For the new module I’m currently working on I was about to do an orphanage. Therefore I need a bunch of different children. Xaltar made a new facelift of the children, so I thought to use his work plus the old ones. With that I may at least have 5-6 different male children and 2 different female ones. However, there’s a problem. Xaltar’s new ones are replacements only.
How do I get so that I can use the old and the new ones? I tried in MDBCloner to clone new heads and give them new numbers. However, the new cloned ones doesn’t show up in the toolset. I’ve got a feeling it’s got to do with them being heads with the prefixes “N”, like N_ChildHHM_Head01, and not P_HHM heards. Does anyone have any knowledge of this and what to do about it?
I tried using MDBConfig too, but that didn’t help either. Is there something specific that you need to do in order to renumber Xaltar’s “N” heads?
You have to give them new numbers. For boys it’s N_ChildHHM_Head04 and onwards, for girls it’s N_ChildHHF_Head02 and onwards. You also have to copy and rename the head’s skeleton correspondingly. A simple copy and rename of the file works; eg.: N_ChildHHM_Head04.mdb needs N_ChildHHM_skel04.gr2
Edit: Just imported a head skeleton and checked its root bone. A simple rename of the file suffices. The head skeletons are renamed body skeletons, with a separate column in the appearance.2da.
Thanks. I’ll try and copy and rename the skeletons then.
EDIT: That seemed to do the trick. I haven’t tested ingame yet, but in the toolset it looks good. Thanks @Semper !
EDIT2: When using Xaltar’s heads too, the first male head looks a bit odd. The ears are pitch black for some reason. I’ll have to investigate more. I probably made some mistake or something.
Using Mdb Config I managed to iron out the problem. It was one of the textures that were used by Xaltar’s models that overwrote the original. I renamed the relevant tga files. Now everything seems to look good and works. Still, it was actually only 2 extra male heads and one extra female head, but I take what I can get.
EDIT3: Turns out I can’t quite make everything work properly. Once I had fixed some thing another head or body was wrong by missing textures or don’t show up at all, or some other weird bullcrap like eyes missing. Thankfully @Arianna0 on Discord (and here, though she doesn’t post that often on the forums) will help me out, since she has managed to get both Xaltar’s kids and the vanilla work at the same time, plus have integrated the witcher kids too. It’s really annoying that NWN2 is so unnecessary odd and complicated at times.
EDIT4: Now I’ve received the bundle Arianna0 put together. @Arianna0 Thank you so much for your help!Everything works and I’m glad I can put this behind me.