carver hawke, if youre out there....

consider buying me a ko-fi~

[dunmrmods]

archiving this blog

hey, so. this is a new development.

while im still a heavily active modder, i wont be maintaining this blog anymore. to start with i havent made a post in months, and i just dont feel like trying to maintain a dozen separate mods. furthermore, im currently not modding any dragon age games.

bc ive posted some semi valuable info here, this blog is going to remain as an archive, but im closing my askbox. if you want to reach me for any needs, im available at my main blog. my nexus and ko-fi will remain open as well, bc im not quitting modding - just shuttering this blog.

honestly ty to any and everyone who checked in and supported me - im just tired of maintaining a dozen blogs, so im consolidating.

if you wanna keep supporting me, you can still reach me at one of the following places. but for now, cya, and thanks for everything :]

nexus

ko-fi

@shepardvaslesbian

[dunmrmods]

Oh no, what happened to your "Alistair in king outfit" mod? It looks so pretty in screenshots. :(

hello love, if you check ferelden fashion vol 2 i uploaded a copy over there 🥰🥰🥰 it should be entirely standalone file

https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage2/mods/4195

[sapphim]

Sera Mod Alpha~

So, I’d like to try to be more proactive about releasing large mods-in-progress incrementally for those who are interested in them, rather than potentially just letting them languish on my hard drive for months to years, and @dalishious‘s Low Elf Esteem series has got me thinking again about all the tweaks I’d like to make to Sera’s disastrous dialogue.

So rather than just, uh, thinking about them, I’ve uploaded the few changes I’ve made already here and will be periodically updating y’all whenever I make any progress on it.

The long of it is in the blog post, but the short of it is that I cut the infamous transphobic comment from WEWH, hid the infamous everpresent option to kick Sera out of the Inquisition so long as her disposition remains above hostile, and snipped a few lines from her introduction Lyd pointed out as being weirdly racialized in that Low Elf Esteem linked above.

Am in fact taking suggestions. Probably won’t find a lot of stuff feasible to do in practice but it should make for a good conversation anyway. o/

[carverhcwke]

@sapphim and @dunmrmods really out here doin the maker’s work with their playable elfs mod huh

[dunmrmods]

when u work an absolute mod miracle and someone still finds a way to complain about it

[dunmrmods]

No more potato face for Zevran in Dragon Age 2. Couple it with @sapphim‘s Zevran Romance Dialogue Fix to get your boy back to tip top shape.

DOWNLOAD

[dunmrmods]

@pristinepastel no, it was the one i had made.

[dunmrmods]

need help finding an old mod of mine

i made a mistake last night and deleted a mod by accident. it was called "simple pants for isabela". it had 3 different outfits for her. i know it's a long shot, but if anyone has a copy of this mod, can you send it to me? i would appreciate it beyond words. thank you.

[dunmrmods]

that last post tho reminds me that i should go back and try to finish and fix up the nouk hair ports some time soon

not like i dont already have a backlog of mods and mod requests -.-

[dunmrmods]

Hello! I saw screenshot of a male Hawke on Nexus with dreadlocks, and in the caption the person who took the screenshot thanked you for the hairstyle. Do you have any plans of re-uploading that mod?

i never got around to fixing them but the only 2 dreadlock ports i did for release where the nouk hairstyles (this is my old, defunct blog, but the dl link should still be good, lmk if it isnt) and one for ferelden cuts where i just used a modded dai texture w vanilla dai hairs

[carverhcwke]

A day will come when I stop making Chasind Morrigan morphs… but it is not this day (click for better picture quality)

download | donate?

[carverhcwke]

update: added a more flemethy variant (skin tint 004 instead of 006 so same as alistair - still beautifully brown but more visibly biracial) and removed the clown blush from the original as well, so you might want to redownload!

[dunmrmods]

fdjlsffds sorry to bother you but i was wondering if you'd consider doing a tutorial on how to change hawke (and the twins'?) starting armour in da2 bc there are so many i want to use but i have no idea how to do it and there don't seem to be any tutorials out there <3

youre not a bother o: send me a reminder after this ask gets published so that when im home i can write up a proper full tutorial with links and all!! otherwise ill forget (a simple ‘hey this is anon from earlier reminding you about editing starting armor!’ or sth :D)

[dunmrmods]

i just wanted to tell you i have all ur da2 mods downloaded more or less and they're all just so good and ur out here doin the lord's work and ilu!! every time i'm like "ok this is it vaelsmod has peaked" you go and release something even more amazing and im shooketh

i love u sofaking much i love getting messages like this and i love knowing ppl like me mods..... i lov u anon

[dunmrmods]

please stop asking me for the kadust erf

there are a dozen and one issues with it. the textures were always translated bad, the meshes themselves have a lot of issues (not the original maker’s problem, entirely my fault as i was baby modder when doing it)

im still working on a re release of it that’ll be for both hawkes and maybe even elf hawkes but i need people to stop asking me about it because it just makes me not want to work on this mod anymore. im not even getting help with it and there’s sth like 68 hairs. that’s 136 hairstyles i have to adjust by hand, 272 if i do the elf ones too, and thats by myself

so unless you’re messaging me off anon to offer help with re shaping or weighting these hairs (at which point i will add you to the mod page itself too since you’d be doing a portion of the work) then please i beg of you do not ask me about it again. im not going to share the old mod (if you share it amongst yourselves, that’s fine! but i defer to the original maker with sharing these meshes)

also im sorry for getting like really mean about this, this is just the message i get most often and im really tired of answering asks about it and even being guilt tripped by some people recently

[dunmrmods]

i asked this on nexus but on your da2 misc mod collection, fenris has a GORGEOUS blue-greeny scaled armour in the ponytail screenshots and i gotta know where u got it from bc it's so beautiful ;A; btw ponytail fenris is life and i love ur mods ♥

i love u thank u! it's from skaramoosh' fenris armors they did. id love to release them but idk if thise ones fall under the free reuse perms; pm me on the nexus and ill send you the erf for it? 💛

[dunmrmods]

wow re reading that several edits i did to the text lkke adding link n the chargen line did not save u_u; feel like a fool in human shoes

[dunmrmods]

Hey! Could you tell us how to make complexion mods to Dragon Age 2? Like what format to save textures in? I am trying to make custom textures, but all I get is a black face in CC, I think I am saving them in wrong format. I cannot find any guide about these things. Do you know any guide?

okay so, here’s a guide on saving for GIMP

http://dragonagemods.tumblr.com/post/149528770354/hello-ive-been-looking-for-some-da2-tutorials-on

and how you save in Pshop

First off, you need the nvidia plugin. you can get that from here. it’s different from the intel plugin and saving textures for da2 with the intel plugin will cause issues (armor and body textures won’t appear in dx9 and tattoo/complexions won’t appear properly at all)

so when you go to save it, these are the settings you’ll use

if you don’t you’ll lose your alpha channel, you could have a miscolored skin (ive had green and silver skins before -.-; ) etc but these are the settings you use

as for having black faces that could be a number of things. the most obvious is the chargenmorph is not pointing to the right file/the file directory is wrong. here’s a line from my mod for example?

i saved my complexions in the “vaelsmod” folder and then put that folder in a new one, then packed the new folder as an erf. you also want to make sure you have a matching normal map in the folder (you don’t need to add the normal map to the chargenmorph though) so it’ll point right

next, i don’t think DA2 does well with like… higher than 2k complexions? iirc i tried before and i can’t remember if they turned out alright, but they definitely weren’t worth it in the long run. nvidia save time is too long and you don’t really see the detail. so stick to 2048 x 2048 ull be good

(i dont think you were asking for detail guides, im not really good at adding details to complexions i just watched some sims 4 skin detail videos to learn)

[merijoutsen]

Kek, I asked this question, I was just not signed in to Tumblr (that is why I was anon).. BUT thank you so much! I Never expected to get this good answer, you made me so happy. I happy been fighting DA2 textures for some time now cause I had no clue about anything, and there really ain’t like almost no guides.

It seems like my issue was that they were not in correct folder. Again, THANK YOU! <3

[dunmrmods]

yw!! and oh wow does this mean you're gonna be making da2 mods? thatd be kick ass, you always have such hq stuff. regardless im glad i helped!! <33