Young and muscular Micah Bell

Give Micah a younger look and fitter body, with tons of customizable clothing options via the clothing change mod

Young and muscular Micah Bell

🎭 Creative inspiration

From the way Micah carries himself and the conversations Arthur and other characters have with him, I always get the feeling that Rockstar originally intended for Micah to look younger and in better shape. Combined with my desire to make Micah look more "majestic" (which I personally think is more appropriate for a main villain), these factors inspired me to create this mod.

👨 Facial texture

Facial texturing was provided by the talented ReaSylvia and was designed to give Micah a more youthful look, like someone in his late 20s or early 30s. I think they did a great job! Of course, you can also use this facial texture alone, with the original Micah or other Micah appearance mods (such as the Charlie Prince look).

💪 Body and clothing

My goal was to give him a better physique, keeping the essence of his most iconic outfits while giving him a new twist, and adding some new outfits to give him more variety in his outfit changes.

In order to change the body, the ideal way would be to change his skeleton to the RDO version (meta_base_mp_male) so that I have more clothing compatibility options, and also for consistency. But there are some disadvantages to doing this:

• Micah's original costume was not compatible with this skeleton, so I had to recreate some of the costumes
• Micah's animation will have slight mold wear and occasional breakage, mainly when wearing the RDO costume
• I had to give him a new holster due to the original costume being incompatible

Despite these issues, in my opinion these are negligible and will only be noticed if you pay careful attention.

🛠️ Installation instructions

First requires Lenny's Mod Loader and either the Online Content Unlocker or the ASI Loader. After installation, there should be a lml folder inside the RDR2 folder, make sure there is a folder called "stream" inside.

**Facial Textures:** Download the file and put everything into the stream folder

**BODY & COSTUME:** Choose the shaved version or keep the original beard version, then choose the coat A or coat B variant, putting everything in the selected folder into the stream folder

🧥 Jacket A and Jacket B

I had to recreate all of his costumes, trying my best to recreate most of the original costumes, but some were more accurate than others due to costume compatibility limitations.

**Coat A:** Better texture, better fit, basically no compatibility issues, but it will cover one side of the holster

**Coat B:** The textures look inferior and there are compatibility issues (like legs going through the bottom of the jacket when walking fast), but the model is almost identical to the original, allowing the entire holster waistband to be visible

Both versions are good enough that I can't decide which one is better, so both are offered for your choice.

🎮 Play as Micah

Playing as Micah is not the main purpose of this mod, but if you want to do so, you may run into the issues I highlighted earlier, such as mold wear and occasional animation breakage. Here are some recommended mods to enhance your experience:

• Playable Van Der Linde Gang: Give Micah player attributes
• Jedijoshs trainer: correct greetings and confrontations
• Companion Weapons: Micah's twin guns
• Gang horses: Micah's horses
• Camp Anywhere: Prevent voice recovery
• Any trainer: switch characters and costumes
• RDR2 Save Editor: The best way to change player models
• Immersive Scenarios: use NPC animations

🔧 Compatibility

This is a simple cosmetic mod that is fully compatible with all other mods. Even mods that change metapeds will work fine because you will be changing the skeleton via the yft file.

👔 Clothing Changer Compatibility

Since the skeleton is changed to the MP version, you can customize Micah through LMS's clothing changer module. Of course, there are ot …