Griffon Armour (From the Ashley Warpack)

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Despite its tortured history the Griffon is, in my opinion, the crown jewel of the Ashley Warpack.

The history of the Griffon Armour is a year-long process of twists and turns, mixed in with some real-life drama (I went through an internship, I had a hard-drive crash and my laptop screen was smashed in). Suffice to say that without the support of the ME modding community it would have never seen the light of day.

The Griffon history:

• It was originally inspired by, oddly enough, some fan-concept art for the clone troopers of star wars (https://www.deviantart.com/halonut117/art/Clone-Trooper-Ranger-phase-1-666037555).
• I initially planned for a more modest goal, simply bolting on some components from the HK armour set (https://www.deviantart.com/survivor686/art/Original-Concept-of-the-Griffon-Armour-773299672)
• My 'distaste' for the exaggerated boob-plates of the default armour, made me even consider swapping the entire thing out for a modified version of the Kestrel/Rosenkov armour  (https://www.deviantart.com/survivor686/art/Second-Major-iteration-of-the-Griffon-Armour-773303514)
• Until I saw Mishai excellent concept for the Hellhound armour (https://www.deviantart.com/mishai/art/Hellhound-Armor-concept-492328628). It was then I learned that it was possible to make armour that not only looked functional, but damn good too
• I then scrapped everything restarted the project and built an armour based on the 'Hellhound' concept.
  

• Mishai of deviantart for their permission/blessing to replicate their concept (https://www.deviantart.com/mishai/art/Hellhound-Armor-concept-492328628)
• Getorex of Nexus Mods for originally tutoring on mesh replacement and what the various specular map layers represented
• A youtuber for posting a guide for merging multiple meshes into one object and them ensuring that skinwrap works (for the life of me I can't retrieve that link)
• Ottemis of Nexus Mods for letting me use their textures
• Sil of the EGM team for their considerable patience as a sounding board for my barrage of queries and testing the Warpack multiple times
• Mellin of the EGM team for generating the squad-selection images and their extraordinary patience for my constant stream of texture related questions
• Kinkojiro of the EGM team for taking the time to generate the requisite PCC files, especially considering the intensity of the Ark Mod/Omega Hub alpha projects
• princessdemeter and Eleonora0 of Nexus Mods for answering my texture questions, no matter how inane it was
• benji of the me3explorer discord for answering my texture tinting queries
• Mgamerz for developing their fork of the me3explorer suite and the ME3MM that enabled me to generate a DLC mod folder
• Countless denizens of the ME modding community who have patiently put up with my constant question, no matter how basic/inane it is