Character Creation Help

[reddragon6450]

I wanted to know if there is or if someone has and/or make a mod to keep the sliders in the character creation screen from moving when you move a different slider for example when you move "Chin retracted/jutting" the rest of the sliders move by themselves and keeps me from making a good character.

 

Please help me out, not just me but everyone will or might benefit from this.

[solo077]

It's practically impossible to create a good-looking character on Oblivion mate. Not without mods anyway. I recommend Ren's Beauty Pack http://thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/Dark/thumbsup.gif

[reddragon6450]

I've tried Ren's and its good but still get the issue when you move a slider the rest of the sliders move by themselves

[LFact]

I've tried Ren's and its good but still get the issue when you move a slider the rest of the sliders move by themselves

 

That's how FaceGen works. I mean, what you want cannot be done with ordinary mod(Unless you want to delve into game engine and middlewares). For vanilla races, I suggest you to use FaceGen modeller(you can download free demo version) to make a face, then use FaceGen to Oblivion converter to transplant .fg face into your save file. Of course, you will see related sliders moving together(as I said, it's how FaceGen works), though it's easier to make decent face than in-game.

[reddragon6450]

I've tried Ren's and its good but still get the issue when you move a slider the rest of the sliders move by themselves

 

That's how FaceGen works. I mean, what you want cannot be done with ordinary mod(Unless you want to delve into game engine and middlewares). For vanilla races, I suggest you to use FaceGen modeller(you can download free demo version) to make a face, then use FaceGen to Oblivion converter to transplant .fg face into your save file. Of course, you will see related sliders moving together(as I said, it's how FaceGen works), though it's easier to make decent face than in-game.

 

Thanks, but it would be awesome if you can keep the sliders from moving by themselves that will make for better characters, I mean how awesome will characters look if the sliders stayed where you wanted them to stay.

[Illiad86]

It's practically impossible to create a good-looking character on Oblivion mate. Not without mods anyway. I recommend Ren's Beauty Pack http://thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/Dark/thumbsup.gif

 

Not impossible, just difficult. Takes a lot of time and patience...I'd say my PC doesn't look too bad for not using any beauty mods...stock race, stock hair, higher res face textures, and Dremora eyes...that's it...4 hours or so lol and minor tweaking here and there. Just gotta be very gentle with the sliders.

 

It's just how the Facegen works...it's actually quite realistic. Think of how your own face is shaped and what's connected.

[InAComaDial999]

There is no way to unlink the sliders, because the various parts of the face are linked to one another. Move one, others move along with it. There is no real way to change that.

 

That being said, it isn't that hard to make a good looking character. The procedure I follow for starting a female character is:

 

1) slide the Age slider all the way left

2) slide the Complexion slider about half way between centered and all the way left

3) arrange all the face shape sliders as close as possible to center

 

From there, you should already have a decent-looking character. After that it's a matter of tweaking the sliders as subtly as possible. On the PC, this mod is very helpful: Chargen with Numbers. It displays the values for each slider so you can tell how much you are moving things around. Makes it a lot easier to keep track of what you are doing.

 

The big problem though is that Oblivion makes it hard to make good looking toons simply because the textures they used are really low res. I use these mods to help with that:

 

Improved Facial Textures -- higher res base textures and age maps

Facial Textures by Enayla -- designed to work with IFT above. Replaces the base textures with nicer ones that are consistent with the original Bethesda textures but are much smoother and higher quality

 

Using those, you can make faces like this:

 

http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k90/in_a_coma_dial_999/Oblivion/calista1.jpg

 

Which I dont think is all that bad.