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LadyofNemesis
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modding attempt(s) Mar 14, 2021 19:32:46 GMT Sunegami likes this

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Post by LadyofNemesis on Mar 14, 2021 19:32:46 GMT

So over in the 'what did you do in DA today' thread, I mentioned the other day that I was working on a hair conversion from Sims 4 to DA: Origins

all in all it's going somewhat well...but I've ran into some problems.

First, head shapes between games are vastly different, so it requires quite some patience and elbow grease to actually get something to fit onto a skull cap

Secondly...Sims 4 exports hairstyles with included skull caps of their own, this is especially true with hair that's included with the game, as one can see here

SPOILER: Click to show

the cap is part of the hairstyle

now, custom hairstyles don't include a skull cap (and I tried it out with a few of them)...but I'd love to use this one and make it work.

After two days of struggling and a few restarts this is my current progress with the conversion

SPOILER: Click to show

the orange outline is the skull cap from Origins, so as you can see there's quite some overlap from which I don't know if it'll even translate well into Origins when (and if) I manage to get it inside the toolset and actually working.

I'm a total noob when it comes to modding, I've made head morphs and some minor weapon mods (which can be downloaded on the Nexus), but I've no idea how to continue with this :pinched:

If anyone can point me to a decent (and hopefully up to date) tutorial or anyone patient enough to help me out a bit I'd appreciate it a lot

I've already dug up a few tutorials on my own, but most of them are quite outdated :-/

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modding attempt(s) Mar 14, 2021 22:04:29 GMT Sunegami likes this

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Post by theskymoves on Mar 14, 2021 22:04:29 GMT

Wow! I've never been able to wrap my brain around anything to do with 3D modeling, but it looks like you are making a good start. :thumbsup:

Re tutorials, have you seen Risibisi's blog? She's probably done more high quality ports of hairs to DAO than anyone, and she's very generous with her acquired knowledge: The Hairald of Andraste (that's a link to the subhead for her tutorial posts).

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modding attempt(s) Mar 14, 2021 22:15:03 GMT

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Post by LadyofNemesis on Mar 14, 2021 22:15:03 GMT

Mar 14, 2021 22:04:29 GMT theskymoves said:

Wow! I've never been able to wrap my brain around anything to do with 3D modeling, but it looks like you are making a good start. :thumbsup:

Re tutorials, have you seen Risibisi's blog? She's probably done more high quality ports of hairs to DAO than anyone, and she's very generous with her acquired knowledge: The Hairald of Andraste (that's a link to the subhead for her tutorial posts).

Thanks

and I have, there's a few tutorials on there that I'm going to try to follow once I've lain the groundwork for the mod itself

my biggest issue atm. is just getting it to fit properly with not too many gaps :lol:

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LadyofNemesis
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modding attempt(s) Mar 16, 2021 13:23:41 GMT theskymoves and Sunegami like this

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Post by LadyofNemesis on Mar 16, 2021 13:23:41 GMT

I wanted to post a little update, I've been following some tutorials best I could and currently...

SPOILER: Click to show

I'm busy copying bone weights ^_^

(I'm using a hairstyle from the Qunari update mod to copy the bone weights onto this hairstyle, I'm hoping it'll work

)

there's still a few small gaps between the hair and the head (especially at the temples) but hopefully those won't be too noticeable once the texture sits on top

After that comes the more tedious phase...faces :lol:

Edit: rainbow hair

Last Edit: Mar 16, 2021 13:29:05 GMT by LadyofNemesis

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modding attempt(s) Mar 19, 2021 14:36:54 GMT

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Post by LadyofNemesis on Mar 19, 2021 14:36:54 GMT

So...I'm at a bit of a loss to be honest

I've been properly following a tutorial, everything's gone well and now...it doesn't :-/

I've finally finished all the necessary steps in order to export my conversion, but something keep going wrong. I also posted on the Nexus forums but no one there has commented on my thread...at all :why:

(bunch of views but nothing much else)

So my current problem is this

When I try to replace the hair I get a split second of this

SPOILER: Click to show

and then when I re-import my hairstyle I end up with...this

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and it doesn't fit onto the head either

I know I must've done something wrong, but I can't figure out what it is :pinched:

if anyone here has any expertise with exporting things in Blender, please let me know

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‘Hawke this, Hawke that,’ Why does everything fall to me? - Champion of Kirkwall
Our concern must be the order and safety of this world, not the next. - The Inquisitor

People are messy, but they're trying, and I'm going to make sure they get that chance - Commander Shepard

LadyofNemesis
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modding attempt(s) Mar 20, 2021 16:30:44 GMT Sunegami likes this

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Post by LadyofNemesis on Mar 20, 2021 16:30:44 GMT

Okay so...after some trial and error and a new restart, I've been able to fix my little problem

what I did is this: I adjusted the hair-mesh to the size and location I wanted, exported it as an obj. file and re-imported it in Blender
After that I reapplied the weight paint and resorted the faces again.

When I exported it this time around it worked :excited:

on to the next step

Always something to be killed, and I’m the one to do it – Hero of Ferelden
‘Hawke this, Hawke that,’ Why does everything fall to me? - Champion of Kirkwall
Our concern must be the order and safety of this world, not the next. - The Inquisitor

People are messy, but they're trying, and I'm going to make sure they get that chance - Commander Shepard

LadyofNemesis
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modding attempt(s) Mar 21, 2021 15:54:40 GMT

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Post by LadyofNemesis on Mar 21, 2021 15:54:40 GMT

Okay...so final problem

I've managed to get the hair into my game (yay!) but now it's ah...heh, it's a floating yellowy-green...blob :rollseyes:

I likely did something wrong...but god knows what it is :lol:

Last Edit: Mar 21, 2021 15:55:12 GMT by LadyofNemesis

Always something to be killed, and I’m the one to do it – Hero of Ferelden
‘Hawke this, Hawke that,’ Why does everything fall to me? - Champion of Kirkwall
Our concern must be the order and safety of this world, not the next. - The Inquisitor

People are messy, but they're trying, and I'm going to make sure they get that chance - Commander Shepard

LadyofNemesis
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modding attempt(s) Mar 22, 2021 14:18:14 GMT Sunegami, fylimar, and 1 more like this

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Post by LadyofNemesis on Mar 22, 2021 14:18:14 GMT

*screaming for joy* :excited:

YAAAASSS!!! :yas:

Look at it! Look at it!

It works! It actually works! :wub:

AAAAHHH!!! I'm so happy I could cry

It's far from perfect, there's still a few gaps between the hair and the scalp (so I'll likely redo it to resize it a bit) but it works! :excited:

it actually works!

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‘Hawke this, Hawke that,’ Why does everything fall to me? - Champion of Kirkwall
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People are messy, but they're trying, and I'm going to make sure they get that chance - Commander Shepard

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