece is significantly easier/less complex by orders of magnitude. I'm hoping to have that one completed today to take a break from this bigger project, but hopefully I'll have both that piece and this one completed by year's end. Or it would be nice at least :)

anyway, less about plans and more about this item in question. I'll be honest, I made this and it exists only because I want to pair it with a previous item and port it to Mass Effect to have a combat type armor for that game. I thought a crop jacket would go well with what I had so I made it. That being said, it is modeled on the FO4 body and is still made with that game in mind, technically at least, if not aesthetically.

design is actually my own. I had a very rough base concept, but mostly this is an original creation. Somewhat a difficult thing for me, I'm not used to concepting and not great at it, I usually just model things from another source, I don't design myself. I made some concessions in the shoulder area with the armor plating, I would've preferred that be longer to cover the jacket seam and create an overhang, but I cut it short to make it easier to port. That being said I think it looks quite nice. The upper arms portion maybe could use some detailing, maybe some V-shape panels similar to what's on the jacket back to help it and bring some visual interest in that area, I might modify the model a bit to try it before I bake, but other than that, I like it.

also established color scheme since that is part of the design, went for silver/black/red color scheme, fits with the N7 colors from ME. The final thing should resemble that color scheme, thought will probably be adjusted a bit when I texture.