Has someone tried to recover the good old default Hawke's faces?

[ThancredLux]

I mean, the default female and male faces in Inquisition were butchered and didn't even had any kind of resemblence to the old ones, yes new engine and bla bla bla, but when a character like hawke is using shared textures instead of having uniques, something is not right, at least that's what I think. Anyway to the matter at hand.

 

Anyone has tried porting meshes and textures or any kind of thing to try to bring em back? or it's simple impossible to do?

 

https://i.imgur.com/8FJkTh5.png

[unniebee]

Textures might be possible, I'm not sure, but since the DA2 head structure is extremely different than the DAI head structure, I doubt anyone could ever recreate the face completely. Porting the meshes is not possible at this time; DAI Hawkes are not meshes so much as they are presets of the DAI face creator and I am pretty sure there would be no way at all to import an entirely new head for only Hawke.

 

Your best bet is to create a custom Hawke and tweak their features to be closer to what you think they should look like. horography has posted mods that attempt to recreate the iconic Hawke hairstyles, so those will help, and you can use any face textures you think might look better than the default.

 

There MIGHT be a way for someone to create a mod that changes the preset face data for the default Hawkes, but I have not seen a mod like that done before and personally would have no clue where to start, since the head preset data is to my knowledge not easily accessible within the files. IF someone could figure out how to do that, then in theory you would just need to create the face you wanted in the character creator, export the face settings (somehow), and then make a mod that slaps them onto Hawke. But that's entirely theoretical on my part - again, no one I have seen has figured out how to do such a thing.