Sexually dimorphic Orcs

[Shaitan051]

I hate the Orc females, they're hideous while back in morrowind (with BetterHeads) they were merely bestial.

I want to use the female meshes from the troll race to make a seperate prettier (but still orcish) female orc race while still keeping the tough looking stock males.

Is this possible to do this without bollixing up every script/dialogue tied to the orcs? If so, how would I go about doing it? :unsure:

[Jenrai]

Possible, yes, as its a cosmetic change and therefore wouldn't affect dialogue options, spawn points, quests, ect. if you replaced the textures / meshes for charector appearance.

In fact, I think all you'd need would be the mesh you want to edit and something like Photoshop Elements or Gimp to do the actual editing, and nifscape to make the replacement .nifs, and the construction set to save the .esp ... should be sorted.

Might have a problem if you already use a few "beautification" mods unless you build it on top of the already modded version, or replace them wholesale and make sure your new mod loads last, but other than that, I don't think that would cause any major problems.

 

Jen

[LFact]

Possible, however, duplicated race is treated as custom race, not vanilla race. So, if you choose duplicated race as your player race, you will need custom race fix when you start your game. Another thing is, when a mod changes any affected vanilla NPC's AI/behavior, you will see either functioning NPC with stock 'ugly' face, or broken NPC with pretty face, depending on loading order. Making bashed patch with Wrye Bash cannot solve this issue, so you have to make your own compatibility patch.

[Shaitan051]

Thank you LFact, that's pretty well what I figured would happen. Not possible without a lot of work, and now that I think of it I'd have to tinker with any mods that touch the Orc race.

 

Dammit, guess the female NPCs (that's what I wanted to make it for) will remain green bulldogs.