NEUTRAL FEMALE ARMOR (Medium + High edition) by magpiedragon
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- replaces vanilla meshes for Medium and High female armors for all races with more unisex ones
- adds missing shoulder guard and belt to elf and human female heavy armor models
- fixes several cases of missing heavy male armor textures
- replaces most vanilla textures for Medium and High female armors with more unisex ones


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modified files:
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Models:
df_arm_hvy_x.msh
df_arm_med_x.msh
ef_arm_hvy_x.msh
ef_arm_med_x.msh
hf_arm_hvy_x.msh
hf_arm_med_x.msh
(all lods)

Textures:
pf_arm_hvya_0x.dds
pf_arm_hvyb_0x.dds
pf_arm_hvyc_0x.dds
pf_arm_hvyd_0x.dds
pf_arm_meda_0x.dds
pf_arm_medb_0x.dds
pf_arm_medd_0x.dds
(all maps)

pf_arm_hvye_0n.dds
pf_arm_medc_0n.dds
pm_arm_hvya_0n.dds
pm_arm_hvyc_0d.dds
pm_amr_hvyd_0d.dds


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how to install:
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- put "NEUTRAL FEMALE ARMOR" folder in your override, remove to uninstall
- you should be able to add or remove the mod at any time without breaking anything


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adjusted versions:
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- download the appropriate additional file, unpack it and put the contents inside the main NEUTRAL FEMALE ARMOR folder
- unless you know what you are doing you might want to keep only one folder per race in the main "NEUTRAL FEMALE ARMOR" directory
Example: if you are using the elf update and dwarf proportion fix mods, your folders should end up looking like this:

DF - proportion fix
EF - elf update
HF
textures

- you will want to make sure neutral armor takes priority over proportion fixes/elf update mods when the game starts up (with multiple versions of the same file the model that ends up showing up in game is the one the game loaded last!)

The easiest way to do that is probably either to

a) delete all the overlapping files from the elf update/proportion fixes mods

DF proportion fix:
proportions_dwarf\heavy\ - delete all the files starting with df_arm_hvy
proportions_dwarf\heavy\lod_2 - delete all the files starting with df_arm_hvy
proportions_dwarf\medium - delete all the files starting with df_arm_med
proportions_dwarf\medium\lod_2 - delete all the files starting with df_arm_med

EF proportion fix:
proportions-elf\ - delete all the files starting with ef_arm_hvy and ef_arm_med

Elf update:
da2_elf-proportions\ef\heavy - delete all the files starting with ef_arm_hvy
da2_elf-proportions\ef\medium - delete all the files starting with ef_arm_med

HF proportion fix:
proportions-human\heavy - delete all the files starting with hf_arm_hvy
proportions-human\medium - delete all the files starting with hf_arm_med

(please take care to leave all the xx_glv_xxx files you find alone or you might end up with a bad case of floating arms)


OR


b) create a new folder in your override named "0. base proportions" or something to that effect (it's the '0' that's important) and move the folders containing elf update/proportion fix mods there


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hi-res textures:
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- download the appropriate additional file, unpack it and put the contents in NEUTRAL FEMALE ARMOR's "textures" folder


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compatibility:
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- this mod will conflict with any mod that edits and replaces the default medium and heavy female armor models or their textures. See above for making it work with tmp7704's proportion mods
- mods that use the default armor models and just retexture them (Phoenix Armory, Armor of the Devout etc) may end up looking a bit different than usual


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tools used:
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- Blender 2.49b + v011 of ImportExport script by NewByPower
- Gimp 2.8/2.9 with .dds and normal map plugins
- pyGFF editor


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credits:
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- hi-res version of all the edited textures courtesy of JB3textures mod
- many thanks to sapphim/starrarte for feedback and listening to me whine about normal maps