There's something that always bothered me whilst playing DA:O.
There's a banter between Alistair and Zevran where Alistair mentions tattoos on Zevran's back. (And other places, according to Zev.)
However, no such tattoos can be found on his body. I understand the reasoning for this; that all elven males use the same body model therefore giving one tattoos would affect every other.
So as someone who has no idea how to mod, I've got two quests for the lovely BSN.
The first is finding out if this mod could be utilized for this purpose? As I understand it could be used to give only one member of the party a model change.
The second, of course, would be making the aforementioned tattoos, of course. Sadly, I lack the resources and know-how to do so myself. If anyone could give me any information as well, I'd be happy to learn!
Zevran's Tattoos? (Request)
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lunamoondragon
, avril 20 2013 09:59
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Posté 21 avril 2013 - 02:58
DarthParametric
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Probably the best way to do it would be to give Zevran a custom APR entry so that he could have his own custom naked model. Then replace all the Zevran UTCs to use the new APR entry. Easy enough to do in itself, but for it to work would require every single armour and clothes model in the game having a custom filename in order for them to show up when equipped on him. That's an enormous volume of work if you have to rename them manually.
Having a quick look at that mod you linked to suggests that it does take that basic APR approach, but seemingly tries to get fancy to deal with the model problem and runs into a lot of issues as a result. As such, I'm not sure I'd recommend it as a basis.
As for the tattoo, that would be very straightforward, assuming you had a design. It would just be a texture edit for the custom naked model.
Is the mod possible? Yes. Will anyone make it for you? Unlikely at this juncture. To do it properly requires too much work on the part of the modder.
Edit: Thinking on it a bit, there's an alternative approach. Really the only time you should require a custom naked model with body tattoos is during sex scenes. The rest of the time he is presumably going to be clothed anyway. In that case, there are two ways to go (custom APR or just extended clothes/armour variation), but either way you'd only require just the one set of custom models (torso/hands/feet). You'd just need to be able to change the Zevran sex cutscene/s use a custom UTC where you set the custom APR/custom equipment. That is actually a pretty straightforward mod to do, although the cutscene stuff is outside my area of expertise so I can't comment with certainty on that side of things.
Having a quick look at that mod you linked to suggests that it does take that basic APR approach, but seemingly tries to get fancy to deal with the model problem and runs into a lot of issues as a result. As such, I'm not sure I'd recommend it as a basis.
As for the tattoo, that would be very straightforward, assuming you had a design. It would just be a texture edit for the custom naked model.
Is the mod possible? Yes. Will anyone make it for you? Unlikely at this juncture. To do it properly requires too much work on the part of the modder.
Edit: Thinking on it a bit, there's an alternative approach. Really the only time you should require a custom naked model with body tattoos is during sex scenes. The rest of the time he is presumably going to be clothed anyway. In that case, there are two ways to go (custom APR or just extended clothes/armour variation), but either way you'd only require just the one set of custom models (torso/hands/feet). You'd just need to be able to change the Zevran sex cutscene/s use a custom UTC where you set the custom APR/custom equipment. That is actually a pretty straightforward mod to do, although the cutscene stuff is outside my area of expertise so I can't comment with certainty on that side of things.
Modifié par DarthParametric, 21 avril 2013 - 08:54 .
