Uncumber

Oh wow, I seriously can't thank you enough! I didn't expect such a helpful reply at all! I'm busy during the day today, but this evening I will sit down and try to do what you've suggested. I'll let you know if I run in to any issues, but I'm sure I wont as it seems absolutely simple enough. Once again, thank you so, so much.

Hi there, Alright - what I'm attempting to do is simply switch the Legionnaire Scout specialisation (Rogue) with the Guardian specialisation (Warrior). Just to be absolutely clear, I mean to make it so that a Warrior can choose Legionnaire Scout, and a Rogue can choose Guardian. With everything that comes with them (bonus attributes, spells, etc). I am hoping this will just be a matter of swapping a couple of strings around in the 2da.erf. The thing is, I haven't done this sort of thing in a long, long time, so I'm a little lost. Any help would be hugely appreciated! I have extracted (and I'm looking at) the relevant specialisation GDAs (extracted from 2da.erf) using first erfeditor, then GDApp. I believe guitypes_gxa.gda is the one I want to actually edit. But.. what now? since I'm only wanting to swap the specialisations, I'm pretty sure this will only be a matter of swapping the strings.. but, which strings? All of them? ID? StringId? I hope I'm not asking for too much here, I've tried reading tutorials but it just hasn't really helped enough. Once again any help would be amazing. Thanks for reading! edit: I am trying to mod this, but if anybody knows of a pre-existing mod, or a much simpler method of achieving the same thing, that would be great to hear about instead!

Hi there! Alright - basically, I used to mod a fair amount, but it was absolutely years ago when DA:O first came out. I honestly can't remember a darn thing, I had to google how to install the most basic mods when I re-installed the game a couple of weeks ago. It's embarassing, but my memory for these things is just bad. Some of it is coming back to me as I go along, but I do have a question... I have some downloaded elf face presets that are much nicer than the original presets. I also have some amazing skin textures I have downloaded. - How do I go about putting one of the downloaded skin textures on to one of the downloaded presets (preferably so that it shows up in character generation)? I'm sure this isn't difficult to do, in fact I'm pretty sure I've done it before, but honestly I haven't a clue where to start now. If someone could perhaps just point me in the right direction so I can get a grasp of what I'm doing again, it would be so, so appreciated. Thanks for your time!

Aahh I'm really sorry! You know that's honestly the first bump I've ever done in my life, it will be the only one! I suppose I was just really surprised nobody knew. I guess I'll have to try and poke around some more and try harder to find something or rather. Once again, real apologies. I'll let this thread die - thank you for letting me know!

bump.. > . < I hate bumping but I can't find an answer anywhere, I've tried to google the question a hundred times with no luck. Surely somebody might have some idea?

Aaah, thanks Quorwyf! I'll think I'll be using Winter's Forge then, the description thing is kind of annoying - but it's hardly worth doing a whole mod over as you hardly ever see it in-game anyway. Thanks so much for the info =)

Apologies for lots of posts! I'm trying to do a bit of modding and don't know how to do a bit.. My question is; How would I go about changing or swapping class, race or origin icons? For example, if I wanted to exchange the purple Mage class icon, for the hooded brown Rogue one. Or if I wanted to swap the bard icon for the assassin one, for example. Just to clarify, I mean the icons you see when you open up the character screen with your stats on it in-game. Not spell or talent icons. Just the icons representing the races/origins/classes/specializations. . I can't imagine it's too hard to do, but I've been looking around for quite a while and can't find how to do it. Any help would be really appreciated! ^^

argh, thank you so much for the reply - but I should have said, I'm looking for ones for female bodies =( edit: female elf bodies ^^

Again question is pretty much in the title! I've been googling for aaages now, and I've seen a *few* (two or three maybe) pictures of body tattoos in Dragon Age Origins, so I'm assuming some mods *do* exist, but for the life of me I can't find one mod which adds them! I read on a forum that there's a mod which alters the Natural Bodies mod, to allow full body tattoos - but again I can't find it at all.. Are there any body tattoo mods out there.. anywhere?

Ah thank you for the information there Risibisi! I sadly don't have a 3d modelling program - I was hoping it was possible to resize in the toolset. That's helpful to know about Winter's Forge too, but that doesn't help me with changing the item's name or description does it? =( SO perhaps changing tevor117's work would be the way to go, as I've got no intention of releasing the mod to the public whatsoever. However.. I'm at a bit of a loss here with the toolset. I have extracted the item's .uti, but opening it in the toolset takes me to this screen: http://imageupper.com/s02/1/2/P13926601311967230_1.jpg (I hope that image worked) The only things I want to change is the name, the description, and the stats.. it looks like the name and the stats are appearing as 'TBD', I don't understand what that means, as those obviously aren't the name/description in game.. is there something special I am supposed to do to change the name/description? or do I simply write over the 'TBD'? Also the stats, under PropertiesList, are a list of numbers (i.e. 1006) - is there a table where I can see what property corresponds to what number? Lastly, tevor117's mod seems to add the item to your inventory *whenever* you load a game, this can get a little tedious as you end up with a large stack of the item in your inventory - I was going to copy over a different script referring to this item, that will just add the item to my inventory once. Doing this wont muck up anything, will it? As always any help would be most appreciated ^^

Hullo there! Question is pretty much in the title.. I realize there's already a 'Morrigan's Robes for Elves' mod out there (http://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/441/?) which does do the job amazingly well, kudos to tevor117 ^^ ---- HOWEVER I don't really like the name of his modded robes, or their description in the game (the name doesn't seem very 'elfish.') Also, however good the stats are, I'd quite like to tweak them to my own liking. I know how to access a .dazip file in the toolset, but I don't really know how to edit what I want from there - Also I'm not keen on changing somebody's hard work considering I'm more than happy to do the whole thing myself if I know how to... So my question is - how do I go about resizing Morrigan's Robes to fit an elf character? I know how to add an item to my inventory in game.. so I think *literally* the only thing I don't know how to do is the actual resizing. Any help whatsoever would be hugely, hugely appreciated, I've been trying to google this for an hour plus now and haven't gotten anywhere. But I love Morrigans Robes, I really want to try and get this to work ^^

argh didn't mean to write this reply to myself.. I clicked quote on my main post instead of edit so did a stupid double post, apologies for this.

Hey there everyone, hmmm, where to start! Alright, I had arrroound 125-150 mods installed using mod organizer.. I've been playing Skyrim a lot over the past few months and it's actually been running smoothly, I've just got up to level 50, the highest I've ever had a character, without too many CTDs, I've had a few, but it hasn't been bad. Now, I don't know why, but the last couple of weeks I have seemed to be having more and more crashes.. I've unticked mods off MO in the hope it will make things better, but they seemed to just get more frequent. The last couple of days I've been spending literally hours trying to get myself out of sticky repeated-CTD spots. The last straw was earlier today when I really thought I'd fixed my game by narrowing my mods down to around 30-50, my FPS was loads better, but then I found I'd got a dark/shadowy 'circle/ring' around my character that constantly follows me around. I've been trying to fix that problem for the past few hours and haven't found any solution - apart from removing all my shadows, which I'm simply not going to do, as I've already slaughtered the appearance of my game from removing all these 100-or-so pretty mods >.< However! I'm having a load of fun playing the game, my issue is that I caaaan't simply re-install and lose this level 50, SO much time and work has gone in to this character! But I am prepared to play with virtually no mods now.. I just can't be bothered to have this hassle again :sad: My main problem now is - even on MO with the vanilla-no-mods ticked profile, the game CTD's before I even get to the main menu. (it CTD's straight after the 'Bethesda' logo) I have no idea why that would be, there's hardly anything in my real skyrim data folder - there's SBW, ASIS and an ENB, that's literally it. - So.. what on earth can I do to keep my character? --- In summary - Game is playable now with mods, but having frequent crashes. I have improved my FPS a lot by removing A LOT of mods, I may (im not sure) have fixed the CTDs, but now I've got this seemingly un-fixable dark shadow following my character around. - I'm Happy to remove mods, but the game doesn't want to start without them. - I could re-install, but I really just can't face the prospect of losing this character as it's taken literally months to level up. -also, my PC is very, very capable of running Skyrim on best graphics, it's a brand new expensive PC. Well over any system requirement problems. I'm 150% sure it's not an issue with my PC/Graphics Card etc. -SO I guess my real question is : can I either re-install the game or remove all my mods, whilst still keeping the same save/character? edit: I just reticked all the mods I unticked before this shadow problem, and the shadow is still there, aaargh I don't understand! --- I will happily post screenshots of my MO, Skyrim, or data directory(s) if needed. Literally anything to try and sort this out.. I really just want to get back to playing Skyrim. I'll also really happily provide any more specific information, obviously I've taken quite a few steps doing lots of things, I just didn't want to write them aaall out here in the first post in case they were unnecessary. Any help would be so, so appreciated - thank you very much for reading. Uncumber.

I really can't believe how simple that was - I've been testing it out for the last five minutes and I think it's exaaactly what I was after! so really, thank you for the quick reply! I'm very grateful :D

edit: didn't realize the title was too long >.< It was Is there a mod which allows you to keep 2-handed weapons on your back whilst you cast spells/use a torch? Pretty self explanatory title, but I've been looking for something like this all night and haven't got anywhere.. Basically - my character is a mage, I virtually never use a weapon, just spells all the way. I usually carry around a quarterstaff ('cus that's how I imagine mages) - and it looks ace when my character is running around in robes and a cool staff on my back - but it's SO annoying when it disappears from my back whenever I equip any spells (or a torch, or anything) in my hands. Surely there's a mod which will allow me to cast spells and still see a staff (or two-handed-sword, or whatever) on my back? --- if there's really no such mod, is it possible to relatively easily add a permanent quarterstaff to my back, using the CK, that doesn't necessarily do anything, just sits on my back looking magey? --- Hope this has been understandable, it's sort of hard to explain what I mean! But thanks for reading - any info would be appreciated ^^

Hello! I've been trying to read up how to do this because it doesn't sound too difficult, but I can't find any information at all.. and with little experience with the creation kit, I feel pretty confused. But I'm sorry if this is very easy, or if it sounds like a stupid question, I don't want to waste anybody's time, I just can't find an answer anywhere. I simply want to exchange breton's and imperial's appearances. So, basically, I can play as an imperial - but look like a breton. I know I could make a new Breton, and then use the player.setrace Imperial console command, but the problem with that is then whenever I use showracemenu after that, I can only edit that one Breton preset - if I go to another preset it jars my appearance back to an imperial (obviously, because that's the race I've set me to.... and there are sometimes weird problems with the eyes/hair when I've tried to use the setrace command.) SO I thought a way to circumvent this would be to use the Creation Kit to just swap the races appearances with eachother, but I've got as far as the editing race box and I've no clue what to do now. I have read a few tutorials for CK, but nothing has seemed relevant to what I want to do. Hopefully this is clear, I just want to be an imperial - but look like a breton, and to be able to change my appearance in exactly the same way that I could if I were a breton. I don't really mind if it's just my character, or if all Bretons/Imperials have their appearance swapped! - it can't be that hard can it? After much scouring and brainache any help would be massively appreciated!

Does this mod exist anywhere? I'd try and make it myself but I just have literally no experience modding, I wouldn't know where to start. I simply want to play as a vampire, without the eye change - sunken face, anything. Just looking exactly the same as my original appearance, permanently. (not just when I'm fully fed or anything.) I'm fairly surprised the mod doesn't exist already, people always seem to be complaining about ugly vampire faces (though obviously it's all an opinion!) - so if someone could point me in the right direction of a mod already out there, that'd be fantastic. Or give me some pointers on how to do it myself? I'm really just looking for the easiest way to achieve it, I wouldn't mind if every vampire in the game had an 'ordinary' appearance - if that's easier to make than it just effecting your character. I just don't know enough about modding to talk in any detail about this stuff :S Perhaps if it IS simple someone could give me some pointers on how to do it? I'm not lazy, just ignorant :confused: p.s. I know there's one for Vanilla Skyrim, but it doesn't work with Dawnguard > . < Thanks for any help! edit: I didn't really know what subforum to post this in, hopefully this is ok!

Question is pretty much in the title, I've been trying to find a way to use the vampire 'bat/nosferatu-ish' faces from Dawnguard on your player character. My Dunmer looks the same as she's always done after contracting vampirism (bar the new dawnguard eyes) - I want the deformed bat face! I've tried looking for a mod that does it, I'm fairly surprised I haven't had any luck yet - maybe there's a simple way to do it I haven't seen? console commands? I have no idea :confused: anyway any help would be appreciated, thank you!

Mm I haven't been able to find anything either, but thanks so much for looking for it and suggesting it. Maybe someone else knows about the mod? (shall I ask in the mod section of this forum?) I think I'll keep looking for that mod rather than using the setrace whenever I want to change my appearance.. feels like a recipe for something going wrong.

Thank you for the quick reply! Mm I'd be very interested in that mod, would seem to solve a few difficulties. I'll try and have a poke around too, do you remember anything like what it was called? Absolutely no worries if not! My worry was also with the dawnguard face-alterer, I haven't played dawnguard yet (so I'm not exactly sure how the process works) - but I'm worried that when I go to alter my face, it will load up the Nord profiles, instead of the breton's, because I've set my race to Nord. Does that make sense? :confused:

Hi there! Ok, I want to play as a Nord, but use a Breton's appearance, I just prefer the Breton's faces. So I make a Breton and use the 'player.setrace nord.' I'm now a Nord. Everything's ok. My question is - will this screw up anything for me in game? In particular I'm thinking will I be able to alter my appearance at the Dawnguard person? And will it effect how vampirism looks? I don't want to play for ten hours plus before I find some annoying bug, or something I hadn't thought of >.< Any information would be hugely appreciated, thank you!

I understand how weird it sounds, really do =S That being said, thank you for giving me some advice. I'll give it a go right now. Is there a good (or any) bsa extractor you can recommend?

Honestly that's exactly what I'm saying. I started a new game after a fresh installation, and I still have them. I have no textures apart from lovely hairstyles. I mean I've looked through the folders a hundred times now, and as I said, I've searched for Covereyes over my whole PC, and nothing appears. But they're still in game.. I'll happily give any more information and I'll provide screenshots if you do need evidence. But truly it is how I'm saying. I've spent the last few hours going 'that's not possible'. Also this is the first time this has ever happened, I use mods all the time. I've always had 50-70+. Adding and removing them all the time. This is reeeally weird. Shall I list my mods? I don't know what more information I can give.

Firstly, Covereyes is a beautiful mod (http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/4869) however, after using it for a long while, I decided I wanted the vanilla eyes back again. The problem is, I just can't get rid of Covereyes. Whatever steps I've taken, they're always in game, in the race selection menu, on npcs etc. as if the mod were running. Here are the steps I've tried, in order. - On the Coveryes page it says to uninstall; delete the files in SteamApps\common\skyrim\Data\textures\actors\character\eyes, which I did. - Did a complete fresh re-installation of Skyrim, through Steam. I didn't keep anything at all. In fact I downloaded the whole game again. ( I felt like a fresh start for Dawnguard anyway. ) Covereyes were still in game. - Searched my computer for any Covereyes files and deleted them. (There was the downloaded .rar folder in my downloads, and for some reason I'd made a backup in another random folder - deleted them.) Covereyes still in game. - Deleted my Skyrim prefs, inis and saves from User\Documents\my games\skyrim - Searched my PC for Covereyes folder generally, and the specific eye files, can't find a thing. They're still in-game. I honestly don't know what to do. I've been looking for a solution for ages, but can't seem to find anyone else who's having a similar problem. I'm running 36 mods, none of which effect character's appearances in any way. I have Nexus Mod Manager, but I haven't used it for Covereyes. Any help would be hugely appreciated, it's bothering me quite a bit :(

Mmm, but that being said, those books only mention Nords using The Voice if I'm reading it correctly. Isn't it a bit odd that you're the only non-human dragonborn/voice user in history? Obviously I can say 'the gods decided it!' but it doesn't reeeally make it any less funny when everything lore related about the 'dragonborn', is essentially nord related. I thought there might be at least one story somewhere, or an NPC elf, orc, or whatever using the voice, or being a dragonborn. That would then surely make your story somewhat more believable wouldn't it? I can RP-explain my way around most things, being a member of all guilds for example - since my character is quite shady I just 'pretend' she's working them all for personal gain (basically.) But the guilds are faaairly minor to me, the whole 'Being a Dragonborn' is to me, a major factor. And I just can't get my head around how completely Nord they seem. the civil war is less of an issue for me, but again 'madness' seems like a bit of a cop out. I can say I want to rise in the ranks for 'personal gain' to some extent.. but to the point of seemingly cooompletely betraying my race (stormcloaks hate dunmer, imperials have hardly been better) just seems a bit drastic. Ah maybe I'm just being too picky.. I'm really just wondering how other non-human players justify their major decisions so maybe I can get a new perspective :smile: .