Lack of male Halfling, Gnome and Dwarven mods?

[Dante1327]

There seems to be very few mods that are male, and even less with Halflings, Gnomes or Dwarves? Why??

 

Are my favorite races hated by all, whats up with the obsession over females in these games, i missed out on so many mods because they all focus on females..

 

I don't play them much as i'm a male? I cannot use blender or photoshop sadly so i cannot make any mods myself, but i just wondered why not very many mods exist for extended races and males in general..

 

Thanks in Advance.

[AnteMaxx]

In regards to equipment mods. The reason for mods to favor the Humanlike races, is that BG3 uses unique visual assets for each race and gender combination, and each of these has to have a unique visual resource entry.

 

I go into more detail in my Sample 3D Equipment Mod, but as a simple example. If I made an armor mod that only removes one thing from the armor, sleeves for example. I would need to 3D edit 12 files: HUM_F, HUM_M, HUM_FS, HUM_MS, GTY_F, GTY_M, DWR_F, DWR_M, HFL_F, HFL_M, GNO_F, GNO_M. FS and MS are for the strong body type that Alana's Pinnacle Bodies currently enables. Dragonborn will also be added later, so if Half Orcs use the strong body, that would be 14 different 3D file to edit, to make one sleeves armor available for all races and genders.

 

Humans, Elves, Half-Elves and Drow, and Tieflings in most cases, use the same armor visuals. So making armor for them is much easier, and most players play as those races. For the shorter races to have more mods would require a greater time investment from the modder and/or a personal interest in those races.

 

Of course if no 3D editing is required, it is much easier to make the equipment available for all. The same reasoning mostly applies to body and face mods.

 

EDIT: As for the male and female armor mods, in addition to the above points. Currently there are very few armor/clothing visuals that are unique to males, but there are a lot that are unique to females. Several patches back, there were suit type visuals that were only for male, but they eventually were extended for females as well. Dress type visuals are still only available to females.