Male body mesh alternatives to HIMBO?

[szmnozi]

Hey guys, I've been trying HIMBO all presets and can't really get it the way I like.

Obviously HIMBO is awesome but the sliders aren't really working for me. Seems like we have a lot more options with the ladies.

Any other recommendations for male body mesh or even one with other kinds of sliders?

Thanks

 

[Axland]

Well, that's a question that is a matter of hot (pun intended) discussion with other modders.

 

My personal opinion is that Racemenu is not good to make male characters unless you agree to two conditions. 1.- You like the body shape and body textures as they are. 2.- You are willing to edit face meshes to reach what you wants.

In my case I tried to like HIMBO and edit it until I am satisfied, but in the end I always play using ECE Ygnord race instead  (Enhanced Character Edit). ECE has less sliders overall, but Racemenu is disordered and redundant. The sliders in ECE let you change a lot of things that are not possible in Racemenu so you  can customize your  chars with a few clicks. Use slot 24 to save your preset between gameplays. The head mesh editor es simpler, but is not bad at all and let me reach what I wanted unlike Racemenu.

SAM body has a decent amount of sliders for Racemenu, but the page right now is down. It's really the only alternative to edit bodies to ECE, but it is far limited.

Anyway the problem with SAM is that you need also face textures that are good, and if I'm not mistaken the best ones are those from Fine Face.

Here I put a vanilla body with ECE, you can see the bdy itself is edited without need to go outside the game. Normally I use a custom skeleton and SAM textures, but as example this one is better to understand.

[Axland]

Here is a fully custom char, that means I used SAM body edited with ECE and vanilla Ygnord head which explains the color gap between parts.