How would I make my elven characters pretty?

[AxelNexus]

First let me say that I´m not sure if this post belongs in this section of the forums or other, my apologies if I´ve made a mistake.

 

So, to resume: I play Skyrim with several characters, right now I have all my classic ones (same characters that I´ve being using since Morrowin) and two of them are elfs, one Dunmer and one Boosmer. As we all know for some reason Bethesda decided to revert elven races to look more like in Morrowind, a game from 2002, this makes female elves extremely ugly and unappealing. I use UNP body and face replacer, but while it changes a little bit the textures of the faces, it doesn´t get ride of the stupid polygonal design, you simply can´t have a female elven character that doesn´t look like an elder woman with menopause and the expression of constantly smelling farts.

 

I obviously hate that, but I simply can´t find remember which mods I use for OLRIM to fix that and the SKSE seems to be seriously lacking in this department, tons of mods for making human super pretty, but just a few for the elven races and most are replacers that would put an elven face on any race you play, or they look as hideous as vanilla because all the anime bullshit stuff (no, I do not find attractive a 20 centimeters long eyes or woman that look like 6 years old, I know, what I weirdo am I to not find attractiveness in dead eye mannequins or tall children) or they are so introversive that I´m scare they will break the game, not to mention the fact that some don´t even bother to specify if it´s compatible with UNP or not.

 

So, anyone can help? Do you guys know of a mod to fix this that I may have overlook or maybe one that has a poor description and may look as cheap s#*! but turns out to be awesome?? I´m really desperate, both characters have amazing hairs, amazing skin, amazing bodies, amazing armors... but I still get my spine to chill everytime I have to look at those damn faces of pure horror from the MS-DOS era.

[Niborino9409]

I shall rescue them faces, what you need is a normal map that doesn't look like raisins.

 

This one may be a bit overkill:

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/8505/?

 

You can choose to keep your unp body and only affect the faces in it.

 

This is an oldrim mod but as long as you only use the textures it should be fine: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/24273/?

 

Choose "High-Res Texture Pack"

1.1 new normal maps in 2048x uncompressed resolution. For beefy computers. If installing with NMM, choose not to update when prompted."

 

But download it manually as it won't be downloaded for SE if you press the manager button. When it's done click to the bottom of the file structure and pick out the female.msn and put it in the proper folder: Skyrim Special Edition\Data\textures\actors\character\woodelffemale and darkelffemale :smile:

 

And when you boot up the game they won't look ugly anymore :D

 

Used to have this problem with my dunmer follower but I gave her the nord female .msn map and voila:

 

 

Edited September 27, 2017 by Niborino9409

[AxelNexus]

OH MY GOD!! Dude, you just fix my game, I simply couldn´t play with those character, their faces were truly a horror show. The moment I installed your suggested mod it fixed ALL female elves, Altmer, Boosmer and Dunmer are now finally attractive but still retain their characteristics and still look like different races. My Boosmer is the one that got the best deal, since she is a non violent barb and I rely on Jenassa for the combat, now my Boosmer doesn´t look like one of the golden girls and Jenassa looks female rather than a walking corpse. Much appreciated men.

[Niborino9409]

Ah, you used the first one?

 

Glad I could help, it's a real shock when you are used to smooth faces and then it reverts back to vanilla haha :laugh: Enjoy :)