Dragon Age 2

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An alternate romance armor for Merrill, now absent chainmail and an absurd number of layers of shoulderpads. Includes Amell favor armband and flower crown. Should now be DirectX11 compatible

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Hello, and welcome to the second version of the Merrill autumnal variant romance outfit mod!

Installation: Place "Merrill - Autumnal Romance Armor.erf" into your Override folder. If you do not know where your "Override" folder is, it is found under the same Dragon Age 2 folder that stores your user data (this is the same Dragon Age 2 folder where any screenshots taken in-game will be stored). This will usually be found in your "My Documents" or "Documents" folder, in the "Bioware" folder, and is NOT the one found under your Program Files. This should  be the case for both Macs and PCs, but if you have wound up with an alternate filepath, try to find your in-game screencaps folder and navigate up to the "Dragon Age 2" folder. Once you are in this folder, go into "packages", then "core". There should already be a folder named "override" in here; if there is none, and are sure you are in the right location, you may create one. Once in the "override" folder, you can just paste the files there.

Uninstallation: Delete the file from your override folder.

Features: This mod replaces Merrill's base romance outfit with a retexture of an outfit from the base game similar to her romance outfit but without the chainmail (which I tend to find looks... uh... really terrible with the rest of the outfit?). I have added a scarf corresponding to that of her base non-romanced outfit to this mesh aside from the color (it's now red) and removed an absurd number of shoulderpads as well. This version also contains the Hawke favor armband (which has some occasional clipping issues that I don't think are too bad, but anyone more experienced with weight painting in Blender is welcome to ask to take a crack at it). In addition, Merrill has a flower crown, because eh, why not?

ETA: Thanks to the help of Hawkethority's Practical Merrill Wear (Romance) mesh, there is now a no-boobplate version!

Compatibility/Agenda for Subsequent Release: This mesh is now compatible with DirectX11! Please note that despite my best efforts, the base skin tone can look a little off in DirectX11, and I recommend using the Original Brown Merrill mod linked below for best results.

The flower crown is attached to Merrill's outfit mesh and not to her hair mesh, meaning this mod is compatible with any Merrill hair replacements.

Permissions: Do whatever you want with this - just credit me!

Disclaimer: I don't actually have any saves where I've romanced Merrill, so I tested and screencapped this by overriding her base armor, then renamed the files to replace her romance armor. It should work, but in the event that I named something incorrectly, let me know and I'll fix it super quick!

Other Mods Visible in these Screencaps:
This DAO style Merrill mod 

If you experience any issues or have any questions about how to install this mod, please let me know and I will get to them ASAP!