LapisLazzuli

If it helps anyone, I wrote a tutorial for rolling back to patch 5 after updating to patch 6. It assumes you have a copy of patch 5. Note: "Force rescan" does not work properly since patch 5 **************************** Mods with patch 6 It is currently impossible to use mods with Patch 6. However it is still a good thing to update your game and use the rollback method described bellow. That way you will not be bother by the automatic update every time you lauch the game or have to play offline. Rolling back to patch 5 If you already updated to Patch 6 and want to go back to patch 5, follow these instructions. PLEASE NOTE that by doing so, you will not be able to play Jaws of Hakkon DLC or have the fixes in patch 6. You will however be able to run mods again. Part 1 - Setting up the game folders ------------------------------------------------------ 1) In the "Update" folder of your game, Rename the folder "Patch" to "Vanilla_v6"; 2) Create a new folder and named it "Patch"; 3) If you have a copy of the patch 5, put the Data folder and the package.mft file in that newly created "Patch" folder 4) Make a copy of the Patch folder now containing the patch 5 and named it Vanilla_v5. It's now you're backup copy of patch 5 in case you need a fresh one. Part 2 - Merging the mods ---------------------------------------- 5) In your DAI Mod Manager folder, delete the Patch.daimod. This step is required only the first time you merged files after rolling back to patch 5. 6) Launch DAI MoD Manager, select the mods you want to merge then hit "Merge". You can save the result whereever you want. In my case I use \Documents\BioWare\MERGED Part 3 - Using the mods ------------------------------------- 7) Copy the Data folder and the package.mft file that DMM just created :cool: Paste it in the "Patch" folder created at step 2 9) Launch the game and enjoy your mods once more! IMPORTANT: Whenever you'll need to merge mods again, first copy/paste the content of the Vanilla_v5 folder in the Patch folder then run steps 5 to 9 If you want to go back to using Patch 6, copy/paste the content of Vanilla_v6 in the Patch folder. You will not be able to use mods but will be able to play the DLC. ***********************************

Having made a few custom armors with skin showing I've used the following receipe with success: - in the .mmh, the MMH_NAME has to be either armorm1 or glovesm1 or bootsm1, or clothesm1 like Ish said. The .msh chunk has to have the name too. - in the .mao file, any of the SkinTint will work. (my personnal favorite being PunchthroughSkinTint). Every.mao that has the "NoTint" or "Tint" can be replaced by "SkinTint" - You need to declare in the .mao a tint file and that file has to use an alpha channel with the skin portion you want to change. I typically use a 100% white mask. Concerning file naming: In my experience, it doesn't matter what you name your files has long as they have the proper extension and that you use the _0d, _0n, _0t, and _0s for the texture files. I try to keep the Bioaware naming convention to make it easier to know what is what but it's not necessary. Hope that helps Lapis