Editing Races

[lordsoulstrike]

Tinkering with the CK I have finally been able to a race within a game to have a different skin, eyes ect......

 

Directions

 

-Navigate to Characters section on the Object Window.

 

-Click on Race.

 

-Choose a Race and double click on one.

 

-Race window pops up.

 

-Under General Data tab (first one) go to the Copied Data section.

 

-Change the Morph Race to ArgonianRace (whatever you want) and Armor Race to ArgonianRace (this will change the body skin).

 

-Go to the Body Data and change the Skeleton to skeletonbeast.nif or leave it if you don't want a beast race Khajiit/Argonian.

 

-Go to the Face Data tab and you will see Base Head Parts and under that the Additional Head Parts.

 

-Still under the Characters section on the Object Window look for the HeadPart section.

 

-From here you can drag and drop a new face, hair, eyes, whatnot. To help speed things up you can use the Filter on the top of the Object Window to narrow your search down and just drag and drop.

 

-Please note that I do not know how to mess with the hair colors as of yet and any NPC with a special hairstyle will keep it so you may have to edit it out within the CK.

 

If I have made any mistakes please excuse them as it is around 1:20 am as of writing this. If screenshots are needed please ask and I will provide them.

 

Update: For the hair you will have to open up the head parts section for hair to see exactly what the mesh is and where it is located.

 

-Open the Skyrim - Meshes.bsa file with an extractor and navigate to meshes > actors > Character > Character Assets > Hair

 

-Select whatever race you wish to switch to and copy their head parts and rename them to the race you are switching to. (EX. Argonianhair01.nif becomes Dremorahair01.nif)

 

-After switching reload the CK and see if it works, if there is a hairline that does not match go back into the headparts hair section and reopen the hairparts you were switching and look for Extra Parts. If one of the extra parts says hairline just delete it. To switch hairlines just drag and drop a new one from the Object Window.

 

-Within the Headpart section when you open a Headpart if you look at the right you will see a drop-down box called Valid Races. From here you can set what race gets to use the headpart/hair/whatever.

 

-Texture Set is under the Valid Races section which "should" change the texture set of the hair/whatever (have not used this feature yet)

 

-Lastly I would NOT edit an npc character unless you know it will not interfere with another mod (I've had this happen).

 

Thanks to JesterKing over at this topic for the body switching.

Edited February 16, 2012 by lordsoulstrike

[eoloe]

OOOH thank you so much you're my hero !!!