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[ansuansuansu]

Hi everybody, I've just started a new game of Oblivion and I want to get all the modding out of the way now (so I'm not tempted to cheat as the game progresses - ruins the game)

Anyway, one of the things that's always bothered me about Oblivion is the lack of children. It's weird and it makes the game much less immersive.

So I'm looking for mods that will add child NPCs to the cities (ACTUAL children, not just scaled-down adults) and maybe a mod that would let me take a child on adventures with me, nothing too fancy, just to shoot arrows and help me carry loot.

Can anyone help? I've been searching all over the place and I just seem to be going around in circles :-/

[Telyn]

The only project I know of that attempted to make realistic kids for Oblivion that are not shrunken adults moved over to Fallout. It would require a totally different headmesh proportion also. This drawing site has a lesson on drawing children. It illustrates exactly why the normal headmesh looks all wrong. http://www.drawingho...s-children.html

[Rabbit 51]

The only one that I've found is the x117 Race mod. The males turn out very good, but the females still share the adult upper body (breasts). My current character is a boy however. I am trying right now to make CM Companions of the race, but they do not translate as well as the full sized bodied races. Although not as good as the children found in Fallout or New Vegas they are still passable. I hope that this helps.





Rabbit

[Telyn]

The girls in the screenshots are really curvy. I wouldn't use them for a child.

[crudius]

I had Bravil sea-domes full of Teenage girls once.......they made a right bloody mess *tsk* never again.

[TheEvilestTwin]

Can't you just use the set Body mod/designer body body to change your body shape to HGEC AA cup?

Although there's nudity involved, and I don't know if you want that considering you're making a kid character.

Edit: So you'd need to take something like the City Life mod, and replace the meshes they're using for their child races with the x117 head and the AA cup HGEC body.

Edited by TheEvilestTwin, 30 June 2011 - 09:56 AM.

[Telyn]

Hmm, you could make a special skeleton for children if you used VORB. It could even have that baby posture look most small kids have. I am not sure how well it would work with the head though. There is an underwear version of VORB. You would still have to resize the kids I think. I don't believe VORB supports that automatically yet. Another problem really is that children have a different gait. If you had the skeleton shape right, that might happen automatically. I am not sure. It would be some work. VORB allows you to set a special body for each NPC. You could theoretically have every NPC have a different body, but you'd have to set each child by hand. The plus side though is you could have a few chubby kids and some skinnier or shorter kids and that kind of thing.