Dragon Age 2 was released in March of 2011 and unlike it's predecessor, did not come with a Toolset with a built character creator. However, Dragon Age 2 is built on the same foundation as Dragon Age Origins and uses the exact same morph system. Granted, in the past we couldn't just make a morph in the toolset and expect it to work in DA2 - the base models were upgraded, the skeleton changed and the morph targets were completely different. Until now. 

What this "mod" will do is modify the workings of the toolset to allow users to select Dragon Age 2 base meshes and use the morph targets found in DA2 to create new morphs far beyond the limitations of the in-game Character Creator. Every single hair, beard and skin texture can accessed and it works exactly like DAOs creator. 

There are a few caveats however to get this to work. DA2's file management system is rather different then DAOs where you can drop everything into the override and it works as normal. DA2 decided to implement file paths so there is simply no way around this - modification of your new morph file is required. 

But what about our tints?! DA2 actually uses the same exact tints from DAO - mostly. But you will find converted versions of the ones DA2 has in this mod as well. 

Okay - so what about our custom content from DA2? I have only imported default assets - custom content will have to be converted to the DAO format - so that's tints and any new hairstyles. Custom faces and eyes can simply be dropped into the mod - just make note of where it should go in DA2. I have made the structure of the files in this mod similar to DA2s so you know what path to put into your morph files. 

Does this mean we can now use DA2 morphs in Origins?! Absolutely not. You most likely break the game and royally mess up any animations. This is just a utility to be plugged into the toolset to export morphs for DA2. 

Please see the Article Section on instructions for how to use this utility!