DarthParametric

MOD:Handmaiden with Long Hair

Recommended Posts

Handmaiden with Long Hair


This mod is a head edit for the Handmaiden that gives her shoulder-length hair. It started life as part of experiments in aid of this request thread - http://deadlystream.com/forum/topic/4335-handmaiden-appearance/

 

The hair mesh is a transplant from Kreia, with the braids chopped off. In order to accommodate DS transitions, which requires the face and hair to share a single texture, the UVs for both meshes were compressed 50% horizontally to fit side-by-side within 0 to 1 UV space. The Handmaiden and Kreia textures were then combined into a single 1024x512 texture. The versions bundled with the installer are DDS, but I have provided the TGA sources as an additional download for those that may wish to undertake retextures.

 

Additionally, the clothes models for Handmaiden’s hooded outfit have been modified. The vanilla bodies include the head mesh as part of the model (i.e. functionally speaking it is basically a disguise). Based on my experiments with removing the head and setting it up like a normal body model, it seems that there is an animation synchronisation issue that crops up between the head and the hood, which may be why Obsidian went the full body route. This mod changes the hood outfit models to use the new long haired head mesh. The hood has been enlarged to fit the Handmaiden's new larger hair mesh. Hopefully I've cured the most prominent clipping issues, but possibly in some extreme combat animations some might still occur.

 

This mod doesn't alter the portraits, so should be compatible with any custom portrait mods. It uses custom model and texture names, so it should be unaffected by simple overrides, like retextures. However, it won't be compatible with any mods that alter the Handmaiden's appearance.2da or heads.2da entries.

 

TSL_Handmaiden_Long_Hair_01_TH.jpg TSL_Handmaiden_Long_Hair_02_TH.jpg

 

TSL_Handmaiden_Long_Hair_03_TH.jpg TSL_Handmaiden_Long_Hair_04_TH.jpg

 

TSL_Handmaiden_Long_Hair_05_TH.jpg TSL_Handmaiden_Long_Hair_06_TH.jpg

 


 

  • Like 2

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Forehead is still too small :P
 
It's absolutely marvelous that we've gotten to this point though where we can start customizing heads and have them actually look professional grade, not with those jarring hard edges and everything...
 

Pretty cool! Now she really does look like a younger version of Kreia  her mother


What are you talking about? Brianna's mother is Arren Kae.  :innocent:

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

This is the animation sync issue I mentioned when setting up the hooded outfit as a standard body model, if anyone was curious:

 

 

Interestingly you can see at the end that it just pops into sync (it had actually been out of sync for a minute or two prior). It also syncs if you move or otherwise undertake an animation besides the idle.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

This is the animation sync issue I mentioned when setting up the hooded outfit as a standard body model, if anyone was curious:

 

 

Interestingly you can see at the end that it just pops into sync (it had actually been out of sync for a minute or two prior). It also syncs if you move or otherwise undertake an animation besides the idle.

 

I've had this same issue before. It's part of the reason with the Handmaiden Sister mod, I had to make a separate body model with the sister heads attached.

 

Not sure if there's any workaround... In fact, for the few cases where we have gotten "hood mods" to work correctly, this same issue plagued those experiments, I believe.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Whoa! Awesome work DP!

Its like having hairworks for Kotor now...

Only thing thats needed would be a coiffeur ingame.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

There are a lot of player made hair mods for nwn2 that might be worth looking at to see if the hair can be converted. It would be interesting to have a bit of variety there. Good work DP.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

you mean Kreia :D or Arren Kae :D

 

Nice touch using her mother's hair model ;)

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.