Adding Hair Accessories Into The Game

[Pyroblasta]

I know this has been done in the past, but I can no longer find the tutorials necessary for doing this.

From Hairstyle day I like some of the accessories, but not the hairstyle. Or I like some the hair but it has no hair accessories or earrings. Basicially, I am trying to add one earrings or headbands to the characters from Hairstyle Day.

I found only one old post from the Nexus Forums about Adding an Earring but I never got around to successfully adding one earring myself.

I can get the hair accessory Blender but I am stuck from there. I cannot get the files from Blender into the game without crashing at chargen or if it does not crash the hair is misaligned even though Blender is perfectly align.

 

 

 

Here is my progress so far

I Use Blender 2.49b

and Dragonblender 0.20 importexport script

 

I can import .msh into blender using the import scripts. The tricky part is adding the accessory. Every time I try to add a chunk to the vanilla hair mesh

Eg. A pair of earrings or a headband to the vanilla meshes and save the chunk. Then I replace the vanilla hair with the hairstyle I like from Hairstyle Day. Start the game go to chargen go to my hairstyle then... The game crashes at the chargen. This means it is either MSH or MMH. Getting the MMH to point to the MSH seems pretty pointless if everything crashes at chargen.

 

The most successful progress I got is using New Mesh in the DragonBlender importexport script then saving the added chunks over the .MSH then getting the MMH to point to the new mesh. In the chargen it does not crash, but the hair is totally misaligned even though the hair meshes are lined up perfectly under Blender.

Problem is trying to realign the hair is way too tedious of a job.

[honeywhite]

I can't really help you myself (I can't even get this version of the Blender script to work properly), but you can download a .pdf tutorial from Mrs Risibisi's Tumblr. Hope this helps!

[Pyroblasta]

Thanks for the .pdf tutorial I don't know how you managed to dig up that one from Risibisi Tumblr cause I been looking all over that page and never found it myself.

 

I don't know if you are having a setup issue on getting Blender script to work properly:

If it's a Yes then I can help below.

If it's a No then I might not be able to.

 

 

To get the Blender script to work,

 

I install Blender into easy to find spot. My E:\ is easy to find.

I extract the Dragonblender script into the same folder I installed Blender 2.49b and it has to be Blender 2.49b.

File > Open. Type in the E:\ at the top bar.

Go to the Blender 2.49b search for DragonAge_Tools.blend

 

There be two panels on the right, top one with the green text is the one I want.

 

Right-Click the Green Text panel > Execute Script

 

You can try and ask around if this is not the answer perhaps someone else can answer you around here.

 

 

Update

My progress is so far I can add chunks to the mesh files like earrings or headbands and they work sometimes. Once I start messing with the hairs, both vanilla or custom ones is when this gets messy. All the others stuff seems really out of place in the game.

 

Results are rather inconsistent.

 

Update

 

I took a bit more time to read and understand the tutorial and I am getting the hang of things now.

 

Found out the inconsistency.

You can't save your work done on Blender then close it and resume where you left off. That much is I know. It would be nice to be able to save everything and get the import scripts to properly import everything into the game.

Apparently, each time I exit then starting from scratch to messing around and finally replacing the hairs properly. The changes made will differ and affects the final result of the imported hairstyle. That final result will differ from the first few prototype hairstyles.

 

All of this requires tons of efforts. Way too much efforts.

Don't know if they can fix this up in the future.

Edited April 8, 2019 by Pyroblasta