Water Barrels with Physics

Have you ever thought about looking at the barrels in DAO and seeing actual water and not a flat image? Well, neither did I, until today.

V 1. 0 As it turns out, a simple edit of MMH files changing water surface MAO from TCI_IceWall01 to wat_river00mat is enough to make it look like any other still water body across the game.

If you get an invisible barrel water bug with this version installed or simply want a better-looking barrel water, use v 1. 1 instead.

Installation:

Unzip the archive and drop the Water Barrels w Physics folder into your Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age\packages\core\override at any time.

Uninstallation:

Delete the Water Barrels w Physics folder from your override at any time.

Optional (v 1. 0 barrels only. Please, don't use this manual for upgrading EO barrels to v 1. 1, I'll add a proper article on water materials at a later date):

If you want to enable physics on your Environment Overhaul water barrels (first things first, DO NOT INSTALL THIS MOD, it will override the new water barrel models! Follow the manual under spoiler instead)

1. Grab pyGFF editor.

2. Open your override\Environment Overhaul\Containers\Barrels\BarrelWater folder.

3. Open each MMH file (prp_brrl_wtr, plc_brrl_wtr_0, prp_brrl_wtr_0, prp_brrl_wtr_01).

4. Expand nodes: 6999 MMH_CHILDREN -> 0 -> 6999 MMH_CHILDREN -> 6 -> click on the 6001 MMH_MATERIAL_OBJECT line.

5. In the editor window below erase prp_new_waterbarrel and paste wat_river00mat instead.

6. Click 'Save' under the window (or else the material change won't be saved) and 'File - Save As' in the top menu. Overwrite the file when prompted.

Done! You've got new barrels with actual water.

Optional 2 (this one too!):

If you want to have a little fun

try changing 00 in wat_river00mat to one of the following:

10 or 11 - big slow waves

40 or 41 - a foamy waterfall

60 - a swift current

50 - a swift crosscurrent

V 1. 1 An improved semitransparent water material for vanilla barrels courtesy of MoonAerin

Installation:

Unzip the archive and drop the Water Barrels w Physics 1. 1 folder into your Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age\packages&#