nicmercy Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 Basically I was hoping to find or perhaps inspire someone with the know how, to make a mod that basically adjusts certain gender specific banter/dialogue to be more appropriate in cases where you may use a mod to allow a romance between the same gender that isn't normally allowed by the unmodded game. Seeing the amazing work done for the Dark Ritual Deleted Scene mod (http://www.dragonagenexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1611) I was thinking perhaps some creative editing of the sound files to substitute him/her his/hers he/she etc or even finding geneder neutral replacement words. I tried doing it myself with some success as far as finding suitable snippets to edit in but I have no idea how to make such dialogue match the animations or even how to get those sounds back into the game. Some examples of what I came up with can be heard here: http://rapidshare.com/files/423138675/82673_m.wav (this is an example of a gender neutral swap in Alistair's dialogue. The word women was replaced with relations... actually it was the word relationship with the ship snipped off and an "ss" from another piece of Alistair's dialogue tacked on) http://rapidshare.com/files/423139133/158876_m.wav (this is an example of a gender specific swap in Wynne's dialogue. The word her being replaced with him.) http://rapidshare.com/files/423139447/158879_m.wav(this is an example of a gender specific swap in Alistair's dialogue. The word her being replaced with him.) Those were some of my better edits but the tecnical aspects of getting these things into the game eludes me and I only tried a few... someone with more expertise could probably do better audio edits than myself and get them in the game as a functioning mod... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thandal Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 In addition to all the ss editing this requires, you have the difficulty of the way the gender bending mods work. They set the PC's gender to be the "other" one for romantic interactions as far as the specific NPC (Alistair or Morrigan) is concerned. So, if you're playing a Fem!Warden romancing Morrigan, Morri sees you as male. (For clarity and completeness; she sees you as male specifcally for all the relationship-related dialogues. But those are the only ones in which this "incorrect pronoun" issue arises in the first place! :laugh: ) Now our problem is, how do we tell her .dlg file which snippet to play? We'd need to add code that says "ignore the setting you would normally use to determine the Warden's gender (since that may have been fiddled with by an unofficial mod) and check over here, instead. And then, in certain cases, use THESE modified ss files instead of the usual ones." All in all, a tall (maybe impossible) order for a mod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicmercy Posted October 4, 2010 Author Share Posted October 4, 2010 Yea I figured it would be a pretty massive undertaking... I'd be happy with a simple override that just replaced the sounds for those who prefer using the non traditional romance addons but thats probably still a ton of work in and of itself =\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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