Question about modding existing characters

[Foxball]

Hey all.

Im new to modding in Oblivion and I cant seem to figure out how to modify the appearance of an existing characters. For example, changing the hairstyle.

I messed around in the construction set but it didint help.

 

Any advice/explanation/link is appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance. =D

[Jenrai]

Ahh... the TESCS... fantastic tool... unfortunately held together by paperclips. Cheap ones at that. :D

 

When you say you change appearance, how do you mean? Do you mean the charectors appearance doesn't change in the render window, or that your changes don't stick in game?

 

For in-game changes not sticking there could be a lot of potential reasons, so I'll pretend for now I've not thought of that and direct you to The Construction Set Wiki's home page as it can answer more of your questions in more sense than I can, and my fingers won't be bleeding by the time I've finished this post. The section on charector creation will be handy for you, methinks, even though it mainly deals with starting new charectors from scratch, in principle, its the same thing.

 

Now, if you mean they aren't changing in the CS itself, yeah, thats a known bug. I don't know if theres a fix for it, but I think the work-around is opening the full char-gen window before you open the face one. Basically, when you open the charector, even if you just want to change the face, open the body tab first. Or something like that.

 

Welcome to the wacky world of Oblivion modding, matey.

Jenrai