Head morph tutorial - Revision history

Dennispedersen: /* Editing your character's head/face in the toolset */

2015-01-30T02:45:55Z

‎Editing your character's head/face in the toolset

EditorMan: Removed personal perspective and unnecessary spoilers

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GregorXIV: /* Editing your character's head/face in the toolset */

2011-10-27T13:35:45Z

‎Editing your character's head/face in the toolset

Falloutgod13: /* Editing your character's head/face in the toolset */

2010-11-24T11:53:54Z

‎Editing your character's head/face in the toolset

BryanDerksen: lowercasing headers

2010-02-16T17:02:24Z

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TehKyosho at 02:20, 14 February 2010

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Apolyon6k at 17:29, 31 January 2010

2010-01-31T17:29:44Z

Apolyon6k at 22:33, 23 December 2009

2009-12-23T22:33:31Z

BryanDerksen: formatting

2009-12-01T00:40:36Z

formatting

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	What tool set?		What tool set?
		+	This one http://social.bioware.com/page/da-toolset#downloads

	2. Go to File ->New->Morph		2. Go to File ->New->Morph

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 == Spoiler warning ==
-Just so everyone knows who uses this tutorial, there is a part in the game where you (the Main Character) enters 'The Fade'. During this part you receive various (four) transformations to help your friends and defeat the demons within. Changing the head morph of your character will cause these transformations to be deformed/glitched to varying degrees. These transformations still function however (atleast they should), so most do not consider it a big deal. I haven't tried this, but I'm told that during this part (if it bothers you that much), you can just go in and delete the head morph from the character and the Transformations will be fine afterwards. As I've said, I've not tried it since the deformation didn't bother me, but it makes sense.
+Changing the head morph of your character will cause the transformations applied to the player character during the Fade part of the main storyline to be deformed/glitched to varying degrees. The glitches do not have any negative effects after the Fade section has been completed. To allow the transformations to be applied correctly you can delete the head morph from the character before the fade and re-apply it once this section has been finished.
---[[User:RavenNightsight|RavenNightsight]] 04:23, 26 November 2009 (UTC)This was written by my girlfriend Flaemaru Moonwhisper
+Source of tutorial: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/8/index/176308/
-This tutorial, among others that will also eventually be posted here by me, can be found here: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/8/index/176308/
 [[category:tutorials]]

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 . At this point, messing with the head is up to how you want it to look. You can add facial hair to females and makeup to males.
-Something that took use forever to figure out is how to change the angle of the head.
+Something that took us forever to figure out is how to change the angle of the head.
 [[File:Step_4.jpg|thumb|left]]

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 . Open your toolset
 . Go to File ->New->Morph
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 . Once you're finished Save it. However, try not to name it something generic. Once it has been saved, right click on the face and select "Post To Local".
 == changing a savegame file in the toolset ==
 . Remember how I told you to play through the game first to save it when you first got the chance to? Well, now we're going into the save information of that file and putting your face you made in the toolset on the character. Close the face you had been working on. I AM DOING THIS FOR MY CHARACTER FLAEMARU SO ANYWHERE YOU SEE HER NAME, JUST SUBTITUTE IT WITH THE NAME OF THE CHARACTER WHOSE FACE YOU'RE CHANGING. Then, go to File->Open File->owner->documents->bioware->dragonage->characters->Flaemaru->Saves(Since I know how to do this I only has one save for her, but pick the save you want to change)->Slot_1->Flaemaru.das

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 Alright, first thing is first. Most people are saying they think their characters' faces are hideous and want to change them, but aren't sure how.
-== EDITING YOUR CHARACTER'S HEAD/FACE IN THE TOOLSET ==
+== Editing your character's head/face in the toolset ==
 You Need to make sure that you have played long enough to save your game and that you have picked everything you want the character to have/be (class, race, gender, voice, etc.).
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-== '''SPOILER WARNING''' ==
+== Spoiler warning ==
 Just so everyone knows who uses this tutorial, there is a part in the game where you (the Main Character) enters 'The Fade'. During this part you receive various (four) transformations to help your friends and defeat the demons within. Changing the head morph of your character will cause these transformations to be deformed/glitched to varying degrees. These transformations still function however (atleast they should), so most do not consider it a big deal. I haven't tried this, but I'm told that during this part (if it bothers you that much), you can just go in and delete the head morph from the character and the Transformations will be fine afterwards. As I've said, I've not tried it since the deformation didn't bother me, but it makes sense.

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 After browsing through about 20 some pages of the forums, I have noticed that, due to the fact that the search is down, people have been posting a lot of the same questions. I do not have the answer to all of these questions, but I will share what I have done so far. Mind you, it's not alot, but hopefully it will help some other people with their questions. Mind you, this is how I do it. My girlfriend and I will add to this as we figure things out/have the time.
-Alright, first thing is first. Most people are saying they think their character's faces are hideous and wants to change them, but aren't sure how. Here's how my girlfriend found our how to do it.
+Alright, first thing is first. Most people are saying they think their characters' faces are hideous and want to change them, but aren't sure how. Here's how my girlfriend found out how to do it.
 == EDITING YOUR CHARACTER'S HEAD/FACE IN THE TOOLSET ==
 You Need to make sure that you have played long enough to save your game and that you have picked everything you want the character to have/be (class, race, gender, voice, etc.).

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	This tutorial, among others that will also eventually be posted here by me, can be found here: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/8/index/176308/		This tutorial, among others that will also eventually be posted here by me, can be found here: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/8/index/176308/
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 . Go to File ->New->Morph
-[[File:http://social.bioware.com/wiki/datoolset/images/5/57/Step_2.jpg]]
 . Choose a base to work with (It must be that of the Gender and Race you picked, althought this is not for certain as I have not messed around with putting a female dwarfs head on a human male or whatever. feel free to try at your own risk) Hm = Human Male, HF = Human Female etc etc
 . At this point, messing with the head is up to how you want it to look. You can add facial hair to females and makeup to males.
 Something that took use forever to figure out is how to change the angle of the head.
-[[File:http://social.bioware.com/wiki/datoolset/images/f/fd/Step_4.jpg]]
 As marked in red on the image above, you will see that the Object Orientation is set to 0,0,0
 So this is how it works:
-Front View of face (default) = 0,0,0
+:Front View of face (default) = 0,0,0
-Right Side view of face = 75,0,0
+:Right Side view of face = 75,0,0
-Back of Head view = 180,0,0
+:Back of Head view = 180,0,0
-Left Side view of Face = 280,0,0
+:Left Side view of Face = 280,0,0
-ALSO, if you don't feel like typing in numbers, holding down CTRL + the right click button (on your mouse) and moving forward/backwards will zoom in and out. Moving it left to right will turn the camera around the head. CTRL + the left click button seems to give your free movement around the entire plane.
 . Once you're finished Save it. However, try not to name it something generic. Once it has been saved, right click on the face and select "Post To Local".
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 . Now this part can be a bit confusing or overwhelming if you're not sure what you're doing. But don't fret, I'll walk you though it.
-          At this point your screen should look like this:
-[[File:http://social.bioware.com/wiki/datoolset/images/8/87/Step_7a.jpg]]
+At this point your screen should look like this:
 Now, go to SAVEGAME_PLAYERCHAR->SAVEGAME_PLAYERCHAR_CHAR->SAVEGAME_APPEARANCE->SAVEGAME_APPEARANCE_MORPH_NAME
 Confused? That's okay.
 Maybe this will help: WARNING LARGE IMAGE
-[[File:http://social.bioware.com/wiki/datoolset/images/c/c5/Step7b.jpg]]
+[[File:Step7b.jpg|thumb|left]]
 What is circled in red is what you need to click on to Navigate to where you need to go. The thing circled in light blue is area you need to type in to change the face. IT MUST HAVE THE PROPER PREFIX OF RACE/GENDER AND MUST CONTAIN THE UNDERSCORE
-hm_ = human male
+:hm_ = human male
-hf_ = human female
+:hf_ = human female
-em_ = elf male
+:em_ = elf male
-ef_ = elf female
+:ef_ = elf female
-dm_ = dwarf male
+:dm_ = dwarf male
-df_= dwarf female
+:df_= dwarf female
 Flaemaru is an elf female thus in the blue circled area I type ef_Flaemaru
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 . Now before you get all excited, at this point and after, people start to have problems and errors. Like, starting a New Game. When I had first done this I could not start a new game. It kept giving me the "Unable to Load Module" error whenever I tried. When I loaded a saved game, I could not level up, the AI was messed up as none (even
-the main character) would not fight enemies. Fear not if this happens however. After 4 hours of serching through the forums here, I found an topic with multiple solutions which can be found here:http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/8/index/134178. However, I have found that just going into owner->documents->Bioware->Dragonage->modules and
+the main character) would not fight enemies. Fear not if this happens however. After 4 hours of serching through the forums here, I found an topic with multiple solutions which can be found here: [http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/8/index/134178].
 completely deleting the "Single Player" Folder always fixes my problem.
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 How Flaemaru looked before Head Morph (generic female Dalish and generic female Dalish name is she had already saved over it):
-[[File:http://social.bioware.com/wiki/datoolset/images/5/54/StupidFlaemaru.png]]
+[[File:StupidFlaemaru.png|thumb|left]]
 How Flaemaru looked after head morph:
-[[File:http://social.bioware.com/wiki/datoolset/images/b/bc/Flaemaru.png]]
+[[File:Flaemaru.png|thumb|left]]
 '''SPOILER WARNING'''
 Just so everyone knows who uses this tutorial, there is a part in the game where you (the Main Character) enters 'The Fade'. During this part you receive various (four) transformations to help your friends and defeat the demons within. Changing the head morph of your character will cause these transformations to be deformed/glitched to varying degrees. These transformations still function however (atleast they should), so most do not consider it a big deal. I haven't tried this, but I'm told that during this part (if it bothers you that much), you can just go in and delete the head morph from the character and the Transformations will be fine afterwards. As I've said, I've not tried it since the deformation didn't bother me, but it makes sense.
 --[[User:RavenNightsight|RavenNightsight]] 04:23, 26 November 2009 (UTC)This was written by my girlfriend Flaemaru Moonwhisper
 This tutorial, among others that will also eventually be posted here by me, can be found here: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/8/index/176308/