Better Character Creation Skyrim Mod
Hi, and welcome to my latest hub on the Elder Scrolls V Skyrim. In today’s hub, I will look at updating the graphics for your Player Character using a series of mods.As your Player Character is central to your experience in Skyrim, you want it to look as good as possible and the mods we install as part of this hub, will greatly improve its appearance. In addition, all the graphical improvements we make to your Player Character will be applied to the Non Player Characters, making your Skyrim game look much better.First, we will update first of all the body models with better looking high resolution textures and a better more natural looking figure.
Then, we will look at replacing the face, hair and eye textures, again with higher quality, better looking textures.After you have installed and configured the mods I introduce across both hubs, you could end up with a character that looks like something like mine. Once we have updated the textures and the body models, you may want to customise your character further to take advantage of the new models and textures we installed. I have another hub that goes into greater detail about using Race Menu to fully customise your Player characters face, as well Character Creation Overhaul which allows you to customise your new characters stats and starting class (mage, thief etc) as well as adding birth signs similar to those found in previous Elder Scrolls games. My hub on this can be found here. The first step is to install a couple of essential mods using Nexus Mod Manager. If you are unfamiliar with it, Nexus Mod Manager is an excellent tool that allows you to manage all your mods as well as installing them with a single click. I have a hub that covers Nexus Mod Manager in greater detail which can be found here:For more advanced users, there is another Mod Manager called Mod Organizer.
- Character creation: movable camera - posted in Skyrim Mod Requests: so we all know that the most important thing is creating our character and getting every detail just perfect unfortunately this can be very difficult without being able to get a proper look at the character while youre designing it. You can focus on either head or full body and you can turn the head slightly, thats it what if.
- Collection of mods that will make your skyrim more colorful, detailed and generally more awesome place Including character design enhancement mods Character Creation Overhaul brings back what we loved in morrowind and oblivion, character stats matters again! For more details be sure to visit page of the mods.
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It allows you to:. Have multiple profiles, all with separated save games and different installed mods. Each mod is installed in its own folder to reduce conflicts and make removal easier.
Broken mods can be fixed and installed correctly. Mod conflicts are flagged to you and resolution steps recommendedMy hub on Mod Organizer can be found here:Using Nexus Mod Manager, you can install Skyrim Unbound from the Nexus website.
Skyrim Unbound allows you to skip the opening sequence and fully customise your characters game start. You can choose starting equipment, starting place (you can start in any city, town or wilderness or even jail) and also delay the main story and turn off dragons. If you also install Sky UI you can change the configuration of this and many other mods mid game, so if you want to start the main quest or turn on random dragons you can do this using Sky UI. To learn more about both of these mods, I have a hub that covers other mods that I consider essential to everyone who plays Skyrim, which can be found here. The next step is to install either Caliente’s Body Mod or DIMONIZED UNP Female Body from Skyrim Nexus depending on your preference to replace the female characters models. I have chosen the Big Bottom Edition of Caliente’s mod (often known as CBBE) as I like the way that the models look, plus it has an underwear mode which I prefer and also, CBBE is far more configurable than UNP.
If you activate the mod in Nexus Mod Manager, using a GUI installer, you can choose between body shapes, whether the models are nude, choose textures, eye brows and finally whether you would like to install some tools to help you further configure the models. CBBE comes with a utility called BodySlide which allows you to fully configure your Player Character’s body shape which I will cover in detail below.You can see pictures below of a CBBE and Dimonized UNP female Player Character.
I suggest that you check both mods out on the Skyrim Nexus mods, but be warned there are pictures there of an adult nature. Where Caliente’s Body Mod really comes into its own is with the use of the BodySlide tool that is an optional extra that can be installed as part of the installation process. Using it, you can take the default body shape and change it using the sliders shown below. The changes you make will immediately affect your player character’s body shape the next time you launch Skyrim. To use Bodyslide:. In the Skyrim data folder browse to CalienteToolsBodySlide.
Run BodySlide.exe as Administrator. Select CalienteBody as Outfit / Body which is the mesh that you are editing if you chose the no underwear version and Caliente Undies if you chose the underwear version. Under Preset choose the option that most closely fits what you want your player character to look like. Click Preview Small and Preview Big and an image will appear for both sets of sliders.
Adjust the sliders that you are interested in until you get the body shape you like. You can see below the extensive list of options you have available to choose from. Finally, click Create Bodies and BodySlide will create two nif files in the Datameshesactorscharactercharacter assets folderIf you want to save your settings as a preset, click Save Preset, name your preset. When you save it, make sure that you save it to DataCalienteToolsBodySlideSliderPresets so that BodySlide can see it. Now, next time you use BodySlide, your new preset will be available.Now, when you run Skyrim, your player character will use the new nif files you have created and will have a body shape identical to the one you created. To complete the texture replacers, we now install four more mods.First we install Better Beast Races v2 by Xenius. This mod changes the shape (the meshes) of the beast races the Argonians and the Khajits, making their faces less angular and more rounded.
This will work perfectly with Coverkhajits (which is purely a texture replacement) as Better Beast Races does not replace the in game textures, just the meshes that create the shapes that we see in the world of Skyrim.You can see below the difference installing these mods makes to the Beast Races. They are lore friendly and make a massive difference to how they will look in game. The next mod we will install is the Eyes of Beauty by Gabriel Mailhot. This excellent mod comes with four options:Standalone which will either add or replace eyes just for your Player Character depending on the option you choose. A version for elves just again for the Player Character. There is also an expansion for Dawnguard. Finally, there is a package that replaces all the eyes of Skyrims NPCsYou can choose anyone of the above options and install them and they will work perfectly together.
Personally, I installed them all but that is personal preference which is thanks to the flexibility offered by the modder. The last mods I am going to look at are high resolution brows and beards by Hvergelmir. As the title suggests, these replace the in game beards and brows with highly detailed textures. It replaces the existing beards with high resolution hand painted beards which look fantastic in game.
Hvergelmir has done similarly excellent work replacing the brows of everyone in game (your Player character as well as all NPCs). They both come in 1,024 and 2,048 versions depending on how powerful your computer is. By replacing the default body models and textures for our player characters body, face, eyes and hair, from a variety of mods we have been able to make our player character look much better and more attractive than would have been possible using the Skyrim defaults. Today, we have looked at changing the body model of your Player Character.
The two most popular mods are CBBE and Dimonized UNP. Which you choose is up to your own personal preference.
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Vanilla Skyrim females are typically OK looking, but the vanilla males are HIDEOUS which is why I’m so thankful to all the modders out there who make male-specific mods. Here is a rundown on my favorite male mods:Male Body TypesThere is really only one male body mod that you need to know –! You can choose from two different body meshes in flaccid nude, erect nude, and underwear (if you’re scared of the peen:P).– My favorite male mesh is Sundracon’s nude flaccid version. I don’t need my male characters running around with raging boners all the time;) Hehehehe. Sundracon’s mesh has more realistic proportions than FavoredSouls IMO.
Also, most of the “revealing” armor mods for males out there are meant for Sundracon meshes!– FavoredSoul meshes have very few compatible armor mods so I don’t recommend this as much. However, if you’re into the body-builder diesel body type, this may be your cup of tea!Male Face TexturesUPDATED JULY 21, 2015:!My biggest complaint about vanilla Skyrim males is how old and beat-down all the male characters looks – even the ones who are supposed to be in the prime of their youth. Fixes all that with these mods:. Geonox Faces. Geonox Faces without Beard. No More Blocky Faces. Younger Faces.
Younger Faces Merged with Men by Geonox. Younger Faces Merged with Men by Geonox without BeardThe Geonox and Younger Faces textures improve the skin complexion for all males while the No More Blocky Faces mod improves the norm maps for all males. My personal preference is for Younger Faces Merged with Men by Geonox, as it delivers the freshest looking face!Male Hairstyles– The latest and greatest hair mod adds a ton of new hairstyles for men that look super smooth.
My favorite mod by far!is the old standard for Skyrim male hair modding. Make sure you download both the Full version (v 1.5) as well as the standalone male version (v 1.2) which adds 55 standalone hairs for males! My personal favorite hairstyle is the pompadour – so damn dapper:)Can’t get enough Skyrim mods?!What is your favorite mod for males in Skyrim? Let me know in comments!
Psh, if guys get to go on and on about their favorite ‘slooty’ armors and ‘waifus’, at least let us have a little eye candy too without snarky comments:pBut I do have to second the comment by Dustin. There aren’t many male hair mods that actually look like something a guy that -doesn’t- live in a frat house, or come from a JRPG would have.