dragonslayer2k12 Posted September 6, 2013 Posted September 6, 2013 (edited) I have never bothered with custom bodies like cbbe etc before but now I want to use cbbe but I have a problem with using it. The problem is the installation of custom bodies, I don't want to be the only character in the game using custom bodies and I don't play as female anyway so that means the female npc will use the custom bodies. Unfortunately I don't want ALL females in the game using cbbe like old lady etc it would be immersion breaking to say the least. So I am trying to figure out which is the best way to install custom bodies and custom hair etc for females in the game. I only want certain kind of female npc to use it... NO OLD LADIES No sick or injured npc like that girl in markarth warrens Who should use the bodies and stuff then? Female marriage candidates Female housecarls Female followers like mercenaries Female story characters that appear young enough to use them etc So I thought about how to install these kind of mods in these specific ways and there are two ways to do it that I can think of The individual way of altering each and every npc that I want to use the mods with Dump the files into the default locations for females of all races BUT make new races for non users? What are the consequences of altering characters like old ladies and other non desirables races and then using default stuff for them? Has anyone tried it this way before? I know there are a lot of mods on the nexus that alter npc this way but they are over the top and not something I would be interested in because they often require a lot of mods to be installed for them to work. At this point I only want to use cbbe and some stuff that goes along with it and apachii hair. I know there are other body mods on the nexus but I want to use cbbe because there is more stuff for it and it appears to be simple to use or modify. At some point I want to get into adult mods that allow me to boink my wife should I marry in the game and other female characters and at this point in time, the mods that make that happen are very complicated so for now I am setting up a simple base for that sort of thing to work later hoping that at some point in the future the adult stuff will work really well and have as few bugs as possible. At some point I want to make a mod for this stuff so that others can use it without much hassle unless there is already a mod that does exactly what I am talking about already. Anyone can help with this please post here thanks. EDIT I just thought of something after reading the cbbe page, underwear usage. If I use my second idea for installing I will have a problem for characters that I don't want to see naked like dead bandits and so on. Edited September 6, 2013 by dragonslayer2k12
dragonslayer2k12 Posted September 6, 2013 Author Posted September 6, 2013 HOW DID I MISS THIS MOD? http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/16668/? This mod does a LOT to simplify custom body mods installations in the game. After reading the details of this mod I have found a huge flaw in my second idea of changing bodies for npc. Basically a lot of npc in the game have different form id later on in the game so messing with npc that need to stay default is a bad idea. I have to use the first idea instead which is the usual installation route for this kind of stuff:-( The only problem I see is trying to use other mods like apachii hair and other stuff with this mod. There are some instruction on apachii hair mod page that explain how to alter npc sucessfully so I will try that and see what happens but... I just wish that beth had made this game easier to mod certainly for stuff like this.
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