SOLVED: Recreating Shepard with the Lazarus project

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SOLVED: Recreating Shepard with the Lazarus project Aug 24, 2016 21:02:39 GMT

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Post by jli84 on Aug 24, 2016 21:02:39 GMT

So I've been replaying mass effect from the beginning, and now its time to start ME3. Im one of the unlucky ones that got a really bad looking shepard from the import function. I've used the fan-made lazarus project with great success on an old pc, but I dont have this anymore. I tried to use this tutorial; faceeffect.blogspot.no/2012/04/lazarus-project-face-effect-tutorial.html, as I did last time. Problem is I cant get it to work. According to the tutorial I must download the project itself first, then download new versions of "LazarusProject.exe" and "lod_mapping.xml" to replace the old ones. I cant find these files. I've tried to look up direct links on the old Bioware board aswell, but get "file not found".

If anyone can provide the files, or a working version of the lazarus project, it would be greatly appreciated. If not, well I guess I've had my last go at ME3 :crying:

Last Edit: Sept 2, 2016 18:15:16 GMT by jli84

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SOLVED: Recreating Shepard with the Lazarus project Aug 24, 2016 21:43:02 GMT

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Post by jli84 on Aug 24, 2016 21:43:02 GMT

Alternativly, I could provide an me 2 and an me 3 save for someone who has lazarus installed and working, so that I can get a corrected version back.

ME2:
www.filedropper.com/save0091

ME3:
www.filedropper.com/save1000

Her hair wont look the same, but there's a mod over at the nexus that will fix that. I wont bother with that unless I get the face fixed.
For anyone interested, ME2 icobun-hairstyle in ME3:

www.nexusmods.com/masseffect3/mods/205/?

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SOLVED: Recreating Shepard with the Lazarus project Aug 25, 2016 16:39:40 GMT

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Post by fraegur on Aug 25, 2016 16:39:40 GMT

When I started me2, I saw that my Shep had the same eagle-beak-nose from my me1 play. I owned that moment of uglyness. When I started me3, I worked tirelessly to recreate the same dork-ass-ugly nose/face combo again. It just had to be the same guy.

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SOLVED: Recreating Shepard with the Lazarus project Aug 28, 2016 12:02:46 GMT

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Post by jli84 on Aug 28, 2016 12:02:46 GMT

removed - might have found a solution. Update pending...

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SOLVED: Recreating Shepard with the Lazarus project Aug 30, 2016 5:20:12 GMT

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Post by Mistral on Aug 30, 2016 5:20:12 GMT

Dang, sorry. I would've expected someone could have helped by now. I had Project Lazarus downloaded on my old laptop and it was working fine. I checked to see if I still had it, but I must've deleted the files a while ago. Maybe you could try the modding subforum?

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SOLVED: Recreating Shepard with the Lazarus project Sept 2, 2016 15:16:44 GMT

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Post by jli84 on Sept 2, 2016 15:16:44 GMT

I have managed to get in contact with the creator of project lazarus and he has helped me out with the missing files. Now I just need to reinstall ME3 to see if this works. Not at home, so Im only at about 30 Mbps. So slow... Will give an update as to how this goes when Im done :wizard:

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SOLVED: Recreating Shepard with the Lazarus project Sept 2, 2016 18:19:24 GMT monicasubzero, Sunegami, and 2 more like this

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Post by jli84 on Sept 2, 2016 18:19:24 GMT

Guess who's back, back again
Shepard's back, tell a friend
Guess who's back,
guess who's back,
guess who's back,
guess who's back
guess who's back
Guess who's back...

Massive props to Woodbyte, the creator of project lazarus.

Just to give an indication on how bad the import was:

The fixed version is on the left. Now Im gonna go do a happy dance

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SOLVED: Recreating Shepard with the Lazarus project Sept 3, 2016 10:40:23 GMT

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Post by monicasubzero on Sept 3, 2016 10:40:23 GMT

Could you please explain how to retrieve the missing files? I was curious about the Lazarus Project and checked it myself. Now I would like to try it, but I can't find the updates files in the link.

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SOLVED: Recreating Shepard with the Lazarus project Sept 3, 2016 13:07:36 GMT

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Post by jli84 on Sept 3, 2016 13:07:36 GMT

Sept 3, 2016 10:40:23 GMT monicasubzero said:

Could you please explain how to retrieve the missing files? I was curious about the Lazarus Project and checked it myself. Now I would like to try it, but I can't find the updates files in the link.

The files are not missing apparently, you just need to download the source archive and locate them there:

1. Download the archived source at storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-source/v2/code.google.com/me3-lazarus/source-archive.zip
2. Get the LazarusProject.exe from inside that archive under me3-lazarus\trunk\LazarusProject\bin\Release\

3. Get the lod_mapping.xml from inside that archive under me3-lazarus\trunk\LazarusProject\bin\Debug\

Then just follow the guidelines over at faceeffect.blogspot.no/2012/04/lazarus-project-face-effect-tutorial.html

Last Edit: Sept 3, 2016 13:08:02 GMT by jli84

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