Clothing glitch?

[MoonHoplite]

Hi,

 

Just a quick question:

 

When wearing clothing, such as nobles clothes, putting on boots (lion's paws) doesn't appear on my character. When using other armour/being naked, you can see the boots.

Is this a common bug? I use mods, so I was wondering...

 

 

Another random question:

 

Do you guys think using Combat Tweaks, Advanced Tactics, Improved Atmosphere, Dialouge tweak 93a, dragon aged redesigned and Zevran Dialogue Tweak would work well?

I used some compatability patches and followed some special compatability installations.

I hear having Improved Atmosphere, even by itself, is risky.

 

Thanks.

[RustyBlade]

When wearing clothing, such as nobles clothes, putting on boots (lion's paws) doesn't appear on my character. When using other armour/being naked, you can see the boots.

Is this a common bug? I use mods, so I was wondering...

 

It's not a bug, it's a feature. Items with the "clothing" attribute do not allow boots or gloves to show but it will give you the item bonuses for wearing them. Templar armor shows the gloves but not the boots. Kids show nothing but can wear anything their class and attributes allow.

 

Do you guys think using Combat Tweaks, Advanced Tactics, Improved Atmosphere, Dialouge tweak 93a, dragon aged redesigned and Zevran Dialogue Tweak would work well?

I used some compatability patches and followed some special compatability installations.

I hear having Improved Atmosphere, even by itself, is risky.

 

If you use Improved Atmosphere use nothing else. Remove IA from your list and you should be fine especially since you have fixes installed.

[DarkeWolf]

Hi,

 

Just a quick question:

 

When wearing clothing, such as nobles clothes, putting on boots (lion's paws) doesn't appear on my character. When using other armour/being naked, you can see the boots.

Is this a common bug? I use mods, so I was wondering...

 

Like RB stated, not a bug. Its due to the armors/clothes themselves, and the way that the game models are handled. Clothes, robes, and certain armors are an entire suit, or near entire suit. And thats the way that the model for that item is made. The mesh itself includes hands and feet. Which is why the new items dont appear on your character avatar, or paper doll. Just show up in the item list.

 

See, DA uses models differently than a lot of other games. In a lot of other games, if you throw on a shirt, the shirt model goes on over your existing character. In DA, a shirt model would REPLACE your characters upper body, lower body, upper arms, and upper legs. Its all one piece. Clothes are also made to include the hands model, and the feet models. Which is why the boots don't show up.

[MoonHoplite]

Thanks for your answers.

 

Do you guys recommend Improved Atmosphere or the rest of the other mods for my first playthrough?

 

If answerable, can you give me a general idea why IA is so risky to run with other mods? I checked for overides, etc. Zevfron's Dialogue Tweak even mentions a method to make it "compatiable" with IA.

Edited December 16, 2010 by MoonHoplite

[Thandal]

Personally, I recommned going with NO mods for your first playthrough. NONE whatsoever. The game is absolutely good enough "out-of-the-box".

 

Once you've done that, you'll both have some ideas of what you'd like to see, (changes in gear, appearance, abilities, etc.) and be able to recognize what the mods are doing to enhance your experience. At that point, feel free to go crazy! My total mods and add-ons are around 3GB at the moment. :tongue:

 

For your other question, "Improved Atmosphere" makes so many changes to so many parts of the game that it disrupts almost any other mod that does more than a facemorph. It also can leave things in a very unstable state (will crash on load) if you later remove it. While it might be possible to get any one mod to be "compatible", having to manually tweak either IA or the other mod for every single one you might want to try means, for me anyway, it's just not worth it. :laugh:

 

For some more specific mod suggestions, see here: "Good Mods". My list is the third post, but there are several other's opinions there as well. Also a link to my mini-tutorial on "Using DA Mods for Dummies". :thumbsup:

 

Enjoy!