#playable elfs

update twinception for legacy, plus a compatibility patch for anshela's dlc timings

update playable elfs with new headmorphs, and replace invisible armor models

upload the timeskip framework headmorphs only (I keep saying I'm gonna do this and then I don't bc it's such an annoying prospect)

upload that start-of-act armor equipper for hawke

Hi, hon! 💛

there's more information on what specifically I've been doing/am planning to do in the #conversation intensifies project tag. the main two components are

1) maximize the number of options on the dialogue wheel wherever possible. if hawke has multiple special options available (such as from being a mage, etc.), let the player choose between them. if hawke has multiple followers in the party they can call on, let the player choose between them. if hawke has one dialogue option on the wheel that will auto-play one of several lines dependent on hawke's personality or class, let the player choose between them.

2) more talkative followers during quests! when they all have something different to say during a quest, I've rearranged lines so that they can all chime in and say their piece. sometimes in places where they all have pretty much the same thing to say, I've randomized it so that the incidental follower dialogue will differ from playthrough to playthrough even with the same party.

there are some other minor goals such as

3) restore cut content where found and where reasonable

4) do something about those special dialogue wheel options that give hawke a special way through a handful of quests if they have a certain main personality (still undecided on how I'm handling this one! damn :\)

5) provide broader coverage for my other mods such as twinception and kirkwallycule where I didn't particularly want to go through a lot of minor incidental quest files to add more content or fix small immersion breaks, but can easily do so here while I'm already mucking about

Not a bother! So I hadn't noticed uninteractable NPCs appearing too early while playtesting but it sounds like they're definitely a side effect of the NPC fix I had to implement because otherwise any random NPCs that were using Hawke's appearance type (boo hiss) instead of the generic human NPC appearance type would show up all fucky.

Playable Elfs tries a different approach to making Hawke an elf than the other elven Hawke mods that were available on the Nexus. Unfortunately, there are trade-offs and visual side-effects to both approaches, because DA2 is constructed of hastily assembled spaghetti code.

Playable Elfs

Update all presets to use HD texture resources

Edit missing armor models to use preexisting models

Add links to other mods made for use with Playable Elfs and/or integrate those files into the base download with permission

Sera Mod

Edit the paraphrase for the “yeah sure why not I glow” line in her introduction to sound less like you’re explicitly agreeing that you’re the herald of andraste

Remove the “that would have been hilarious if you were a man” line in her first tavern convo (if you’re gonna make a dick joke just fuckin commit to the bit)

Maybe more if I think of anything else before I get tired of poking at DAI again

long term to do:

Twinception

Swap a twin with Aveline and Aveline with that other random NPC in that one stupidly long cutscene I hate exists, as long as it doesn’t look like it will take too long to do, otherwise ignore it for now

Implement plot script to force one twin into the party and one twin out of the party during the deep roads

Figure out what to do about the fact that your party now is forced to be varric, twin, and anders if you want said twin to survive (more than likely allow certain scenes to trigger without character in the active party)

Make sure the act 1 to act 2 transition works properly

Check for weirdness in the act 2 to act 3 transition

Check for weirdness in the climax

Unlock the party picker for Legacy (fix should be same as MOTA)

Implement mod as add-in, add debug interface

Document, document, document

Release ugly-but-functional beta

Timeskip Framework

Implement headmorph swapping for all npcs

Decide how to handle appearance swapping, whether using preset appearance lines as party members use in vanilla, or swapping everyone to use equippable items

Decide whether to extend appearance swapping support to all npcs, some npcs, or just party members

Expose all plot and location checks in GDA to allow other modders to extend framework without editing code

Create base framework GDA with basic swaps already accounted for (by act, if romanced, hawke’s estate, mota finery, family appearances)

Create base framework of custom named headmorphs with custom named hairs to be utilized more easily by non-modders

Implement mod as add-in, add debug interface

Document, document, document

Tutorial, tutorial, tutorial

Re-release alpha

Thank you! I don’t think you’ve installed anything wrong at all, I think it’s just a byproduct of the mod being perpetually in beta. We chose to require that file from DFA so Sloane could focus on unique models rather than spend a lot of time redoing work DFA had already done, but unfortunately there are still a lot of gaps in our model coverage. It looks like you’re playing a female rogue and that happens to be one of the largest, since DFA never converted most of the medium armor models for female elves. I believe it was my intention at one point to re-map the missing armors to point to other existing models but that clearly fell by the wayside at some point. I can go ahead and bump that up to the top of the list for when I’m able to get back to modding again.

Playable Elfs has been updated to v3. It’s a big update that has completely reorganized the files in the download, fixed all issues with random NPCs showing up with elf bodies (in such a way that should be compatible with all mods editing NPC armor), updated the starting armors, fixed some issues with teeth clipping through certain preset heads, fixed some NPC armor conflicts that arise with DFA installed, and fixed some random vanilla armor tinting issues