Dragon Age Inquisition hairs

[thomilee]

While most of them are kind of "meh," for the sake of continuity, I'd love to have a mod that ported the hair meshes from DAI to DAO. I heard rumor that there used to be one, but I've been unsuccessful in finding it. I'd just really like to see these hairs turn up again--mostly, because I'm trying to make recurring characters look more like themselves, and poor little Dagna doesn't have her bun!

If you know where I might find one, please link me to it!

Thanks,
Thomi

[theskymoves]

I'm not aware of a port to DAO of the bun used by DAI!Dagna (though I believe there may be one for DA2), but there is Risibisi's most excellent Look Hair! - Inquisition Edition for some of the other iconic DAI hairstyles.

Edited December 5, 2016 by theskymoves

[gioveb]

theskymoves is right. Risibisi's work on hairstyles is excellent. However, I noted some flaws in the models. I am checking the DAI hairstyles (from their "Nexus Mod Version" on the website):

1) The texture mapping is usually wrong (the UV map is outside the texture region) resulting probably in a flat color of the hair.

2) There are no LODs models. The hair works at distance because they painted only the weight of the head bone, which does not change in the LOD2 or LOD3 skeleton. However, the result is a rigid hair that moves with the head (as an helmet).

Another question: can we use Risibisi's hairstyles in our mods on Nexus or not?

Thank you

[theskymoves]

Risi's Terms of Use/Permissions for her mods (as stated on her site) are: 'Do not include any of my mods in your mods. If you want to use my mods for your mod: Just link to my modpage.'

You can make morphs with the hairstyles and share those as a mod on the Nexus; you can't include the hairstyles as assets in your download without permission. (The same would be true of assets from any mods/resource that does not have explicit open use permissions.)

(I can't seem to locate the 'Nexus Mod Version' of the Inquisition hairs, for comparison to the files on Risi's site... could you link to that page, please? Thanks!)

[gioveb]

Hi. Risibisi has an archive called 'Nexus Mod Version' on their website. You find it on the home page, link in left side column https://mrs-risibisi.tumblr.com/

So, probably, they are posting something related to 'Nexus' somewhere else without permission.

btw. many if not all of the hairs Risibisi has on their website, are porting from DAI or DA2 or The Sims, so why they should keep rights or permissions on them?

 

Edited November 16 by gioveb

[theskymoves]

Okay, I understand what the 'Nexus Mod Version' is... those files were on the Nexus at one time, and when Risibisi removed the mods from the Nexus, she shared them via her blog.

The Inquisition ports in that 'Nexus Mods Version' download are the version 1.0 files. The download I linked to above is Version 2.

And as to permissions, Risi requested and obtained permission from the Sims modders to port those hairs, and, per her stated permissions, her ports are not free-to-use modder's assets. Risi is the only one who can upload those ports to the Nexus or give permission for them to be uploaded.

And anyone can port the hairs from DA2 and DAI. (For example, tmp7704 also ported a number of hairstyles from DA2, back in the day.) But unless you have permission from the modder who made the ports, you can't upload those ported DA2/DAI hairs to the Nexus, or include them as assets in your mods. The porting modder holds the upload permissions for their port, regardless of the original source.

Here is a link to the Nexus File Submission Guidelines: linky.

[gioveb]

Ok. Understood. Thank you.