#inquisition mods

[vhen-harel]

Veilguard Mods - For the Inquisition Heart

Want to add more of the Inquisition or the romance of Solas and Lavellan to Veilguard? Here are some mods to enhance that world state even more. These are some of my fave mods to use.

And god bless modders, really - you all just find new ways for us to enjoy these games.

Inquisition General:

The Inquisitor's Armoury - "Replaces various weapons with the Inquisitor's ceremonial sword from DAI, available for all classes."

Crystal Arm(s) for Rook and The Inquisitor - "This mod will apply a crystal effect to Rook's left arm or to the Inquisitor's." (Perfect for your Inquisitor as Rook playthrough.)

The Inquisitor and Solas - Inquisition Outfits - "Makes The Inquisitor & Solas share armors with a retexture featuring the iconic Inquisition Symbol."

World State Codex Overhaul - "A lore-compliant rewrite of several missives and codex entries to take into account world states from Inquisition."

Romanced SolasLavellan Atmosphere focused:

Solavellan Elven Translation Fix - "Fixes the translation given for the Elven dialogue between Solas and Lavellan in the romanced atonement ending."

Solavellan Tarot Murals - "Replaces the mural in Solas' office in the lighthouse with a Solavellan mural. (Includes versions for both EF and EM)."

Regrets of Crestwood - "Replaces various statues in the Prison of Regrets with the hart statues seen in Crestwood, during Solas' final romance scene in Inquisition."

Play as Lavellan - UI name replacers - "Replaces the faction surnames and/or "Rook" with Lavellan."

Romanced Solas and Lavellan World State - "Adds rewritten codices, letters and missive to enhance the narrative and emotional atmosphere of a Solas/Lavellan romance world state." (self-promotion here, this is my mod!)

Solas Emmrich UI Swap - "A UI immersive mod that is intended to be used alongside mods that swap Emmrich's model to Solas'." (I mean, technically not a Lavellan romance specific mod but it's made by my fave solavellan modder who always has Lavellan in mind, so I'm putting it here because it's awesome).

Weapons and Armour:

Nightingale's Eyes - Leliana's Inquisition Outfit For Rook - "Replaces Tevinter Knight with a port of Leliana's Inquisitor Armour."

The Orb of Fen'Harel Staff - "Replaces Winged Stave (Aurum) with a custom staff featuring Solas' orb from Inquisition."

Humble Apostate's Halla Staff - Solas Official Art Staff - "Across various official artworks of Solas throughout Inquisition and Veilguard, he is often seen drawn with a wooden staff with a halla head carved at the top."

Ancient Elven Robes - For Rook and The Inquisitor - "Replaces Hazard Suit (Arlathan) with the Ancient Elven Robes / Female Keeper Robes from Inquisition."

Apostate Hobo Guise - For Solas and the Inquisitor - "Gives Solas and/or The Inquisitor Solas' casual outfit from Inquisition."

The Wolf and Halla Staves - "Custom-made staves are based on The Dreadwolf, with subtle hints of the Solas/Lavellan romance with its imagery." 

The Hierophant - Inquisitor Armour Swap and Recolour - "Replaces The Inquisitor's armour with The Watcher's Robe, recoloured to match Solas' romance tarot card from Inquisition."

Solas Trespasser Armor - "Swaps Solas' Armor to his Trespasser Armor."

[holyblackspear]

After seeing people's interest in this armor and wanting to wear it myself in game, I finally did it! My first Inquisition Mod!

Ornate Plate Armor with Fur over Dragon Hunter - HM

As well, I wanted to cite @hedgequisition for making a post about this so many years ago. Don't know if you're still interested, but I still wanted to thank you for motivating me enough to try 😂

[maleficarum-regrets]

A Tutorial For Making Custom Vallaslin For DA:I

Since i had to learn how to do this from several different posts that were all several years old when I made my Inquisitor's vallaslin, i’m going to put everything that you need to know here. With pictures! But limited pictures bc tumblr. You don’t need to have any previous experience with photo-editing software, I will go over it all here. Thank you to all of the old posts that i learned all of this from. Couldn’t do this without you. If you use this tutorial, i would LOVE to see what you make with it! Below the cut bc it is long. Enjoyyyyy

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What you’ll need: DAI Mod Maker (i use v1.1.0.17 because other versions can be finicky. Scroll down a bit on that link to find it.) GIMP (you can also use Photoshop, but i only know how to do this in GIMP. It should still be similar steps if you want to use Photoshop.)

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First, we need to export the tattoo texture for the vallaslin. Open up DAI Mod Maker and go to Data > da3 > actors > baseheads > textures > tattoos.

The ones listed as “[TextureAsset]” starting with “tattoo_elf” are the ones we are looking for.

In Inquisition, you can only override what is already in the game; no standalones. Meaning you’ll have to change out one of the vallaslins already in-game for your own. You can pick any of these three to override. To see which vallaslins are in the texture, double click the texture asset and click Preview. In the texture preview, you’ll see red, green, blue, and white boxes in the top left corresponding to the RBG and Alpha channels. Each of these channels has a different vallaslin on it. Toggling them all off and selecting them one at a time will show you which ones.

Edit: It is possible to edit any of the channels, however I only know how to override the Alpha channel, so that's what I'll be showing. So in the preview, look in the Alpha channels to find the one you want to override.

Once you decide on the texture you want to override, you can close the texture preview. In the asset preview, click Import/Export > Export Asset. Save it as a .dds file.

After it’s exported, you can close DAI Mod Maker for now. Next, we move on to GIMP. When opening the .dds in GIMP, make sure to uncheck the box for “Load mipmaps”. The other setting, "Automatically decode..." should stay checked. (The newest versions of GIMP support .dds files without needing a plugin.)

Once you have it open in GIMP, the first thing i suggest you do is get a placement reference to draw your vallaslin on. To do this, we’re going to take one of the vanilla vallaslins and save it on it’s own image. That way you can design your vallaslin easily and not have to worry about stretching and scaling to fit later on.

On the right side of the window, open the channels tab.

For the placement reference, i’m going to use the full-face Sylaise vallaslin because you can clearly see where the eyes, forehead, cheeks, and chin are. You might want to use a vallaslin that you also see the neck on if you plan on designing vallaslin onto the neck. In the Channels tab, click on the eye symbols to the left to toggle visibility to find which channel the vallaslin you want to use as a reference is on. In this case, it is on the red channel.

Next we're going to go to the top left and select Colors > Components > Decompose.

In the pop up, the Color model should be RGB, "Decompose to layers" should be checked, and "Foreground as registration color" should be unchecked.

This will separate all of the color channels into layers. So, we need to go into the Layers tab and delete the other color layers we don’t need. In this case, that’s blue and green. When you only have the layer that you need, we’re going to go to Colors > Invert to make it easier to draw on. Then you can export it.

You should now have something that looks like this:

So, now you get to design your vallaslin! You can use whichever program you prefer (i originally used GIMP, but also used Krita for one). One tip i have that sounds obvious but i didn't do the first time is use mirroring while you’re designing it. You can find out how to do that in whatever program you want with a quick google. Just put the placement reference we made in a layer behind your drawing layer and go crazy.

This is what my final version looked like for my Inquisitor. Keep in mind that the way that it actually looks on your character will be determined by the shape of their face, so you may have to do a few tries to get it exactly how you want.

Now to put it in the game!

Open the original exported texture .dds back into GIMP and go into the Channels tab. We're changing the Alpha channel, so make sure that only the Alpha channel is selected. Then, go back over the Layers and erase the vallaslin you see there.

Next, open your vallaslin image in GIMP. Go to the Channel tab again and make sure only Alpha is selected. Hit Ctrl + A, then Ctrl + C to copy. Then, go back to the original texture. Alpha should still be the only selection in the Channels tab. Hit Ctrl + V to paste your vallaslin.

Go back into the Layers tab, right click the floating layer, and select Anchor Layer. You should see the other channels through your design like this:

Next, go to File > Export as, and export with these settings:

Time to make it into a mod! Open DAI Mod Maker and go to Data > da3 > actors > baseheads > textures > tattoos again. Open the texture that you picked before. In the pop up, go to Import/Export and select Import Asset. Find the .dds you made in GIMP and import it. It should give you a pop up saying it was successful!

Then, in the Mod Maker window, go to File > Save as and save your mod however you want.

Click Create and save it where you want, and there you have it! Then, all you have to do is merge it with your DAI Mod Manager and you should have it waiting for you in-game!

Now go crazy and draw on your ocs' faces all you want.

And if you have ANY questions or issues, my dms and my askbox are always open! <3

[inkspot-fox]

Inquisition Battlemage Retextures Mod - Update

Someone (sort of) requested less saturated versions of 2 of my Inquisition Battlemage Armor retextures. Most of the retextures I’d done were the tintable ones, but the first versions of the non-tintable green/black/gold and the purple/black/gold retextures I’d done were too highly saturated for some peoples’ tastes.

I’ve uploaded:

Black and Purple with Gold Heraldry - ALTERNATE (Less Saturated Version)

Black and Green with Gold Heraldry - ALTERNATE (Less Saturated Version) 

These retextures are non-tintable (I’ve made tintable options that are already available for this mod) and work for everyone.

This is also a reminder that I take requests! If there is a color you want or an adjustment to a version already up there, chances are I can do it if you just ask me. 

Download @ Nexus

I highly recommend pairing this mod with Tirnoney’s excellent Upgraded Armor Schematics, which will allow you to craft the Inquisition Battlemage Armor with Tier 4 stats!

[freckled-lili]

Me: Oooh, what a pretty looking Inquisition mod! I should test it ou-

Mod: Frosty Mod Manager exclusive lol.

Me:

[breadedsinner]

If you’ve been looking for a flimsy excuse to start up Inquisition again and finally roll that Cadash, why not this one? 

There's some really neat mods that change the glowy-hand Inquisitor portrait, but I got tired of waiting for a Cadash version, so I made some myself. Inspired by this mod and this one, I made a few for male and female dwarf Inquisitors, with different skin and hair colors. I only made a few versions since this game is already several years old and I know dwarves aren't popular to begin with (for whatever dumb reason). BUT if you want one of a scheme not included here, I would be more than happy to make more.  I didn't make ones of the card art as-is (light skinned female dwarf with red hair, light skinned male dwarf with brown hair) because that's already a mod, one that also inspired this one, here. Special thanks to @vaelsmod for all the support, and danexuslurker for making a tutorial on icon mods.

[ventures-through-thedas]

I really want to start another playthrough of Inquisition, but I’d like to install some mods.

Are there people out there who know some good guides to help me with installing them? It seems quite confusing and I’d like a good explanation. 

[tyriantales]

Inquisition Branded Finery

((Repost from over a year ago, but I am working on a new mod page layout and needed this formatted nicer <3.)) 

This started out as a personal mod for myself, but I am loving it so much that I decided to share it! Also included a Gray version that is more in line with the Flag colors in game along with a green version. I am ALWAYS open to suggestions if people would like to see other colors. 

Download ---> Here

Previews after the cut: