Changing party member gender?

[Drauger]

Hi first post here and its for help xD, i want to know if its posible to change lets say Alistar so it uses female body , the head i supose that with a female human morph file would be enough right?, im kind of slow at this modding thing XD so please explain it in a easy way if its posible , thanks.

[billyro]

I wouldn't have a clue, but why would you want to do that? Turning Alistair into a female would be... strange, as well as breaking plot and certain scenes.

Sorry, I can't help you. I haven't modded for Dragon Age before, and I plan to stick to Bethesda modding.

[DarkeWolf]

Heyas Drauger :) Welcome to the nexus :)

Sorry that I'm coming in on this one really late. :(

 

Unfortunately.... no. Simply changing the morph that they use, will not work. It will result in a head the wrong size, being on the wrong body. In the example of Alistair... you would end up with a male body and a female head. Which does end up looking very strange.

 

What you would need to do is download and install the dragon age toolset (ts) and then click on the creatures button and do a search for the character that you are wanting to change. I find that it's a lot easier to work with an exported file of these guys, so once I find their .utc file, I right click it and then choose export without dependancies.

I then open the exported file up in the toolset.

 

(Now please keep in mind that I'm typing this from memory) Once the exported file is open you scroll down the list til you get to the area that has their appearance. There is a listing there for their gender. The value will be either 1 or 2. If the value is 1, you change it to a 2 or vice versa.

You then save the file, and drop it into your override folder in documents/bioware/dragon age/packages/core/override.

 

Now, you will need to create or have, a morph for the gender that you changed them to. So you would need a female face morph for Al. Rename that to hm_genfl_Alistair, em_genfl_Zevran, or whichever character, and then drop that into your override folder as well. That will make it so that he uses a female face, regardless of the "hm" "em" "dm" name prefix.

 

NOTE- That the game is not smart enough to automatically update a character that has ALREADY been spawned. So if you've already met the character, you will see the wrong body and wrong head.

There's two ways to fix this.

If it is a relatively new savegame, you can go in and edit the appearance of the character in the savegame information. This means opening up "charactername" savegame.das (NOT .das.met) scrolling waaaaay down to your party member's appearaces, and changing that 1 and 2. Then saving the file from the TS.

 

OR, you have that party member selected as the active party, and use a console script while you are in the game itself.

http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Console_(Origins)

 

runscript appearance # - Changes character appearance

 

So if it was Alistair, which is a human you'd want to run something like runscript appearance 2 to change his body to an elf. Then runscript appearance 15 to change him back to a human. Then if the body changes back to what it should be, you save the game. Vice versa if it was Zev who is an elf. Change him to human, and then back to an elf. The code for dwarf is runscript appearance 3.

 

But starting off a brand new character/game they will show up exactly as you have set them up to look. Or if they have not yet showed up in the game that you're playing, they will also be fine. Its just the characters that you have already met. Because your savegame has their information in the way they were before the changes.

 

NOTE 2- There is height differences between males and females. This WILL show up in cutscenes. Making some of the camera angles seem out of place, the characters looking too high or too low, stuff like that. Aside from completely recreating the cutscenes, there's really not anything that you can do about it.

 

NOTE 3- Voices. Their voices will not change because of this. Unless you want to go through and manually create a female voice, for EVERY one of this character's voice files, my recommendation is to just leave that part alone. Too much work. :whistling: Because not all of the female characters have the same lines, and won't work.

 

Hope this helps, and if you need more help, don't hesitate to ask :)

-DW

 

Edit- here's a couple of shots, to show that it can actually be done ;)

http://www.dragonagenexus.com/imageshare/image.php?id=4933

http://www.dragonagenexus.com/imageshare/image.php?id=6771

[Drauger]

YES!! Thank you Thank you xD you sir just made me start playing DAO again xD, thanks i really apreciate it.

[DarkeWolf]

Ha ha! Glad to hear that you got it worked out :)

And definitely glad to hear of a renewed interest in the game!! :thumbsup:

 

Very welcome, glad that I could help out :)