Workshop update : Radiant Qingxiao in the making!

Greetings dear carrot army!

This is the beginning of a new working year and our workshops are now running at full steam to produce the next batch of Radiant mods. Of course, we will start with Qingxiao and I'm currently braving the first stages of the most difficult tasks for her transformation. To be perfectly honest with you I was a bit underwhelmed by the blandness of her palette. I was expecting more vibrations or explosions especially after Suisui's brutal set of fireworks. Although this kind of situation is perfect for me as it directly translates to "character-with-huge-potential-for-improvements"! Don't get me wrong, remedy to this "weakness" will be a tough job : I planned big hues & tones changes and several proliferations of her existing patterns (not silly cloning but hand-painting & expanding faithfully from one area to another).

I'm sure some of you already tried a few mods for her since I've seen some fun & imaginative replacements out there worth trying. Now in few days if you prefer to come back for something closer to Kuro's initial shapes, my Radiant Qingxiao will be out hopefully! Count around one more working week, may be a bit more, may be a bit less.

By the way, want to know why there's less and less people playing with textures anymore? Sadly for WuWa it recently became way harder to reach and stabilize one original character textures through its different modes. With newest releases Kuro's 3D and 2D artists are taking their designs yet on another level which means the complexity rises as well for us mod creators. In Qingxiao's case, we have 2 intricated forms that are trampling each other depending of your forte... but it's not behaving like Calcharo's or Zani's liberations forms anymore. The texture data here is very difficult to reach, understand and even more to play with. So I can understand how it became easier to toss everything in the bin and start from zero with a simplier base from other games or older versions. I've finally found my bearings with Qingxiao today but I'm really preoccupied by future characters and game versions accessibility and how tough they will be to mod.

One last thing : I've done a bit of the main quest and... By the rabbit gods! I couldn't help noticing Jingran is really-absolutely-incredibly magnificent! I certainly can't wait to tweak that badass up! Anyways, keep your patience up and I'll try my best to reward you.

Cheers & take care!