[WIP] ThaneMOD v3.0

[giftfish]

FYI: ThaneMOD development discussion takes place on the ThaneMOD forums. This thread is placed here in the case I want to spread the word a bit more about upcoming mod features, and as a courtesy, to field development-related questions from toolset community members who prefer not to have to register on another forum

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Kinkojiro is working his magic as we work together to create a package of galaxy map edits for ThaneMOD. Here's how it's looking so far...



Olyn Protectorate is an unused cluster in the game files that contains Kanala System with a single, unnamed planet. As far as we can tell, this was supposed to be for the hanar, but was abandoned during development and left unfinished. We've added additional planets to make it truer to BW's conventions (among other things) and are in the middle of coming up with names and descriptions. And war assets. Moar war assets.

The hanar and the drell are the only two advanced races in ME3 without homeworlds on the galaxy map (short of the yahg, who only appear in DLC). A pretty significant oversight considering the hanar have been under consideration for a seat on the Council since ME1 and Thane was a squadmate in ME2. ME3 shows us the homeworlds for the elcor and volus, rachni and batarians, quarians and asari, krogan and turians, salarians and humans. Even the vorcha. But no hanar. No drell. Every current and former squadmate has their homeworld on the map in ME3...except for Thane.

I'm sensing a pattern, BW -_-

Which is why we're also going to fix the oversight for the drell. We're placing a new system with Rakhana into the Eagle Nebula. It's only other cluster in the galaxy with a hanar presence, short of those housing Citadel and Noveria. Hopefully, we'll be showing you that next.

Any questions, shoot them below

[giftfish]

Fun stuff going on in TMv3.0 development

[giftfish]

And, this I blame on Sil:



Preaching hanar, anyone?

[sil]

I fully accept all blame thrown in my direction for the Preaching Hanar.

[giftfish]

Slow progress, but progress

Reminder: Thane will only be aboard when romanced.





And yes, that's exactly the same idle animation as in ME2. I still have a bit of refining to do on the implementation of the stuntactor, but he's in place. I'm also trying to restore the blinking animation for Thane's inner eyelids (that is used in ME2, but not ME3).

Once this is wrapped up, then moving back to the dreams

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Restored window and weapons courtesy of kinkojiro.