Question about possibilities with meshes

[Slpy]

Hey,

so I've been wondering, I know people are eagerly awaiting mods, most probably also nude mods, with new body meshes and really good HD textures.

Yes, I know people are already trying to provide better textures, but in my opinion there's no awesome textures out yet.

 

I know back from my experience with Oblivion, that there will be awesome body mods, but one thing always irritated me with those mods, every single person in the game had the same body, some female argonian thief character had the exact same body as an 80 years old hag in some random hut in the wilderness.

 

So my question is, will it be possible, from what you experienced modders know, to have some kind of pool of bodies, one being slender, another being curvy and yet another being rather chubby and assign them, either by hand or randomly to NPCs?

 

I think it would definitely make the game way more immersive if a smith had a muscular body and some alchemy trader had a rather slender body.

 

I do know that all the armor and clothes would have to be remade to fit the different body meshes and that there would have to be a pool for those as well, but seeing as there were massive amounts of mods that remodeled all the clothing in oblivion for different body type mods, it definitely could happen, provided there can be different body types.

 

So, as far as you know, taking into account that the CK hasn't been released yet, do you think/know/expect this to be possible, or will we get the same 'problem' again?

[Ghogiel]

So my question is, will it be possible, from what you experienced modders know, to have some kind of pool of bodies, one being slender, another being curvy and yet another being rather chubby and assign them, either by hand or randomly to NPCs?

 

yes and no me thinks. Mostly yes technically... There is the weight slider for a start. However if the people making body replacers wanted to, they could have pretty much all the bodies more or less comapible, meaning you wouldn't have to choose 1.

 

What you ask though would need a mod, diverse body type mod, that would create races to cover the body types. I doubt it'll be as easy to assign a body mesh variant on a per NPC basis, but who knows. :shrug:

[soullessone20]

It would be nice to see the weight slider put to use. For Oblivion, there were several bodies you could choose from, but could only install one.

[Slpy]

I think I'm not the only person who thinks this would be pretty awesome and from what you said Ghogiel my hopes are up that someone or even a group will try to tackle this idea, it would definitely be quite a feat but a worthwhile one at that.

 

It would probably be the most impressive work if the different body types would be assigned by hand, but this would as well be a huge workload.

 

You're right, the weight slider is an indication for diverse bodies even if only by a small margin.

[throttlekitty]

The problem with the thin/thick solution Bethesda used is that we still need to make a new armor for each body.

We could easily make a body with a number of option combinations, and let the slider go between them, but clothes/armor for that body must use the same order and combinations to be effective. This would be made easiest on everyone if the body mod also has a Blender scene with everything in it; and a script to auto-weight and push the modded clothing/armor to each option automatically.

[Slpy]

I take it that would be something the community would know a lot more about as soon as the CK is released?