Help with Making Frank into a Female

[Kyle]

Hey this is technically one of my first times messing with dead rising in a long time and I could use some help.

I do have most of the tools needed to get going and I have put different stuff together (unpacking big files/repacking).

I'm just having some trouble with one of the mods made by mariokart64n. It's Ada Wong in Re4 outfit. I managed to get her over top of frank successfully, but she has franks hair still appear, her skeleton doesn't seem to be right, and her voice is still franks.

For the skeleton: Does that have to do with the datafile.big? Or is there more to it than that. I also want to make it so it doesn't effect the skeleton of Chuck when playing in online.

For the voice: I have a Rebecca voice mod I downloaded a while ago, and tried to replace it within the streamedassets.big and replace the fx_main.big into it, however when I did so it didn't work properly.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, and with this necessary help I was considering trying to make a full female model swap for Frank West in the story (if not use the already done Chuck into Stacy mod with customizable outfits).

[Deleted]

The Rebecca voice mod is for DR2, I think. Ask Freako about the model issues, I'm not too good on that.

[Kyle]

You think there is any voice mods for Frank? If not I guess it's ok, but how about the skeleton? Is there anyway around this?

[Deleted]

Aug 17, 2012 19:34:00 GMT -5 Kyle said:

You think there is any voice mods for Frank? If not I guess it's ok, but how about the skeleton? Is there anyway around this?

Yes, there are skeleton files you must replace. I think they are in the anims folder. I'm currently AFK so I can't tell which files they are.

[Kyle]

Ya I was told before in the past it was player_ something, but I wasn't entirely sure where to look.

[solidcal]

Aug 17, 2012 20:02:44 GMT -5 Kyle said:

Ya I was told before in the past it was player_ something, but I wasn't entirely sure where to look.

You don't need to replace any model file in OTR anymore.You could pretty much use the adding new outfits method.As the name suggests you just add the ada wong model in as a new wearable outfit.I can do this for you.Well update or post this in a little while with the results.

Update: Well I got ada added in as a new outfit.Theres some clipping on it due to the male skeleton,also the male skeleton makes the hands go all scrunched up too.But this should be fixed when you replace the male skeleton with the female one.

Heres a pic of Ada added as a new outfit in the game for frank and chuck to wear.

[Kyle]

How did ya get it without the hair to appear on her head? That was my major problem when I tried putting it in the npc.big folder.

As for adding new outfits, how does that work? If it's like the DR1 frank where it puts another little object in the locker room for you to select I would like to try to steer away from that. It's a great idea, but I'd rather have something a little more authentic. Going around the casinos/malls and finding outfits to try on and then it eventually changing your look/character. Get what I mean?

Also solidcal, do you know where the skeleton goes? And make it so it doesn't replace franks?

[solidcal]

Aug 18, 2012 11:13:18 GMT -5 Kyle said:

How did ya get it without the hair to appear on her head? That was my major problem when I tried putting it in the npc.big folder.

As for adding new outfits, how does that work? If it's like the DR1 frank where it puts another little object in the locker room for you to select I would like to try to steer away from that. It's a great idea, but I'd rather have something a little more authentic. Going around the casinos/malls and finding outfits to try on and then it eventually changing your look/character. Get what I mean?

Also solidcal, do you know where the skeleton goes? And make it so it doesn't replace franks?

I think the skeleton is in the anier.Also I used the adding outfits method it is the better to have a new character to play or new outfit in the game and it is easy to uninstall and go back to your normal game.

[Kyle]

So where is anier? I haven't seen a folder like that. And how would ya go about making an outfit that way

[solidcal]

Aug 18, 2012 17:26:06 GMT -5 Kyle said:

So where is anier? I haven't seen a folder like that. And how would ya go about making an outfit that way

Please excuse me that was a typo,I mean the anim folder.Also i think there is a tut about that making outfis thing you could find.

[Kyle]

Do you remember which .big file it is that has all the skeleton data? Also is there a way to make it so frank has a female voice?

If none of these apply, I was thinking of having chuck as the female because of the "Chuck as a Chick Mod." Giving him a female voice/all female models, female skeleton, etc.

The only problem was when I did it, it still showed chucks hands, feet, and head.

[tommah]

skeletons are in /data/skeletons folder, all the player_ files are different parts of the body. unfortunately, Chuck and Frank use the same skeletons, if you swap for Frank then it will swap for Chuck.

Hope this helps!

[Kyle]

Thanks a lot for the information tommah, it's really unfortunate frank and chuck use the same skeleton. Then again it makes sense. They both happen to be male, so they use the same skeleton. Would be silly to give them different ones.

I would like to ask if there was a way you could help me get rid of franks hair tho. I was having a bit of trouble (without using the method solidcal provided).

It looks kinda like this:
i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee17/Wizard2_01/Other%20Stuff/Public%20Photos/deadrising2otr2011-10-1012-25-53-74.jpg

[tommah]

I believe its called headwear_base, feel free to swap it or add an outfit piece

[Kyle]

headwear_base? Interesting, if I open it up in a hex editor, and erase all the data and resave it, will it appear invisible then? I think I tried, but it errored out. Mind kinda explaining how to go about this?

[tommah]

Aug 29, 2012 5:42:24 GMT -5 Kyle said:

headwear_base? Interesting, if I open it up in a hex editor, and erase all the data and resave it, will it appear invisible then? I think I tried, but it errored out. Mind kinda explaining how to go about this?

Freako would know better than me, but I think you create an empty txt file and name it "headwear_base" and change the ".big" and ".tex" in bigfile.xml to ".txt. I THINK that's how its done, never actually did it myself.

[Kyle]

Thanks man, it's good t hear your replies, and I'll definitely see if it works. If not, I'll just kinda hang in there till someone is able to answer.

:EDIT:
I tried doing it the way you suggested, but it didn't work unfortunately. Crashed to desktop.

[solidcal]

Aug 29, 2012 22:08:07 GMT -5 Kyle said:

Thanks man, it's good t hear your replies, and I'll definitely see if it works. If not, I'll just kinda hang in there till someone is able to answer.

:EDIT:
I tried doing it the way you suggested, but it didn't work unfortunately. Crashed to desktop.

You might've done it wrong as it is a weird kind of process.I have a empty big file around.I'll upload it for you to use.See if it works for you then.

Edit:
Well I used the empty .big file I had and it has worked nicely.As you can see from these screen shots.







Also I have uploaded the files up for you that need to be replaced.Renamed them to the two files you have to replace too.

Link: dl.dropbox.com/u/71327294/Frank%20no%20hair.rar

Yep there you go.Also Frank's hair is called headwear_base_frank as opposed to be calling headwear_base_f XD So yeah use that file and post the results Maybe a vid or something nice

[tommah]

thaaaat's right... forgot the "frank" thing at the end of the filename... whoops.

[Kyle]

Thanks a lot Tommah for helping out. Looks like Frank's hair on Ada is completely gone. Now all I would have to do is create some model swaps for the rest of franks outfits (to make them into females).

[solidcal]

Aug 30, 2012 10:19:02 GMT -5 Kyle said:

Thanks a lot Tommah for helping out. Looks like Frank's hair on Ada is completely gone. Now all I would have to do is create some model swaps for the rest of franks outfits (to make them into females).

Yeah I am glad you thanked me for helping too. XD And good luck with the rest of that.

[Kyle]

Really sorry solidcal, I appreciate the effort put into helping as well. It mean a lot just to get replies, considering everyone does their own thing or even just doesn't feel the need to help. So that I thank you.

[solidcal]

Aug 31, 2012 0:42:49 GMT -5 Kyle said:

Really sorry solidcal, I appreciate the effort put into helping as well. It mean a lot just to get replies, considering everyone does their own thing or even just doesn't feel the need to help. So that I thank you.

Yeah I was joking about it.Wasnrying to be serious and wh not.Anyway I look forward to seeing pics and what not from you Anyway glad I could help you.

[tommah]

You're so needy, Solid

[solidcal]

Aug 31, 2012 6:18:12 GMT -5 tommah said:

You're so needy, Solid

Let's not go off topic ay Tommah?Anyway I did a little joke.But yeah good luck with what you are doing kyle.

[Kyle]

Thanks again. Just been trying to do what I can and also messing around making some other types of mods on other sites. So this will be really cool to play with a friend when I get it set up.

[solidcal]

Sept 2, 2012 18:24:59 GMT -5 Kyle said:

Thanks again. Just been trying to do what I can and also messing around making some other types of mods on other sites. So this will be really cool to play with a friend when I get it set up.

Glad we could help.