mothergoose729 Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 (edited) I play male characters. Every hair pack for male characters out their gives them ultra fine, super feathered metro sexual hairstyles that look like they came out of either an anime cartoon or a male model catalogue. I don't want my male characters too look like a ken doll, but I do want to have more than the handful of styles to choose from included with the game. I think if someone created hair styles, for both men and women, that didn't have ultra fine and sylized hair and fit into the lore of the world that this mod would be a hit. I would endorse it anyway. Beard styles would be cool to. There is exactly zero mods that give male characters more beards on TESNexus. Not sure why that is really. If there are some texture artists and modelers out there, I would really appreciate some of your effort in this area. Thank you! Dedicating the rest of this post to pictures of what rugged hair models might look like. Please anybody feel free to post pictures of hairs and beards you would like to see for men and I will add it to the OP. http://www.usefulcharts.com/images/greek-gods/roman-god-pluto.jpg http://images.buycostumes.com/mgen/merchandiser/802120.jpg?zm=200,200,1,0,0 http://uashome.alaska.edu/~dfgriffin/website/buliwyf.gif http://schoolworkhelper.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Beowulf.jpg http://collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Beowulf/beowulf_movie_image__3_.jpg http://www.stellanonline.com/beowulf13x.jpg http://www.spring4sims.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/amHairMedRightPart_2-500x288.jpg http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cApVD7R0lMM/TaOC45cfKLI/AAAAAAAAAR4/eEjXGni5sDo/s640/amHairRyan_1.jpg Male hair can be pretty. It can have braids and feathers in it and whatever. It can be long and flowing and nice. It just doesn't neccessarily have to be ultra fine and feathered. Thicker hair, coarser look and somewhat darker cooolers. Legolas style, pirate style, king arthur and the round table kind of stuff. Variety is the spice of life really. Please and thank you :) ! Edited October 23, 2012 by mothergoose729 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonslayer2k12 Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 YES THIS!!! I usually end up using that straight back default hairstyle but I hate that it has a ponytail. I think most people that make hair mods care mostly for sexualizing female characters anyway. Apachii sky hair has some roman character short hair styles but I hate those because they look like the jerk down the street look lol. Would be nice to get some basic male hairstyles because not everyone plays as a female character. Also those old guy default hair styles with baldness are terrible! People already don't want to be bald in the real world, why would they want to be bald in a video game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moraelin Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 I dunno. In real life, priests and monks even got that tonsure to look like they're bald on the top of the head. I guess in a crapsack medieval world where a human life is cheap and the life expectancy is literally 20 years (no, seriously, in medieval Iceland half the people alive were under 15 or so), if you wanted a newly minted 13 year old priest to look like someone that the others could call "Father" with a straight face, an old geezer haircut was the least you could do :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimoa Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 This is a request that comes up quite regularly. I think there are a few reasons why there are more female heirstyles than male.As explaeined by the author of "lore friendly hair pack" (the one currently in the hot files) female hairstyles offer more variety and are more fun for a modder to work on. Hairstyles are a lot of work, so modders tend to do the fun part - female hairstyles with lots of braids and stuff.Doing the same for males would probably work for Legolas type of characters, but not hardy Nords. Personally I agree that most male hairstyles available look out of place in Skyrim - but I can't think of any that would be original and fitting. Both my male character and my male follower (on another character) have a full bald hairstyle from some mod here on Nexus. Seems that's the one male hairstyle I'm into. Tl;dr? Help modders out by providing some pictures to show the sort of hairstyle you would like! On another note: Low life expectancy in the viking and middle ages does not mean noone reached an old age. It's an average value. Because of the high death rate in infants it's pretty low, but once you reached your 3rd birthday you had a resonable chance of turning 30 or 50 aswell. I do agree though that there were more younger people than nowadays. But that's got nothing to do with life expectancy.Sorry if that's what you wanted to say, I just notice people confusing it way to often and I always feel like explaining that "avarage life expectancy of 20 years" does not mean everybody dies at their 21st birthday. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hadoumastery Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Yeah, it does seem that the hairs are very limited, especially for elves, and if anyone also wants to make a more human-like face map for elves? I mean seriously can you make them look any uglier? xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mothergoose729 Posted October 23, 2012 Author Share Posted October 23, 2012 Tl;dr? Help modders out by providing some pictures to show the sort of hairstyle you would like! Great idea. Updating the OP now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Grimoa Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 Nice pics! I already like the third to last. And the two last ones shouldn't be too hard. Hmmm.... As for the "feminine" hairstyles I'm not sure if these would need to be male. Uhm, I want to say maybe it will work fine to add female hairstyles to the male selection. There might be a little clipping, no idea how much bigger the male head is. :huh: If you are not afraid of opening the CK, you could try to do that yourself. I wrote a tutorial here on how to add vanilla hair to custom races. Adding custom hair to vanilla races should be very similar. (As in don't change the race, but change the associated mesh.)You could also try to replace vanilla hair with custom hair (by replacing the meshes). There's a short tutorial in the same place. Note: Replacing vanilla hair will not make the modded hair show up on NPCs. So I for one don't see the point in having thousands of hairchoices in the character generation. I can only choose one anyway. (And I can swap the meshes to get the personal selection I want.) Remember: Don't upload without the original author's consent! Privat use is fine though. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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