I need help to create some faces

[Pellape]

I need you to make me a couple of faces. I can also use some presets from Nexus as well but it is funnier if you make something unique.

I am making a Quest-driven companion for both F3 and FNV, but GECK crashes when I try to edit faces for FNV and I am also working on a solution for that issue, and maybe I crashed my main comp doing it as well, IDK, I did it remote from my GFs flat and I will not know what did happen until I get back home tonight, as I lost contact with it last night.     I will write about that in another thread and try to stay on topic, which I usually fail to do. It works in F3 GECK though, and I sure had issues with it in Oblivion, but clicking the advanced face tab did work there at least.

I will also try to make a face in F3 and use the facedata from Xedit, port it to FMV if that now is possible. I also saw we can export faces from save files.

Companions

I have made many companions for Oblivion,  even fixed bugs in the CM partners ESM, and made a separate upload for it. I also made animal companions and females, but never a male one so this will be my first.

Sam Colt

Sam Colt is a bad ass and I also want him to look like a bad ass and it is not necessary for me to make his face really as I want to focus at the story and the quests, not making heads. This is what he looks like when I made the face for him in F3. The main goal is to collect all Unique weapons with or without him, that is up to you. F3 VIP: Be warned, it is a wall of text.

 

It is not necessary for him to look like this in FNV but he should look both good, appealing and bad ass, we should like him to follow us and have fun with him. You should like the face you make and it will also be very fun to see what you are able to make. Race does not matter but I sure do not want him to look like an albino as he sure did look as one when I first made him. He is sun burned and also maybe radiation burned so pale face is out of the question. In the screenshot above, I had given him as much color as possible, well he is white, so am I as a Swede but colors does never matter, not to me, never, only a persons personality, still I do not think pale albinos are attractive and I sure do not want to make a pale albino as my follower and companion. Still you can tell him to go away at any time, do the quests alone as well as that does not matter really.    The story matters. But still, you must feel you can trust this guy all the time, that he will do anything to keep you safe and watch your rear. Confidence is vital.

Pale Albino, no way

I sure laughed when I wrote some dialogues for Butch as he is also a part of the story in F3, the brat. I do like the look of Butch, as he really is attractive for sure but still an ass and also very nice really. Well... It is up to you to decide how to treat him here as a player when we meet him again in my plot.

Sam Colt is not a boring quest giver as he sure love action and is afraid of no one and nothing. He does not know what fear is, even if he sometimes tell the player that it might be an dangerous task, as he is also is a realistic char. He will always give the player the opportunity to cancel each quest, fail it, so it disappears from the quest log.

Make as many faces you like, save them in an esp, name them with your abbreviations so I can find them easy with the filters in GECK, but I will find them with Xedit no matter what really. Do take some screenshots if you like and add them here or at my FNV WIP or in PM or whatever.    I do need the esp. I have done a lot of mod team working 2004-2010 so it is not new to me at all.     I love team working.

I made 15 quests so far in F3, and honestly, my impression right now is that it is easier to find spots suitable as Quest Objectives in F3 than it might be in FMV and one thing I dislike now after the fight at Hover Dam is over, that many quest givers are inactive, some side quests are no longer available, but that is not my goal anyway, just something that did bother me yesterday. I do not know where this quest line will take us right now, so it will not only be a surprise for you but also for me.

Romance?

If you want romance, use Willow but you maybe not like girls at all, who knows? These stories for this mod is mainly to grab quests, grab the object and show it to Sam, simple as that, hopefully with some fun dialogues and I sure managed to make myself to laugh writing some lines that I thought was funny for F3, specially when we met Butch the Brat again. I do not laugh often but I sure did when I made up some dialogues in F3. I am not a writer, but I did a lot of theater 1987-2005 and many years as Online RP:er where we made up lines and comments on the fly, sometimes really bad ones and sometimes hilarious ones that sure made me to laugh out loud. The goal is also that we might go to places we usually do not visit, pointless places but also places of interest. We see. We will at least expand the game a couple of days and I have fun doing it.

Everyone can be romantic if they want too and so can I, but 25 years with the same girl, is maybe not always romantic. Maybe I will add some romance later for the players?  But that is not what is important right now, maybe something I might add in the end,. Willow or rather Heather for F4, well LlamaRCA is very very good in making romance and I love her companions, no doubt. When i play this myself, I will use him together with Willow but as you know, Willow is also very jealous and want the player for herself.   Heather Casdin was my main companion in F4.

When you make the heads, just listen to LlamaRCA in this interview.  That was fun for sure.

 

Heather? 

I did edit her some, as it is easy in F4 to make someone to look extremely nice. Took away the bloody dots, kept her scar as that is part of her story, gave her more makeup and some glasses. I then sent the screenies to LlamaRCA, that added them to Heather's DL site at Nexus. I have done nothing with Willow as she is good as she is.

Edited November 3 by Pellape

[JimboUK]

I can make female faces but I can't for the life of me make male ones that look any good, I've given up trying now and just keep hitting generate in the GECK until I get something vaguely human looking.  

[Pellape]

But @JimboUKthat is better than nothing. When I got home, tested GECK with new drivers and added into the NVDIA Control Panel, it still do not work, so if you at least can make something to look OK with random, just lower the complexion like this, I will be happy honestly.     Maybe also give him or them proper hairstyles like my Sam Colt or Butch or whatever. This is Sam Colt in Geck F3, which works perfect.

Either this color in GECK or a bit darker if you make any other like Hispanic, chinese or whatever. This is the darkest I guess we can make a whitey?  Well if you got the time that is and think it will be fun doing it. Even if I could make faces in FNV Geck, I would had made this post as I also SUX in making any faces at all for Fallout 3 and NV. It is easier with Oblivion as the heads was remade by a very talented modder, Blockhead and, well just look at this. We might never be able to get that nice looking heads in F3 nor FNV.

Still, I may not use any of them as Sam Colt, but maybe later as Side kick NPC or enemies, when I think about it as I now think a bit further into the future, adding more content than just quests and a story for Sam Colt.

One idea I got is to use Buildings, which are set as assets, at Nexus and add quests to them but that is when my main goal is reached, so I might need to make this an esm or add the NPC and the quests in an esm at least and addons and separate plugins later, we see what will work or not. Maybe use 3-5 assets for one plugin, as FNV has its 255 mods limit.

It is a shame that what we see in GECK, is not what we see in game, not when it comes to NPC's

Edited November 3 by Pellape

[Pellape]

@JimboUKEven if I did solve this issue, I would like you and the community to try to make a couple of faces anyway and we see if they are useful or not. 

I will make some more later, now when it is working. I plan to line them up, everyone, compare them in game in a testcell, maybe debate with the community about which one is most suitable, set a time limit, well we do take one step in a time, and I am not in a hurry. No one is. But when I post such screenshots. I must set a timer, a deadline. Nothing is ever set in stone though.    I guess templates is best, as if I start making the quests, I do not switch the NPC, the companion but I can use a different template.

I did however click generate twice, and I got this one. He does not look to bad really...    Still, maybe some hair, as he is not a ghoul.    He is saved...