About this mod
Ever dream of playing an Asari. Don't kid yourself of course you have.
Well now you can play as Mass Effect's Twi'lek by simply dropping this file in your documents.
- Permissions and credits
Not just any config file. A file that changes your female and male Shepards to resemble the Asari!
Installation:
To use this, simply download the ini, and place it in your Documents>BioWare>Mass Effect>Config folder and replace the existing BIOGame file.
*Not a bad idea to keep a backup of the original .ini file so you can go back to your normal human shepard player model whenever you wish*.
*This can be added in the middle of a playthrough with no bugs or problems whatsoever. Any weirdness that happens as a result of changing your model is undone by switching the model back to human or to another of my many upcoming model mods.*
Uninstallation:
Every character you create will retain the Asari model so long as the .ini file is in your Config folder.
- To go back to your human Shepard model if you deleted/replaced your original config folder, the quickest way to do so is to open the BIOGame file in notepad and use the Ctrl+F function to find the line you need to edit.
- Type "Actor" and hit Enter twice to find the female and male player models denoted as 'm_femaleActorType=' and 'm_maleActorType=' respectively.
- After the equal sign, you'll want to replace the Asari text which should look like "BIOA_JUG_C.SAL.jug70_sal_psyrana" with Shepard text! "BIOG_Male_Player_C.Human.Human_Male" and "BIOG_Female_Player_C.Human.Human_Female" under whichever gender you wish to use.
Note: You can keep either gender as the Asari if you wish to have an Asari female and a human male character at the same time.
I've uploaded this as it took me a couple hours to figure out how to make either Shepard look like anyone else in Mass Effect, I figured I'd save any of you the trouble of doing so.
However it is very easy! I will pin a tutorial comment of how to accomplish this, so please see there for instructions to do this for yourself with any character model in the game!
Warning:
- Playing as Asari Commando will prevent you from walking properly without a weapon in-hand. I use the "teleport" console command to move around places that don't let you take your weapon out (Normandy). It's not all that annoying to me, but I can't speak for everyone.
- When playing as another model, ALWAYS use the quick-created Shepard, as the custom Shepard's face will return after load screens and overlap on the Asari model and look VERY strange. If you use quick-created, then you will be Asari from start to finish!
Please enjoy, and please request other models you'd like! Anything from random Asari to random Hanar!
...maybe even Sovereign ;)