Saturday 5 April 2014

Elven Earring Fix

The fixes an oversight for the elven hair with the earrings. Comes in two flavours.


I don't know about you, but it's always peeved me that the elves had earrings which changed colour with their hair. Surely, it was not meant to be. I've always just ignored that particular hairstyle, but it seems to be popular as a base when new hats come out, so I figured it was time to make a change.

How we have it now. (Gross)
Looking through the files I can see that the hair texture had a slightly different patch over the earring bit on the specular map. It -was- intended to be different from the hair. Reversing what I did for the Elin Ears & Tails mod and Amani Robe mod, I was able to correct their mistake with the 'cstm' file. I marked the earring as 'ignore' rather than 'hair', so the game now correctly ignores colouring it.

This is how it was intended to look. (Silver)

Much like said adjustments to the Elin's Head package, Hair 01 (Coincidentally this one) and Face 01 will be invisible during character creation, but perfectly fine in-game. It's because in CC they use additional test textures to display, instead of the actual ones, and the test ones get lost when any changes are made. As they are not used anywhere else, you will never have an issue outside of character creation.

Part of what prompted this mod was seeing the similar female adornment side-by-side with the mistake.
So I borrowed the textures from the female version, and made a gold version for males too.
Male elves wear a shitton of gold things, so I've no doubt it'd look a lot better on them. But really, it's up to you. I've uploaded both versions.


Installation:

Drag & Drop the included 'Client' folder into your TERA installation directory. You'll know you're in the right place when you see another 'Client' folder too. It's okay to merge the folders, as this mod will not overwrite any of your files. No need to worry about backing up! It simply adds it to a new directory entirely, and your game will read it, leaving your original safe and unharmed. 

Uninstallation:

You only need to go to 'TERA\Client\S1Game\CookedPC\Art_Data\_Packages\CH\PC', and delete the Highelf_M_Head .gpk should you want to uninstall.

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