#dao modding

[knife-eared-jan]

It's 3:30am on a work day and the brain gremlins are demanding to see Zevran be properly clothed.

[invisi-bee]

got morphable DAI heads working in origins yay

all vanilla DAI nose sliders are done. now i just have to finish all the gazillion other sliders too

[danielnelsen]

it's hard to get a single screenshot that does a good job of representing what im doing, but the first thing ive decided to do now that i can edit the dao level layouts is to go through and rebuild/clean/etc areas that we only get to see when they're destroyed

denerim palace district is looking a bit nicer

[beansprouts]

@ivanovaisalwaysright replied to your post “my favourite way to play Morrigan is with a Raise...”:

What mod is the armour Wynne's wearing from? I haven't seen it before.

​Hi! I believe that's one of the mage armors from Loincloth Fashion; from Mage Item Pack 2 if their images are labelled correctly. This screenshot is a few months old so I'm not confident on the name of the exact armor unfortunately. I think it might have been called something army-related?

[punkmage]

Dragon Age: Origins

Brecilian Forest

[knife-eared-jan]

THIS IS VERY HELPFUL AND PERFECTLY TIMED!

Uff on having to do it all again with a LOD1 mesh tho...

Yay, functional!

Some differences in porting from DAV vs. porting from DAI that I've noted so far:

Veilguard meshes have HUGE face counts. Need to use the LOD1 or possibly even the LOD2 (or decimate the LOD0 yourself), because Origins will not like it otherwise.

Texture files: "_norm" = norm, surprisingly straightforward. 😋 "_bclr" = diffuse. As for "_amms", it has metal on the blue channel and the specular on the alpha. Whatever the A & first M are, they're nearly identical to each other on most of the maps I've popped open so far.

Porting to DA2 is not going to be as easy as it was from DAI. The bones in the FBX refer to the deformations you can apply in the character creator instead the ones used by animations. Combining these vertex groups into something resembling the DAI/DA2 skeleton should be possible, but I haven't tried it yet.

And probably the biggest one: no separate models for each gender/race. HM is the default, and all the others races/genders used deformed versions of that, apparently done in-engine. Using the deformation bones to alter the mesh for each gender/race should be possible, though; I'm just not terribly adept with new versions of Blender. 😅

[dalishious]

Alright, my Dragon Age Origins Unofficial Remaster mod has been dumbed-down and re-uploaded for anyone who wants it.

[halliserres]

KORCARI WILDS

[deimcs]

unofficial list of dragon age: origins mods as of june '24.

For anyone who asked! Please keep in mind that there are some cheat mods in here for when you just want to enjoy the story without worrying too much about gameplay but they can be unistalled any time for a more challenging playthrough.

! N.B. ALWAYS READ THE DESCRIPTIONS AND THE COMMUNITY POSTS VERY CAREFULLY, SOMETIMES YOU'LL NEED TO ADD, DELETE OR EDIT SOME FILES YOURSELF TO AVOID MOD CONFLICTS !

First of all, you need the proper tools and the way to use them:

da:o mod manager

chargen morph compiler

modding tutorial

console tutorial

visible console commands TEXTURES AND BUGFIXES

Dragon Age Origins Unofficial Remaster

Environment Overhaul

Fine Dwarven Craftsmanship

Elven Scenery

Dain's Fixes

Qwinn's Ultimate DAO Fixpack

Awakening Silverite Mines Bugfix

Awakening endgame cutscene fixes

Awakening Riot Scene Persuade Fix COSMETICS

Leliana (Inquisition Edition)

Morrigan (Inquisition Edition)

Cookies for Sten

Unique Face Textures for Companions

Crow Assassin's Armor for Zevran

Elf update

Qunari update

Tattoo Cosmetics

Mulderitsme's Brows

Mole and freckle textures

SJC's Skin Tones

Pretty Eyes

Big Brown Eyes

A New Freckled Skin Texture

HQ Eyebrow Stubble and Scalp Hair Replacers

Universal Voices

Bow Replacer

No Helmet Hack

Tranquil Tattoo

Grey Wardens of Ferelden

The Hairald of Andraste GAMEPLAY

The Rescue at Ishal

Redcliffe Village Siege Immortal NPCs

Camp Merchant Chest

Grey Warden Powers

Sleep Until Dawn

Complete Bi Overhaul

Talent Books

Change Your Hair and Face Anywhere

Lock Bash

Skip the Fade

Madd Gift Guide

Gift Guide - Awakening

Extra Dog Slot

Expanded Inventory

SarahCousland's Romance Mods

[aesfocus]

Around Castle Cousland

[stgroversart]

im gonna try this one last time. this is MLM.

[knife-eared-jan]

Sensible part of brain: the armor only shows a bit of chest, if you really want to do scars and tattoos for it, that's all you need...

Autism part of brain: *HISSSSSSS* WE WON'T REST UNTIL EVERY TINY SCAR ON THE REMOTEST BODY PARTS ARE ALLOCATED. WHAT DOES "NEEDING" IT HAVE TO DO WITH IT, THIS IS ZEVRAN'S BODY?!?!

[valcubust]

thank you dragon age origins mods

[danielnelsen]

i have no idea why dao atmosphere settings were being tricky for so long and just..not changing beyond being set to 0 (so the sky would be permanently black, etc) but i FINALLY got it working and it's a lot of fun to play with

[wangxianficrecs]

Hello! Thank you all for your job in the fandom.

I wanted to suggest an event to recommend collections in the fandom

I really like one called “Wangxian and bunnies” and I always consult the mdzs meta collection when writing.

I also know some limited zines later published the literary works on collections like the furby one XD and some twitter events too.

I would love to have more collections to go through, just putting the idea out there

Have a good one!

That's a great idea! Though instead of an event, how about this?

Introducing our New Category:

However, in order for me to actually find the right collection, make sure to either link it or submit the unique collection name, which you will find in the URL or on the collection's profile page in brackets.

~*~

Wangxian and bunnies

maintained by Inkpixel (@Nekonata)

1 Work in 2 Fandoms and 23 Bookmarked Works.

Description: animal transformation, always a bunny, watership down inspired, heavy importance of bunnies in the plot, etc

~*~

MDZS Meta: References and Resources

maintained by ACasualGeek (@acasualgeek)

8 Bookmarked Works.

Decription: A personal collection of bookmarks (to avoid the hassle of adding works directly) for what exactly it says on the tin: references, resources, educational, explanatory, or otherwise illuminating works for various fandoms that I want to have on hand and be able to easily find and access for future use.

~*~

(Please REBLOG as a signal boost if you like – or think others might like – these collections.)

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