3d armpit hair 3D Armpit Hair - Diverse & Distributed 1.1.0

What is this?

 

tldr: donnerwetter made a 3D armpit hair mod earlier this year with 5 different variations. This mod distributes those armpit hairs across all the women of Tamriel. ESP marked light.

 

longer version: There are a lot of mods that give female NPCs armpit hair. Most skin mods include an underarm hair variant. However, they are all in 2D, meaning that the hair looks like it was stuck to the skin with glue. Secondly, the armpit hair from other skin mods would apply to all women and be of exactly the same length, color, consistency, etc... and every female NPC would have the same armpit hair.

 

Donnerwetter's mod was the only one I found with 3D meshes that looked very natural. The mod also provided 5 variants of hair with different lengths and consistencies and I didn't want to have to stick with just 1, which is why I created this mod. Now, all the women in Tamriel (including the ones added by mods) will have 3D armpit hair of varying sizes, colors, and consistencies. The hair is assigned randomly.

 

However, you can customize this assignment if you don't want hair assigned to certain women. That will be covered later.

 

Requirements

 

There are a couple of hard requirements. First is the original mod by donnerwetter. You need to download the "Wearable" version (dw's 3D Underarm Hair - Wearable.7z) for all body types except BHUNP. For BHUNP, get dws3DUnderarmHair-WearableBHUNP.7z.

 

Next, you need Spell Perk Item Distributor (SPID) and all it's requirements.

 

You also need to have Bodyslide to build the hairs to match your body.

 

Installation

 

Once you have installed the requirements, you have a choice to make. You can choose to have the 5 variants with hair colors ranging from black to blonde (see screenshots) based on natural hair colors, or hair colors ranging from black to brown (also see screenshots). Since the hairs are assigned randomly, you might get some weird results with the first option as there will be NPCs with dark head hair but light blonde armpit hair. The second option has better consistency since a NPC with blonde hair and dark underarm hair looks less weird (in my opinion) that a NPC with dark hair, dark skin, and blonde armpit hair.

 

If you want black to light blonde hair, download and install "Natural Hair Shades.zip" from the download section. Make sure you get the correct body types. i.e: BHUNP file for BHUNP body, and I have adjusted the sliders and made a version for UNP bodies. For every other body type, get "Natural Hair Shades 1.01.zip"

 

If you want black to brown hair, download and install "Dark Hair Shades.zip". Same body type considerations as above apply.

 

A third option exists if you want to set the hair color yourself, as explained by donnerwetter here:

https://www.loverslab.com/blogs/entry/16379-dws-3d-underarm-hair/page/2/?tab=comments#comment-67176

Make sure you edit the hair for Slot 51.

 

Next, build the armpit hairs using Bodyslide. Note that the armpit hairs that get distributed are the ones belonging to slot 51, so they MUST be built. Look at the image below for reference.

You can batch build the hairs belonging to other slots as well.

 

Install the main mod (Diverse Distributed Armpit Hair.zip).

 

And that's it! You should be able to open up your game and see all the women having armpit hair.

 

Compatibility

 

Should be compatible with any mods that introduce NPCs, any body shapes, any skin mods. Mods like sexlab which strip the NPCs should have slot 51 set to don't strip (which is the default) so that the hair doesn't disappear when a scene starts.

 

Modifications

Since this uses SPID to distribute the hair, you can customize who gets the hair and who doesn't. By default, all the women get it, but you can change that. 

To do this, open up the DDArmpitHair_DISTR.ini file found in the main mod. You will find a string like this:

 

Spell = 0x801~DDArmpitHair.esp|ActorTypeNPC|NONE|NONE|F|NONE|100

 

The 100 at the end means that there is a 100% chance any woman you meet will have hair. You can change this to any value and the percentage chance will change.

 

If you don't want any specific NPC to have hair, use "-":

 

Spell = 0x36CC~DWwear.esp|ActorTypeNPC,-Serana|NONE|NONE|F|NONE|100

 

In the above case, Serana will not have armpit hair. You can do this with any number of NPCs, or even factions. The official SPID page can help you figure out the inner workings of this string.

 

Final note

While originally the slot 51 hairs were playable, I turned them non-playable so that you won't be seeing an "armpit hair" item in every female NPC's inventory. This means that you can't wear the slot 51 hair. If you want to wear the armpit hair on your character, you will have to build and use one of the other slots.