Spice Vanilla NPC

Made with Racemenu and High Poly Head, the Vanilla Plus Male Facegen Overhaul is designed with compatibility in mind.

Basic principles

The purpose of this mod is to be a cross between tweaking, redesigning and beautifying Skyrim's important male NPCs, subject to the following constraints:

The NPC's vanilla faces should be used as a base, with minimal changes necessary so that they maintain a distinct look. No male models or hairspray. Some changes will be subtle and unnoticeable. If I like their vanilla designs, some I won't touch at all.

Use only vanilla parts or custom parts that are almost indistinguishable from vanilla.

If it's a redesign, it should fit their role. Soldiers may pick up military paint or scars, normal humans will almost certainly remove the dirt, etc. Classic young characters are supposed to look young, and if old-fashioned characters don't look old, they'll look older.

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Sorex is supposed to be much younger than his father.

Occasionally there are fun/free redesigns, like The Courier based on voice actor Jason Marsden

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All screenshots taken using Skysight Appearance and Re-Enable ENB (Highly Recommended!)

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Tools/dependencies used:

Low poly version has no dependencies. I used a custom Racemenu header mesh, but all other parts are 100% vanilla.

High poly head (optional version). If you want a high poly version, make sure you have a high poly head installed.

Affected NPCs:

More NPCs will be added in future versions. Right now there's just a proof of concept and a few Riverwood NPCs. Feel free to make suggestions!

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Install:

• Simply install using the Mod Manager of your choice.

compatibility:

Like any NPC appearance mod, this mod will conflict with any mod that changes NPC records, such as Special Edition Followers, as they tend to retain the original facegen values ​​for any part of the NPC record that is unchanged. Black-faced bug! They will need to be patched. If you guys use the special edition followers, I can certainly post a patch for that, since it's my favorite follower mod!

If you have another mod that changes the appearance of the same NPC and want to use it (or vice versa), make sure:

This mod's facegen files will overwrite other mods.

The plugin for this mod is loaded later.

Should be compatible with any custom skin/eye/hair texture mods. Should be compatible with everything else, and any cosmetic mods that don't come into contact with these NPCs should be compatible with it.

Suggested mods:

Custom eye texture mod

Skysight skin

Excellent hair

Re-engage ENB

credit:

Expired in Racemenu, which I used to make some of these NPCs

WICO - became an awesome mod along similar concepts and inspired him to make this mod.

Gao Jutou KouLeifoh

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Rationale

This mod's purpose is an intersection between tweaking, redesign and beautification of important male NPCs of Skyrim with the following constraints:

Should start with the NPC's vanilla face as base and make minimal neccessary changes so they remain distinct. No male models or hairspray. Some changes will be very subtle and unnoticeable. Some I will not touch at all, if I like their vanilla designs.

To only use vanilla parts, or custom parts nearly indistinguishable from vanilla.

If it's a redesign, should fit who they are as a character. Soldiers may get war paints or scars, normal people will almost certainly have their dirt removed, etc. Canonically young characters should look young, old characters, if they don't look old, will be made to look older.



Sorex should look significantly younger than his father.

There is the occasional fun/gratuitous redesign e.g. the Courier based on his voice actor, Jason Marsden



All screenshots taken with Skysight Skins and Re-Engaged ENB (highly recommended!)



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Tools used/dependencies:

No dependencies for the low poly version. I used custom Racemenu head meshes, but …