Changing NPC's Faces ?

[supermanman]

Hi (first post w00t!)

 

I was wondering if there's a way to totally change the NPC's faces for example using the Beautiful People mod ?

 

thanks

[Vagrant0]

Most of (read almost all) of the standard NPCs have a specific face graphic. This means that changing their race or body color won't change the tone on their face and neck, leaving rather horrible results. You can get around this by manually extracting the .dds associated with the NPC (by form id in the file name) and overwriting it with a similarly named blank .dds. As such, it's only practical to do so in rare cases.

 

Furthermore, as beautiful people isn't .esm based, you can't mod with it. Any changes that you want to rely on anything in beautiful people would have to be witin the beautiful people .esp, and could then not be uploaded. While converting beautiful people to a .esm could allow for mods to be based off it, as your .esm might differ from another's .esm, it still isn't suggested. If however the author decides to release a .esm version of their mod, you'll only have the problem with the faces.