#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

[eluvianmending]

So I.... may have gone a little unhinged and planned to redesign all of the commoner clothing in Origins via retexture.

I mean, there's multiple great redesigns via retexture for the nobility clothing. But I couldn't find any for the commoner clothing which was offending me on a personal level at this point (the bare shoulders! the dirt! the lack of acknowledgment of color or slips!).

In doing so I discovered that, while they're all worn by all three races, several of the different commoner outfits are marked as belonging to different races in the toolset - Com_I, for instance is marked as "dwarf low class", and Com_E is marked as "elven servant". So naturally I used the designs from later games for pointers there.

The last one uses the commoner mesh, but is designated as nicer than the others. We do see some nobility wearing it, especially dwarves, and it's what's used as the wedding gown in the City Elf origin. I may have gone too elven in its design, but I'm struggling to associate it with dwarves instead of the wedding.

[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

[halliserres]

KORCARI WILDS

[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.

[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

[worldofthedas-vol3]

Mod Applications for the DA: World of Thedas Vol. 3 Fanbook are open! We are currently looking to bring in a few people for the following mod positions:

- Art Mod

- Graphics Mod

- Formatting Mod

- Writing Mod

- Organization Mod

You can apply through this form, which will remain open until February 28th. There, you will also find a breakdown and expectations of each role. To learn more about this project, be sure to check out our Carrd as well.

[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?!?!

[aesfocus]

Around Castle Cousland

[stgroversart]

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

[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

[valcubust]

thank you dragon age origins mods