The original Asari Ryder mod by Genamine done via bundle editing can be found here
Originally I was told the mod stopped working in all areas of the game, and due to the permissions on the mod page, I was able to make this version of an Asari Sara Ryder.
What is the difference between Asari Ryder and this mod?
This mod is a mesh mod, which means it doesn't edit any bundles. Due to this it has less chances of breaking when Frosty gets updated.
It also means that the game uses data from Sara Ryder so more likely to look like Sara than the other Asari.
Also due to being a mesh import any texture edits to the body or head only affects Sara Ryder. and the body texture will match pretty well as I made sure to edit the Asari skin to match the head as much as possible before working on the other variations as well. There might still be slight differences but not much.
So due to the textures being Sara's (Jayde in the files) this will not affect other NPCs
Compatibility
Compatible with Turian Ryder So if playing as Turian Scott you can have your sister as an Asari or if playing as Sara you can have your brother as an Turian. Thank you to EndThusIAm for confirming they work together.
How to use Frosty Fix to enable mods for Frosty Games on EA Desktop
1) Download FrostyFix: https://github.com/Dyvinia/FrostyFix/releases. 2) Apply your chosen mods normally through Frosty Mod Manager and launch the game through it. Your mods will not show up in game, don't worry. 3) Close the game and open Frosty Fix. 4) Select your Game, platform EA Desktop, and Pack (Likely Default). 5) Click Launch Game with Mods enabled. 6) When EA Desktop opens, launch the game through Frosty Mod Manager (Recommended) or through EA Desktop.
Read through the steps carefully and follow them exactly as they are written.
Posted from Frosty discord. If adding new mods you have to follow these steps again
I'm sorry but I can't control how other mods will work with this mod. If another mod is giving Cora an outfit normally worn by Ryder then that is the reason for the asari body showing. I sadly can't do anything to change that. It is simply a mod conflict but not one that can be really fixed without being able to make new unique meshes which we can't currently do with frosty.
However if one day we can make unique meshes hopefully this will not be an issue.
Are you making sure you're using default Sara Ryder? Also make sure to not have any other mods that edit default Ryder (eye colour mods are okay) as if those are in your load order and below Asari Ryder/Sara they will override it
They only other mod I have that affects any body textures is a mod for Peebee's face and breather at the top of my load order, and this mod at the bottom. Everything between is a biotic mod, a vehicle mod and some stores for the Tempest. I am using the default Ryder in an existing save, and even checking in a new save she's still a human
I will look into it. Are the other mods working fine?
Edit: So I tried it with the latest stable version of Frosty Mod manager and it is still working on my end so I have no idea what is happening for it not to work for you
What program are you using? Origin or ea desktop? And what version of frosty mod manager?
Sadly not sure what I can do since I can't replicate the issue but if it turns both of you use ea desktop it may be hopefully just waiting for an update to frosty
I have a bad feeling ea desktop is part of the issue. It hasn't asked me yet to move to ea desktop but I am downloading it now to see if I can work out a workaround at all as I was using Frosty is 1.0.6.1 with Origin still since it hadn't asked me to move yet.
If it is ea desktop and I can't find a work around I hope those working on frosty mod manager and editor manage to work something out.
Edit: okay checked the frosty discord and these are the instructions on how to get mods working for EA Desktop
How to use Frosty Fix to enable mods for Frosty Games on EA Desktop
1) Download FrostyFix: https://github.com/Dyvinia/FrostyFix/releases. 2) Apply your chosen mods normally through Frosty Mod Manager and launch the game through it. Your mods will not show up in game, don't worry. 3) Close the game and open Frosty Fix. 4) Select Game, platform EA Desktop, and Pack (Likely Default). 5) Click Launch Game with Mods enabled. 6) When EA Desktop opens, launch the game through Frosty Mod Manager (Recommended) or through EA Desktop.
Read through the steps carefully and follow them exactly as they are written.
Posted from Frosty discord. If adding new mods you have to follow these steps again
I wish I could edit the model via med bay but it just turns human, I like the normal asari faces. Just can't seem to edit the other mods skin tones face wise. Any plans to have the normal asari face that can be textured custom wise?
Hi, can I ask what you mean by normal Asari face? If you mean the shape it will always look like Sara due to the dynamic morphs that get applied. Texture/custom wise you can use the provided fbproject to make edits to the face and body textures making whatever custom edits to the textures you want.
Asari Breather: Sadly not all helmets have the same materials so it can't be imported over all helmets as a mesh mod, which is the most reliable way of making sure a mod doesn't break when frosty gets updated sadly.
Asari Head: I can definitely try and see if turning off the Dynamic Morph will work.
Sadly all edits I have tried don't seem to work or I am just not seeing the difference. I believe the other mod used the morph from the asari but then that requires bundle edits
No worries, the mod still does what it set out to do, you did an amazing job with it. And above all it works 100% with zero glitches. Looking forward to download your other mod projects.
https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectandromeda/mods/399?tab=files in this mod there is for all helmets or at least some of them I use a few of them myself.
https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectandromeda/mods/399?tab=files in this mod there is for all helmets or at least some of them I use a few of them myself.
The problem is in the mesh files , that's where the hook nose and bulbus forehead come from , if you're looking for textures there's a mod for that just above this mod . If this was a Bethesda game you could just copy past what ever mesh you want . I don't know if you could do that to just make any face overwright the not great Sara default face . If it can be done I'm not sure why there's no replacement mods that changes the shape of your face ?
This is fascinating, as I've always been curious about the other Asari Ryder mod, but yours looks every bit as good. I may wish to try this, but I do have a question:
Would this mod be compatible with the "Two Scotts/Sara's" Mod? Could I make both siblings look like Asari Sara's? If so, I'm now down for another playthrough using your Mod!
If you use this with the mod that makes both twins the same , than you and Scott will both be Asari . I have Cora as an Asari as well , now all we need is a mod that makes your mother an Asari to make it all make sense . Asari can mate with any species , but the children are always Asari , and Alec Ryder clearly had a thing for blue woman .
Hello and huge thanks for the mod! I was wondering if it would be possible to make some alternate "head forms" (morph) like Peebee's or pure vanilla Asari (like the one on the Asari Journalist) as alternatives to Saras iconic face mesh.
Ever since the first Mass Effect game I've wanted to play as an Asari , thanks for this mod . One small problem though , my mouth has no teeth and my eyes are inside out or something .
Hmm odd they shouldn't be. Can I ask what other mods you are using? Just trying to work out if it is mods clashing or if it is something I can recreate.
First I love the mod and want to make my own retexture but in the process of making it I noticed that the textures gets stretched is there a way to fix that? It makes it very difficult to work with tattoos.
I think that will be Sara's dynamicmorph causing that, I am still looking into disabling it but can't make any guarantees it will work for this method of making Sara into an Asari.
As the mesh itself is the exact same mesh Lexi uses.
Hi I'm using your Asari Sara V1 with the Retexture Green with Tattoos And Eyebrows, alongside it I've used the Peebee Breather - Helmet Replacer from the "Cora Liam Asari Armor Casual and Hair Replacer" mod and have noticed that the nose seems to clip through the breather itself. Is there a breather mask that comes with this mod or is there a way you know of to stop the clipping? Using the base helmets looks a little silly for the Asari head, cheers in advance for any information!
There is another mod on here that tweaks asari models and textures. Here
I'm not that experienced in modding Frostbite. Is it possible to create an alternate replacement pack. or give a quick crash course on how to do it with Frosty Editor?. Thanks, I always wanted to try out Ryder as an asari!!!?
To edit the textures you have to directly edit the textures of Sara (known as Jayde in the game files) with the asari variants. My Fbproject included in the optional file only shows the Diffuse for anyone wanting to make minor edits not needed to be seen on the Specular or Normal maps.
In the xcf's included in my optional files has all the skin colours options I made for this mod for both the face diffuse and body texture and then in the face diffuse it also has the markings as well. So you can make all your edits in the xcf export as png for example, open the fbproject in Frosty Editor 1.0.5.9 or above and open the two textures in that file and import your edited ones over them.
If you want to just replace the face texture and use the body from one of my variations you can right click on the body texture in the bottom left collumn and click Revert.
And if you want to edit the normals and such the files to edit are; Game/characters/Human/HMF/0_Heads/HMF_HEAD_Jayde/PCA/Textures/normal_mean Game/characters/Human/HMF/0_Heads/HMF_HEAD_Jayde/Textures/HMF_HEAD_Jayde_Mask Game/Characters/Human/HMF/0_Heads/HMF_HEAD_Jayde/Textures/HMF_HEAD_Jayde_SSS Using the asari versions of your choice from the game files.
Then save as normal via File > Export as Mod and then in Mod Manager load your texture mod below the Asari Sara mod.
Hope this helps. I hope to make a video soon though may be without voice as sadly can't find quiet time to make voiced tutorials at the moment.
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Originally I was told the mod stopped working in all areas of the game, and due to the permissions
on the mod page, I was able to make this version of an Asari Sara Ryder.
This mod is a mesh mod, which means it doesn't edit any bundles.
Due to this it has less chances of breaking when Frosty gets updated.
It also means that the game uses data from Sara Ryder so more likely to look like Sara than the other Asari.
Also due to being a mesh import any texture edits to the body or head only affects Sara Ryder.
and the body texture will match pretty well as I made sure to edit the Asari skin to match the head
as much as possible before working on the other variations as well.
There might still be slight differences but not much.
So due to the textures being Sara's (Jayde in the files) this will not affect other NPCs
Compatibility
Compatible with Turian Ryder
So if playing as Turian Scott you can have your sister as an Asari
or if playing as Sara you can have your brother as an Turian.
Thank you to EndThusIAm for confirming they work together.
1) Download FrostyFix: https://github.com/Dyvinia/FrostyFix/releases.
2) Apply your chosen mods normally through Frosty Mod Manager and launch the game through it.
Your mods will not show up in game, don't worry.
3) Close the game and open Frosty Fix.
4) Select your Game, platform EA Desktop, and Pack (Likely Default).
5) Click Launch Game with Mods enabled.
6) When EA Desktop opens, launch the game through Frosty Mod Manager (Recommended) or through EA Desktop.
Read through the steps carefully and follow them exactly as they are written.
Posted from Frosty discord. If adding new mods you have to follow these steps again
However if one day we can make unique meshes hopefully this will not be an issue.
Edit: So I tried it with the latest stable version of Frosty Mod manager and it is still working on my end so I have no idea what is happening for it not to work for you
Sadly not sure what I can do since I can't replicate the issue but if it turns both of you use ea desktop it may be hopefully just waiting for an update to frosty
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling everything including mods and its not changing anything.
If it is ea desktop and I can't find a work around I hope those working on frosty mod manager and editor manage to work something out.
Edit: okay checked the frosty discord and these are the instructions on how to get mods working for EA Desktop
How to use Frosty Fix to enable mods for Frosty Games on EA Desktop
1) Download FrostyFix: https://github.com/Dyvinia/FrostyFix/releases.
2) Apply your chosen mods normally through Frosty Mod Manager and launch the game through it.
Your mods will not show up in game, don't worry.
3) Close the game and open Frosty Fix.
4) Select Game, platform EA Desktop, and Pack (Likely Default).
5) Click Launch Game with Mods enabled.
6) When EA Desktop opens, launch the game through Frosty Mod Manager (Recommended) or through EA Desktop.
Read through the steps carefully and follow them exactly as they are written.
Posted from Frosty discord. If adding new mods you have to follow these steps again
Thank you so much for taking the time to figure this out, I really do appreciate it.
Asari Head: I can definitely try and see if turning off the Dynamic Morph will work.
Would this mod be compatible with the "Two Scotts/Sara's" Mod? Could I make both siblings look like Asari Sara's? If so, I'm now down for another playthrough using your Mod!
Hmm odd they shouldn't be. Can I ask what other mods you are using? Just trying to work out if it is mods clashing or if it is something I can recreate.
It makes it very difficult to work with tattoos.
Ryder:
Dr. Lexi T'Perro:
As the mesh itself is the exact same mesh Lexi uses.
There is another mod on here that tweaks asari models and textures. Here
I'm not that experienced in modding Frostbite. Is it possible to create an alternate replacement pack. or give a quick crash course on how to do it with Frosty Editor?.
Thanks, I always wanted to try out Ryder as an asari!!!?
To edit the textures you have to directly edit the textures of Sara (known as Jayde in the game files) with the asari variants. My Fbproject included in the optional file only shows the Diffuse for anyone wanting to make minor edits not needed to be seen on the Specular or Normal maps.
In the xcf's included in my optional files has all the skin colours options I made for this mod for both the face diffuse and body texture and then in the face diffuse it also has the markings as well. So you can make all your edits in the xcf export as png for example, open the fbproject in Frosty Editor 1.0.5.9 or above and open the two textures in that file and import your edited ones over them.
If you want to just replace the face texture and use the body from one of my variations you can right click on the body texture in the bottom left collumn and click Revert.
And if you want to edit the normals and such the files to edit are;
Game/characters/Human/HMF/0_Heads/HMF_HEAD_Jayde/PCA/Textures/normal_mean
Game/characters/Human/HMF/0_Heads/HMF_HEAD_Jayde/Textures/HMF_HEAD_Jayde_Mask
Game/Characters/Human/HMF/0_Heads/HMF_HEAD_Jayde/Textures/HMF_HEAD_Jayde_SSS
Using the asari versions of your choice from the game files.
Then save as normal via File > Export as Mod and then in Mod Manager load your texture mod below the Asari Sara mod.
Hope this helps. I hope to make a video soon though may be without voice as sadly can't find quiet time to make voiced tutorials at the moment.
Edit: And there is something wrong with the eyes. They keep.... Morphing?