Crystal Skies
Added 2025-07-16 13:17:37 +0000 UTCGym Leader Skyla is finally here!
A lot of care went into this design since, upsettingly, there isn't even a modded default outfit for her that I'm aware of, but she does apparently have a modded Christmas outfit from her Masters EX design - which comes with basically the same hair. With some tweaks and repainting, that's been adjusted to better fit her head and dimensions. The same was done with her actual skin - I noticed some splotchy texturing and realized it was the Detail Mask, or "shadows", and it was pretty low resolution. Cleaned it up for her and it'll be applied to all future releases, though it might only be noticeable on girls with slightly darker skin tones.
For her actual outfit, I wanted to accomplish one thing: match their original designs as close as possible without using mods, or at least mods that aren't already available in the Repack. Just nothing superfluous or extra. In this case, I think it's a success. The texture was done by myself of course, and it took a long time because again, I'm not an artist, just determined to get it right.
And saying that, it's quite difficult given that the meshes don't always line up, so there's some squiggly messy lines around the chest (covered by her hair conveniently in the screenshot) and some abnormal shaping around her breasts, but there's nothing that can really be done about that without making her an A-cup, and she clearly isn't in her sprites.
By the way, it's actually a pain in the butt to find reference material for their "back sprites" because they don't actually have them, and official art is limited. There's in game stuff, but that's a hassle - so I tend to use things like this, which I used for referencing her metallic nodes (which turn off with the outfit itself). Also, thigh pouch turns off with subs.
That's about it I think.
Enjoy!
