Hello, and welcome to the first 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?

Compatibility/Agenda for Subsequent Release: As with all meshes exported with the alpha version of my Blender to DA2 export script, this currenly only works with the DirectX9 renderer. I will go through and update all mods with exported meshes in one fell swoop once I figure out the DirectX11 compatibility issue. (I'm like 95% sure it's a bone ordering issue at this point?) It is, however, completely stable with the DirectX9 renderer. I'll also go ahead and release a fix if I ever manage to entirely eliminate the Hawke favor clipping.

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!

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!