Need help making a hair color mod that works on a races.

[Dart98Rock]

I recently uploaded my mod DartHairColors and currently working on a way to apply the hair colors to all races in the game ( vanilla and custom). The only way I know how to apply them to custom races is by combining the race .esp file and my hair color .esp file together. I read something about applying it to a default race and it supposed to work for all races, but cant get it to apply to any of the races that way. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[KingsGambit]

Headparts, skin colours, eye textures, hair styles and colours and other features are made available to different races through FormLists in the CK. If you open a vanilla race, you can see what parts they have available to them in the properties page. Those parts are all stored in a formlist under Miscellaneous -> FormList. Search for "Human" to see examples such as HeadPartsHuman and SkinMaleHumanBody.

 

Those should illustrate how the game makes available to each race the different parts. For example HIgh Elves have different skintones from Nords and Dark Elves. Your custom parts need to be added to the appropriate formlists for them to be made available to your preferred races. In the case of hair colours specifically, HairColorList seems to be the only one listed. Adding yours to this list will add your colours to anyone who activates your mod. Assuming a particular custom race uses that same list for their available parts/colours, they will be available to players creating a character in-game. Considering it's the only hair colour related list, I'd say it's a fairly safe bet :biggrin:

 

Word of caution though, this will clash with any other mods that do the same thing. Whichever mod is lower in a player's load order will override the HairColorList formlist.

[Dart98Rock]

Ya that's close to how I been doing it. For it to apply to races the only way I can get them to show up in game is to add the colors to the HairColorList and then go threw each race and add them to there available hair color list. The colors being on the form wont add them to the race, I gotta do that manuly, that's why for adding them to custom races I gotta combine the esp files for them to show up in game. And about the multiple ones I found that out the hard way, took me awhile to figure out why my mod wasn't working. You may have giving me an idea to going threw all the formslist and seeing what I can apply in there or making a new one that atuomatically applies the colors to a race.