Cosplay hack: Make your life easier when cosplaying 3D characters (Patreon)

ALRIGHT! So I went over this sorta in the past before but thought I would go a little more in-depth with this.

Howto make your life MUCH easier when cosplaying characters from video games!

First things first, what you will need

- XNALARA (here to download)
- The model for the character you are cosplaying|
- Paint, sai, photoshop or just something to view the files in the models folder with!

For this I will be showing you how I got my references for Cloud from Final Fantasy VII.

First place I look for files is DeviantART, KylieStylish has a lot of FF ones and she has the model for download in the description. Go ahead and download it and drag the folder into the Content > model folder. Now start up Xnalara!

You will be greeted by a blank screen, go ahead and click file and add new model and it should locate the cloud folder.

From there click the Cloud models + sign and click model and then okay! It will then open up the Cloud model in the other menu!

And there you go!! And up close reference for you cosplaying needs down to every last detail!

Click the "root" square (these are the models bones, this one is basically just to keep him, well rooted. Make sure this is clicked so you can then use the tabs on the side to rotate/move him how you please!)

use the X, Y, Z to rotate him around and the height one to lower the model, use the scroll on your mouse to zoom in to see finer details!

But thats not all! Now since you have the model, you now have the texture files as well, so lets go grab those.

Here you will have the texture files for all his clothing, so you can then see how its painted/textured on a flat surface! This helps me a lot when I need to draw/draft out certain designs and elements of the cosplay I am working on!

Especially with characters with weird armor/pieces to them that are hard to make it from the 3D model, seeing them layed out like this helps me greatly!!! (This was for Emperor Mateus).

This ones a bit weirder but it does work ahaha, here is Clouds face stretched out as a texture, maybe you needed help seeing where to contour, highlight or how the eye makeup should go! Seeing it flat liek this can help you make it what you need to do, this works really well if you are trying to do a look alike cosplay!

But yeah, I hope this helped you out guys. I do this all the time when I am cosplaying someone from a game, hope you learned something new!