Ok so not even sure if this is the right place but here I go, I never played the first game, but I got the 2nd, and so far I must say I love it. I was having so much fun, until I wandered out of the town and i came across my first Endriaga, and I must say god damn that scared me. I couldnt play Dragon age 1 or 2 till i found edits to replace the spiders, nor could i play any fallout till i edited out the Giant radscorpions, and now in this game theres a mix of the 2!

Now I dont know if its possible, or even if its allowed, but is it possible to change their models somehow or any other sort of spider type model in the game? because if not i really cannot see me carrying on playing this game, which would be a huge shame as i was having so much fun but without it i cannot bare it, every step i took after i saw it was more tentative then the previous roaming through that place and it just doesnt make it very enjoyable :/

So PLEASE if someone could help me it would be GREATLY appreciate

Bump still needing some help on this.

Still need help.

well, for one sharks are not in this game

Hmm, I guess arachnophobia can be tricky for those who have it then?
I'm sorry to hear this is spoiler the game for you.
I'm sure someone will in time provide a changed model for all arachnids.

you need to change w2ent file. someone is working on cracking it.

however by the time that happens, the mod tools might be out already. heh

apparently they say they dont have a phobia...

but the way this works its not going to be just a simple model edit. if they do that it wont work right

Bump

I'll see what i can do. I tend to mod out spiders in game but haven't done it with TW2's since they don't look much like spiders to me. I'll try as soon as i get home tomorrow night.

Something like swapping them for drowners, right?

Archive Extractor
Use this download and the text file in the description to extract Pack0.dzip in witcher 2/CookedPC.
Find the Endrega models. They'll be .w2ent files and the endrega are called endriag in the game files. Find different .w2ent files and rename them to the endriag filenames. For example you could use triss_naked_wet.w2ent. Be sure to change the endriag queen and arachas files too. I'm not sure if the textures are packaged in these files so they may look very odd but not like spiders anymore.
Finally move the files to your game directory under the CookedPC folder using the same folder structure that the extractor did and they should over-ride the in game models.
I haven't tested this so tell me how it goes.

EDIT: Actually I did exactly this and found numerous unresponsive nude, and headless, Triss's in the woods around Flotsam. I guess the change causes the monsters to bug out. If there was another monster model that moved on all fours that might work but I couldn't find one. To my knowledge no one can extract the .w2ent file yet so I don't know what else to try.
This didn't cause my game to crash so you could do this with a .w2ent file of some small object and never complete The Engrega Contract. There is an Arachas boss though so you'd have to grin and bear it for that.

better to wait for an editor,as model swapping is frought with problems .

waiting myself to drop all my swords n stuff into it.

doesn't hurt to experiment, but from my experiences, the w2ent files cannot be interchanged. there must be customized settings within. it is a template file afterall.

here's a possible result when replacing foltest with one of the other character w2ent files. the animation works, except speech and lipsync. so often cutscenes don't play correctly:

http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/6006/clipboard01vf.jpg

but i must commend cpdr for creating hundreds of models that can be interchanged for easy customization. once we figure out w2ent it will be easy.

here's a log of one guy that's working on it:
http://cia.vc/stats/project/red

Sounds like it's not possible to edit spawns or models yet, so no fix until 2wstrings is cracked. Will have to wait, unfortunately.