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 - Model with skin and transparent bits (fur robe for example) - [Armor w / Skin Tint][Alpha Blending][No Emissive].
 - Skinless Model in Render Semantics – [No Tint][Alpha Blending][No Emissive].
-- Expand the list of Texture Maps and assign the appropriate textures. Next, Assign Material to Selection (the item should be selected). If you really want to see the texture in the editor, then click Show Map in Viewport. It remains only to give our material a normal name. In the corresponding field, enter pf_rob_chaz_0. That's all.
 [[File:Materialwork.png|border]]
-You can import a Dragon Age Mesh and use the eyedropper to sample its MAO and apply it to other items.
+You can also select the LOD type. LOD2/3 don’t have normal maps and their maos are a little different in type. LOD MAOs also do not have transparency.
-A mesh needs a DAO material assigned to it or it will not export correctly.
+Expand the list of Texture Maps and assign the appropriate textures. Next, Assign Material to Selection (the item should be selected). If you want to see the texture in the editor, then click Show Map in Viewport.
 == Export ==
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-==Separate armour chunks and tinting==
+==Transplanting MMH for separate armour chunks and tinting==
-If you intend to chop your item into armour, gloves and boots- If you do this by weighting it as one piece and exporting chunks of it, the gloves and boots may not tint. I am not really sure why this is, possibly something to do with vertex colours. It can be fixed by deleting the MMH and stealing a vanilla one.
+Sometimes custom meshes have a bug where they hold the goblet upside down (see Ashhawk’s Goblet De-Gobbler - a Joining chalice fix and more https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/5864)
 Weight your full body armour as you would usually, then Use utilities -> skin utilities to export the weighting (search 3ds max skin utilities to find tutorial videos about this). A colourful mesh will appear. You can delete the original skeleton and the none-glove parts of your mesh, then import in a glove from the vanilla game. Give your mesh the modifier from the vanilla glove mesh. Then import the weighting from your 'Skin utility' mesh. A prompt will appear, telling you to match up the bones. Do so. Your mesh should now have the original weighting your full body mesh did. Export the mesh. Find what was exported and delete the MMH. Go into the files and find the vanilla glove MMH. Copy the MMH, change all the names and internal references(including the mesh chunk, if you didn't give it the same name as the donor) to your new msh. The phy doesn't need to be replaced. Your glove should now tint.
 Remember if you try and match up a msh that has more bones listed in its Skin modifier, with a MMH that has less, the game will distort the mesh.
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 If your item is exporting blank, make sure it is connected to the GOB, checking by launching the DAO Model Manager script.
-If your item is losing verts in the export, make sure you are exporting it as what it is- so if you are replacing a hair, export it as a hair. You can rename the msh and mmh and change the file references in the toolset or pygff later.
+If your item is losing verts in the export, make sure you are exporting it as what it imported in as- so if you are replacing a hair, export it as a hair. You can rename the msh and mmh and change the file references in the toolset or pygff later.

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-==Seperate armour chunks and tinting==
+==Separate armour chunks and tinting==
 If you intend to chop your item into armour, gloves and boots- If you do this by weighting it as one piece and exporting chunks of it, the gloves and boots may not tint. I am not really sure why this is, possibly something to do with vertex colours. It can be fixed by deleting the MMH and stealing a vanilla one.
 Weight your full body armour as you would usually, then Use utilities -> skin utilities to export the weighting (search 3ds max skin utilities to find tutorial videos about this). A colourful mesh will appear. You can delete the original skeleton and the none-glove parts of your mesh, then import in a glove from the vanilla game. Give your mesh the modifier from the vanilla glove mesh. Then import the weighting from your 'Skin utility' mesh. A prompt will appear, telling you to match up the bones. Do so. Your mesh should now have the original weighting your full body mesh did. Export the mesh. Find what was exported and delete the MMH. Go into the files and find the vanilla glove MMH. Copy the MMH, change all the names and internal references(including the mesh chunk, if you didn't give it the same name as the donor) to your new msh. The phy doesn't need to be replaced. Your glove should now tint.
-Do this with care, if you try and match up a msh that has more bones listed in its Skin modifier, with a MMH that has less, the game will distort the mesh.
+Remember if you try and match up a msh that has more bones listed in its Skin modifier, with a MMH that has less, the game will distort the mesh.

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 Every item imports with its own skeleton. The LOD 0, 2 and 3 skeletons for the races are all different as they have different numbers of bones. You cannot export LOD0 skeleton for a LOD2, it will cause errors.
 To create, just import a LOD2 model (ends with _2.mmh) and repeat the steps. It does not matter how good the LOD2 weighting is, as it is only seen from a distance anyway.
-For a custom item with its own GDA, you only need a LOD2. For an item replacer that replaces a vanilla item, you will also need a LOD3.
+For a custom item with its own GDA, you only need a LOD2. For an item replacer that replaces a vanilla mesh, you will also need a LOD3.
 It is a good idea to create LOD2 as it stops the character deforming from a distance, such as in the party camp.
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 An exception is found in hair. Hair is made up of a scalp (HairM1), plus the hair(HairM2). Multiple hair chunks with the hair material will tint(The same applies to beards). Mod authors may often add accessories to hair- this usually shows up as HairM3, but the name given is not important.
 The Eshme script can sometimes jumble the order of these, so ensure they are the right way around or the scalp will not tint correctly. Deleting the scalp entirely can cause odd bugs with the shadows of the hair, so this is not recommended.

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 For a custom item with its own GDA, you only need a LOD2. For an item replacer that replaces a vanilla item, you will also need a LOD3.
 It is a good idea to create LOD2 as it stops the character deforming from a distance, such as in the party camp.
 ==Bug Fixes==

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 ==Bug Fixes==
 If something isn’t tinting, you may need to open the .mmh in the toolset, find the field Material Library and make sure it is empty.
-All your LODs(you did make LODs right?) need to be the same 'material type' as the main one or they won't tint- aka RobeM1, CLothesM1 and so on.
+All your LODs(you did make LODs right?) need to be the same 'material type' as the main one or they won't tint- aka RobeM1, CLothesM1 and so on. Capitalization does matter.
 You can have more than one mesh chunk in an outfit mmh, but only the top billed one will tint at all, so make sure you put anything with skin at the top.
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 If something is glowing green and t-posing, your mao is either not connected properly, not connected at all, or missing a texture.

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 * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QMcAX1cDyo Own modifications video]
 * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPrnSACiTJ4 Learn Blender for beginners tutorials]
 *[https://sapphimods.me/tutorials/dragon-age-texture-guide/ DAO texture guide]
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 ==Bug Fixes==
-If something isn’t tinting, you may need to open the .mmh in GDA , find the field Material Library and make sure it is empty.
+If something isn’t tinting, you may need to open the .mmh in the toolset, find the field Material Library and make sure it is empty.
 If your character using tmp proportion has long grotesque hands, you may need to get a vanilla phy and rename it to replace the exported phy. (one that is similar, a boot for a boot and so on)
 If something is glowing green and t-posing, your mao is either not connected properly, not connected at all, or missing a texture.
 == Useful links ==

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