New to mods.

[Chaintis]

I have downloaded some mods for Dragon Age origins JB textures and the pineapple one to expand the range of skin tone and eye colors. I downloaded Dragon Age origins from steam. I downloaded the mods and put them in the addin folder for Dragon age origins. I then put these mods in the override folder. The mods don't seem to take effect. I have tried the DA Modder, and that won't work for some reason. I try to install mods in the slot or browse but it does not recognize them as a file. So I tried to do it manually as I have described above. Any suggestions?

[Thandal]

Welcome Chaintis!

 

This might help get you started: Using Dragon Age Mods for Dummies. After taking a look at that article, feel free to come back and ask specific questions about what you're trying to do.

 

Happy (Modded) Gaming! :thumbsup:

[Chaintis]

I was trying to install the mod JBtextures, the one that improves on the appearance of the game by changing low resolution textures. How do I go about installing this. Would a I use DAmodder for this,? I read I need the Winzip utility or something like that. I also cannot locate the DA updater. I have no file with bin-ship. I have searched everywhere for it on my hard drive. I downloaded this game from steam. So can I go another route with installing JBtextures?

[elvinkun]

I was trying to install the mod JBtextures, the one that improves on the appearance of the game by changing low resolution textures. How do I go about installing this. Would a I use DAmodder for this,? I read I need the Winzip utility or something like that. I also cannot locate the DA updater. I have no file with bin-ship. I have searched everywhere for it on my hard drive. I downloaded this game from steam. So can I go another route with installing JBtextures?

 

You don't need mod managers for mods that install by extracting to override, mod managers are mostly for "packs" and .dazip files. As for the textures, you simply download, extract the archive (using winrar / 7zip or similar archive program) and then move the extracted folder into your DA override, which is a folder in your documents > Bioware > DA > packages > core > override. And that's it, once you run the game, it will load those textures and anything else in the folder over the original.

 

If nothing happens, copy the files from JB folder to overide directly (so there will be no folder in your override, just the texture files) and rerun the game. And that should be it.

 

And just a personal experience, be carefull this one, those textures caused rather extreme drop in game performance for me, despite the fact that my computer should be able to hadle it without any problems, so watch out for that.

 

And generally, all mods are installed like that, you simply unpack the files into this folder I mentioned so many times. If you get files of .dazip type, you'll have to either use modmanager to install them, or simply place them into override and then run game, check downloable content and activate them there.

 

Sorry if I'm causing more confusion that clarification :D

 

EDIT: And DA updater, you don't need that for modding (You can get mod manager here on nexus, which is better than the updater anyway), but as to where it is... I might be mistaken, but I think the steam version can be updated only via steam itself, so there might be no .exe file for that in the game folders.

Edited October 1, 2011 by elvinkun

[Thandal]

As noted in the article I linked above, Steam installs have a slightly different folder structure than with the retail disc (or EA's direct download) version. For most mods, the only thing Steam user's need to change from the mod author's generic instructions is the specific path to where the mod's (extracted) files belong.

 

But I can't say how Steam deals with .dazip files. I thought the DAUpdater.exe worked the same way regardless of which form of installation the game has. :confused: