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[MikeFightNight]

I forgot to mention that even with the new fnvhashes.sqlite, pyGFF still seems to miss some of the files and dumps them into the main file with a file name something like [0a7caae3b29fa57d]. If you can't find the file you're looking for in the art folder then you have to search through these to find it then get the correct file name and path from here http://svn.gib.me/pu...on Age 2/files/

Ok I was doing the file pathing all wrong, it works now thanks for the help!

The only thing I have to learn now is how to properly save the dds. file I alter in Photoshop. When I re-save the file it has a bunch of options like DXT1 RGB<bpp/no alpha and DXT1 RGB<bpp</1 bit alpha, etc etc etc. I heard you mentioning on this forum that you had to make your own alpha channel or somthing i'm not exactly sure what that means, again your explanations are very appreciated. Also I only altered the first dds. file as it was the one that contained the image I wanted altered. It comes up in game but it looks off, like it's missing a lot of detail.

Thank you for your patience.

[vometia]

Never mind, got it working now. I'm still not entirely clear what I was doing wrong though, which is a little disconcerting...


Hmm, I must be doing something wrong here because I keep ending up with headless characters.

I've followed the instructions as best I can, but having spent the past few hours experimenting I can't get it to work; even without editing the mor file, just extracting and repacking it into a new erf, the character's head vanishes.

Anybody got any ideas what might be going wrong...?

If it makes any difference, I'm using Windows 7/64 and I have my game installed to a directory other than Program Files.


Edit: for the record, what I'm attempting to do is make some minor alterations to the companions, e.g. changing Isabella's hair, removing Merrill's tattoos: nothing major, just some tweaks, but it's still defeating me.

[tsibson]

@MikeFightNight
DXT5 is the one you want.
Also, the file ending with 0t is transparency, n is normal map, and s is skin. The d is the one you want to edit. The 0t, n, and s files have all the layers locked and I haven't figured out how to unlock them yet...I know enough about making a new normal map file and transparency so it's no problem making new ones but I don't know anything about the skin file. In other games the skin is totally different. If anyone can shed some light on making a new skin file I would appreciate it.

[MikeFightNight]

Well I finally figured out how to swap armors, could not of done it without tsibson's help!
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Check out my Female Elf Champion here

[vometia]

Just in case anyone's interested, and since it took me longer than expected to find, Merrill's tattoos can be eradicated as follows:

Opening ef_merril.mor in the GFF editor, go to 23003 (morph nodes) -> 50 -> 23005 (morph_vector4fparam) -> 3 -> 17 (vector4flist). Item 0 seems to specify the tattoo colour, with the 4th ("d") variable being its alpha channel; setting it to 0 will make the tattoos vanish.

Apologies to anyone if I'm either repeating someone else, stating the very obvious or have found an exceptionally difficult way of achieving this, I was just excited at finally getting my minor customisation to work!

[fenril Kinaz]

Sorry,but where is files to change eye color\hair for male elf morph? In artfp.erf\art\characters\playercharacter\elfmale is nothing and in \art\characters\playercharacter\shared\heads doesn't have files like "t1_stb_red" or "t1_skn_e02".
Please help me( Thanks

Edited by fenril Kinaz, 18 March 2011 - 12:30 PM.

[j7569go]

guys... can someone ...point me in the right direction .. I would like to change merill's body and face with casandra in her inqisitor armor thanks in advance

[XunAmarox]

How to extract custom Hawke character from save game to mor or erf ??

Use DragonAge Face Replacer. The new one doesn't work for me, but v1.04 works fine. Maybe DAFR_script_120 will work, I dunno (edit: confirmed, it works).

Proof:

(Bethany)(Hawke)

1. Extract mor from save with face replacer.
2. rename mor to match npc's mor file.
3. (at this point we're following this tutorial's instructions)
4. put into a new folder
5. use erfpack
6. put it in override folder.

Using this method you can pretty much make an npc look however you want pretty easily. Just stand by the mirror in Black Emporium and change the face how you want, save, extract, blah blah. Easy!

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With that said... I have a question myself someone may be able to help me out with...

Can anyone upload Aveline's armor texture (high) that she starts with? Or at the least tell me which it is?

I made mine much prettier and used a darker skin tone (t1_skn_h09) and it looks great in her normal armor, but really bad in her original one.

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Also, can anyone point out which armor Bethany uses in the original prologue where she has a much larger bust?

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Also, the texture of Isabela's hair (and thereby her piercing). I figure, if someone were to just alpha out that lip piercing that she'd look a lot better...

Edited by XunAmarox, 20 March 2011 - 02:40 AM.

[Mazzard]

thanks

but now i need to know how add it to the list of present.

Now as we know, rename * .mor to .mop

it show in present list but it's not complete.

[Hotieadin]

I downloaded the free 30 day trial of Photo shop. I downloaded the DDS Plug in from Nvidia and installed it. But I get a error every time I try to open up a file like Sexy Bra V1 from AjuntaPall316s DA 2 Nudie Mods. I am not sure what I am doing wrong the error I get is Could not complete your request because the file-format module cannot parse the file. I have not used Adobe Photo shop since like 1990s. If anyone can help I would appreciate it.