nuska Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 http://static.skyrim.nexusmods.com/images/675468-1345397050.jpg Hi again folks! It's time for another stupidly ambitious project from yours truly, the madwoman who went from zero Skyrim mod knowledge into this, and I need your feedback and most of all testing help! :) Ethereal Elven Overhaul will replace all vanilla elf races, males and females, with new face models, facial feature morphs and normal maps. Its aim is to change the alien-looking elven races into appealing playable characters, with more realistic and relatable facial features, more in line with elves in typical fantasy fiction. The faces will be more graceful, less sharply pointed, and structured more similarly to human faces without losing their otherly feeling. http://static.skyrim.nexusmods.com/images/675468-1345671071.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/WuHad.jpg The current scope of this project is:-New base headmorphs - High Elf, Wood Elf, Dark Elf, male and female-New set of facial features - unique noses and lips, male and female-Able to use any eye shape in the game, giving a choice between human and more 'alien'-Beards re-fitted to each new male head shape manually-Eyebrows adjusted to fit every new head shape-Individual, uncompressed high-resolution normal maps, unique for each race and sex-Additional eyes-New war paints and facial tattoos-New player presets I'll let the images speak for themselves. Some NPCs, but not all, will be affected by the changes. They will all have the new head shape, but I don't plan to change all of their facial features to be 'pretty'. I believe in allowing most of them remainin looking ugly - though some of them will certainly be tweaked for these new looks. This overhaul will work with any face textures you have installed, and is compatible with all body mods. http://static.skyrim.nexusmods.com/images/675468-1345496477.jpg I'm currently working on the normal maps and face morphs for males. Wood elves, as seen above, are already playble in their new look, but most beards still don't sit right. Moreover! I'll start needing help testing this soon, so if you're interested in providing serious, thoughtful and constructive feedback and testing the new features in length, drop a message here or PM me to be put on the test distribution list!Stay tuned, I'll be updating here regularly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oubliette Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 I like the idea but is it possible to get a modular version? I love the look of the vanilla Dark Elves but the others need some serious help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuska Posted August 23, 2012 Author Share Posted August 23, 2012 Right now this is all in one for keeping organized, but it's easy to split it with TesVsnip :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gasti89 Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 Nothing related to your thread, but when i've read "tesVnip" i thought to suggest you something. It's reported that tesVnip breaks mods even when modifying a little bit of a record, so if i were in you i won't use it. Take it as an advice ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuska Posted August 23, 2012 Author Share Posted August 23, 2012 Huh, man, I'd missed that one. Thanks for the heads-up. That definitely means no standalone versions for a while :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gasti89 Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 You could do this via CK. You can duplicate the entries you want to separate in another esp, the delete them in your esp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuska Posted August 23, 2012 Author Share Posted August 23, 2012 Yeah, true, though it sometimes leaves traces in the records that causes conflicts with other mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gasti89 Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 The Version Control is the tool used by Beth to make Skyrim. It requires some knowledge/workarounds to be set up. You'll also need to esmify the esp you want to move stuff into (after that you can espify again). It's very clean and does the work flawlessly, but due to the settings needed use it only if you really need/want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuska Posted August 23, 2012 Author Share Posted August 23, 2012 Interesting. I'm very familiar with similar tools so I'll probably give it a shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surinen Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 yes! release Altmer as soon as possible, male ones of course! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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