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The Whistler - Race Mod
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18 May, 2019 @ 7:07pm
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The Whistler - Race Mod

Description
You've heard whispers in the wind, idle chatter in bars and amongst drifters.
There's something in the north.
Something that drove the bandits insane and set the Leviathans to rampage.
Something that's not quite a skeleton and not quite human.
An Ancient? A Demon? Narko herself? It's hard to pull truth from myth but one thing is certain, there's something up there and that's where we are going.

This mod edits the Whistler race to be functional with my own interpretation of its textures, based off of the concept art.

There is a map to The Whistler's location, sold at a certain rare document vendor.

If you're lucky you may be able to convince The Whistler to join your squad.

Recommended for mid to late range squads.


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This mod adds

* The Whistler race (finished) and playable

* Lost Ones race (whistler race, but with the head from the concept model)

* Corrupted Lost Ones race (whistler race with a more feral looking head)

* MKI headless skeletons and MKII default head skeletons

* 129 a lot of new lines of dialogue seriously, I lost count

* New point of interest to explore

* The Whistler's head is now in the game In Cat-Lon's ashdome

* Map to the Whistler's location sold in The Great Library in Black Scratch and a 22% chance of being in ancient libraries


Import required

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** Updates **

I recently found that the whistler's textures were actually hidden in the game files, so I tweaked them a bit and replaced the Whistler's textures.

Added in a head for the Whistler

Added in a male variant for the race

Added a Lost One race and a Corrupted Lost One race, that is the whistler race with the head attached.

Added more dialogue and added a few lore books.

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I just released patches for the new races to be compatible with

SprendiX's mod Military Craft

Blubb's mod
Animation Overhaul

And AGO's mod More Combat Animation


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Please note, removal of mods can damage a save file. Importing after removal can fix the issue, but the import button is not magic. Back up your save game file before installing a new mod and if you decide that you don't like the new mod go back to the save file before installing the mod. Save game corruption is never intentional, but it does happen when the game is expecting a line of code that is no longer there.
159 Comments
Anrhaa 3 Jul @ 8:21am 
@Azrael. An old post but I know what's happening now.

Whistler have their entire arms marked as ORANGE part. So, when you use a mod that hides the orange part of the body, like YAKNM patches, they get invisible.

Why? Because male genitalia is marked as ORANGE at YAKNM and patches make pants hide it
Pico 27 Jun @ 6:16am 
Sorry, I know next to nothing about modeling and texturing.
theo 27 Jun @ 5:48am 
I checked out the mod's part map in GIMP, and it has off-pure colors.
theo 27 Jun @ 5:46am 
@Pico Thanks! Btw, judging from the logs, the race mod's human_male_head_mask.dds file most likely causes "Part map contains invalid colour" warnings. Do you know anything about this? I worry they contribute to RAM bloating or maybe even crashing. I could also try experimenting with the load order to see what works.
Pico 27 Jun @ 5:06am 
@theo Whistler Files should fix the crashes caused by the outdated body file used in this mod. The additions & changes mod simply replaces the file with a new one, so you don’t need both.
For safety you could probably put the Whistler Files first, before the race mod.
theo 27 Jun @ 4:56am 
@Pico where in the load order should we add the Whistler files in relation to the race mod and the addition and changes mod?
theo 27 Jun @ 4:41am 
I think this mod causes part map warnings...
Pico 10 Jun @ 11:56pm 
Huh, this happened from uninstalling it? I honestly have no idea why the game would be trying to use the Whistler editor file. Usually that crash (I think) happens if you DO have the mod installed and encounter the NPC Whistler, due to the mod’s file trying to use the old unused vanilla Whistler race which was removed in an update.
I would suggest trying Shidan’s Whistler files mod and seeing if it fixes it.
UNLIMITEDGAYSWAG 10 Jun @ 9:11pm 
I uninstalled this mod and every single time I load a save (even a new one) I get an error message telling me "Missing race editor limits file for race:'Whistler'" any idea on a fix?
Azrael 20 May @ 7:53pm 
The character's hands disappear when something is equipped in the leg slot, is there any way to fix this?