Dawn of the Future – Aranea
To celebrate the FFXV: Dawn of the Future novel being released by Square Enix, I decided to make one of the artwork from the Dawn of the Future[i.imgur.com] Novel into a real 3D model that you can use in game for Aranea. I think the original art included within the Dawn of the Future book was meant to be used for the cancelled Episode Aranea DLC, but I’m not sure.
I felt sad that FFXV’s development was over, so what better way than to make the dawn of the future into a reality for the game? I hope you enjoy using this model as much as I did making it! Honestly I still feel sad about the DLCs because the stories are awesome, especially Aranea’s!
I’ve tried to put a lot of effort into this model and make it as accurate to the original art work as possible.
The model took about 3 weeks to make and re-uses in-game meshes where possible, all textures on the clothes however are custom and have detailed "roughness" and "normals" maps to ensure they look nice. I spent way too long fixing little issues and glitches on this model to try and get it looking the best I possibly could!
I’ll be looking to port this to a Avatara/Comrades costume for you to use later, however this will require additional research and planning, it will be great to use with the Aranea face! ^_^
❤-Kyriya-❤
p.s. A big thanks to Steam User PrettyPrompto for helping me do a final play test with Aranea in the imperial base fight and getting the screenshots for that scene.
-Improved boot textures, Improved leg-belt with additional textures and a realistic leather (unpolished, I read the comments).
-Improved quality of eyes by removing Aranea’s default Normal map for eyes and adding a custom one.
-Re-rigged buttons on the jacket to be less glitchy.
-Fixed shoulder pads levitating off jacket! Fixed legs clipping through boots!
-Increased roughness map on legs from 1k ->2k.
-Added in detail for Aranea’s arms and nails. Matched all skin maps to the same settings.
