(I really hope this doesn't post twice) So I love this mod, love what it does for Leandra But I am curious if one can use the same hair for common and noble? I use the hair that is a short bob, and it's kinda jarring to see her suddenly much longer.
This looks to be a great mod but I have an unusual set of mods that make it... not work to my tastes. I have a mod that changes the skin tone of default Hawke and Carver (and a unique Bethany that matches) leaving Leandra with a different skin tone (the default Leandra), showing that her kids took at least some looks from Malcolm. (Hawke is compared to Malcolm on more than one occasion, even being said to look like him.) Unfortunately, this mod reads Hawke's modded skin tone even though the base game doesn't and gives me a Leandra to match- which doesn't fit for me.
I don't know exactly what goes wrong between these two mods (the other is Hawke Family Tweaks) or if it'll be something that would affect someone else (...probably not...) but I wanted to share. And it is a shame because she looks great! Just... not for me with how HFT interacts with it.
First of all this mod is great! I like some of the vanilla Leandras but the one I always get has a very unflattering hairstyle so I'm happy I can change it up with this mod! But for some reason Leandra always has blue eyes, even though I downloaded the brown eyed version. This isnt too big of a deal and I mightve just done something wrong(?) but its still curious that it happens!
Theres also one dark skinned preset for Hawke that always ends up with a randomized family :D (Im also using Twins Revamp) a white Leandra and an asian Bethany and Carver
Weird, can you tell me which Leandra you have? Did her face change or just her skin tone, and did it change mid game or did she start out pale while your hawke and twins weren't?
Carver and Leandra start both out with blue eyes. Its the h2s3 Leandra. She looks the way she's supposed to, it just surprised me that she has blue eyes since I specifically downloaded the brown eyes folder.
(I attached the Hawke Preset where the mixed family occurs over in the Twins post )
Small problem. I recently reinstalled this mod for a fresh playthrough, but it's not working regardless of whether I choose the blue eyes or brown eyes option. I'm not sure what's going on. What can I do?
EDIT: Found the issue! It was a conflicting mod file.
i know this is an old comment by now, but do you happen to remember what the conflicting mod file was? i have never been able to get this to work and i cannot figure out which mod it could possibly be that's conflicting with it.
Look for mods that overwrite Leandra or her eye texture. I would recommend particularly checking for Ellise's eye texture files from their Unique Complexions mod.
Hey! I have some problem with hair in All That Remains. It just dissapears. Can you help me with that? I found only one way to fix it, thanks to the previous comments here. Had to remove the mod folder from my override, but I want to have gorgeous mom, so that's not a good option to be honest... btw, sorry for my english!
I don't have a lot of time to update my old files, but you can actually overwrite the head morphs - if the ones you have are loose, you can stick the morphs file in here, and copy the morphs you have to rename (hf_mother_h(number)s(number) for prologue and act 1; hf_nmother_h(number)s(number) for noble housewear and hf_zmother_h(number)s(number) for zombieandra). Either put these morphs right in override, or put them in a folder and call it zz_whateveryouwannacallit so it loads over top of the original Leandra morphs I included.
This is gonna sound super dumb, and I don't really expect a response... but which head is preset 4? I want to get the bun hairstyle for commoner. Second row, first on the left
Thank youuuu. I tried that first one and I got the iconic Leandra style. Also- you mentioned skintones. Do skintones affect this at all? Sorry for all the questions
Edit: turns out I'm a dumbass and didn't move the files. Great, wonderful XD
XD i feel that. Skintones do affect which head you get, but you can unpack the heads iirc i cannot recall if i packed the mor files up, and rename based on what head you want. The heads in preview are in order of
h1s1 h1s2 h1s3 h2s2 h2s2 h2s3 h3s1 h3s2 h3s3
so if you get like, hf_mother_h1s1.mor and you want hf_mother_h2s1.mor rename the latter to the former
Very easy. The skintones you'll have to play around with based on what mods you yourself have installed and what you want to use, but provided you know the name of the skintone you want (you can look in the chargenmorph file; default skintones are <resource name="t1_skn_h01"/> to <resource name="t1_skn_h12"/>, modded ones will have different names).
Open the morph of the Leandra you want. We'll do two ways, first going with just changing the skintone of the Leandra with the bun by default.
caveat: you're gonna need the pyGFF editor for this
Open the section that says 'tintfiles'. This will show you the tints she uses for skin, hair, stubble (brows) and makeup. You need the first line, which says t1_skn_h02.
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Click that line and the big box at the bottom will be editable. Change the skin tone to whatever one you want; for this example I'll just stick in a skin tone from Verdical's Natural Skins.
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Click the 'save' and it should change
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If you want to change the hairstyle of a diff morph instead, say you want to use h3s3 Leandra, that's just as easy. This time open the 'parts' section of the h3s3 and replace the third line (hairstyle)
Original (with Amunet hair)
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go to file -> save -> save as the head replacement that you want. Don't forget to update the noble and zombie leandra files as well. You don't have to pack the head morph back up, you can just save it as, for example, hf_leandra_h1s1.mor in the override folder and it should override the .erf file.
headfiles are as follows
hf_mother_h(number)s(number).mor -> prologue/act one hf_nmother_h(number)s(number).mor - > act 2 noble head morphs hf_zmother_h(number)s(number).mor -> 'zombie' leandra during All That Remains
so you want to have, for example, using the h3s3 leandra, these three files
I understood maybe half of that- but I'll give it a try. Worse case I have a different hairstyle and or mixed family XD Either way- this mod is super f*#@ing pretty
IF it helps, you can also use the pygff editor to find what family you have. Open the editor, go to file -> open and navigate to Dragon Age II/Characters/[Character Name]/Saves/[Save Name] for example, that first Autosave in the Prologue is called Autosave_1.
Open Checkpoint - Checkpoint.das not Checkpoint_das_met, just the Checkpoint.das - then expand until you see 16003 - SAVEGAME_LIST, then SAVEGAME_PARTYPOOLMEMBERS. You can expand Bethany or Carver, scroll to line 16320 - Appearance. You should see lines like 1020 for bethany or 1030 for Carver, but the headmorphs are labeled as hf_bethany_h1s1 or hm_carver_h3s2.
Go based off the h(number)s(number) to find which Leandra you have to save it as.
And I'm glad you think so ;") some earlier comments mention some disappearing hairstyles for zombleandra so if you run into that pop on over, I really ought to fix it. gl! lmk if you need more help, okay?
i have a problem, all the morphs seem to be randomized? i recently made a black hawke (using the black preset head) but leandra looks asian?? i tried with other presets and the same thing happens.
Can you show me your chargenmorph? Additionally, are you using any other files that affect the family or add files like family_base.gda, family_rules_headfeatures.gda or family_rules_headskintone.gda?
Is it possible to choose her instead of getting her randomly? I really like the other one...
Edit: Sorry, got into how it's done, now I know it's always based on presets...still... Solved the problem by extracting and changing manually files Anyways great mod, she looks amazing
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So I love this mod, love what it does for Leandra
But I am curious if one can use the same hair for common and noble? I use the hair that is a short bob, and it's kinda jarring to see her suddenly much longer.
I don't know exactly what goes wrong between these two mods (the other is Hawke Family Tweaks) or if it'll be something that would affect someone else (...probably not...) but I wanted to share. And it is a shame because she looks great! Just... not for me with how HFT interacts with it.
But for some reason Leandra always has blue eyes, even though I downloaded the brown eyed version. This isnt too big of a deal and I mightve just done something wrong(?) but its still curious that it happens!
Theres also one dark skinned preset for Hawke that always ends up with a randomized family :D (Im also using Twins Revamp) a white Leandra and an asian Bethany and Carver
She looks the way she's supposed to, it just surprised me that she has blue eyes since I specifically downloaded the brown eyes folder.
(I attached the Hawke Preset where the mixed family occurs over in the Twins post )
EDIT: Found the issue! It was a conflicting mod file.
I found only one way to fix it, thanks to the previous comments here. Had to remove the mod folder from my override, but I want to have gorgeous mom, so that's not a good option to be honest...
btw, sorry for my english!
I wanted to ask, wouldn't it be maybe possible to just get the outfit without the head morph? cuz i'm using my own to fit my family... :(
I don't have a lot of time to update my old files, but you can actually overwrite the head morphs - if the ones you have are loose, you can stick the morphs file in here, and copy the morphs you have to rename (hf_mother_h(number)s(number) for prologue and act 1; hf_nmother_h(number)s(number) for noble housewear and hf_zmother_h(number)s(number) for zombieandra). Either put these morphs right in override, or put them in a folder and call it zz_whateveryouwannacallit so it loads over top of the original Leandra morphs I included.
the first two w/ their skintones trigger it by default.?
Edit: turns out I'm a dumbass and didn't move the files. Great, wonderful XD
h1s1 h1s2 h1s3
h2s2 h2s2 h2s3
h3s1 h3s2 h3s3
so if you get like, hf_mother_h1s1.mor and you want hf_mother_h2s1.mor rename the latter to the former
Open the morph of the Leandra you want. We'll do two ways, first going with just changing the skintone of the Leandra with the bun by default.
caveat: you're gonna need the pyGFF editor for this
Open the section that says 'tintfiles'. This will show you the tints she uses for skin, hair, stubble (brows) and makeup. You need the first line, which says t1_skn_h02.
Click that line and the big box at the bottom will be editable. Change the skin tone to whatever one you want; for this example I'll just stick in a skin tone from Verdical's Natural Skins.
Click the 'save' and it should change
If you want to change the hairstyle of a diff morph instead, say you want to use h3s3 Leandra, that's just as easy. This time open the 'parts' section of the h3s3 and replace the third line (hairstyle)
Original (with Amunet hair)
into
go to file -> save -> save as the head replacement that you want. Don't forget to update the noble and zombie leandra files as well. You don't have to pack the head morph back up, you can just save it as, for example, hf_leandra_h1s1.mor in the override folder and it should override the .erf file.
headfiles are as follows
hf_mother_h(number)s(number).mor -> prologue/act one
hf_nmother_h(number)s(number).mor - > act 2 noble head morphs
hf_zmother_h(number)s(number).mor -> 'zombie' leandra during All That Remains
so you want to have, for example, using the h3s3 leandra, these three files
hf_mother_h3s3.mor
hf_nmother_h3s3.mor
hf_zmother_h3s3.mor
does that make sense? hopefully it does aaaa
Either way- this mod is super f*#@ing pretty
IF it helps, you can also use the pygff editor to find what family you have. Open the editor, go to file -> open and navigate to Dragon Age II/Characters/[Character Name]/Saves/[Save Name] for example, that first Autosave in the Prologue is called Autosave_1.
Open Checkpoint - Checkpoint.das not Checkpoint_das_met, just the Checkpoint.das - then expand until you see 16003 - SAVEGAME_LIST, then SAVEGAME_PARTYPOOLMEMBERS. You can expand Bethany or Carver, scroll to line 16320 - Appearance. You should see lines like 1020 for bethany or 1030 for Carver, but the headmorphs are labeled as hf_bethany_h1s1 or hm_carver_h3s2.
Go based off the h(number)s(number) to find which Leandra you have to save it as.
And I'm glad you think so ;") some earlier comments mention some disappearing hairstyles for zombleandra so if you run into that pop on over, I really ought to fix it. gl! lmk if you need more help, okay?
Edit: Sorry, got into how it's done, now I know it's always based on presets...still...
Solved the problem by extracting and changing manually files
Anyways great mod, she looks amazing