Hair Mod Questions

[vicki08]

Good evening, everyone!

I find myself a bit confused about hair mod usage.

From reading various mod instructions and threads, I understand that the hair mods replace vanilla styles, and when a mod is selected for the PC, it will replace the same style for all NPCs of the same race/gender that use the same vanilla mesh. Also, I can't use more than 1 mod that replaces a specific vanilla mesh for a certain gender/race combo. (Am I correct so far? :unsure: )

 

With that information as my base, on to my questions!

1) If I add a mod to the Manager for my PC, who in this example is HF, and I add another mod using the same vanilla mesh base but for another race, such as DF or EF, will they both show up? Not on my PC, of course, but let's say I want to run around with long hair and want Dagna to have a curly bob that both use 52 as the base, will I see them both? There are so many beautiful styles out there, and I would much rather NPCs use those, rather than the defaults.

2) If I want to change my hairstyle as I am going through the game to a different mod that uses the same base, am I able to disable 1 mod, enable another, and see the result? Perhaps I would need to change away from the style type (using the Black Emporium for example) and then re-select the correct base to show the new mod?

I appreciate any help y'all are able to provide, as I don't want to get too attached to multiple styles before I find out my limitations! :laugh:

 

Thanks, everyone, very much!

 

Victoria

[unniebee]

Since this was posted in July, I will assume you've already found out the answers, but just in case...

 

1) Yes. I actually have an entire folder in my mod pack that replaces as many of the default hairs as possible, because I like the NPCs to have much more variety. It still means that all of the people of the same gender/race/hairstyle will have the same hair, but at least the male humans with ponytails can have different hair from the elven females with ponytails.

 

2) Yes, to both. I use multiple hairstyles throughout my games to simulate short hair growing out over time, getting haircuts, wearing it differently to the ball, etc. (I do this with companion hairs too, actually.) It just means planning, and re-merging a lot.

[Kreyd]

(I do this with companion hairs too, actually.)

I'm curious to know the mod or tool you use to change/switch companion hairstyle :o

 

I want this :

 

Edited October 13, 2018 by Kreyd

[unniebee]

There are mods to change the companions' hair! Unfortunately, just like with Inquisitor hairstyles, modders can only edit the existing hair models, they can't import new ones.

 

As far as I know, there are only two new hair models for Cass that have been made already: this one and this one. I use the first one with the formalwear at the Winter Palace to make it look like Cass at least tried to do something with her hair for the ball.

 

You would need to request a new hair mod for Cass based on that artwork. I'm not personally good enough at hair modding to make something like that, but someone out there might be willing to give it a shot.