Dynamic skin textures

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1) Does anyone know if it is possible to change the skin texture for the character using a preset?

 

When I tried, I was able to get it to apply a new skin texture to the back of the neck (using a vanilla preset), but had to apply it to the face as a tattoo and couldn't get it to apply to the body at all, short of making a new SkinNaked "armor", and "equipping" it. One problem with that method is, equipping a different armor (that uses the same slots) unequips it, and the new NakedSkin__ armor doesn't re-equip automatically. The other problem is, the new texture isn't applied to the parts of other armors where skin is visible. Which brings me to my second question:

 

2) Is it possible to make the game dynamically use different base skin textures for different armors based on who is wearing it? In other words, if I have my companion wear an armor (with just the normal CBBE skin texture), and my character wears the same armor (while using a different texture, be it a skin tattoo texture or the robot texture I was trying to get to work), is there any way to get it so it shows my custom texture on my character without using bodyslide/MSWPs to make it use that different texture (which would cause it to show on anyone wearing that armor)?

 

 

I figure there is a good chance LooksMenu will let you use custom skin textures in the future (hopefully, it will include an option for the back of the neck "headpart" as well as the main body texture), but I don't know if the second is even possible with Bethesda's engine. I guess what it would essentially have to do is detect what the texture is for a given character (when that character equips a new piece of armor) and apply a material swap to the armor, but only the specific copy of the armor.*

 

Anyone have any insights on how possible this is, or what a better way to do it would be?

 

*I still haven't really gotten into scripting, so I don't know if it is possible, and if it is, how hard it would be to make it work.