Velanna as playable characer in Origins...possible?

[Cabal2k]

Hi there,

 

is it possible to make Velanna from Awakening playable in the Original Origins campaign? It would be really nice if someone could find it out or make it possible.

 

Greets

C2k

[DarkeWolf]

Heyas C2k-

Well, as far as her background, and storyline, skills and whatnot, that's something that would take some pretty serious work.

However, if what you're wanting is to have a character that looks like her, then I think you'll find what you need to know in this thread, to make it work,

http://thenexusforums.com/index.php?showtopic=212614

Now granted, the OP is wanting to make his character look like Anders. But I've got the name of the facemorph for Lanna listed there as well, so you'd just replace Ander's facemorph name with the one listed for Velanna.

 

For her voice however, I'm not sure which soundset she uses. Or if her voiceovers would be compatible. So I'm afraid that I cant tell you IF you can use her voice for the PC, or if so...what filename to change the player voice TO, in order to do it. :sad:

 

As for her skills, you'd have to use one of the mods that allows you to use awakening skills in the OC.

http://www.dragonagenexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=920

Now, here's another problem. Some of them could have a level requirement that you can't reach by the level limit in DAO. So you may also need to use the level 50 in the OC mod.

http://www.dragonagenexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=930

 

I hope that this helps

Happy gaming! :smile:

[Cabal2k]

Hi Darkewolf,

 

thanks but thats not what i searching for. The Skills&Talents i have allready with the "Awakening in OC" Mod. The requirements are also no prob cause theres a patch that put this down to Lvl 10-16. And for the Runecrafting there is a mod too in the nexus.

 

What i want is a party with Morrigan, Leliana and Velanna, with my new female warrior they where the "Ultimate Babe Collection" :). Wynne is to old for this couple of babes so i need Velanna :D

 

For that i search something like this

http://www.dragonagenexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=740

[DarkeWolf]

C2k- Ok, cool. So you've got the talents and skills/spells taken care of. Thats definitely a step in the right direction.

Ok, are you looking for something that is just basically another body on the team, or are you looking for deeper interaction with the character? Such as dialogs and conversations? If you're looking for something like that, there's basically two ways that you could do this. Either by making Wynn look like Lanna, or by creating an entirely new character. Which can be pretty in depth and some considerable amount of work and different fields of knowledge. Such as how to do dialogs, cutscenes, voice overs, and making modules.

If you're looking for just something that looks like Lanna and doesnt really have a lot of interaction to the character, then modding one of the characters from the Party Recruiting mod is the best bet.

 

The problem with making Wynn look like Velanna is that A) You are stuck with Wynn's dialogs. Which honestly, gets old after a while. She preaches too much. and B) that velanna's voice files wouldnt cover Wynn's dialogs so you'd still have to keep it set to use Wynn's voice files.

 

The problem with making one of the Party Recruiting characters like her is that you won't really have any dialog options with them. They will follow you around, and fight with you, and you can make them use skills and such, but that's about it.

 

Completely creating a new character would take at least a week or so, most likely, and as I said, requires learning how to do several different fields in the toolset. And I have absolutely no experience with totally creating a new character, so I wouldnt be able to give you any assistance with that, as I would be able to with just editing an existing character.

 

I also want to mention that I dont have DAA on my computer. So I'm going to have to ask around to find out some of Velanna's information. Which might take some time.

[Cabal2k]

Hi Darkewolf,

 

no, only fighting, that dialogoptions are impossible i know. Maybe she can talk a little bit in battle as she do in Awake, but nothing more. But only the same tahts Party recruting Mod do is although enough, more would be welcome but not needed ;)

 

Thats all, hope someone who have the experience in modding and own Awakening read this lines and will do it :)

[DarkeWolf]

Heyas C2k-

 

Well, the dialog options arent "impossible" just more work. Especially if you start getting into multiple conversations (convos) like with the main characters.

And not really something that I have any experience with.

I have edited some of the party recruiting characters before, so I can help you out with that. Like I said tho, I need to find out some of Velanna's information...like filenames for her sound set, (voice) the name for her skillset (which is the file that tells the game what skills/spells/etc to give her at start and as she levels up) and then have the time to track down which files that those are in the party recruiting mod again.

I've asked a couple of friends of mine to see if they can send me the velanna.utc file so that I can get that info, but again... it may time a bit of time.

 

Its a lot easier to edit one of the existing characters from that mod, than it is to create an all new one. So you'd pretty much want to decide which of them you want to edit. And I'll go ahead and mention that it would be better to be female. The male characters CAN be changed.... however... if the character has already been spawned in a game... it will stick with a female head on a male body. Thats a bug in the game, not the mod itself. It will also do that if you try to edit one of the main NPC's from male/female female/male. So basically what I'm saying is that they will look Perfect in a NEW game, but a game that they've already been loaded up in will look wrong if you do it male/female instead of female/female.

Its always possible to uninstall the mod, force load your save game and then create a new, clean save that doesnt have the mod listed in it. then reinstall the mod and load it up again into your clean save. I've had limited success with that. about 65% success rate of getting them to look right in older games using that method.

 

Now... I also wanna mention that at least in MY game... the Arle Eamon character is buggy. His AI is completely wack, and he won't fight. He'll hit maybe once, then just stand there and get beat to death (literally!). ....Maybe it's true what Loghain said to him... He's getting too old and fat? HAHAHA.

So any characters that I have tried to clone based off of HIM, havent worked. So far, none of my other attempts have had that kind of bug tho. So I'd strongly suggest not using him for the conversion, based on that experience.

 

So yeah, you've got a lil bit of time to decide which character you wanna change, while I get the information that I need, and then type it all up. Then we'll get started on having Velanna in your party after you recruit her :wink:

[DarkeWolf]

Heyas C2k- I just wanted to touch base with you, and let ya know that I havent forgotten about this. I just havent received the information that I need yet.

I've posted on another board with a request for said info, and hopefully we'll get word back soon, so that we can get the ball rolling on this, and you can have your all female team :smile:

[mirja]

What i want is a party with Morrigan, Leliana and Velanna, with my new female warrior they where the "Ultimate Babe Collection" :). Wynne is to old for this couple of babes so i need Velanna :D

 

this is pretty much exactly what i want as well.

an all female party with cool chicks.

like you said wynne is not cool enough to fill the last female slot, and shes oooold.

i usually end up playing with morrigan, leli and dog, me beeing a melee rouge.

 

im a cat person so i use dog only for the lack of a female charachter. (ok zev is gay, but that doesent cut the cheese :-) )

i´ll take a dog over a man anytime, lol.

 

adding velanna would be very interesting, then it will be me as melee rouge or warrior, morri, vel and leli as archer.

wow, that would be an awesome party.

 

i really hope some one makes a mod to bring velanna into oc.

[DarkeWolf]

I'll have it on here probably tomorrow. :wink:

A finally found a friend who knew how to open and extract her .utc file, so I now have the information. And since I dont have school tomorrow, I'll have a free day to work on it. And type out all the instructions on how to change the character, and what files you'll need to open up in the toolset to edit. (as well as the instructions on how to extract those files so that you can actually edit them).

 

Its really not very hard, just a lot of explaining and tracking down, on my part :wink:

 

Now, one thing that I do wanna mention tho, and I had totally forgotten about this, since I havent played in like.... 2.25 months.

that so far, I havent been able to track down how to make them display a different name. For instance, my Ser Cauthrien clone still shows as "King Cailan" if you do a mouseover on her. I'm told that it has something to do with a talktable file. And I'll be trying to track that down and test it tomorrow as well.

 

And I will go ahead and reiterate, that this doesnt work RIGHT on a character that has already been spawned. So if you've already been to the party recruiting area, you'll have to uninstall the mod, force load your savegame, create a new, clean save without over-writing the old one, and shut down. Then reinstall the party recruiting mod, load up the savegame, and re-recruit them. (if you've already got some of them, take their gear before you start uninstalling).

Not a bug with the mod itself, its a flaw in how the game works. They end up looking like a male with a female head if you change a male to female. Or female to male.

 

I added the king cailan/ser cauthrien file if you guys wanna play around with it. I'll leave it up for about a week, I gotta clear space outta my attachements :sad:

Just unzip it to your override folder if you already have the party recruiting mod already installed.

[DarkeWolf]

:verymad: GrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRR!!! I've been hunting for almost 4 hours for the file that contains the displayed name for these characters! And it's gotta be in one of the .ncs files that I can't open. I've hunted around for alternate methods, and cant seem to find any.

I did start a new thread on the subject over in builder troubleshooting, and hopefully I'll get some help on it there!

 

So that part, we're gonna have to wait on, I'm afraid :sad:

 

However, I attached a notepad doc to my post that explains what you need, what you need to do, the changes to input on what line, and I'm pretty sure that I didnt miss anything. Tho I couldnt test it, since I dont have DAA anymore. if any problems, then please post back and I'll fill in the blanks :wink:

 

Hopefully that will get you guys going. And I'll hopefully get some info on how to change their names, and when I do, I'll post back again.