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About this mod

Three brand new dresses (including re-colors) available for purchase in game for female Shepard. Casino dress replacers available.

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What is this?
Three new appearances made from scratch, made with the objective to have as much fun as possible with materials. All together amounts to 16 re-colors. Look through screenshots for more details.

Thanks to Scottina if you use Chose Your Outfit you can pick whichever outfit you'd like to use on to the Casino mission!

Installation
• Download ME3Tweaks Mod Manager
• Drag and the drop zip file you want to use, and add them to the library
• Install by pressing “Apply Mod”. Follow instructions if there are any. 
 Dresses should now be available in the Kassa Fabrication store (can be found on the Normandy and the Presidium Commons).

Backup your game before installing any mods!
And make sure you have all your DLC mods installed before installing any textures!

Uninstall
Go to Manage target -> LE3 -> Delete/disable “Zeb’s Formal Apparel” and/or "Zeb's Formal Apparel for Casino (LE3)".
Issues
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There are a lot of unfortunate clipping on the asymmetrical dress that is also present with the vanilla dresses of the game. But also on top of that, there are legs under the dress that makes the clipping extra apparent. I don't have the ability to make it look better than it does now. If I can fix it, I'll update the mod.

If you find anything else that's behaving weird, please leave a comment!


Modders info (materials used)
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Party: CorpseTarp01_MAT
There's a looooot of tweaks in the vector here (Simple_Specular_color and Reflection_Color) to match the diffuse material.

The spec map can look kinda scary, but it's very easy to work with.
Red Channel: Essentially you'd just want a normal specular map
Green Channel: An inverted version of red channel
Blue Channel: Decide how much "shine" you want (optional, you can leave it white).

Cocktail: Bronzework_Inst01_Bronzework_Inst_01
Make sure you get the right one. There's one just called "Bronzework_Inst01" and if you're a newbie like me at Package Editor and not sure how to work with the materials it's gonna be hard since it's missing diff, spec and norm maps.

The default fresnel of the material is very high, but put at 0.2 it looks a lot better. Otherwise the material is good as it is.
Make sure your diffuse and specular map is on the darker side as the material easily can be too saturated and look self illuminated.

This material is super finicky and often looks very weird because of the point lights in the game, especially in the Citadel DLC where there are point lights EVERYWHERE. You kinda have to accept it as the material wasn't meant to be on anything other than flat meshes on Tuchanka.

Asymmetrical: HMF_ARM_CTHk_MAT_1a
Good ol' regular and reliable leather tank top dress. Didn't do much with this one.

You are ofc free to look around in my files for reference! I'd just advice you to be cautious because while I try to keep my files clean, I'm still learning and I make mistakes. I also ran into a huge issue where the materials would get stuck on the default one and had to solve it by duplicating the mesh. So, files might be messy.

Credit
Body base is made by Bioware. Dress design (for cocktail and party), 3D modelling and textures are done by me. Asymmetrical's design is by Elie Saab. 

Other
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As always, I'm trying to improve my worklflow, 3D skills, texturing, skin binding etc. There are a lot of steps inbetween making concepts to having the meshes in game. Even though I've done this a couple of times before it means that there's bound to be flaws in these models. Please have oversight! If you have any feedback, I'll gladly take it! Just present it with care!


Mods used in screenshots
Customizable Default Femshep Headmorph for Legendary Edition 3
Even More Hairstyles

Special shout out to:

Padme - For her amazing, awesome and absolutely invaluable tutorials
ThaliaGraces - For showing me how to play with the specular color of the materials!
Druu, BLU and MorningAngel - For guiding me on how to make the right edits in the coalesced for the casino dress replacer!
MorningAngel - For having awesome mods that I could always reference to when I got unsure how things were set up in the PCCs and coalesced!
Khaar -  For showing me how to optimize performance within the PCCs!
ElizabethNessie - For the Russian translation!

Many thanks to the talented team behind ME3Tweaks and Legendary Explorer for making modding so easy and accesible for both mod makers and users, and many thanks to the Mass Effect Modding discord server for being so kind, helpful and supportive!