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I don't want them too dark or too light. They should stand out, but they always seem not right to me. It could be I am picky.
No I get that... sometimes I recreate the character if the eyes aren't "just right". I think you can tell a lot from a character (person's) eyes
You know the old saying, the eyes are the window to the soul
EDIT: - the eyes are beautiful btw 
No I get that... sometimes I recreate the character if the eyes aren't "just right". I think you can tell a lot from a character (person's) eyes
You know the old saying, the eyes are the window to the soul
EDIT: - the eyes are beautiful btw
Thank you.
Yes, I know what you mean. I think the trouble is the lighting in the CC is a little too dark. Like you walked into a closet and pulled the string to turn the light on.
My character's eyes are suppose to be a soft crystal looking green. Oh there is a story about all that/
So I wanted to mess with the brown and green a bit.
See this is her eyes currently....
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I don't want them too dark or too light. They should stand out, but they always seem not right to me. It could be I am picky.
Well, here are some of my sunburst-brown colors which change depending on the lighting:
Thank you.
Yes, I know what you mean. I think the trouble is the lighting in the CC is a little too dark. Like you walked into a closet and pulled the string to turn the light on.
Agreed! My main PT I had a particular colour I wanted, hazel with going from brown to green but light enough you could see the difference without having to zoom right it (it was a self insert, so wanted my own eye colour but lighter). Sometimes I would think "yep prefect brightness!" not massively bright and not too dark but then be massively bright and too much or too dark with no colour distinction.
This is what I eneded up with and pretty happy with it
With some of the lighting in game sometimes it's hard to get good SS esp if you don't use flycam lol
EDIT: - oops trailed off mid sentance
I don't know how many or if any of you play HoDA but I just noticed they have changed Knight-Captain Cullen from his DA2 face to the current DAI face.
As much as I love his appearance in DAI, I actually loved how his face was based on how he appearred in DA2 - which was what he looked like when he was Knight-Captain...
There is a Commander Cullen character that is in HoDA with his DAI appearance so I don't understand why they changed it.
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(they have the process of the painting on their blog for anyone that's interested)
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http://parttimehobbi...ave-at-this-for
http://mellorianjart...223433/relieved
http://mixzilla.tumb...ry-soothing-for
I love when he forgets his armor....Sooo More Cullen.
NSFW.
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fail...
totally worthy of gushing, it's written so well and I wasn't expecting complex conflicts! Awesomeness. Out of curiousity, as a writer, do you ever go back to your work and adjust things? Yours and other stories I've read make Cullen a foundling, and now we know he has family, and a decently big one too. Of course there are instances when being a foundling impacts your character's personality, so Cullen being an over achiever makes sense in light of that. I'm not saying it should be updated at all!! but just curious
Yea hair is possible to make into the game, but i can only modify the existing hair and make it into something else atm, I haven't tried to see if i can put some of my own work in there if it matches the same UV's and the same amount of verts yet, but i will test that too
Hey Adela, may I ask how you modify the hair? Do you use 3ds Max for this and do you load some of the Dragon Age files in that program to work on the hair? Sorry, I hope this isn't a too stupid question. I'm just curious here...
If any of you are bored later LadyInsanity, GamerMD83, ScottishWarrior92 and myself will finally be doing another Geekquisition podcast! It'll be very spoilery BUT we'll all be in costume again (can't tell you who we're dressing as, it's a surprise!)
The podcast will start at 8pm GMT / 12pm PST / 3pm EST on LadyInsanity's twitch channel: http://www.twitch.tv/ladyinsanity
Most of my characters actually start out with brown eyes, it just depends on what you're going for. Here's the slider for Theo's brown:
SpoilerThen I added a very dark red on the inner iris.
Rhinnon's eyes also started out brown:
SpoilerHer's were the darkest brown to the left, right before the slider turns blue. Then I added a dark blue on the outer iris.
These eyes were also brown (the same starting color I used for Theo):
SpoilerFor these I added an inner iris of mid-yellow.
Ravenna's eyes started out with the same brown as Theo:
SpoilerI then added and outer iris of green.
I noticed that there's two different groups of browns in the CC: cool browns towards the left and warm browns towards the right.
OK, looking at your CC screenshot, I realize why I have the problems I do with it. Your lighting is a dozen times brighter than it is in mine. I literally can barely tell (and not always correctly) what the eye colors are. In mine, it's as if there's a spotlight shining from the left, and the rest is in semi-darkness. And sometimes if I get her at just the right angle, I can tell what color her eyes are. Sort of.
Edited: When I take a screen shot, oddly it's lighter, but her eyes are still shadowed.
And thank you! Now I know one of the positions on the sliders that has brown eyes, lol.
Hey R2, reading Knight's Bloom after someone gushed about it on here.
Hey, thanks so much!! And I'll just chuckle to myself that you didn't expect the story to be complex. 
On changing things later...? Naw. I mean, the whole story is AU now since we sorta know what happened to Cullen after 9:37, so what's one little detail? Heck, my whole oeuvre except for the last couple stories I wrote during DA:I are AU now in some way or other. Besides, I don't think my extrapolations are so far off as to be fundamentally game changing anyway. For example, in Knight's Bloom, Cullen still has issue with Hawke being a noble and him not. In another, Andraste's Grace, I give him a whole loving family that he decided not to inform of his whereabouts when he moved to Kirkwall. But regardless, even if they were, I think that's the fun of fanfic!
So thanks for reading! I say it too often, but Knight's Bloom is still my favorite of all my word children. :happybounce:
If any of you are bored later LadyInsanity, GamerMD83, ScottishWarrior92 and myself will finally be doing another Geekquisition podcast! It'll be very spoilery BUT we'll all be in costume again (can't tell you who we're dressing as, it's a surprise!)
The podcast will start at 8pm GMT / 12pm PST / 3pm EST on LadyInsanity's twitch channel: http://www.twitch.tv/ladyinsanity
Awesome! I'll tune in if I remember to.
I'm calling it now: MD will be Blackwall 
OK, looking at your CC screenshot, I realize why I have the problems I do with it. Your lighting is a dozen times brighter than it is in mine. I literally can barely tell (and not always correctly) what the eye colors are. In mine, it's as if there's a spotlight shining from the left, and the rest is in semi-darkness. And sometimes if I get her at just the right angle, I can tell what color her eyes are. Sort of.
Edited: When I take a screen shot, oddly it's lighter, but her eyes are still shadowed.
And thank you! Now I know one of the positions on the sliders that has brown eyes, lol.
Is it just me, or are brown eyes really difficult to get? In the CC, really dark blue was the closest I could get to brown for one of my characters. I got lucky enough that they actually look a soft brown in game. The hair also looks bluish grey in the CC, but in game, it is dark brown. Who was the genius that chose the lighting for the CC, I wonder?
So speaking of AU, I just posted a new chapter of Fool's Errand for anyone who's following.
Fool's Errand Chapter 10: Nightmares
Three years after allowing Marian Hawke to escape Kirkwall, a disgraced Cullen is sent on a desperate quest to find her. Can he earn her trust in time to regain what he's lost and finally redeem them all for the role they played in igniting the mage-templar war? Set in 9:40, after the events of DA2 and Asunder, before DA:I.
Chapter Summary: Cullen finally learns what happened to Hawke after she left Kirkwall, and Anders extracts a promise that puts Cullen in a difficult position.
So speaking of AU, I just posted a new chapter of Fool's Errand for anyone who's following.
Fool's Errand Chapter 10: Nightmares
Three years after allowing Marian Hawke to escape Kirkwall, a disgraced Cullen is sent on a desperate quest to find her. Can he earn her trust in time to regain what he's lost and finally redeem them all for the role they played in igniting the mage-templar war? Set in 9:40, after the events of DA2 and Asunder, before DA:I.
Chapter Summary: Cullen finally learns what happened to Hawke after she left Kirkwall, and Anders extracts a promise that puts Cullen in a difficult position.
Yeah! Going to read now...
sera and blackwall and viv are a treat! They won't shut up, I'm afraid I'll run out of banter at this rate!!! Yay!
@R2s: Yaaaay! That's my favourite one of your longer fics
Love Hawke there, soooo warm
*please don't ever drop it*
*please don't ever drop it*
*please don't ever drop it*
Too many of my favourite fics are dropped because the authors can't manage to continue
I'm expecting a hilarious experience ala biowareaccordingtomom.tumblr.com given how little he knows about dragon age. And I cannot wait.
Bwahahahahahahaha maybe we should suggest him to romance Cullen? Bwahahahahahahahahahhahaha someone send him the Danaerys CC slider please
Wow, you have so little faith in me
Seriously, I can't start that playthrough until everything's.... perfect. I just can't. I've waited too long!
My heart is beating so fast lol
EDIT: I think this is the unvoiced version though, right?
Meeow, that's good, I'm still on drawing Alin!
Yeah! Going to read now...
@R2s: Yaaaay! That's my favourite one of your longer fics
Love Hawke there, soooo warm
*please don't ever drop it*
*please don't ever drop it*
*please don't ever drop it*
Too many of my favourite fics are dropped because the authors can't manage to continue
Aw, thanks, guys! I don't plan on dropping it, as I adore it too much. Hopefully my writer's block for chapter 13 goes away soon. 
Aw, thanks, guys! I don't plan on dropping it, as I adore it too much. Hopefully my writer's block for chapter 13 goes away soon.
Good because I'm really enjoying it too!
Hey Adela, may I ask how you modify the hair? Do you use 3ds Max for this and do you load some of the Dragon Age files in that program to work on the hair? Sorry, I hope this isn't a too stupid question. I'm just curious here...
Sorry for the late response, but yes i do use 3ds max and for right now i import the existing hair from the game in max and modify the polygons but they have to have the same UV coordinates and the same vertex count so you cant add or delete any polygons. You have to work with what u got, witch can be a challenge but not impossible, after your done you can import it back into the tool
Also if you modify the existing hair from the game, other characters /NPC will have the same hairdo because some NPC's share the same stuff as the inq. And for the record no, its not a stupid question
Is it just me, or are brown eyes really difficult to get? In the CC, really dark blue was the closest I could get to brown for one of my characters. I got lucky enough that they actually look a soft brown in game. The hair also looks bluish grey in the CC, but in game, it is dark brown. Who was the genius that chose the lighting for the CC, I wonder?
There's actually quite a few brown presets in the game. To the left are cool browns and to the right are warm browns. I also didn't have any problems with achieving black hair via the vanilla CC. Maybe it's because I use SweetFX and my preset cuts out a lot of the game's overbearing red tones?
Heyyo, for those on PC with the banter bug, it's working with a CE mod. This is probably totally old news to most of you, but wanted to share just in case
Unfortunately CE uber-crashes my game since the last patch.
Only ever played femshep so have no basis of comparison, but she just seemed so evil in the 3rd game. I remember her just being badass in the first two, but renegade and mordin
I don't think I've ever played a hard ass hawke either! I'm such a wimp, I don't even want to hurt people's feelings playing pretend!
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