Helena Shan Improvement 1.0.1

Is that skin based off Quanon's by any chance?

Great mod, VP!

Unique, not uniqe btw. 

my my. it's just an older Bastila !!    lol

instant download. seen soon how this turns out .....   

Good work, VP. As always. Huge similarity between these two faces. Helena looks just like older Bastilla. Nice mod!

Is that skin based off Quanon's by any chance?

Uhhh I think I may have used it as reference at some point, but mostly my strategy was upscale and add wrinkles

Now I know where the pretty looks of Bastila come from.

Nice, very nice. 

So, big problem with the TSL Patcher in this mod. It says "File Not Found! Please locate the "heads.2da" ("heads.2da") file."

 • Installation started 16/08/2018 3:41:48 PM...
 • Installing unmodified files...
 • Copying file P_Helena.tga to the override folder...
 • Copying file p_helenah.mdl to the override folder...
 • Copying file p_helenah.mdx to the override folder...
 • Error: Critical error: Unable to locate file to patch, "heads.2da" file not found! (GEN-9)

There is no heads.2da file included in the mod or already in my main/override folder so the patcher cannot find it to add the changes to it.

Any fix for this?

Update: 18/08/2018 - This mod also requires an appearance.2da file in the override folder, which also isn't included in the mod, so the patcher isn't able to locate it either. Basically, the mod doesn't currently work from a clean install.

I was wondering about Helena's clothes in the video posted by the author. It would have been nice to have those as well.

I just checked this and I like the end result although I am not so fond of how prominent and distracting the forehead wrinkles are.

The clothes in the video were just random ones that I chose at the time. I could make multiple installs I suppose. 

As far as the forehead wrinkles go, Helena has probably lived a hard life

For some reason this isn't working for me. I used the patcher, it gave no errors, all files are in the Override, but Helena looks the same. Not sure what's going on.

It likely won't change unless you load a save before having entered the Tatooine Cantina for the first time.

27 minutes ago, DarthParametric said:

It likely won't change unless you load a save before having entered the Tatooine Cantina for the first time.

Well I had this in my Override before even starting a new game. But when I got to this part, I noticed as I was talking to Helena that she looked the same. I verified that the mod installed correctly, and tried reinstalling, and still won't work. No errors. Really strange.

Do you have a tat_m17af.mod in your Modules folder? It's unlikely, but it's possible some other mod changed her to a different UTC.

2 minutes ago, DarthParametric said:

Do you have a tat_m17af.mod in your Modules folder? It's unlikely, but it's possible some other mod changed her to a different UTC.

I do, but I'm unsure what mod it would have been from. I'm also unsure how to edit .mod files to check.

You can open it with ERFEdit, which is in the Tools section. Or just zip it up and attach it and I'll take a look.

25 minutes ago, DarthParametric said:

You can open it with ERFEdit, which is in the Tools section. Or just zip it up and attach it and I'll take a look.

https://circa.im/files/tat_m17af.zip

Looks like the module is still using the vanilla UTC (and the appearance in that appears unchanged).

Unfortunately, the author forgot to archive two important files, appearance.2da and heads.2da. The .utc file contained in the archive refers to lines in both missing .2da files. You will have to add these lines manually to your .2da files, and edit this .utc (better by GFF-editor) if you understand how to do this.

do all the files go into override? Im confused. Do i need to copy the TSLPatcher launcher into my folder each time I install something, or does one work for all of them?

7 hours ago, EAF97 said:

do all the files go into override? Im confused. Do i need to copy the TSLPatcher launcher into my folder each time I install something, or does one work for all of them?

All you have to do is double click the TSLPatcher.exe file which will bring up the "TSLPatcher installer" which, upon clicking the install button, will install the mod.

What the TSLPatcher does is *patches* the mod being installed and the mods you already have. 

If you copied the files from thee tslpatchdata folder and placed it into the Override folder you'd have two things happen:

A) If you choose to overwrite your files, any mod you had installed previously will be destroyed. This is because this mod uses Appearance.2da and Heads.2da, these two files contain the appearance and head date for Helena Shan from this mod. If you overwrite the files present within the override folder, Helena Shan *may* still work, however, any other mods you installed before that is gone.

Let's say you installed Brotherhood of Shadow, let's just say the you meet the character Daemon Drexl which has a new head and appearance thanks to the Appearance.2da and Heads.2da files. Because you chose to overwrite those files let's pretend you are lucky and the result will be instead of Daemon Drexl looking like Daemon Drexl... he looks like Helena Shan. This is because, by overwriting the original 2da files and destroyed them the game can no longer make reference to Daemon Drexl's correct assets and might just refer to Helena Shan instead.

Because this mod adds in just one character, the Brotherhood of Shadow mod would soon break as it adds about 20 or more new characters. Which means once you board the Orion and try to find the new character Matilda... she would be invisible as the game has absolutely nothing to reference her files by.

B,) If you choose to NOT overwrite your files, any mod you had installed previously will remain. What results is no better, whilst all of Brotherhood of Shadow and all other mods will be safe... Helena Shan will not. 

Let's use our previous example and say you have Brotherhood of Shadow installed, when you go to the Cantina and find Helena she will instead look like Daemon Drexl. Because the game cannot reference her correct files, the game will refer to Daemon Drexl instead.

What the TSLPatcher installer does is that it will merge this mods 2da files with the 2da files already present within your Override folder. After the installer is done, the 2da files within your Override will contain the data of both Brotherhood of Shadow and Helena because the installer *patched* the necessary files.

Some mods are designed to work ONLY if you TSLPatch the mod into the override, so it is best to use the TSLPatcher installer in every and all scenarios.

If you own an Android or non-PC device which doesn't support installers, you might have some problems getting just about any mod to work.

8 hours ago, N-DReW25 said:

All you have to do is double click the TSLPatcher.exe file which will bring up the "TSLPatcher installer" which, upon clicking the install button, will install the mod.

 

What the TSLPatcher does is *patches* the mod being installed and the mods you already have. 

If you copied the files from thee tslpatchdata folder and placed it into the Override folder you'd have two things happen:

A) If you choose to overwrite your files, any mod you had installed previously will be destroyed. This is because this mod uses Appearance.2da and Heads.2da, these two files contain the appearance and head date for Helena Shan from this mod. If you overwrite the files present within the override folder, Helena Shan *may* still work, however, any other mods you installed before that is gone.

 

Let's say you installed Brotherhood of Shadow, let's just say the you meet the character Daemon Drexl which has a new head and appearance thanks to the Appearance.2da and Heads.2da files. Because you chose to overwrite those files let's pretend you are lucky and the result will be instead of Daemon Drexl looking like Daemon Drexl... he looks like Helena Shan. This is because, by overwriting the original 2da files and destroyed them the game can no longer make reference to Daemon Drexl's correct assets and might just refer to Helena Shan instead.

 

Because this mod adds in just one character, the Brotherhood of Shadow mod would soon break as it adds about 20 or more new characters. Which means once you board the Orion and try to find the new character Matilda... she would be invisible as the game has absolutely nothing to reference her files by.

 

B,) If you choose to NOT overwrite your files, any mod you had installed previously will remain. What results is no better, whilst all of Brotherhood of Shadow and all other mods will be safe... Helena Shan will not. 

 

Let's use our previous example and say you have Brotherhood of Shadow installed, when you go to the Cantina and find Helena she will instead look like Daemon Drexl. Because the game cannot reference her correct files, the game will refer to Daemon Drexl instead.

 

What the TSLPatcher installer does is that it will merge this mods 2da files with the 2da files already present within your Override folder. After the installer is done, the 2da files within your Override will contain the data of both Brotherhood of Shadow and Helena because the installer *patched* the necessary files.

 

Some mods are designed to work ONLY if you TSLPatch the mod into the override, so it is best to use the TSLPatcher installer in every and all scenarios.

 

If you own an Android or non-PC device which doesn't support installers, you might have some problems getting just about any mod to work.

My issue here is that if I download a given mod or expansion, half the time it is in a 7zip folder. This means that the files have to be extracted to *somewhere* before I can click on the TSL installer or I just get an "error." I was asking if I initially just extract all these files to Override and then set it up by clicking on the installer there, or if the installer is supposed to go somewhere else such as the main swkotor folder. That was why I was confused

10 hours ago, EAF97 said:

My issue here is that if I download a given mod or expansion, half the time it is in a 7zip folder. This means that the files have to be extracted to *somewhere* before I can click on the TSL installer or I just get an "error." I was asking if I initially just extract all these files to Override and then set it up by clicking on the installer there, or if the installer is supposed to go somewhere else such as the main swkotor folder. That was why I was confused

You extract the entire folder anywhere onto your computer, once the mod is extracted as a folder. Use the TSLPatcher.exe to install your mod. It would be best to extract anywhere BUT the main swkotor folder or any folders found within swkotor, same goes for TSL.