I need a little FO4 modding advice.

[DarthNyriss]

Hi there.

 

Let me preface this by saying I'm not a mod author.  At least not yet, but I do know the ins and outs of instaling them and all that. 

 

Now, my game plays the way I'd like, in terms of content, AI behavour, the whole shebang.  However, my characters are never what I hope to make.  I play a female character 90% of the time, but my Nora never turns out right. Body, skin, hair, ENB settings...I don't know where I'm going wrong.  What I'm after is as realistic a character as FO4 will allow, something worthy of a lot of screenshots I see here, on Nexus and elsewhere.  So, I'd like to pick your collective brains and ask you for your modlist of what you use for your actual character.  Never mind about clothing and all that, just the actual files you use for skins, makeups and all that.  (Presets supplied would be met with eternal gratitude and possibly grovelling praise.)  One caveat however:  I'm going by Saya Scarlett's AAF modlist advice, which specifies a Fusion Girl bodytype.

 

So, creative geniuses all, I leave with you, and I thank you for your time.

 

DN

[DarthNyriss]

Ah, one change in the plan - I see where I'm able to use CBBE as well.  Forget the caveat.

[Oldwolf58]

LooksMenu.esp
LooksMenu Customization Compendium.esp
CBBE.esp
BodyTalk3-LooksMenu.esp
AzarPonytailHairstyles.esp
KSHairdos.esp
The Eyes of Beauty Looking Stranger.esp
The Eyes Of Beauty.esp
TheEyesOfBeauty.esp
mcgFemaleWalk.esp

 

Those are the must haves for my load to make a good looking Nora, I always play a female character for the simple fact that I'm retired and can spend anywhere from 8 to 36 hours at a time playing and If I'm gonna stare at an ass that long it's gonna be a females. as for presets, what one person finds pretty another may not but I'll give you a couple of my presets One is the body preset and the second is my Nora for character gen preset:

 

8-9-2020 My Best Body 4 Use.xml 1-1-22 My Nora.json

[DarthNyriss]

Absolutely what I was after.  I'm in more or less the same situation as you so time on the game means having that keen eye for detail.  Thank you.

[Oldwolf58]

55 minutes ago, DarthNyriss said:

Absolutely what I was after.  I'm in more or less the same situation as you so time on the game means having that keen eye for detail.  Thank you.

Nora's lips will look different in the character gen when you load her. For you she "should" remain looking like that unless you use the ASIA mod, which I do, and it changes her face only slightly, and her lips look like the screen shot. That's my Nora as a Gen4 ASIA synth.

[DarthNyriss]

It's all good.  By the way, I've discovered that modding this game takes me down a deeeeep rabbit hole.  FInd one, it opens the door to a dozen more.  Follow it long enough, you collect hundreds...and suddenly I'm spoiled for choice. 

 

But I have ideas, and this old dog is learning new tricks.  Maybe someday soon.  Maybe.

 

Thanks Oldwolf.

[steelpanther24]

A popular preset is Cute preset, the requirements listed  by @Oldwolf58 is pretty standard, though for females, you don't need body talk really.     You will need some off site mods like Black Desert Online Hairs,

 

As for my preset, unfortunately it looks like it has joined the nexodus so I am not sure where it ended up (Evelyn Preset, not the save game). 

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/47690

 

[DarthNyriss]

Now this is what I'm talkin' about.  Thanks Steelpanther.