Glitchipedia Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 Since the best child races mod on the web, Improved Child Races, has mysteriously vanished, I am attempting to make my own child NPCs for my personal use. While I doubt I'll ever release the NPCs I create, I will publicize how I mean to do this in a few easy steps. The problem is that I lack the means (or perhaps just the understanding) to see the last step through to completion. 1) I first duplicate one of the vanilla races (in this example, the Breton race) and shrink the duplicate down to 0.7 scale (0.65 for females). 2) NPCs of this race are dressed in appropriately-sized, unplayable clothing using popcorn71's Undies Underneath script, rendering them impossible to disrobe even with body replacers. 3) A childlike face is achievable with the vanilla head, but shrinking the body has an annoying side effect: the head is now too small. The simple solution is to make this new race use new head meshes, identical to the ones used by the vanilla race, but enlarged to 1.3 scale (the neck should subsequently be shrunk back down to connect to the body properly). Unfortunately, my understanding of how to alter the head ends with the NIFs. Apparently there are additional files that need to be altered for the meshes to be correctly understood by the game, not to mention for the hair to fit properly (I'm not currently concerned about helmets). If someone could fix up a new head for me and anyone else who wants to try this, you will have our gratitude. If you can tell us how to go about it on our own, we will be grateful and better modders for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nephenee13 Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 You are probably more likely to get results sooner just by learning to do this yourself instead of hoping for someone to volunteer their time to do it for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Striker879 Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 Search through DrakeTheDragon's posts ... he has much knowledge on the problems you run into when you start editing heads (or many other things). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitchipedia Posted February 20, 2013 Author Share Posted February 20, 2013 I did say at the end of my post that I'm willing to learn. .... Just as long as I don't have to make any online purchases in the process. I hate buying stuff from the Internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitchipedia Posted February 25, 2013 Author Share Posted February 25, 2013 ....apologies for the double post, but it turns out the willingness to learn is not the issue. The one free utility I found crashes every time I try to run it, and I can't afford anything else. Unless someone can point out an alternative I've missed, I'll need help from an experienced modder. I should probably mention that this is my first proper mod, custom CM Partners not counted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrakeTheDragon Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 (edited) Oops, should have posted here rather than over in your "packing this request into a quest sorta" topic. My bad... Oh, well, doesn't matter. Now you know there's a reply over there. Edited February 26, 2013 by DrakeTheDragon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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