Dragon Age: Origins

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More natural skin and varied tattoo/nails on the DA2 Dalish Armour.

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This mod started out as an attempt to get the skin on the DA2 Dalish armour (as ported by tmp7704) to match my character's skin tone a little better and look a little more skin-like.  Additionally, the appearance of the DA2 Dalish Armour set will now differ depending on both your race and gender - no more arm vallaslin for non-elven Wardens! 

The Dalish Armor appearance is applied by my mod to the Dalish Armour Set as well as Deygan's Boots and Lend of the Lion.  TMP7704's mod additionally applies it to Adaia's Boots, Felon's Coat and Katriel's Grasp. I've uploaded an optional file containing UTI's to switch those items to the other set from Unique Light Armours, as none of them should look Dalish.

The models are ported by TMP7704, without whom none of this would be possible.
The base armor textures I worked from are by CommanderStrawberry's TMP Light Armour retextures - all credit for the beautiful detail in the clothing goes to them. Highly recommended to also install that mod as it provides vastly improved spec, normal and tint maps.
The beautiful vallaslin designs I used on the female elf texture came from Tropelicious' Vallaslin Mods for DAI.  I highly recommend pairing this armor with the version ported to DAO by CommanderStrawberry

All races and genders:  Skin on the shoulders and hands has been redrawn and retinted.  It isn't a world class texture job, but to my eye it looks much more distinctly like skin rather than cloth now, and with the characters I have tested it on, the skin tone is a much better match for the face and looks less like odd yellow sleeves.  The skin colour SHOULD tint for darker skinned characters, but I have NOT tested this and can make no promises right now. The left arm now has a full length sleeve.

Dwarves & Humans: All dwarves and humans no longer have vallaslin on their hands or arms while wearing the armour. Yay for ink-free bare hand gloves!

Females, all races:  All female characters now have neat black painted nails. I can remove this easily enough on request, I'm sure I'll release a version without sooner or later, but I think it makes the bare hands and feet look a little less unsettling.

Elf Males:  Male elves have a new, extremely simple upper arm tattoo on their bare right arm, and keep the original vallaslin on both hands. All their body vallaslin is now a much darker blue - at least for caucasian skin tones.

Elf Females:  Female elves have new vallaslin designs on their hands and upper arms. I designed these to appear to be peeking out from the sleeve, rather than being standalone tattoos fitting onto the bared areas of skin. All their vallaslin is in black.

Hope this brings joy to somebody.

Installation Instructions.
1. Download Unique Light Armours and drop it into your override folder.
2. (Optional but HIGHLY recommended) Download and unzip TMP Light Armour Retextures (Dalish Armour Retextures). Browse to the folder 'Dalish Sleeve DA2' and copy the four files into override\da2_armour-light\item_textures. (This is for the upgraded spec, normal and tint maps that are not included in my mod.)
3. Unzip and open DalishRetex, then copy the three folders into override\da2_armour-light.
4. (Optional, if it will bug you that some orlesian and bandit clothes look like Dalish Armour). Download and unzip Non-Elven UTIs. Drop it into the same override\da2_armour-light folder.

Obviously, make sure you always say yes when it asks you to replace files.

As before, credit to TMP7704, Tropelicious and CommanderStrawberry.