[Crybertrance]

Is there a way to change the cutscene played when the Normandy lands (Planet, Citadel). For eg, If I wanted to change the cutscene shown when the Normandy lands on Noveria from the default silent one, to the one when you first visit Noveria (with the radio chatter). Is it possible? Can I swap a file or something?

[MatthTheGeek]

Not sure that's the best place to ask, this is not exactly a ME modding forum...

[Crybertrance]

Not sure that's the best place to ask, this is not exactly a ME modding forum...

I know that, but since I don't have a Bioware forum account, and don't exactly have the time to set up one right now, I just thought I would ask here...

[MatthTheGeek]

I am... not sure the Bioware forums would be the best place to ask about modding Bioware games either :/

[Crybertrance]

I am... not sure the Bioware forums would be the best place to ask about modding Bioware games either :/

Weird, considering the all the mods (texmods) for the ME series, is hosted and discussed on the bioware forums?

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/category/128/index

[MatthTheGeek]

Well, it depends on the developers. Some are less lenient toward modding than others.

[newman]

When you first approach Noveria they don't yet know who you are and threaten to impound your ship upon landing if they can't confirm your Spectre status. It would be rather dumb for them to do it when you return there again. A prototype Alliance frigate like the Normandy carrying the first human Spectre who shot up the place on his last visit wouldn't be something they'd soon forget about - so I don't really see the point. In general, Mass Effect doesn't seem to lend itself to any serious modding but replacing a cutscene might just be possible, if you could figure out what files are for what and just rename them. But I doubt it would be that simple; some cutsenes are actually combinations of pre-rendered stuff and scripted in-engine real time scenes, and some of them might write information to the save file (like visited noveria = 1 or similar), so you might run into problems if you tinker with it. Not really sure about this last part, but I'd say this is quite likely more trouble than it's worth

[IronBeer]

I've never actually looked into Mass Effect modding, but from the sounds of things, it's not simple. Take, for example, Garrus' face texture on high graphical settings. It's jammed in lo-res, and Bioware didn't fix it because doing so would allegedly require updating a LOT of files.

Of course, I read that a while ago and the field may have changed since then.

[Crybertrance]

I've never actually looked into Mass Effect modding, but from the sounds of things, it's not simple. Take, for example, Garrus' face texture on high graphical settings. It's jammed in lo-res, and Bioware didn't fix it because doing so would allegedly require updating a LOT of files.

Of course, I read that a while ago and the field may have changed since then.

Hmm, last I heard that Bioware couldn't fix Garrus' face textures because they had accidentally left out the hi-res texture from the texture archive, and releasing the hi-res texture would mean having to download the whole texture archive again (something like 2.?? GBs). The solution (more like a problem in itself) was then to use Texmod.

When you first approach Noveria they don't yet know who you are and threaten to impound your ship upon landing if they can't confirm your Spectre status. It would be rather dumb for them to do it when you return there again. A prototype Alliance frigate like the Normandy carrying the first human Spectre who shot up the place on his last visit wouldn't be something they'd soon forget about - so I don't really see the point.

  I was just getting bored to death and wanted to spice things up a bit...

In general, Mass Effect doesn't seem to lend itself to any serious modding but replacing a cutscene might just be possible, if you could figure out what files are for what and just rename them. But I doubt it would be that simple; some cutsenes are actually combinations of pre-rendered stuff and scripted in-engine real time scenes, and some of them might write information to the save file (like visited noveria = 1 or similar), so you might run into problems if you tinker with it. Not really sure about this last part, but I'd say this is quite likely more trouble than it's worth

Hmm, maybe you're right. ME1 doesn't store the landing cutscenes (except the first landing on the citadel) as .bik files like ME2. And I am not sure where to look to find the files . Maybe its more trouble than its worth, like you said.

[MatthTheGeek]

I was just getting bored to death and wanted to spice things up a bit...

Dude, if you're bored to death, go make a mod that people will actually play ! Like, you know, a FS mod or something

[Crybertrance]

I was just getting bored to death and wanted to spice things up a bit...

Dude, if you're bored to death, go make a mod that people will actually play ! Like, you know, a FS mod or something

Bro, I beat you to it...Already working on a mod for FS  Btw, I wasnt going to release the changed cutscenes 'n stuff, just for my personal self