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Astarion

This one needs a bit of your attention. I’m making his BT1 variation. You may have already seen a replacer for him with a female voice - here.✧ My question is: should we keep him BT1 male or BT1 female? (You’ll need an extra voice-swap mod for female, tho)I’m making him a pale Black Dragonborn. If you think he should look different, feel free to assemble a look in CC and drop a screenshot in the chatI think I'll add his scars as spine decor in Fleshforge as option

Karlach

I’m working on metal body details for her to fit Clawstep bodies. I’ll add them as a selectable option in CC in Fleshforge, just in case.I’m planning to keep her overall look the same as in the video, plus the metal details.

Why couple extra separate mods in the making

You’re still getting Clansong (the mod with CC faces for your Guardians and Appearance Edit Enhanced fun), so don’t worry - you don’t have to replace it if you don’t want to.However, I ran into some issues with replacer mods that I want to fix through my own work.✧ Interaction Animations. Couple animations and animations like drinking, smoking.Long maws cause faces to clip and sink into each other, so I’m planning to overwrite interactive couple animations, including romance scenes.Making some addons to speed up my work already - Blend Addon - Animation Fixer as example

✧ Proper Dragonborn setup from the startThey will be Dragonborn from the very beginning - when you first encounter them, or if you or your co-op partner play them. They’ll have proper abilities and the correct starting icon, like I did with Quil✧ Replacer mods have their own drawbacksHere’s something fun I noticed, and now you won’t be able to unsee it either.I hope it gets fixed though - I like these mods and really root for them. I’ve already bug-reported this, so let’s pray to the modding gods

Tandem of Appearance Edit Enhanced and my WIP mod looks like this:

Btw why in the hells Patreon removed the native Poll option

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Astarion and Karlach replacers WIP

Participate on their look https://www.patreon.com/posts/questions-about-145896258

Comments

CallUsTav

A very tough choice for Astarion 😅. If I had to pick between the two I'd choose to keep him male. Though imo the female clawstep body fits him more than the muscular male one, he's always been slim in my mind but that could just be me.

AkELkA

Yeah, he is slim and look smaller 'cause of how Larians setuped camera for him. Not sure if he really smaller tho yet. He is pretty feminine, but my reasons more like - BT1 dragonborn just closer by size to him (not perfectly, still need to fix anims but not that drastic and I need to start with something) and I like his sas, wanted to run with sassy dgb buddy =D Btw I only when made Karlach Dragonborn realised that she actually scaled up, like she by defaut a bit bigger then other strong females.

CallUsTav

Another reason why Karlach is best girl added to the list.

Abraham the Heavy

can't believe i never noticed she was scaled up, wonder if that makes problems for her animations like it does for halsin who is also scaled up

AkELkA

The scale is not apply in cutscenes, for example Halsin in cutscenes "levitate" to imitate his scale XD Astarion has his "special" camera setup to imitate his "smallness". For example if u apply scale on char a lot trough roottemplate u will notice that they will scale back in cutscenes. I also notised that some animations even have they own scale like "scale up" hand for karlach whe she kisses to immitate closeness to camera i guess or something. Karlach big outside cutscene but i gues normal sized in cutscene, and have camera trick https://i.ibb.co/Hp4zvxqd/image.png here left is Karlach, right normal fem dgb Kazador also have 1.1 scale too

Ness The king of sushi

I'm so happy and so impressed by all your work, and cannot wait for the result. I have just a question, will this mod also work with the other companions? (or will there be an expansion on it?) Since I really would love to see a Dragonborn Wyll. Still, fantastic stuff as usual and I cannot wait to see more!

AkELkA

Yes, just use any mod like Appearance Edit Enhanced with it and any companion could use the speaking dgb head I think in case of console they could use pair of Identity theft mod and CustomCompanionsLite mod to make for example Wyll dragonborn, I think if summon hireling with CustomCompanionsLite and then select Wyll and "steal" appearance from it you could get this result even on consoles

Fritz Bauer

I'd say keep Astarion male, Also will the talking animations work with all heads or just the ones you have made?

AkELkA

only ones i've made. I making heads work with human lipcync not other way around

Freedom-In-Moonlight

I'm of the opinion that Astarion should be male but should keep bodytype 1. In my mind he's always been a bit if a twink so it still fits him, I tend to treat dragonborn body types 1 and 2 as not being male and female but being bulky or skinny. It just makes more intuitive sense to me that he would be a skinny guy.

Andre

please keep Astarion male 😭🙏

StrikerZ56

DB companions lets goooo! Thank you for doing this, I wish you luck in completing this as swiftly as possible! I am curious tho, its been awhile so I've forgot but are Karlach and Astarion's race mentioned or spoken by characters? Cause it would be awkward if they're original races are said but they are instead a DB.

Chrysanthia Novela

Just my opinion. But I think Karlach would benefit from a unique blend of male and female models. Something that is big and hulking like a male body, but has female anatomy. After all, I think it would fit her backstory as Hell-made Warbeast, and it may look a bit unnatural, which fits how she resents being changed by them.... and it would also have.. ahem.. huge mommy vibe as well.

Abraham the Heavy

hey you never know maybe someone is slowly working on that ;)