help with Female Beards and editing UI scripts for chargen/showlooksmenu?

[louiswho]

To start getting into the creation kit I started working on a silly and what I THOUGHT would be a SMALL undertaking in making the beard headparts (HDPT in the CK) unisex so that you could run around as a bearded lady if you wanted. This ended up leading me way deeper than I would have expected and unfortunately still haven't solved yet.

http://i.imgur.com/KsS7kOB.jpg?1

 

From within the Creation Kit I can put beards on females (see Cait in the middle) but the problem is right now it seems to be impossible for it to be done with the player character both using showlooksmenu 14 and visiting barber NPCs like John in Diamond City.

 

When highlighting the mid and lower jaw area on a male character, the option to open the facial hair menu appears but obviously this isn't the case with female characters.

Initially I thought this had something to do with scripts, so I looked through any papyrus scripts I could find related to chargen/looksmenu in Fallout 4\Data\Scripts\Source\Base.

 

BarberInfoScript lead me to HaircutScript looking for some kind of onHover event or a isGender check to determine whether or not the facial hair menu is available.

I didn't have any luck there so I followed the great tutorial for editing menus here:

How to make a custom UI by editing HUDMenu.swf by Goomashroom

 

I extracted the files from Fallout4 - Interface.ba2 using Bethesda Archive Extractor and where I'm at today is that

I've found the interface files LooksMenu.swf and RaceSex_menu.gfx which seem to be related to where my problem is.

 

TL:DR; the question:

From the tutorial I know it's possible to edit the visual elements of a menu but is there a way to modify the actual underlying scripts that run during menus?

Edited April 28, 2016 by louiswho