[BG3][Resource] How to Change NPC Visuals

[rusty_shackleford]

I don't see any reason to be mean to them then.
We're not savage ******* after all.

You can imagine how confused I am by all this treatment now.

Just call them libtards, that usually works for me.

[Nooneatall]

I don't see any reason to be mean to them then.
We're not savage ******* after all.

You can imagine how confused I am by all this treatment now.

I un-ip banned you and called off the cyber police

[orinEsque]

I don't see any reason to be mean to them then.
We're not savage ******* after all.

You can imagine how confused I am by all this treatment now.

Ah if you're not the same guy, then it's fine, I can look up the hair for you. You want her vanilla hair color, right?

[Nooneatall]

I don't see any reason to be mean to them then.
We're not savage ******* after all.

You can imagine how confused I am by all this treatment now.

I have some very secret and special knowledge I'm willing to share with you.
On your computer right now there is a magic program called powershell. (Or bash if you are on Linux but I doubt it.)
You can use this magic program to sniff the contents of files really fast!
Navigate your powershell instance with the command "cd" to the root level of the bg3 data files.
Then, use the command

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Get-childitem .  -r | select-string "orin"  >> results.txt

This is a poor man's grep. I encourage you to download the programs "less" and "grep" but this will do for now.
Open the results file and hopefully you get clues to find what you are looking for.

[orinEsque]

I don't see any reason to be mean to them then.
We're not savage ******* after all.

You can imagine how confused I am by all this treatment now.

I have some very secret and special knowledge I'm willing to share with you.
On your computer right now there is a magic program called powershell. (Or bash if you are on Linux but I doubt it.)
You can use this magic program to sniff the contents of files really fast!
Navigate your powershell instance with the command "cd" to the root level of the bg3 data files.
Then, use the command

Code: Select all

Get-childitem .  -r | select-string "orin"  >> results.txt

This is a poor man's grep. I encourage you to download the programs "less" and "grep" but this will do for now.
Open the results file and hopefully you get clues to find what you are looking for.

Won't help unless he's converted game files to human readable versions.
There's BG3 Multi modding tool that can index and search for every thing in the game files.

[Nooneatall]

You can imagine how confused I am by all this treatment now.

I have some very secret and special knowledge I'm willing to share with you.
On your computer right now there is a magic program called powershell. (Or bash if you are on Linux but I doubt it.)
You can use this magic program to sniff the contents of files really fast!
Navigate your powershell instance with the command "cd" to the root level of the bg3 data files.
Then, use the command

Code: Select all

Get-childitem .  -r | select-string "orin"  >> results.txt

This is a poor man's grep. I encourage you to download the programs "less" and "grep" but this will do for now.
Open the results file and hopefully you get clues to find what you are looking for.

Won't help unless he's converted game files to human readable versions.
There's BG3 Multi modding tool that can index and search for every thing in the game files.

Based and India pilled

[rusty_shackleford]

You know what would be really cool?
If game developers stopped trying to invent their own formats and just used a zip container like everyone else.

[Nurauc]

I don't see any reason to be mean to them then.
We're not savage ******* after all.

You can imagine how confused I am by all this treatment now.

Ah if you're not the same guy, then it's fine, I can look up the hair for you. You want her vanilla hair color, right?

I really just need a MaterialResourceID for any shade of white. Orin's hair is blonde in vanilla and I want it to be white like a real doppleganger

[orinEsque]

You can imagine how confused I am by all this treatment now.

Ah if you're not the same guy, then it's fine, I can look up the hair for you. You want her vanilla hair color, right?

I really just need a MaterialResourceID for any shade of white. Orin's hair is blonde in vanilla and I want it to be white like a real doppleganger

From Character Creator
White 1 - 2891393d-0a01-022c-7ff9-56ea1841dc9c
White 2 - f262fcf6-b76c-0808-b4be-1ceb7558a574

One of these should do.

[Nurauc]

Ah if you're not the same guy, then it's fine, I can look up the hair for you. You want her vanilla hair color, right?

I really just need a MaterialResourceID for any shade of white. Orin's hair is blonde in vanilla and I want it to be white like a real doppleganger

From Character Creator
White 1 - 2891393d-0a01-022c-7ff9-56ea1841dc9c
White 2 - f262fcf6-b76c-0808-b4be-1ceb7558a574

One of these should do.

Yes!! Thank you!!! I could not have made Orin a complete doppelgänger without you

[orinEsque]

I really just need a MaterialResourceID for any shade of white. Orin's hair is blonde in vanilla and I want it to be white like a real doppleganger

From Character Creator
White 1 - 2891393d-0a01-022c-7ff9-56ea1841dc9c
White 2 - f262fcf6-b76c-0808-b4be-1ceb7558a574

One of these should do.

Yes!! Thank you!!! I could not have made Orin a complete doppelgänger without you

No problem. Good thing you stuck around despite the welcome wagon . Enjoy

[nadafeels9701]

I want to change Shadowheart's default skin texture but the Material Preset UUID of the new texture is from a mod.
I tried loading the skin texture mod above/below the character visual bank lsx file for her that I packed but it doesn't seem to change.
Any tips on how I can do this correctly?
Thanks!

[orinEsque]

I want to change Shadowheart's default skin texture but the Material Preset UUID of the new texture is from a mod.
I tried loading the skin texture mod above/below the character visual bank lsx file for her that I packed but it doesn't seem to change.
Any tips on how I can do this correctly?
Thanks!

So did you manually add this mod's UUID to shadowheart's head LSX file?

[nadafeels9701]

Nope not at all.
All I did was change:
<attribute id="MapKey" type="FixedString" value="02Skin Properties" />
<attribute id="MaterialPresetResource" type="FixedString" value="3a3e0ec9-103e-a1d0-d608-4fe37bc33f5b" />
I followed your guide but yeah I was missing that detail.
To be honest I don't know where to add that.
Let me try add it under <node id="Resource">

[orinEsque]

Nope not at all.
All I did was change:
<attribute id="MapKey" type="FixedString" value="02Skin Properties" />
<attribute id="MaterialPresetResource" type="FixedString" value="3a3e0ec9-103e-a1d0-d608-4fe37bc33f5b" />
I followed your guide but yeah I was missing that detail.
To be honest I don't know where to add that.
I did get the UUID from the meta.lsx of said mod (This one is the UUID I presume).

So basically, the 02Skin Properties changes skin color, freckles, vitiligo and some other stuff. This is called a Skin color preset.
By texture, we normally mean the .DDS fileS that people have to edit in photoshop. and these files pair with a 3D heal model in a separate file.

Mind showing me a screenshot of the lsx file that you for the UUID from originally?

[nadafeels9701]

Sure!
In Shart's VB lsx I changed all the string values to the Mat.Pres.UUID I got from the mod. I did this for all applicable 02skin Properties string that applied
<node id="Resource">
<attribute id="BaseVisual" type="FixedString" value="a9f7bd1e-33fe-f17c-7c6d-781863732b6b" />
<attribute id="BodySetVisual" type="FixedString" value="ddfaee83-10c4-92bb-dbbc-30c92c506d54" />
<attribute id="ID" type="FixedString" value="0f6f29d0-e0c7-1a9f-e658-4a3f48f62d63" />
<attribute id="Name" type="LSString" value="S_Player_ShadowHeart_3ed74f06-3c60-42dc-83f6-f034cb47c679" />
<attribute id="ShowEquipmentVisuals" type="bool" value="True" />
<attribute id="_OriginalFileVersion_" type="int64" value="144115207403209033" />
<attribute id="UUID" type="FixedString" value="da0e8d69-535c-4218-a42f-118c377184ca" />
<children>
<node id="MaterialOverrides">
<attribute id="MaterialResource" type="FixedString" value="" />
<children>
<node id="MaterialPresets">
<children>
<node id="Object">
<attribute id="ForcePresetValues" type="bool" value="False" />
<attribute id="GroupName" type="FixedString" value="02Skin Properties" />
<attribute id="MapKey" type="FixedString" value="02Skin Properties" />
<attribute id="MaterialPresetResource" type="FixedString" value="3a3e0ec9-103e-a1d0-d608-4fe37bc33f5b" />
</node>
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This is where I took the Mat.Pres.UUID from:
<node id="CharacterCreationSkinColor">
<attribute id="DisplayName" type="TranslatedString" handle="h4c3b9a91dad804d782fcd6beac9ca45646gb" version="1" />
<attribute id="MaterialPresetUUID" type="guid" value="3a3e0ec9-103e-a1d0-d608-4fe37bc33f5b" />
<attribute id="Name" type="FixedString" value="ASTRLSKIN_SpringWarmth" />
<attribute id="UIColor" type="LSString" value="#FFDE938C" />
<attribute id="UUID" type="guid" value="a2f878d6-d70a-f87d-ab29-3408360d9402" />
</node>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[c]This is where I took the mod's UUID from and I added said UUID to the resources node:
<node id="ModuleInfo">
<attribute id="Author" type="LSWString" value="Astralities" />
<attribute id="CharacterCreationLevelName" type="FixedString" value="" />
<attribute id="Description" type="LSWString" value="Supplemental skintone options for CC." />
<attribute id="Folder" type="LSWString" value="ASTRLsublimeskintones" />
<attribute id="GMTemplate" type="FixedString" value="" />
<attribute id="LobbyLevelName" type="FixedString" value="" />
<attribute id="MD5" type="LSString" value="" />
<attribute id="MainMenuBackgroundVideo" type="FixedString" value="" />
<attribute id="MenuLevelName" type="FixedString" value="" />
<attribute id="Name" type="FixedString" value="ASTRL Sublime Skintones" />
<attribute id="NumPlayers" type="uint8" value="4" />
<attribute id="PhotoBooth" type="FixedString" value="" />
<attribute id="StartupLevelName" type="FixedString" value="" />
<attribute id="Tags" type="LSWString" value="" />
<attribute id="Type" type="FixedString" value="Add-on" />
<attribute id="UUID" type="FixedString" value="da0e8d69-535c-4218-a42f-118c377184ca" />
<attribute id="Version64" type="int64" value="36310271995674624" />
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Finally, I added the mod's UUID here:
<node id="Resource">
<attribute id="BaseVisual" type="FixedString" value="a9f7bd1e-33fe-f17c-7c6d-781863732b6b" />
<attribute id="BodySetVisual" type="FixedString" value="ddfaee83-10c4-92bb-dbbc-30c92c506d54" />
<attribute id="ID" type="FixedString" value="0f6f29d0-e0c7-1a9f-e658-4a3f48f62d63" />
<attribute id="Name" type="LSString" value="S_Player_ShadowHeart_3ed74f06-3c60-42dc-83f6-f034cb47c679" />
<attribute id="ShowEquipmentVisuals" type="bool" value="True" />
<attribute id="_OriginalFileVersion_" type="int64" value="144115207403209033" />
<attribute id="UUID" type="FixedString" value="da0e8d69-535c-4218-a42f-118c377184ca" />
<children>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Result:Didn't work

[SniperChris]

Anyone know what program is needed to animate faces in dialogue? I know you can make any NPC do generic lip-flapping and focus the camera on it, but that's not the extent of controlling faces to actually *match* spoken dialogue (or make Laezel roll her eyes).

[orinEsque]

Anyone know what program is needed to animate faces in dialogue? I know you can make any NPC do generic lip-flapping and focus the camera on it, but that's not the extent of controlling faces to actually *match* spoken dialogue (or make Laezel roll her eyes).

@Kowe do you remember what that 1k USD software was called taht generated lip sync?

[Kowe]

Anyone know what program is needed to animate faces in dialogue? I know you can make any NPC do generic lip-flapping and focus the camera on it, but that's not the extent of controlling faces to actually *match* spoken dialogue (or make Laezel roll her eyes).

@Kowe do you remember what that 1k USD software was called taht generated lip sync?

FaceFX @SniperChris

With how expensive it is, high seas are calling.