Anyone good with body slide and patient when helping newbies(like me)

[hynes420]

I always talked with one of my friends about skyrim over the years, as we both played heavily originally and he kept playing whereas I, stupidly, tried out eso and other online rpgs. After playing a little on his ps3 a few weeks back and him mentioning the pc version was commonly modded, i went home dl'd SE version and started looking into the mods, before i knew it, I was needing to look back at pages to remember masters and what things were compatible with each other, bunch of silly dumb stuff. Then i realized i never learned how to properly use body slide . . . . uh oh. I have been trying to look at some guides, but am getting confused with some (maybe minor) issues, mostly regarding presets and slider groups that arent on everything. I am more than 100% sure there is info out there, but if anyone is really well versed with body slide and has a helpful heart, i would loooooove some short lived guidance. I am mostly getting confused with some of the options in body/ outfit dropdown, but my main issue currently is when i equip a clothing top my chars breasts basically stop moving, in the sense that my char moves and the boobs stay where they were and stretch out, like crazy long. Warning, i am going to sound like a moron if you try to help me, but i will appreciate more than you could know

[anjenthedog]

 

my main issue currently is when i equip a clothing top my chars breasts basically stop moving

(Presuming your naked body shows breast - and/or other body part jiggle) movement), then If your clothes/armor stopped breast movement (or any other), it's probably not a "physics enabled" piece of armor/clothing.

 

The solution is to

• find a physics enabled one that mirrors or mimics the one your desired
• live with it
• or if you have the skills, convert it yourself (idk if that's always possible, but I've seen some posts by some people in passing that suggested some armor can become physics enabled with the right work)

So for now, I'd suggest either the first or second option.

 

Sliders are just sliders. You read what it is supposed to adjust (cleavage, hip width, waist height, knee shape, etc) and adjust them according to your own taste.

 

Presuming you have Bodyslide setup properly so that files get output to the proper path for your style of installation, (if a default install, there should be no worries, if you're one of those folks who puts pieces of games on this and that drive, idk...best of luck on that) the basic steps are as follows

1. Open Bodyslide
2. Choose a body type from the Body/Outfit selection
3. Choose a preset that is compatible with the selected body type (Afaik: presets must be made for the chosen body type)
4. Check the build morphs check box (generates tri files needed by racemenu once you're in-game)
5. Click the build button
6. Then select the hands from the body selector, and build the hands (I don't adjust anything here)
7. Then select the feet from the body selector, and build the feet (the only thing I adjust here is for females, I give them feminine feet)

   Note: I don't adjust wrist or ankle size at all.

The longer form of this simply expands by you tweaking some preset to your liking, previewing the results using the preview button, saving said preset for future reference (under a different name than the stock source!) so that later on when you want to adjust it a little or clone the preset for another slight variation, etc you'll have it as a specific source for your player/follower/npc/whomever (ex: save as "player nude1", and then clicking the build button (don't forget the build morphs checkbox!)

 

If you look at the default presets, you'll see many have a clothed and unclothed variations. "Clothed" basically takes the nude version, mashes the breasts (while trying to keep overall volume), and subdues nipples, so your +120 Ebony armor or heavily padded noble clothing doesn't have "pokeys" ("player clothed1")... But your light blouse/lingerie (player nude1) does... <<< this obviously refers to working on a female. you can probably discount it for males, idk.

 

So...in the longer run, you should probably make your nude preset, then save it, then tweak it for clothing, then Save AS that tweaked version as "player clothed1" or something, so it can be used to fit heavier garments.

 

for fitting garments, it's important to remember at all times that a given armor/clothing is created using a specific "reference body". It could be CBBE, CBBE-3BBB. UNP, UUNP, BHUNP, etc etc. If you install an armor/clothing package that doesn't conform to your selected body type, you will probably not get what you expected, since different body types have different slider adjustments and are not compatible (even if close in many cases, like CBBE vs CBBE-3BBB, or UUNP and BHUNP)

 

When fitting garments, they should automatically conform to the body shape provided by your preset. if they don't, there's probably an issue with the reference body

 

IDK if it matters, but I always check the build morphs checkbox for armor/clothing too.

[hynes420]

I did end up fixing the issue, I believe i never built the body physics when i swapped to 3b, thought i had built everything but I probably did some conflicting stuff, got pretty confused the past week or so getting into all this. Oddly enough it was already working with another top, so maybe because i built this set to wrong preset, still learning. thanks