Using DLC areas in your mods tutorial

This guide will show you how to make resources from the Dragon Age: Origins expansion and some DLC available in the toolset so you can use them in your own mods.

Before you start

In order to complete this tutorial you will need:

1. Dragon Age: Origins game
2. Dragon Age: Origins Toolset
3. Dragon Age: Origins The Stone Prisoner DLC; Warden's Keep DLC; and/or Awakening expansion

DLC resources

1. Close the toolset
2. Open [My Documents]\BioWare\Dragon Age\AddIns\
3. Open either:
   1. dao_prc_cp_2 i.e. The Stone Prisoner
   2. dao_prc_nrx_1 i.e. Warden's Keep
4. Within your chosen folder, navigate to the \core\env\ sub-folder
5. Copy everything in the env sub-folder to [Program Files]\Dragon Age\packages\core\env\
6. Open the toolset
7. Open or create an area and click on its Area Layout property: the area layouts from the DLC, for example gwb110d/shl100d, are listed

You can now include use these area layouts to create areas in your own mods.

Awakening resources

1. Close the toolset
2. Open [My Documents]\BioWare\Dragon Age\packages\core\override\
3. Create a sub-folder and name it _awakening (or similar)
4. Open [Program Files]\Dragon Age\packages\core_ep1\data\
5. Select and copy the following ERF archives:
   1. anims.erf
   2. designerplaceables.erf
   3. designerscripts.erf
   4. face.erf - optional, but it allows you to recreate characters from Awakening
   5. materialobjects.erf
   6. modelhierarchies.erf
   7. modelmeshdata.erf
   8. tints.erf
   9. resmetrics.erf
   10. textures.erf - preferably the high quality bundle (199MB) but either will do
6. Paste the copied archives into your _awakening sub-folder
7. Rename ALL of them with the a "_gxa" (or similar) suffix:
   1. anims_gxa.erf
   2. designerplaceables_gxa.erf
   3. designerscripts_gxa.erf
   4. etc.

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