Shader 2.0, black eyes -> nonblack eyes

[K21Nova]

Hi,

 

I'm using a Radeon X850, and as such have no shader 3.0, which I'm guessing is the reason for not getting the blood spatters, and getting black eyes on most of the characters. First of all, I'm talking about pitch black here, not "dark because I have low brightness". Secondly, some characters actually have had nonblack eyes, such as Morrigan (her golden eyes), the werewolves, and now recently as I got the mod "Dragon Age Redesigned v 7.3", which changed the appearance of Leliana. Suddenly Leliana has bright blue eyes now.

 

So. clearly I can have actual eyes on people, so my question is that is there a mod that does this? I tried two of the most popular eye mods, but they don't seem to have any effect. I'm looking for an eye mod which does this on a general level, so as to give all characters in the game "normal" and not pitch black eyes.

 

I did try searching for such a mod or discussion of such a mod but failed to come up with results, so I thought I'd ask. Sorry if it's an old question (which it probably is). Thanks in advance, though.

 

EDIT: Having looked a bit more into this issue now, I guess me being able to see eyes on some models and not on every model has something to do with actual model replacements which I'm using, and not eyes themselves.

 

I looked into this black eye issue way back, but back then - as it seems is the case now - there were just a lot of directions as to how to get the eyes brighter. The thing is though, us using low res can't get the black eyes brighter.

 

Clearly though it has absolutely nothing to do with my GPU not being able to render eyes since I'm right now seeing bright green, blue and grey eyes on some characters, but that the engine has been made so that it's using shader 3, or something similar.

 

I suppose I'll try to dig deeper and see if there's a way to switch out the heads of everyone in the game to something that supports these older cards. If you know of an eye mod that replaces this ridiculously high requirement for eyes and allows us older hardware users to see eye colors, it would be much appreciated.

 

EDIT 2: I took a couple screen shots from the game, just to show what I mean in case anyone is still unclear.

 

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/2290/elfwoman.jpg - This is a normal NPC elf woman in the Dalish camp in the beginning phases of the Dalish elf story. As you can see she has clear blue beautiful eyes.

 

http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/2706/elfhuntress.jpg - This is a normal NPC elf huntress standing right next to the above elf woman in the same Dalish camp. She still has the pitch black irises.

 

Some of the NPC's in the game now seem to have beautiful colored eyes whether they're random NPC's or lore characters, but some still sport those colorless black eyes. Clearly I've been able to do something with some mod to give some characters eye color for us who are using low graphics, so I'd love to know if there's a mod that gives them to all.

Edited July 28, 2010 by K21Nova

[Kaerar]

A solution maybe to use PineappleTree's Eye mod. Also Dracomies True Textures (as you've already noticed) helps a fair bit too.

 

If you get DA Mod Manager it comes with a Chargen Compendium which is very easy to add Dracomies True Textures too and has a replacement for ALL the stock eyes. Well worth looking into, though I am impressed you got it running on an X850 ;)

[K21Nova]

A solution maybe to use PineappleTree's Eye mod. Also Dracomies True Textures (as you've already noticed) helps a fair bit too.

 

If you get DA Mod Manager it comes with a Chargen Compendium which is very easy to add Dracomies True Textures too and has a replacement for ALL the stock eyes. Well worth looking into, though I am impressed you got it running on an X850 ;)

 

Hi,

 

I cleared all my mods, tried the DAO-Modmanager + Chargen trick, but it changed nothing as far as eyes are concerned. Everyone's eyes were pitch black.

 

Then I cleared all my mods again, installed Dragon Age Redesigned v7.3 with everything it required (Bidelle's, More Hairstyles, Vibrant Colors), and once again I had characters with beautiful eyes. Morrigan, Leliana, Wynne and such were obviously all sporting eye color now, as well as unique head morphs, but also when adventuring here and there I once again saw some NPC's with colored eyes, and some with pitch black eyes.

 

This means that whatever Dragon Age Redesigned does to unique characters, it also does it to some random NPC's. I would be quite interested in finding out whether this could be applied to all NPC's. It's bad enough not being able to see the blood spatter, as it would be a fun thing to have to give some realism, but to have everyone with these pitch black demon eyes kind of gets quite tiresome after a while.

 

I'm very new at these mods and I'm not quite sure if I've understood this correctly, but it's these "morphs" which are giving some of the characters eye color, and not an eye mod at all?

 

What we need then, is a mod that morphs every single head in the game to such a version that allows those of us with older GPU's to see eye color. I don't suppose someone has made such a mod already? :)

 

As an aside, the Dragon Age Redesigned does nothing for the PC's eyes, even if I go create a new character. I still end up with some dozen different pitch black choices.

Edited July 29, 2010 by K21Nova

[K21Nova]

Well, I learned how to replace the heads of individual characters, including my own, so for the most important characters I don't have to look at black eyes. I guess if I would want to have colored eyes on all of the characters, I would need to do head morph replacements on all of them. Not sure yet if there's like some generic head I can replace, and even then they'll just have a single eye color.

 

Still, looking at blue or brown eyes would be much better than looking at pitch black eyes.

 

Anyways, I guess this thread has been concluded unless someone knows of a mod that does this already.

Edited July 30, 2010 by K21Nova

[Thandal]

Generally, this behavior is due to the "Graphics Detail" or "Texture Detail" video settings being too low. Below a certain point (not sure exactly what it is, I run at the highest) almost all eyes turn back. The reason certain characters don't exhibit this behavior is because they have their own "special eyes" coding, rather than the generic models. Best-known example in the vanilla game is Morrigan's "Shapeshifter Eyes". (In their human form, the Weres from the Brecilian Forest have the same ones after you end the curse.) Sounds like the Leli mod you installed also has its own "eyes".

 

Have you checked your "options" menu?