#normally I would just link to the creature panel documentation on the toolset wiki but the toolset's creature panel coverage is

[sapphim]

hey! i'm looking for a modding tutorial that would allow me to model-swap Daveth and Ser Jory for models normally made in the character creator, specifically a female elf and female human. i dont care about voicelines or anything, just want the models to look different. do you have any advice on that or should i make my way over to the modding discord? thanks in advance !!

Well, if you've got the toolset installed—I'm assuming this is the case—this is easy enough to do. All you would need to do is search for Daveth and Jory in the Creature Panel, right click and Open Local Copy, and then change their Appearance (to elf, if desired), Gender, and Headmorph. If you want you can also open their Inventory and change their equipped items. Then Tools > Export > Export Without Dependent Resources. If you want to save your work you can Check Out rather than Open Local Copy. This is fine! It won't overwrite anything in your database unless you Check In, and you can always Undo Checkout to revert all your changes until then.

Because Daveth and Jory are owned by the SP module (Single Player, aka the game itself) they'll export to Dragon Age/modules/Single Player/override/toolsetexport and you can move them to Dragon Age/packages/core/override with the rest of your mods. If anything other than a .utc got exported here for whatever reason, delete it.

Any resources like headmorphs you should be able to select just fine, as long as they're in override when you launch the toolset.

If you are not set up within the toolset to work with SP resources, you'll need to do one quick thing first. Don't ever in the toolset choose to work in the SP module itself. Mistakes here will be a hassle to fix. What I recommend is to make your own general purpose standalone module (or just be lazy like I am and use the included Demo module), and then extend that module to access the SP resources, as per this tutorial.

Here are further links to helpful modding resources.