Beginner troubles with mods

[Sidius01]

So i'm new to the whole mod scene for oblivion and I've basically been trying to get a couple of body replacers and face textures into the game since the main problem I had with vanilla was that all the characters were just ugly imo and I keep seeing all these beautiful screen shots where the models actually look good and have been trying to recreate them.

 

I ended up purchasing the GOTY edition from steam (also I use window 7) and as mods go I've been using:

 

HG Eyecandy for the bodies (tried the DMRA but I didn't notice a difference and didn't think it would work with EVE stock armor replacer)

EVE Stock Armor mod

The three UOPs (standard, SI, and the extra/dlc one)

Ozmo's HighRez textures (DefaultPakcage and facial textures)

Ren's Beauty Pack

 

Now I can get the bodies to work just fine (though I couldn't notice a big difference with the highrez textures) but I can't seem to get any of the face textures to work. As far as the facial textures go, I'm not sure if what I'm expecting is different from what these actually provide. I wish I could be more specific of what I'm trying to get besides saying that I've seen screen shots of high quality models, but I don't know what the mods are exactly (for instance those screenshots from the HGEC mod images and from Ren's user uploaded ones). I know that some of the elf races from both the high rez and beauty mod faces work (though for another reason I had removed those) but I'm trying to get a more universal replacer for the original races first before I try and be a bit more ambitious.

 

So I guess my main questions are:

 

Should these mods I have change the faces to reflect those examples (sort of) listed? If not what face mods should I be looking at?

 

Also, should the EVE armor mod, Beauty Pack and High Rez textures effect NPCs as well, or are these mods only going to change how my characters will look?

 

Once again I know i'm not being very specific and I apologize, but like I said I'm very new to all this and would appreciate any help that could be offered.

 

Thanks.

 

*edit*

Took out question about EVE with relation to why it didn't map my HGEC choices. Somehow passed over the fact that it does use H-Cup variants.

[bben46]

The game only supports ONE body replacer for female and one for male. Remember this is a BODY replacer, NOT a face replacer.

 

If they are wearing clothes you probably will not notice much diference - Unlike real life when a game character puts on clothing, the colthing does not cover the body - it replaces the part of the body it covers (no body underneath).

 

Most clothing will just replace the body - so if you use a DD body and dress it in a b cup outfit - instant breast reduction. Or possibly clipping (body part showing through clothing)

[Sidius01]

The game only supports ONE body replacer for female and one for male. Remember this is a BODY replacer, NOT a face replacer.

 

If they are wearing clothes you probably will not notice much diference - Unlike real life when a game character puts on clothing, the colthing does not cover the body - it replaces the part of the body it covers (no body underneath).

 

Most clothing will just replace the body - so if you use a DD body and dress it in a b cup outfit - instant breast reduction. Or possibly clipping (body part showing through clothing)

 

Right I figured that, and I think i found the answer to the body/armor replacers that I needed, but the one main thing I'm still trying to figure out his how to get the better looking faces that I see all to often in the images floating around the site. Like I said I thought that Ozmo's face textures that were uploaded would do the trick, but I dont know if they either worked or if what I thought it did was different that what it actually changed. It's hard to tell because the model he uses (I think) is one of the extra elf ones (either mystic or lineage), but I was hoping that it also improved the the human/orc/dunmer/etc. faces to a similar quality.

[Sidius01]

Go figure, now I think i have the face issue i was having solved but something else decided to go wrong.

 

Like before HGEC works fine and like intended, but I wanted to give the DMRA body type a try, but when I install this mod it defaults to the original vanilla textures when clothing is removed. Now I don't plan to have my characters running around naked all the time, but it still bothers me that for some reason this mod doesn't want to work. Does anyone have any idea why that might be?

[TodaY]

Mos of those beautifull characters simply use a custom race, simply browse the race catagory a little (I recommend setting sorting options to endorsements descending) till you found something nice.