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[sylvanaerie]

tgail73 wrote...

@Sylvan - You are on my favorite author list. I am loving "When the Bough Breaks". I am a total fan.

Thanks Tgail!

I downloaded the witcher armors the other day.  Here's a pic of Rogue Roland C., Alistair, Leliana and Ser Gilmore in Lothering.  They look really good and I can't decide which one I like better.  My daughter says Roland looks like Flynn from "Tangled" and its weird but I think he does too...I can just never get the nose right

[inclemency]

Merilsell wrote...

Yeah, happy here ^^ Now I need an easy understandable tutorial for creating headmorphs and I'm even happier. I don't plan to use the toolset beyond that, really. It is as scary as I thought, lol.

I experimented and experimented and experimented, Meri.  It just took time and experimentation to learn what to do, and I'm still a raw beginner, even though I only use the toolset now to create characters.  It takes me days to create a morph I'm happy with, and I might have 25 different saves for one morph as I fiddle with it.

It's fun, though (sometimes frustrating, sometimes infuriating, and sometimes just plain fun).

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[Merilsell]

I see. That is probably the best way to learn it, methinks. That and I'm no big fan of following instructions/tutorials anyway (never read the manual of a game or such)

Also playing around with the sliders is really much fun. There are sooo many options Though it will alone take me days to learn which tint/eyecolor etc is which. All these confusing fil-names are...well...confusing

Alistair and Lenya pic I made yesterday:

[Catspaw]

Thanks Storm & Meri. I did finally get the hair to work and put together what I wanted in the CC. So I redid Kaliopi, again. Her new face is almost identical in shape but she has the hair style and colour I wanted. I found the tints mod and that made all the difference.

@Sylvi - totally addicted to your story. I was reading them before I found this thread and then couldn't find the link, so I'm thrilled you posted it again. Thanks! How long do we have to wait for some Ali lovin"?

[sylvanaerie]

Catspaw wrote...

Thanks Storm & Meri. I did finally get the hair to work and put together what I wanted in the CC. So I redid Kaliopi, again. Her new face is almost identical in shape but she has the hair style and colour I wanted. I found the tints mod and that made all the difference.
@Sylvi - totally addicted to your story. I was reading them before I found this thread and then couldn't find the link, so I'm thrilled you posted it again. Thanks! How long do we have to wait for some Ali lovin"?

LD is handling all the 'mushy stuff' cause I suck at that kind of writing.  So I am on pins and needles as much as you guys!
But the loving's be a'coming really soon. (Yes, pun intended)

I must admit this is the most fun I have had writing something except for the collaboration I did with Xandurpein on our Cousland brothers' fics.  Lady D has this wonderful creative energy that just adds so much to the process and we bounce ideas off one another, usually in sync.  I knew we were going to have fun when we both independently came up with the heroine's name without discussing it.  Some of my submissions to her get lots of revisions but she keeps the bones of the structure and really brings out what I wanted to say.  And she's been solo writing the Alistair PoV's entirely.  I just look for typoes in her text.  Her grasp of Alistair's characterization astonishes me.  I can easily see him doing these things and saying the things he says.  She's amazing!
And she just put up chapters 26 and 27

Modifié par sylvanaerie, 29 décembre 2010 - 03:04 .

[inquartata02]

Thanks to this thread, I've found a new threat for my husband when he is a pain in the butt:



The Alicorn.



Even the mere mention of it makes him cower in fear and plea for mercy. The best part is he hasn't seen it, not even once.



Also, I started a Dice Warden thanks to this thread. I have never been so mean to Alistair... ever. It's like I'm constantly kicking puppies instead of playing DA. The approval meter is almost buried in the deep 'I hate your ever-living guts' red. The guilt! The guilt!

[LadyDamodred]

sylvanaerie wrote...

Catspaw wrote...

Thanks Storm & Meri. I did finally get the hair to work and put together what I wanted in the CC. So I redid Kaliopi, again. Her new face is almost identical in shape but she has the hair style and colour I wanted. I found the tints mod and that made all the difference.
@Sylvi - totally addicted to your story. I was reading them before I found this thread and then couldn't find the link, so I'm thrilled you posted it again. Thanks! How long do we have to wait for some Ali lovin"?

LD is handling all the 'mushy stuff' cause I suck at that kind of writing.  So I am on pins and needles as much as you guys!
But the loving's be a'coming really soon. (Yes, pun intended)

I must admit this is the most fun I have had writing something except for the collaboration I did with Xandurpein on our Cousland brothers' fics.  Lady D has this wonderful creative energy that just adds so much to the process and we bounce ideas off one another, usually in sync.  I knew we were going to have fun when we both independently came up with the heroine's name without discussing it.  Some of my submissions to her get lots of revisions but she keeps the bones of the structure and really brings out what I wanted to say.  And she's been solo writing the Alistair PoV's entirely.  I just look for typoes in her text.  Her grasp of Alistair's characterization astonishes me.  I can easily see him doing these things and saying the things he says.  She's amazing!
And she just put up chapters 26 and 27

You flatter me.  This whole thing has been a lot of fun, especially since some of the stuff is a surprise to me.  Writing is fun, but sometimes you don't want to know exactly what's happening next.  And I love how no-nonsense she made Maeve.  She's one tough cookie.  Syl and I have had more than a few creepy in sync moments during this fic.  *eyeballs Syl suspiciously*

tgail73 wrote...
@Dahlia - I think I was just over analyzing the way she looked. It just bugged me in some cutscenes, and I couldn't take her weird chin/cheeks anymore, lol. I like your Lya btw.

Thanks!    I think I am going to replay her after all, but I have two Lya head morphs and am going to have to put them both in and see which one is the canon.  She was made in the Character Creator so I don't have an mrh to work with and if I lose her .mor I will die.

[RagingCyclone]

Good Morning. I see a lot of nice faces. 

Meri, it just takes practice to make faces. I make all of mine in the toolset. I haven't used the CC for a long..long..long time. My suggestion to help mak e faces in the toolset is to start with the basics...bone structure. Leave the hair, makeup, skin color and texture, and eye color until last. Work on the shapr first, and then put the others on as finishing touches.  And a reminder in case you have not heard it yet, but the shape sliders for nose and eyes will not take partial values when making a mop file for the CC. So in the feature selection tab, if you move, for example, a nose shape slider to 50, the toolset will create the mop file with the full 100 of that shape. Eyes the same way. It's all or nothing for those sliders. I tend to completely avoid them myself.  Hope this helps. 

[inclemency]

inquartata02 wrote...

Thanks to this thread, I've found a new threat for my husband when he is a pain in the butt:

The Alicorn.

Even the mere mention of it makes him cower in fear and plea for mercy. The best part is he hasn't seen it, not even once.

Also, I started a Dice Warden thanks to this thread. I have never been so mean to Alistair... ever. It's like I'm constantly kicking puppies instead of playing DA. The approval meter is almost buried in the deep 'I hate your ever-living guts' red. The guilt! The guilt!

Lmao!  What a brilliant idea for threatening husbands.  My husband said to me a few days ago, "I need to change my ID on your phone to 'Alistair', then I would be king."

Once I finish my current game it's back to the dice warden for me, which is a frightening thought  

[tuppence95]

Hi everyone! I'll be getting back use of my computer today and I'm looking forward to returning to a nice Alistair game after my diced warden.



Looks like some of you have been busy with the toolset. Nice work!



Welcome to the thread, inquartata! Hope you enjoy your diced warden. I'd love it if you would let us know how it goes. We have a group for posting progress reports. I'm posting from my phone so I can't link. Maybe someone else can link you to the group.

[CeboCabo]

RagingCyclone wrote...

Meri, it just takes practice to make faces. I make all of mine in the toolset. I haven't used the CC for a long..long..long time. My suggestion to help mak e faces in the toolset is to start with the basics...bone structure. Leave the hair, makeup, skin color and texture, and eye color until last. Work on the shapr first, and then put the others on as finishing touches.  And a reminder in case you have not heard it yet, but the shape sliders for nose and eyes will not take partial values when making a mop file for the CC. So in the feature selection tab, if you move, for example, a nose shape slider to 50, the toolset will create the mop file with the full 100 of that shape. Eyes the same way. It's all or nothing for those sliders. I tend to completely avoid them myself.  Hope this helps. 

Okay, I thought there was something seriously wrong with my toolset when I fiddled with it the first time.  Soon as I finished with the morph and fired up the CC, the result was ...   Wonder why the adjustments doesn't transfer properly...

Edit:  @ tupp - Okay,  I just can't sate my curiosity.  I've been hearing a lot about the "dice Warden"; what exactly is it?

Edit again: 'd by Storm!

Modifié par CeboCabo, 29 décembre 2010 - 04:05 .

[inclemency]

Should have thought about the link to the Diced Warden Chronicles, sorry about not linking it in my previous post!

Lol, Ceb, I can't tell you how many times I import a toolset character into the game to see the result.  I guess with more practice that number will dwindle, but for now, I can't even count!

Modifié par inclemency, 29 décembre 2010 - 04:04 .

[Tigress M]

tgail73 wrote...

@Tigress - It's the tucked hair mod. Hope this link works anyway. Still new at the linking stuff thing. *crosses fingers* Thank you for the compliment on her.

Thanks!  Your link worked perfectly!  I have been avoiding adding new mods until I get my new computer, but I might have to make an exception for this one.  

inquartata02 wrote...

Thanks to this thread, I've found a new threat for my husband when he is a pain in the butt:

The Alicorn.

Even the mere mention of it makes him cower in fear and plea for mercy. The best part is he hasn't seen it, not even once.

Also, I started a Dice Warden thanks to this thread. I have never been so mean to Alistair... ever. It's like I'm constantly kicking puppies instead of playing DA. The approval meter is almost buried in the deep 'I hate your ever-living guts' red. The guilt! The guilt!

Welcome to the insanity!  It's always nice to see a new face.  And Randi's thrilled to hear you started your own dice Warden!  I won't do another random playthrough, but I am very glad I did it this once... I learned so many new things (especially ways to tick off our favorite ex-Templar).  

[RagingCyclone]

ceb, it's just the way those particular files work. Now, an easy way around this is that when making a mor file for npc's, those parttial values are kept. So if you want a face with those partial values, then make a mor file of it, and then use the face replacer mod to move it onto your character. I am still a novice with that mod, but Storm I know is pretty handy with it. So is Yankee.

[inclemency]

There's even a faster way than DAFaceReplacer now and I use it for just that, putting .mor files into the game when in the midst of creating in the toolset.  I use the FaceReplacer to put the final version in the game and upping the inventory amount.

DAOSaves

(I think the name in nexus is something ridiculous like, Change Your Hero Hair and Face Anywhere in the Game, but the little program name is DAOSaves)

[RagingCyclone]

Thanks, Storm. I knew you had an easy way to get mor files onto characters.

Here is Maggie, my current and first hnf, and she is completely created in the toolset.

Modifié par RagingCyclone, 29 décembre 2010 - 04:18 .

[CeboCabo]

@ Storm - You too, eh? It makes me think sometimes I have a slight OCD when it comes to the amount of times I remake a morph



@ Rage - Thanks! I'll give that a go the next time I make another morph. I'm still not familiar with that mod myself so it looks like I'd better get myself acquainted. That and...*looks at Storm and Yankee and gives his best charming smile*

[inclemency]

Lol, Ceb, you should see my Morph save folders!   The smallest number of saves I have for a .mrh file is 25, all tweaked differently until I come up with something I'm happy with.  All those have .mor files I've tried out in a game, too.  I am getting more efficient, though..eh, it's all fun!

What I'm doing now, though is starting with an already-made .mrh file from this file: Core and single player head morphs.zip  

My Ser Gilmore started out as Oswyn, and my favourite elf character started out as someone, although at this moment I cannot recall which.  My current character started out as Anora, I think.

Modifié par inclemency, 29 décembre 2010 - 04:27 .

[LadyDamodred]

How do you use the face replacer to up inventory? *is curious*

[inclemency]

Use your gamesave as both the Source file and Destination file. Put in the number you want, lol I use 700 now because of RavAGE, then press the green button that will say 'Tweak' in that instance.

It says something else when you are adding a .mor file.

[RagingCyclone]

Storm, I use those source files constantly. Tigress' new elf mage I made the mop file for started as Lanaya. hehe

[inclemency]

Ahh, so I'm on the right track, thanks Rage!

Posting Holiday Ali again

Modifié par inclemency, 29 décembre 2010 - 04:42 .

[Merilsell]

RagingCyclone wrote...

Good Morning. I see a lot of nice faces. 

Meri, it just takes practice to make faces. I make all of mine in the toolset. I haven't used the CC for a long..long..long time. My suggestion to help mak e faces in the toolset is to start with the basics...bone structure. Leave the hair, makeup, skin color and texture, and eye color until last. Work on the shapr first, and then put the others on as finishing touches.  And a reminder in case you have not heard it yet, but the shape sliders for nose and eyes will not take partial values when making a mop file for the CC. So in the feature selection tab, if you move, for example, a nose shape slider to 50, the toolset will create the mop file with the full 100 of that shape. Eyes the same way. It's all or nothing for those sliders. I tend to completely avoid them myself.  Hope this helps. 

Yes. very much, thanks.

I have to admit it is kind of addicting to play around in there...though I haven't managed anything decent yet. :innocent:

I'm just testing stuff and it's fun to "uglify" the NPC-morphs for the lulz. Until I have created a character I like and want to use in-game...well there will pass a lot of time, I guess. And I don't need to use it right now because I'm all set with my characters so far, especially Lenya <3 I might try to redo my City-elf with it and use the toolset to create my one HF (for Dahlia's mod) and my Male Mahariel Alonis (that I had on the XBox). Until then I'm content with playing around with the toolset and giggling

[LadyDamodred]

Ah ha! Thanks!