lesjones

Many thanks, Mike, appreciated! :thumbsup:

The Nexus Support Team pulled back pretty much the whole of my account, which was utterly fantastic work on their part and I'd very much like to say a HUGE "thank you" to them for their superb, helpful and friendly customer service! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Many thanks for your help with this, Soupdragon, I'll give it a go. Many thanks again.

I'm sorry if this has already been dealt with elsewhere and if it has perhaps I'm using the wrong words for searching. I can be considered totally new to modding as the only thing I have done so far is to create a couple of castles with the vanilla assets in Creation Kit and some followers. Anyhow, in the hope of some help..... I have created my own player-home castle and I want to place some paintings in that castle. I have downloaded and installed the excellent "HQ Canvas and Frames" resource. I have selected the images I want to use as paintings. Using GIMP 2.8 I have created, named and exported the diffuse map for my named painting....it's called AnnafridPortrait.dds....I have also created and exported the normal map and named it AnnafridPortrait_n.dds I then placed them both into a folder called "Caras Dawr Castle Paintings" and then placed that folder into my Skyrim "data/textures" directory. I open the creation kit and go to Miscellaneous/TextureSet and then I open a new TextureSet and name it AnnafridPaintingTexture. I then highlight the "Diffuse" map and go down and click on "Edit" and set the path to find the dds file at data/textures/CarasDawrPaintings. I then click on the file named AnnafridPortrait.dds and..... "Creation Kit has stopped working" and it freezes. Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong, because I have spent all day trying to find a reference to this issue and I can't. Many thanks, Les

Thanks, you are probably right in what you say and that would explain it. A pity though,.....

Thanks very much for your help and in fact I use SG and Apachii hair packs to bring life to my characters and the NPC's that they interact with most regularly. They are absolutely marvellous of course and I totally understand that the authors must get a huge number of requests, which is why I haven't approached any of them directly. The SG cut you highlighted is close, but as you rightly say, it still lacks that very severe and structured cut of the piccie above. Well, I'll just keep my fingers crossed that one of the authors will pick up on it and that I will be able to create a really "French" Breton character. Thanks again :thumbsup:

Many thanks for the really speedy reply, but although its pretty close, it lacks the tight severity of the style that I recall as the "pure" Bob. But again, thanks for the pointer :thumbsup:

There are some really superb hair mods out available to us users, but one I don't seem to be able to find is the classic "French Bob" (please see the attachment), which on the right face is mind-bendingly lovely. Is there any of the magicians out there able and willing to add this gorgeous hairstyle to their amazing portfolios? PLEASE! :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile:

I'm sure you can guess why my character spends ALOT of time out in the wilds and inside dungeons....somehow things seem rather more "peaceful" in those locations! :laugh: But many, many thanks for that list as it is pretty obvious that some of those mods will sort things out for me (I suspect I must have been using the wrong keywords in my searches as I haven't been playing this game for very long). :blush: Your help is very, VERY much appreciated, fantastic and thanks again. :cool:

Hi monganfinn, Many thanks for the pointer, very much appreciated. I downloaded a couple of the files and extracted the "Male Old" folder from each, then tried them in Skyrim one at a time. Unfortunately I couldn't see any difference whatsoever between the original old faces and the modded old faces. The reason that I am trying to find a less "intensely" lined face is because (like many people) I have used the Creation Kit to add in my own NPC's.....but as the game progressed they unconciously "grew" into an actual family, to the point where my character's household now contains a) the wife, b) the kids, C) the wife's two sisters and d) the mother-in-law! Yes, even the M-I-L lives with them...mind you she's REALLY impressive with a two-handed Ebony battle-axe! With that in mind you'd think that there would be no objection to her having quite a heavily-lined face....except that she is actually a full-blooded vampire (the wife took "the cure")....and what are female Vampires famous for? For not letting go of their good-looks for some considerable time..... ....which hopefully explains why I am looking for a "softer" lined face for his "darling" mother-in-law. I'd like to be able to portray her as 750 year-old vampire who still looks good but definitely older than her daughters. All rather long-winded and abit sad I suppose but hell, why not....it's my own version of "immersive"? Anyhow, I'll keep looking and thanks again for your help. All the best

Hi Shadowjin, Unfortunately I don't have the graphics skill to do it myself and I admire those who can. Ah well, it was just a thought....many thanks for replying. All the best

Sorry if this question has already been answered or modded, but why is it that Skyrim Elders all look about 90 years of age when in their forties/fifties. I'm 60 years of age and I really, REALLY do not have the kind of wrinkles and the haggard looks of these poor wretches. I know that life was very hard in the era suggested by the game, but it would be nice if some of the faces on the Elders were softened a little so that a 40-year old doesn't have to look ready for the embalmer? Is there anyone out there who agrees and has the skills/energy and time to do produce a mod to achieve this? If on the other hand there is already a mod that does so, could someone point me at it please as I cannot find one using either the site search or Google search. Thanks