moxica Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 I have a simple question that will help me get something clear in my head... If I take, lets say, an Orc head and add Drow feet, (in other words, black skin) will I end up with a black Orc? Or will I end up with an Orc with a green head and a black body? I'm making a custom race, but the head is a different color than the one I want to end up with.Do I need to color the head? If so, what program do I use to do it? Long story short, I want to make a half Drow, half Orc. I have everything that I need but I'm not clear on the feet/head color thing. I'm running out of time to experiment tonight, so I thought I'd ask before I pick it up again tomorrow evening. Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SavageArtistry Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 I have a simple question that will help me get something clear in my head... If I take, lets say, an Orc head and add Drow feet, (in other words, black skin) will I end up with a black Orc? Or will I end up with an Orc with a green head and a black body? I'm making a custom race, but the head is a different color than the one I want to end up with.Do I need to color the head? If so, what program do I use to do it? Long story short, I want to make a half Drow, half Orc. I have everything that I need but I'm not clear on the feet/head color thing. I'm running out of time to experiment tonight, so I thought I'd ask before I pick it up again tomorrow evening. Thanks in advance! Just create a duplicate of the Orc race and slap the Dark Elf textures on it. Keep in mind your creation won't have some of the face details that the orcs have such as ridges around the nostrils. The textures aren't attached to body parts the same way they are to other mesh files. You can specify which are used using the .esp file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moxica Posted January 20, 2011 Author Share Posted January 20, 2011 Ok. Thanks for the help!Ill try that tonight.I'm at work, on break, so I'll go into more detail about what I'm after. I'm going to use the half orc head because it has creases on the nose ridge. (I believe that there is a version of the HO race on your MHE mod)I'm aiming for black/greyish skin from one of the drow mods and small tusks, but with a human mouth.Really I just need a crease where the brow meets the nose ridge. More like a neanderthal look than orc. The crease is more important than the black skin, so I could forego the black skin and just get as dark as I can. I'll try your suggestion first. It's just for my own use because its for my FCOM game and it would be op for vanilla. Thanks for your help and its good to see you here. I'm quite a fan of yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SavageArtistry Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 I'm going to use the half orc head because it has creases on the nose ridge. (I believe that there is a version of the HO race on your MHE mod) Actually there is no special head mesh in my half orc race. I just adjusted the head shape in the construction set and used orc textures. The head is the default one. What might work for you then if you really want the orc texture features is to reshade an orc texture to match a dark elf body texture. It's easy to do in Photoshop or Gimp. Mostly you just need to open the texture and adjust the hue sliders. Might be a good idea to have the dark elf texture open in the background for comparison in order to get the shade to match. I'm aiming for black/greyish skin from one of the drow mods and small tusks, but with a human mouth.Good luck with that. I don't know of any tusks that work in the default human head and I haven't the skills to make it myself. I wanted that at the time too and had to settle for just giving my race an undershot jaw like an orc. Thanks for your help and its good to see you here. I'm quite a fan of yours. Thanks. That's nice of you to say. :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moxica Posted January 20, 2011 Author Share Posted January 20, 2011 AH! Gimp. Thanks for that. Give DA Playable Troll Race a look. The females have some very nice tusks that go with the human head. The males use the Orc head with large tusks.They're the only tusks that I've found. If I was on my pc, I would show a picture of the females, but I do believe there are pics in mod page. They might be exactly what you were looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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