Does LooksMenu work for all npc's?

[StormWolf01]

Hello everybody!

I appreciate you all taking a look in on this, thanks in advance!

So I've been trying out looksmenu on several NPC's (one was a raider, the others were a couple of guards, and another was.... I don't remember, lol.)

using the console command SLM XXXXXXXX (their ID number).

when I would try to use a preset on them, I could see that their physical build would change, but they didn't take on the morph settings for the face, hair, eyes, mouth, all that. IE- their actual face didn't change.

 

Is LM limited to what NPCs it can be used on?

 

Again, thanks for looking, (pun?) and TIA for any insight!

 

-Storm

[G4M3W1NN3R]

to edit the looks of raiders, guards etc etc (basically Factions or groups of npcs that look different to each other), would require esp work, since they all use templates for their looks. so even if looks menu did work on them, the changes would be lost upon respawn of said npc.

 

it works on companions and npcs that do not have multiple different potentional looks, due to them not requiring templates.

 

Note: templates are primarily used for npc's that spawn and have multiple different potetional looks, (such as raiders)

 

templates are basically a shortcut to creating diverse looks for the same npc's, it could potentially be classed as being lazy, due to fact of not hand crafting every individual npc, but either it way, it just works. xD

 

thats what i imagine at least.

 

theoretically looks menu should work on any npc, but as said, i imagine it does not work on specific npcs that use templates, due to the fact they use templates, and as such would require hard edits, thus ESP work (Creation Kit).

Edited January 6, 2020 by G4M3W1NN3R

[StormWolf01]

GW! Welcome back! It's good to see ya again :)

Thanks for chiming in, I appreciate it. I really hadn't considered that so many of the different NPC's spawn with the same faces, or slight variations of, the same generic faces.

Good info, thanks much!

[nikov327]

Yes I've been trying to do this as well. Somehow I got a random raider to work in looksmenu. But then I noticed rarely other random spawned raiders looked exactly the same.

So while I think you can still edit them, it will change that entire template. They won't be unique.