kitcat81 Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 Hi guys, got another question for you and hope for some help. Thanks in advance.I have created a custom NPC with unique face morpths. When I was creating an archive in the CK it added some unknown types of files such as facegen meshes and textures for my NPC even though I never created any textures of meshes for him. I just copied some existing NPC and eddited by adjusting different face settings. So my question is whether it's normal or nor and are these files really necessary? They are quite heavy and the fact they were added is confusing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perraine Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 Any time you make a unique NPC, it creates a unique set of facegen data for them, which you need in order for the face/appearance to be ... unique. For Oldrim, you had to manually export those files (CTRL F4 with the NPC highlighted IIRC ) Maybe the FO4 CK does it automatically now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitcat81 Posted February 3, 2018 Author Share Posted February 3, 2018 (edited) Any time you make a unique NPC, it creates a unique set of facegen data for them, which you need in order for the face/appearance to be ... unique. For Oldrim, you had to manually export those files (CTRL F4 with the NPC highlighted IIRC ) Maybe the FO4 CK does it automatically now?Hey Perraine, thank you very much for helping me again! :smile: For some reason I thought the CK would just save my face settings in value format and then the game would apply them to the npc. lol I see now that my understanding of the concept was wrong. And yes, the FO4 CK creates these files automatically and automatically adds them to the archive, you don't need to press anything. Though I have noticed that it doesn't automatically add animations , they must be added to the archive manually. Edited February 3, 2018 by kitcat81 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perraine Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 What? Use a letter and number co-ordinates and preset system, so that you could easily and simply re-create a characters face, and allow other people to just type in the same code in a popup box so they could use it too? Pfft, what sort of sorcery are you wanting? There is now way and game coul ..... You'll probably notice with custom NPC mods, that there are usually several files under "actors/character", those are the unique files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitcat81 Posted February 5, 2018 Author Share Posted February 5, 2018 lol hahaha..Yes. But you can copy them anyway. I don't mind these files, they just made a mod so much heavier. Makes no sence why it can't be done in game. The game is clearly capable of saving settings when you edit your character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perraine Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 Aha ... now you're straying into dangerous territory, because one has to ask, why wasn't the functionality of F4SE built directly into the shipped game? Which would allow for all the functionality of Looks Menu which includes saving preset Facegen Data. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitcat81 Posted February 5, 2018 Author Share Posted February 5, 2018 That's a really good question! :D And not just F4SE, Why have they removed so many Skyrim functions.i frequently run into some neat script function only to find out it does not work in FO4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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