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WIP: Ethereal Elven Overhaul


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http://static.skyrim.nexusmods.com/images/675468-1345397050.jpg

 

Hi again folks! It's time for another stupidly ambitious project from yours truly, the madwoman who went from zero Skyrim mod knowledge into this, and I need your feedback and most of all testing help! :)

 

Ethereal Elven Overhaul will replace all vanilla elf races, males and females, with new face models, facial feature morphs and normal maps. Its aim is to change the alien-looking elven races into appealing playable characters, with more realistic and relatable facial features, more in line with elves in typical fantasy fiction. The faces will be more graceful, less sharply pointed, and structured more similarly to human faces without losing their otherly feeling.

 

http://static.skyrim.nexusmods.com/images/675468-1345671071.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/WuHad.jpg

 

The current scope of this project is:

-New base headmorphs - High Elf, Wood Elf, Dark Elf, male and female

-New set of facial features - unique noses and lips, male and female

-Able to use any eye shape in the game, giving a choice between human and more 'alien'

-Beards re-fitted to each new male head shape manually

-Eyebrows adjusted to fit every new head shape

-Individual, uncompressed high-resolution normal maps, unique for each race and sex

-Additional eyes

-New war paints and facial tattoos

-New player presets

 

I'll let the images speak for themselves. Some NPCs, but not all, will be affected by the changes. They will all have the new head shape, but I don't plan to change all of their facial features to be 'pretty'. I believe in allowing most of them remainin looking ugly - though some of them will certainly be tweaked for these new looks. This overhaul will work with any face textures you have installed, and is compatible with all body mods.

 

http://static.skyrim.nexusmods.com/images/675468-1345496477.jpg

 

I'm currently working on the normal maps and face morphs for males. Wood elves, as seen above, are already playble in their new look, but most beards still don't sit right.

 

Moreover! I'll start needing help testing this soon, so if you're interested in providing serious, thoughtful and constructive feedback and testing the new features in length, drop a message here or PM me to be put on the test distribution list!

Stay tuned, I'll be updating here regularly!

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Nothing related to your thread, but when i've read "tesVnip" i thought to suggest you something.

 

It's reported that tesVnip breaks mods even when modifying a little bit of a record, so if i were in you i won't use it.

 

Take it as an advice ;)

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The Version Control is the tool used by Beth to make Skyrim.

 

It requires some knowledge/workarounds to be set up. You'll also need to esmify the esp you want to move stuff into (after that you can espify again).

 

It's very clean and does the work flawlessly, but due to the settings needed use it only if you really need/want.

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