Has anyone notice any interrupted sequence during Hackett's final rallying speech when Take Earth Back mod is also installed? It didn't go smoothly so I thought these two mods aren't fully compatible? I also have AHEM and EGM installed.
I fail to see from your vague comment how a body edit would cause that. Sounds like you have an issue elsewhere and not related to Hackett's appearance.
Hi, can I ask what specifically you are after? the outfit with 3 or 4 bars and all the medals like Hackett has? I think the base one exists for Shepard without the medals and bars. At least I made that in my body diversity mod.
Ranks in mass effect are pretty complicated through the series. 3 bars is a 3 star admiral. 4 bars is a 4 star admiral or admiral of the fleet. More stars, more responsibilites. Yes admirals and generals differentiate in real life too. Notice in mass effect 2, a news reports says, Shepard's mother refuses an admiral star and remains a captain. In mass effect 3, she is promoted to real admiral so she's a 1 star admiral. There are 2 rear admiral ranks (they have different thickness in the yellow bars) and none is shown in the game.
If you consider making nice looking uniforms for Shepard, maybe this would be something worth looking at for some inspiration. In the OT this uniform was really beautiful?, a shame it wasn't ported to LE (yet). The red fits the N7-theme quite nicely. Other color-variants might be nice, too, like blue, white or even black/grey.
Considering the backlog of your current work, I'm sure there won't be any disappointment.
ok ok I've just noticed it. Why Hackett's codex entry image has the dress blues for a lieutenant commander? Ugh. Should I forward this to the ME3 community patch comments?
Well...he has the same age in that photo. So definitely lack of military savvy devs on bioware's part. Don't get me started on the committee on the prologue on earth. All the same rank LTCs... The operator on the citadel where you select which part of the citadel you want to spawn also an LTC. Marines on earth, all the same rank, no diversity. I get it, they were short on time and resources. Who's gonna notice some npcs who are not part of the story for long? Just slap the same body mesh, with the same outfit and call it a job. Cerberus supposedly has ranks too....only Jacob and Petrovsky have a military title. Ohh yeah staff analyst bitc....eerrr Brooks dresses as commander too.
there's is a mod called Dress Blue for Standard Mass Effect 3 which adds medals, nameplates and realistic rank insignas to all ranks... every notable or not essential NPC has their own unique outfit with rank in the alliance military with that! toooo bad it's not for LE... i wish someday he will port it over to LE or give someone the permission to do so :(
Thank you for fixing this annoyance. Is this mod already built into the community patch? I have both installed but I'm just curious what this adds on top of the community patch fix, thanks.
Thank you. I'm not sure about the patch as I haven't been able to look at its textures. But I cleaned the texture around the bars on the shoulders as there were edges leaking into the other parts of the texture that while not extremely noticeable to everyone it was something that I always noticed. This also includes a more HD mesh where I made the bars meshes too not just textures.
thank you for this! The Community patch does actually only fix hackett in person, but not if you talk to him over comms where he only has the 3 bars. So this is still needed for full fixing! Thank you!
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what is the Anniversary Patch Update ?
In the OT this uniform was really beautiful?, a shame it wasn't ported to LE (yet). The red fits the N7-theme quite nicely. Other color-variants might be nice, too, like blue, white or even black/grey.
Considering the backlog of your current work, I'm sure there won't be any disappointment.