HD Forearm Fixes

     In this installment from Bill's HD Game Assets, I bring you Forearm Fixes for the Beamdog HD character art. This was a huge undertaking, but it brings the following adjustments:

1. Restored the forearm and hand positions to where the original Bioware art was placed (as close as I could manage, with skin mesh versus old trimesh and crude shapes). Hopefully it makes them much more compatible with most of the existing Custom content for character art.
2. Both hands and forearms were completely re-weighted for skin mesh. Forearms now have proper weighting on both sides of the bone (where the meet the biceps, and where they meet the hands). They should move around smoother in game, with less oddity.
3. A new set of shadow meshes was added to both the Beamdog hands as well as the forearms. These were generated in ZBrush, decimations of the originals.
4. Robes were also adjusted as needed for this package, and they too include a new set of shadow meshes (re-shaped from the original meshes).
5. Some additional adjustments were made where I saw the need. Small adjustments to main and shadow meshes alike. Most noteable were the large female gnome's biceps--a couple cm shorter than required, leaving a gap where they should have met the forearms. And like the other parts, I made a new set of shadow meshes for them.
6. I made separate packages for both my HD Open Hands and HD Male Elf Fixes releases, for those that prefer them to the originals. Naturally, the respective packs will also be required if choosing these options.

     And for developers, I'm also included a "loose folder" copy of the decompiled ASCII models.

     Caveats:

• There are almost 3000 model files in these packages (about 2000 in each Hak), and it's only been yours truly on QA. I expect a few error reports. Either post them here (and I'll try to check the thread periodically), or let me know over in the NWVault's discord.
• I only handled the two main phenotypes. Even this took almost two months to complete. I'm not unwilling to add these in at a later date, but need to learn more about them first.

     This is part of an unofficial yet ongoing project, done on my own time and at my own expense. Each item I make takes several hours to create and convert into game-ready files. If you like the artwork and wish to help support this huge project, please join Bill's HD Game Assets at Patreon. We can use your help! If joining an ongoing effort isn't quite your thing, but you'd still like to help out, you can also add a one-time (or recurring) "tip in the jar" via PayPal, at here.