Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

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June 9th 2022 small update: Added an optimized version of the mod that removes the Torso Bandages.

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New Textures are done!
I know it's been a while since I've updated this, but I finally have some new textures for you guys! I've been working on them for a long time and they are head and shoulders above what I first published. I'll give a quick rundown on what's changed, as well as some other info.

Skin
The base skin texture borrows heavily from WhEpHPINdbKoTW's Male Dope Project. I had been working on the normal maps, musculature maps, and specular maps. I put in the Male Dope Project's base texture just to start with and see what a good texture should look like, and realized it looked extremely good with what else I had been working with, so after doing some final touches to the other textures, I did a little work and color correction on the MDP's base skin to make it more closely match the original, so that the new skins still fit the feel of the game. Because the MDP's base texture isn't quite as smooth as the way I made my Cleaner Female Body Textures, the details don't get shrunk away as much, but the skin does look a bit rougher when compared to Females. I may make a smoother skin texture for males in the future.
Note: The shape of the hands and feet are different because I used a lot of stuff from the MDP's base texture. I may change more things later, but I really liked how everything turned out. If you happen to be extremely OCD about maintaining original detail like I am, I could probably be convinced to upload a texture that has more of the original shape in the feet and hands.

Musculature
Again staying true to the original design I cleaned up the muscle texture maps for both genders with the help of faithG_. Lines and shading should not only be more high res than the original game, but thanks to faithG_ we've managed to also clean up the black lines that would appear on musculature that wouldn't look right.
Note: The musculature isn't quite as pronounced as in the vanilla game, the method FaithG_ used to help me remove the black lines on some of the musculature made the muscles as a whole stand out a bit less. I may try to fix this later, but it was quite difficult to get everything to how it looks now, so I need a little break.

Wrinkles
These were actually very difficult to get right and a big sticking point. FaithG_ and I tried multiple things that weren't working, I eventually just started from scratch and tried to clean up the result as much as possible. I finished them for both genders. I think it looks decent enough, though I'm open to criticism on all aspects of this mod.

Underclothing
What I did with these to make a quick but good looking texture was I upscaled, cleaned up the upscale, added a GIMP filter called "clothify", and then color corrected them to match the originals. I plan to remake these with a bit more attention to detail at some point, but these should work just fine for now. This is just for the male underwear, I plan to at some point make the torso bandages HD, and make them look more like gauze, for those who wish to keep them on. In my game, I have it where they are on at first, but the next time I load my game, they're gone, to make it as if the player character removed them after some time had passed.

Miscellaneous other Textures
To bring the whole thing together, I've also been working on the Arisen's Chest scar for those who like to keep it, the teeth, tongue, eyebrows, eyelashes, irises, pawn print, scars, tattoos, and makeup. These will be included in the Mod, but they aren't 100% done yet. By that I mean I think there's still room for improvement, and I only ended up liking 1 type of the eyebrows I did, so I only left that one in for now. I will improve upon these later, but you guys have been waiting long enough.

And last but not least
I'd like to thank faithG_ for his help with the muscle maps. I would also like to thank WhEpHPINdbKoTW. They are no longer on the Nexus, and have deleted/hidden their mods, but they were the author of the Female Beautification and Male Dope Project, both of which were extremely useful in making my own mods. Their textures clearly indicated where the seams lined up so that I wouldn't make mistakes. I wish I could thank them for it personally, but they seem to have disappeared from the internet.

I'd also love to give thanks to FluffyQuack for ArcTool and teaching me a lot about how the modding works, Madeleine as a Cinnamon roll (AKA Lefein) for helping me so much with the game, S7 gaming for being an awesome friend and testing my mods for me, Wickfut for making outstanding ENBs, and everyone else that's been supporting me along the way. You guys are all awesome!