Changing a custom follower's appearance

[Turkeycamel3]

I have recently downloaded the Selene Kate follower mod and I like the mod for the most part, but I would like to change her appearance. Now i was able to extract the mod from the bsa into just it's loose file, but that's as far as I've gotten. I have been trying to use a facetype that I saved from a ningheim character that I created in-game.

Every time I try to edit her face or race, I either get CTDed or end up having her with the "gray-face" or missing her eyes.

Does anyone know of a way that I can do this correctly? Thanks.

[Turkeycamel3]

Can I get any tips or recommendations for tutorials?

[wazwolf]

I had the same issues. I was messing around with the Odvar follower.

Are you using the Creation Kit? Or something else like NPC Editor? (use CK)

And are you trying to change her face and race with information that is in other mods? Cause if so, you have a lot of little works to do to make it work.

You might need to get TES5edit then. If you need to just reference assets from another mod in order to change her (but don't need to also change those other assets), you can load the follower mod, the skyrim master, and the other mods needed for her changes in TES5edit, then add the mods she needs to use as "master" for her mod.

Like for example: you need orange eyes from an eye mod, so you load it up in TES5edit along with Selene, then add master to Selene, and check the orange eye mod.

This won't make the changes, it just lets the game know where to look if you do make changes. Then you load the Creation Kit, along with the orange eyes, and Selene. You set Selene as the active file, change her eyes, and save. It should work fine.

But if you need to mod the orange eyes to, say, 3D orange mushrooms bursting out her skull, then you need to load only the orange eye mod in CK as active, make the changes to ridiculous 3D mushrooms, save, then load the new "orange" eyes in CK again with Selene as active. Then you change Selene, save, and it should work, with her now having the 3D mushrooms for eyes.

Google/Bing for GEMS and click the second tab (I think) and look at the video explaining TES5edit. Unfortunately, I'm still new myself, and only been running into tutorials by chance, since many tend to have poor keyword searches.

[ch6sayki]

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/36047/?

Edited January 16, 2014 by ch6sayki