(PLAT) Wings N Tails EX

VERSION WARNING

This mod was created for the

NWN2 PLATINUM EDITION ONLY

While the asset files may work for NWN2 Enhanced, the save editor, TlkEdit, hasn't been updated with Enhanced in mind, and may corrupt your save.

INTRODUCTION

Wings N Tails EX spawned from my annoyance that my PC Tiefling didn't have a tail, but Neeshka does, especially since said PC is from a tabletop campaign and used her tail to hold things regularly. That led to hours of dredging through unanswered questions about adding tails and wings, posts with incomplete information, missing documentation, broken links to other forums and tools, tools that no longer work or don't have the right features, and mods that give options for cross-gender and cross-race tails and wings, but have conflicts with the core game or expansions.

When you want something done right, you just gotta do it yourself.

Wings N Tails EX started as just a guide, but once I figured out the game by itself is lacking quite a few options, it evolved pretty quick. The files were built with the case game and all expansion campaigns in mind, as well as including support for another mod, Wings Galore, that repositions and resizes wings for all playable races. Unfortunately it doesn't include any custom tails or wings yet, but that may be possible in the future. Unfortunately I'm no artist though so I'd have to find them first.

INSTALLATION

There are multiple ways to go about this depending on how much you want to install. Option-specific steps found in the spoilers.

• []MINIMAL:

  If you're playing an Elf, Half-Elf, Human, Planetouched, Yuan-Ti Pureblood, there are limited options available, but they do exist. See the CODES "Vanilla Only" subsection for what you can do with just TlkEdit.

  []Install TlkEdit from the Requirements, doesn't matter where you put it, as well as 32-bit Java.

  []Follow the instructions in the USAGE section below.

[]WnTEX Only:

This option is still limited to the same standard humanoid races as Minimal, but now includes ID codes for both genders in all cases, rather than being gender-locked. See the CODES "WnTEX Only" subsection.

• []Install TlkEdit from the Requirements, doesn't matter where you put it, as well as 32-bit Java.

  []Download Wings N Tails EX and extract its contents to your "My Documents\Neverwinter Nights 2\override" folder.

  This should have placed a "Wings N Tails EX" folder inside override.

  []Follow the instructions in the USAGE section below.

[]WnTEX + Wings Galore:

If you're playing a non-standard humanoid like a Dwarf or Halfling, or you want things to look just right, this is the option you need if you want. Wings Galore adds repositioned and resized meshes for all playable races. See the CODES "WnTEX + Wings Galore" subsection.

• []Install TlkEdit from the Requirements, doesn't matter where you put it, as well as 32-bit Java.

  []Download Wings Galore and extract its contents to your "My Documents\Neverwinter Nights 2\override" folder.

  This should have placed a "wb-wings" folder inside override.

  []Download Wings N Tails EX and extract its contents to your "My Documents\Neverwinter Nights 2\override" folder.

  This should have placed a "Wings N Tails EX" folder inside override.

  []Follow the instructions in the USAGE section below.

  Install as described above. Screenshots are provided for the following instructions.

  As with any mod, back up any files you intend to edit!

  []Run TlkEdit2.exe. This is the version of the program meant for NWN2.

  []Open file(s) based on who you want to edit:

  [*]If you wish to edit your player character, open all of:

  "My Documents\Neverwinter Nights 2\localvault\(your_character_name).bic""My Documents\Neverwinter Nights 2\saves\(save_folder)\player.bic""My Documents\Neverwinter Nights 2\saves\(save_folder)\playerlist.ifo"Any steps below must be applied to all above files identically to function properly in-game, and not doing so can potentially cause save corruption!