Help me create DA's Morrigan on Racemenu ...

Redflyingmonkey · November 30, 2014

Help me out please , I'm horrible at this stuff. My Skyrim Morrigan looks like a crossover between Macho Man and his brother, damn it ... I'm sure it's possible too, everything needed is in Racemenu, not even a need for face sculpting or whatever, but for the life of me I can't reproduce something using a Chargen, any chargen on any game ! I'm sure there must be someone here with some kind of innate talent for this, and it's okay, I mean you do sorcery but that's fine y'know. Use your magic dude !

I'm talking about her ;

e3-2013-ea-dragon-age-inquisition-036-12

Super bonus cookies if you've played Inquisition and know exactly how she looks like now ! Couldn't find any pic on the google with her new face, plus playing on Xbone so no screenshot... (console :derp:derp:derp:)

bp70 · November 30, 2014

is it even possible? Most of the hairstyles used on the main characters aren't available for the player.

That, and Inquisition doesnt actually have a real shade of black hair.

Redflyingmonkey · November 30, 2014

On Skyrim, I meant on Skyrim dude

Saw a guy make a pretty clever look a like of Dany Targaryen using DAI's chargen tho, crazy what you can do with basic face bone scaling and movement.

cowgoesmoo · November 30, 2014

i dont like how she looks in this pic

Redflyingmonkey · November 30, 2014

She doesn't really look like that in game too, but it was the only close up face pic I've found... Yet again, she's pretty old in DA I, so I think that's pretty accurate of how she'd be at 40 y/o, no ?. But I'm counting on someone who has played DA games to know what she really looks like !

Sdesser · November 30, 2014

Hmm. Interesting. I might give this a try later today. I'm not saying I'm any good at making character faces, but I've never tried making a character based on a reference, so that's something new!

*Edit: inb4 it's 9 hours later. Damn Creation Kit and time warping. At least I got one part of my mods dungeon done and started working on the second one. x)

Perhaps I'll have some time tomorrow to check this out.

**Edit: Do you have any other image for reference? Like from a different angle or something. Need one mainly because I've never played Dragon Age.

Is this her?

http://www.nerdappropriate.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/NA_MORRIGAN_DA31.jpg

Sdesser · December 1, 2014

Okey-dokey. Did some messing around with Race Menu.

Tried using this as my reference:

Tried to make her a bit older looking (the reference image is her younger?):

Is this even close?

Redflyingmonkey · December 1, 2014

Holy fuck you're getting there ! I've been continually trying since I posted this, and mine doesn't look anything like it hahaha ! Was that done on ECE ?

...0... · December 1, 2014

Okey-dokey. Did some messing around with Race Menu.

Tried using this as my reference:

Tried to make her a bit older looking (the reference image is her younger?):

Is this even close?

Top picture will always be Morrigan for me.

bitterne · December 1, 2014

Okey-dokey. Did some messing around with Race Menu.

Tried using this as my reference:

Tried to make her a bit older looking (the reference image is her younger?):

Is this even close?

In my opinion she needs to look a lot more disapproving to be Morrigan, her scowl is pretty much her signature.

also this is a gorgeous character, will you be sharing her preset?

Sdesser · December 1, 2014

Alrighty. Thanks for the feedback. I'll see what I can do, once I actually wake up. Managed to mess up my sleep rhythm once again and slept for 19.5 hours.

@Redflyingmonkey:

Nope. RaceMenu 2.9.something. The newest official release anyway.

@bitterne:

Sure thing. Attached below!

Also made some random preset while I was messing around:

(Don't mind the blocky shadows. I want to run Skyrim at close to 60 FPS and my GPU can't handle shadows that well.)

Morrigan_0point1.rar

randomPreset.rar

Rayblue · December 2, 2014

(Don't mind the blocky shadows. I want to run Skyrim at close to 60 FPS and my GPU can't handle shadows that well.)

I'd rather have slightly blurry shadows than sharp ones. I prefer this (for performance):

iBlurDeferredShadowMask=5
fInteriorShadowDistance=4000.0000
fShadowDistance=5000.0000
iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=512
iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=1024
iShadowSplitCount=2

Sdesser · December 2, 2014

(Don't mind the blocky shadows. I want to run Skyrim at close to 60 FPS and my GPU can't handle shadows that well.)

I'd rather have slightly blurry shadows than sharp ones. I prefer this (for performance):
iBlurDeferredShadowMask=5
fInteriorShadowDistance=4000.0000
fShadowDistance=5000.0000
iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=512
iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=1024
iShadowSplitCount=2

I'll test this out. Thanks!

*Edit: Using this at the moment. Shadows cast by characters still look pretty much the same. Other shadows are just fine.

Any tips?

bradleyh · December 3, 2014

Holy fuck you're getting there ! I've been continually trying since I posted this, and mine doesn't look anything like it hahaha ! Was that done on ECE ?

I would advise not looking at page 1224 on the Show Your Skyrim Counterpart Thread

Sdesser · December 3, 2014

Holy fuck you're getting there ! I've been continually trying since I posted this, and mine doesn't look anything like it hahaha ! Was that done on ECE ?

I would advise not looking at page 1224 on the Show Your Skyrim Counterpart Thread

Hah! Someone beat me to it! Looks good too!

Redflyingmonkey · December 8, 2014

Holy fuck you're getting there ! I've been continually trying since I posted this, and mine doesn't look anything like it hahaha ! Was that done on ECE ?

I would advise not looking at page 1224 on the Show Your Skyrim Counterpart Thread

Damn, if I get that preset I'm starting modelling her hair asap, or even adapting a RIP from DAO. Going to beg for it hard, RIGHT NOW

Forgotten1337 · December 15, 2014

Well, if you've recently checked out the Show your skyrim counterpart thread, EstonianJones has a pretty good recreation. I'm willing to bet if you asked she'd tell you how she managed it.

teitogun · December 16, 2014

Okey-dokey. Did some messing around with Race Menu.

Tried using this as my reference:

Tried to make her a bit older looking (the reference image is her younger?):

Is this even close?