This is just an official upload of my formerly discord exclusive mod “QoL – Artie & Johnny”. I am only really uploading this onto Nexus so people can use it as a base for other mods if they like, and so some people can release mods they’ve been working on that uses this as a base publicly as well.
WHAT DOES IT DO?
This mod is a very simple and vanilla friendly mod that overhauls specifically John, but also fixes a few issues there was with Arthur as well in the base game. My intent with this mod was to just fix the characters and bring them to acceptable states, without any added nonsense along side that no one asked for, like many of these mods end up doing. It has a few beta things (pretty much exclusive to Marston), as these were absolutely required to get him to look half decent.
A brief overview of the features it adds off the top of my head is as follows:
• Dynamic and fully functional hair growth system for John, along with his NPC hair colour.
• Beta/NPC head for Marston.
• NPC sized torsos for John, meaning none of the infamous neck seam.
• NPC weapon equipment for John.
• Makes his ammo belt that can be seen on The Cowboy outfit, among others, have a use by adding bullets into it.
• Various texture improvements for John.
• adjusted hat positions for select hats Marston owns.
• 1.00 Fitment for John.
• A few 1.00 models.
• 1.00 gun belt, holster, and bandolier physics.
• Adjusted Arthur’s knife sheath texture to be consistent with the rest of his gear.
• Arthur keeps the Chapter 1 version of his winter outfit.
• Along the same lines, a shirt was added underneath the coat of the Chapter 1 outfit, as he’s nude under it in vanilla.
• Fixed the coat state for the Gunslinger, it uses the offhand version at all times in vanilla.
• Correct belt and holster on the 1899 version of The Grizzlies Outlaw.
• Arthur’s eyebrow rigging has been fixed, which was broken in the day one patch.
• Horseshoe, scabbard, and lasso accessories added to the player horse.
• And finally, a nice little “easter egg” in the end credits.
I may have forgotten a few things in the overview, so forgive me.
DISCLAIMER:
The mod swaps the left and right parted hair entries for John, this was done so that he would start the epilogue with a short version of his actual hair, so that it will grow out naturally through Epilogue I and Epilogue II without the need to go to the barber. So if you were using another John mod, go to the barber and choose left parted if your hair became Arthur’s after installing this.
I haven’t provided any real images of this stuff, as this is basically a “word of mouth” mod. I’m again only uploading this publicly so people can use it as a base for other mods and whatnot and publish their own. The majority of people in the main RDR servers already know about this mod as well.
INSTALLATION:
Put this in your LML folder and ensure you have no conflicts with any of the files in the mod. I am not liable for any issues you may face for not doing a proper install.
and if you have a “player_three.ymt file in your stream folder, REMOVE IT. it will make John’s chest clip through his shirt.
KNOWN ISSUES:
John’s weathered holster clips through his gun. looking for a fix.
some coats may clip with John’s shoulders.
When changing outfits you may see clipping, not a real issue though as it goes away once the outfit is chosen.
This mod wouldn’t have been possible without GuiCorleone and Suika kindly lending me their models to provide the best mod I could have made with my skill. Without them this mod would have been shit, for lack of a better word. Also a massive thank you to Branjer for being my helper with testing this mod, again wouldn’t have been possible without his aid. And thank you to myself, because I’m actually pretty proud of this mod if I do say so myself. If you are after a very vanilla friendly mod with no nonsense, this is the mod for you.
More credits go to Face21 on discord for fixing an issue with the beard tints in shop_items.
Credits:
QoL crew
This mod does not work with why ems dlc