race mod Races of Nature – A Custom Race Collection

[Wonders of Eros]

ANOUNCEMENT

　　 2023-07-13 / 07/13/23

 

 

A long overdue, early version of the Camlenthe camelid race is now available for download. After months of letting it simply sit on my computer and keeping you guys waiting, I hope it will bring some joy in the meantime as I resume working on the mod. Rest assured that I still plan to do a more realistic interpretation of a camelid later down the line, but this was a needed change. It will allow me to divert my attention to work on other races and to get back into the grow of modding.

 

Due to things happening in my private life, I may have to postpone relearning 3D modeling for now, but this is still very much a personal, long term goal. Once that is over and done with, you can expect a noticeable increase in the quality of my work beyond what is already on offer.

 

In other news, I began working on a crocodile head sculpt last week. It could easily take me more than a week of almost nonstop work to finish it using the RaceMenu sculpting tool, but I will still give it a try. If that does not work out, I will simply postpone the crocodilian races until I am confident enough at 3D modeling to make the switch to Blender.

 

[Toxic.S.Kamasami]

cool , a custom race mod , I really love this type of mod , I voted for equine on your poll and hope to see your progress.

[TheGreatKhazoo]

Since the Camel race is finally out. Do you feel like revealing the names of the other work-in-progress races early?

[TheGreatKhazoo]

By the way. When you learn to use blender, will the feet meshes become easier to make or not?

[Lovohobo]

On 3/3/2023 at 6:30 AM, Coalstorm said:

Races of Nature – A Custom Race Collection

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INFO

Races of Nature – A Custom Race Collection is a collection of animal-style custom races that I have made over the years (and more that I plan to make in the future). Each race comes with its own, hand-crafted RaceMenu presets that will allow you to give a pre-existing race a completely new appearance in the form of an entirely new race. All of my races come with their own texture replacers, and all that are fully completed have multiple, race-specific PoserHotkeysPlus facial expression packs for those who use PHP.

 

DISCLAIMER

All of my RaceMenu character presets are made with a female player character in mind, and it is therefore unwise to assume that everything will work perfectly if you try to use them with a male player character or male NPC. Nevertheless, I have outlined some additional instructions – at the end of the HOW TO USE section of this page – that should allow you to create a male version of the presets with relative ease.

 

HOW TO USE (These instructions assume that you already have RaceMenu and the specific requirements of the RaceMenu character preset in question)

Once you are in the character creation menu (showracemenu), do the following:

1. under the ALL section, select female for your sex if you have not already done so

2. go to the PRESETS section and find a preset of mine that you want to use. Do not click it yet; just find out what race it needs. The race is specified in the name of the preset itself

3. go to the RACE section and select the race that my custom race preset needs

4. go back to the PRESETS section and load the preset

If you intend to be female, then you are done at this point and can now customize yourself to your hearts content, but should you for some reason want to be male instead, then you also need to do the following steps:

5. under the ALL section, select male for your sex

6. go to the SCULPT section and import the head preset of the custom race preset that you selected earlier

7. you will likely have to do some small personal edits at this point to correct any issues that come with using a female preset with a male character, but you are otherwise done and can now begin to customize yourself as you see fit

 

LEGEND

⬤ Finished – fully complete, featuring a RaceMenu character preset, RaceMenu head preset, and multiple PoserHotkeysPlus facial expression packs

⬤ Finished – complete, but an optimized and/or further improved version is planned or in the works

⬤ Work in Progress – close to completion

⬤ Work in Progress – intermediate

⬤ Work in Progress – early

■ Planned – feasible and likely to be finished after only a short development cycle

■ Planned – feasible, but will likely require a slightly longer development cycle

■ Planned – probably feasible, but I cannot guarantee a satisfactory result

■ Planned – more or less impossible to achieve a satisfactory result without help from a third party

■ Planned – viable but of uncertain development scope

■ Planned – highly uncertain of both development scope and overall viability

* = prioritized race

 

FINISHED RACES

 ⬤ Camelid – Camlenthe (alpha version)

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CAMLENTHE

(Camelid - unspecific)

 

The Camlenthe race is a modification of the Cervid race by Bad Dog. It does not come with any extra plugin files – just some replacement textures and the RaceMenu presets necessary to transform your Cervid character into a Camlenthe. This means that you can easily switch between Camlenthe or Cervids in your game mid-playthrough as long as you keep backups of the original Cervid texture files and backups of the texture files from this mod. All you need to do to switch between the two races is to exit your game and swap out the textures. It is as simple as that.

Initial release date:

　2023-07-13 / 13/07/23

 

Hard Requirements:

・Bad Dog's Ungulates: Horse, Deer, Minotaur (by Bad Dog)

・RaceMenu (by Expired)

 

Soft Requirements:

・CBBE 3BA (3BBB) (by Acro)

 

(A more refined version of the Camlenthe race will release later down the line. It will include new feet textures, all new normal maps and footprints, multiple PHP facial expression packs, and fixes for any remaining texture seams.)

 

 

⬤ Hippopotamus – Hippotem

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HIPPOTEM

(Hippopotamus)

 

The Hippotem race is a modification of the Minotaur race by Bad Dog. It does not come with any extra plugin files – just some replacement textures and the RaceMenu presets necessary to transform your Minotaur character into a Hippotem. This means that you can easily switch between having Hippotems or Minotaurs in your game mid-playthrough as long as you keep backups of the original Minotaur texture files and backups of the texture files from this mod. All you need to do to switch between the two races is to exit your game and swap out the textures. It is as simple as that.

Initial release date:

　2023-02-08 / 02/08/23

 

Hard Requirements:

・Bad Dog's Ungulates: Horse, Deer, Minotaur (by Bad Dog)

・RaceMenu (by Expired)

 

Soft Requirements:

・CBBE 3BA (3BBB) (by Acro)

 

(A more refined version of the Hippotem race will release later down the line after I am done with some of the other releases. It will include all new normal maps and footprints, a multitude of different PHP facial expression packs, and also fixes for any texture seams that still remain.)

 

(The lighting conditions of the room in which the following screenshots were taken can make certain textures and normal maps appear more shimmery and/or oily than usual. As such, do not take the reflective qualities of surfaces and skin in these screenshots as representative of what the textures would look under normal lighting conditions!)

 

⬤ Pig – Boegen

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BOEGEN

(Pig)

 

The Boegen race is a modification of the Minotaur race by Bad Dog. It does not come with any extra plugin files – just some replacement textures and the RaceMenu presets necessary to transform your Minotaur character into a Boegen. This means that you can easily switch between having Boegens or Minotaurs in your game mid-playthrough as long as you keep backups of the original Minotaur texture files and backups of the texture files from this mod. All you need to do to switch between the two races is to exit your game and swap out the textures. It is as simple as that.

Initial release date:

　2023-03-24 / 03/24/23

 

Hard Requirements:

・Bad Dog's Ungulates: Horse, Deer, Minotaur (by Bad Dog)

・RaceMenu (by Expired)

 

Soft Requirements:

・CBBE 3BA (3BBB) (by Acro)

 

(A more refined version of the Boegen race will release later down the line. It will include all new normal maps and footprints, a multitude of different PHP facial expression packs, and also fixes for any texture seams that still remain.)

 

(The lighting conditions of the room in which the following screenshots were taken can make certain textures and normal maps appear more shimmery and/or oily than usual. As such, do not take the reflective qualities of surfaces and skin in these screenshots as representative of what the textures would look under normal lighting conditions!)

 

⬤ Rhinoceros – Rheenen

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RHEENEN

(Rhinoceros - unspecific)

 

The Rheenen race is a modification of the Equine race by Bad Dog. It does not come with any extra plugin files – just some replacement textures and the RaceMenu presets necessary to transform your Equine character into a Rheenen. This means that you can easily switch between Rheenen or Equines in your game mid-playthrough as long as you keep backups of the original Equine texture files and backups of the texture files from this mod. All you need to do to switch between the two races is to exit your game and swap out the textures. It is as simple as that.

Initial release date:

　2023-03-24 / 03/24/23

Version 2.0 release date:

　2023-04-04 / 04/04/23

 

Hard Requirements:

・Bad Dog's Ungulates: Horse, Deer, Minotaur (by Bad Dog)

・RaceMenu (by Expired)

 

Soft Requirements:

・CBBE 3BA (3BBB) (by Acro)

 

(A more refined version of the Rheenen race will release later down the line. It will include an improved mouth interior, all new normal maps and footprints, a multitude of different PHP facial expression packs, and also fixes for any texture seams that still remain.)

 

 

The following images are from a slave playthrough for visual reference on how the mouth and eyes differ between version 1.0 and version 2.0:

 

 

 

WORK IN PROGRESS RACES

⬤ Alligator

⬤ Crocodile

⬤ Donkey

*⬤ Dragon, Beaked

⬤ Dragon, Short Snouted

⬤ Dromaeosaurid (non-specific)

⬤ Giraffe

⬤ Gharial

⬤ Sauropod (non-specific)

 

PLANNED RACES

*■ African Elephant

*■ American Bison

*■ Asian Elephant

■ Badger

■ Beaver

■ Boar

■ Brown Bear

*■ Ceratopsian (non-specific)

■ Cougar

■ Dodo

■ Dog, Pitbull

■ Elasmotherium

■ Gaur

■ Hyena

*■ Iguana

■ Jackal

■ Kangaroo

■ Kiwi Bird

■ Leopard

■ Lion

■ Moose (US)

■ Muskox

■ Panther

■ Polar Bear

*■ Rabbit

*■ Rat

■ Seal

■ Sheep

■ Smilodon

*■ Tapir

■ Walrus

■ Warthog

■ Weasel

■ Wildebeest

*■ Woolly Mammoth

■ Woolly Rhinoceros

 

RACE REQUESTS

If you have any races that you would like to see added, feel free to leave a comment in the Support thread.

 

REQUIREMENTS

A full list of prerequisites will be published for each and every race as they are released.

 

CREDITS

The following mod authors deserve special shout outs for their fantastic work regardless of whether a preset is dependent on their mod or not. All of the custom races that I have made for this collection are dependent on one or more of these mods to function, or they are simply at their best when used in conjunction with these mods)

・@Bad Dog (for all of the amazing custom race mods that you have made)

・Acro (for CBBE 3BA (3BBB)) (multiple races use edited elements from Acro's normal maps as part of their own normal maps)

・Expired (for RaceMenu)
・Flawn (for Flawn's Argonian Overlays and Flawn's Vanilla Argonians Redux)
・KouLeifoh (for the High Poly Head mod)

・millepon (for Poser Hotkeys Plus)

 

REQUEST TO MY FELLOW MODDERS

I do not yet know how to make my races completely standalone, so If you are a modder and would like to help out, feel free to create .ESP/.ESL plugin based versions of my races and post them in the Support thread. Needless to say, you will of course get credited for your work and you will have my gratitude.

 

If you have any modding resources to share or recommendations for software that I could use to make 3D models for SSE, feel free to also share such recommendations in the Support thread.

 

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• Submitter
  Coalstorm
• Submitted
  03/03/2023
• Category
  Adult Mods
• Requires
   
• Regular Edition Compatible
  No

 

Im having a bit of trouble with the hippo preset, by a weird reason the head glows compared to the body which works perfectly fine, did i miss something?

[Wonders of Eros]

On 7/29/2023 at 11:57 AM, Lovohobo said:

Im having a bit of trouble with the hippo preset, by a weird reason the head glows compared to the body which works perfectly fine, did i miss something?

Did you manage to solve the issue or do you still need assistance?

[AzureFox12]

nice work on this project so far

[TheGreatKhazoo]

If you indeed make the switch to Blender. Will you announce it?

[Wonders of Eros]

11 hours ago, TheGreatKhazoo said:

If you indeed make the switch to Blender. Will you announce it?

 

Of course, and do not worry about the project overall...

 

Races of Nature has always been a passion project -- something that I only work on when I actually feel like it. The problem with that is that the process of making races for Skyrim SE using nothing but Photoshop and RaceMenu is quite tedious. It can take many hours or even days to finish a single race. This spring, I had a lot of time to kill and I also felt highly motivated, so that is why the project saw such frequent updates and new releases during that time. Conversely, it is also the reason why progress has been so slow these last few months, as I only started playing Skyrim again this last week. I simply had little desire to work on a new race, but I have been playing a fair amount lately, and the more I play a game, the more of an urge I usually get to mod it, so that should be a good sign for those who are wondering whether there will be more races in the future.

 

I have a lot going on in real life and I now spend a lot of my spare time on other creative pursuits such as writing erotica, so it is unlikely that I will go back to being as active as I was in spring, but rest assured, the project is by no means dead. I have actually wanted to make a crocodile race for quite some time now, and I did give it a real shot a few months back, but I quickly realized that it would be a long and laborious process akin to when I made the hippo race, so I dropped it. I like to be original -- simply copy pasting an existing head mesh into Blender and making that the new head for a race is not only lazy, but uninspiring, so whether it be RaceMenu or Blender, I would still have to create the head mesh from scratch. The thing that makes RaceMenu sculpting take so much time is the fact that all vanilla and modded head meshes are asymmetrical. I have to tread VERY CAREFULLY when working on the head in order not to make it look asymmetrical. The further you want to move something around, the more precautions you have to take. In order to make a crocodile head, I would have to move the eyes and the immediate area around them further up and back on the skull, and after that, I would have to stretch the Argonian snout to a rather ridiculous extent. I have already managed to lengthen it greatly on some of my unreleased dragon presets, but turning such a short snout into one as lengthy as that of a crocodile is a whole other ball-game.

 

[AzureFox12]

take your time and do it when you have inspiration is my advice?

[Niggaram]

This might sound crazy, but is there a way to spawn these as their own NPCS? Like a spawn ID and having them roam Skyrim as regular NPCs?

[TheGreatKhazoo]

Take a look at this mod Coalstorm. This modded race has feathers on the tail and the arms.

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/101723

Edited October 8, 2023 by TheGreatKhazoo

[Bystander01]

There's a crocodilian race on nexus, maybe take a look at it for help.

[TheGreatKhazoo]

By the way. Will the already complete races get an overhaul once you learn how to use blender?

[Wonders of Eros]

9 hours ago, TheGreatKhazoo said:

By the way. Will the already complete races get an overhaul once you learn how to use blender?

 

Most likely, but in some cases I may just tidy them up a bit.

[Hermaeus Moron]

Race idea: Nudibranchs. Aeolid and/or Doriid bodyplan. Extra points for making them futa by default (all nudibranchs are hermaphrodites). Better yet, do Glaucus atlanticus (blue sea dragon, sea swallow, blue glaucus, etc.) and anatomically build them backwards such that facing front on the player model entails bending their head backwards so that their forehead is where a man's or mer's chin would be.

 

Reminder: The Pokemon Goodra is partially based off of Glaucus atlanticus.

[Wonders of Eros]

ANOUNCEMENT

　　 2023-11-07 / 07/11/23

 

Hello everyone! Sorry for the long wait!

 

It is obvious from the comments and general feedback that many of you have enjoyed my custom races a great deal and I know that some of you are still waiting for more content, so I want to apologize to those of you who have had to wait so long for more races and further updates to existing entries. Progress on this collection has been on the backburner since early Spring, and when you combine that with the fact that I have a ton of basically finished content just lying around, it obviously does not make me feel right either, so beyond a recommitment to the development of further races, I feel obligated to finally share some of this unreleased content.

 

First of all, throughout the last three years, I have made A LOT of custom presets for Skyrim's vanilla races, and in particular Argonians. These are in many cases so distinct that they look like brand new races in and of themselves. The reason I have never uploaded any of them is because I initially intended this to be custom races based exclusively on cryptids and real life animals, but this seems like an unnecessary distinction to maintain, so I therefore plan to release some of my best custom race presets for the vanilla races.

 

Secondly, I plan to release all of the PHP facial expression packs that I have made for my existing custom races. This is very long overdue seeing as most of these packs have been ready to go for months. Sorry to say it, but I can only blame my own laziness for this one taking as long as it has. They should have been released ages ago.

 

Thirdly, I plan to create new phenotypes for all of my existing custom races so that people have more than just one default head option per race. This will give people who do not have a lot of time to tinker around with RaceMenu's face sliders or sculpting tool more options for customization right out the gate and should allow all users to get closer to whatever their desired look may be.

 

I also plan to resume my Blender journey within the near future so that I can eventually give you guys even better looking custom races with completely custom-made feet, bodies, tails, and hands, but no matter what, it will likely still take some time before this will start giving good results, so do not sit around and wait eagerly for the elephant or snake races just yet.

[Wonders of Eros]

These are just a handful of my unfinished custom presets, but you get the idea. Since these were prototypes, they are quite early in development and some even use some assets from other mods, but that would obviously be sorted out ahead of any actual release.

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also have a couple of actual race projects that are further along, such as a Jackal race based on Bad Dog's bat race, but that will have to wait. I also have plenty of other race presets that are further along than those shown above, but I had these images close at hand, so you have to excuse my laziness. ?

 

Please let me know whether you guys are actually interested in seeing any of these released or if you would prefer it if I just stuck to major custom race releases like those already uploaded.

Edited November 7, 2023 by Wonders of Eros

[AzureFox12]

id stick with either one both are good and thank you for them

[Wonders of Eros]

MINOR ANNOUNCEMENT:

 

So, as a first step on my journey to make up for the long delays, I have just added a long overdue optional addon for the Hippotem race that gives it much smoother skin more akin to real hippos. Be warned, that there may be some slight loss of detail to the face normal map, but this is so subtle that most of you would likely not notice any difference. The torso in this addon does use a completely unmodified version of the body normal map from CBBE 3BA, but hopefully, this will not be an issue. I have explicit permission to make and upload heavily modified versions of the CBBE 3BA textures and normal maps as long as credit is given, and I do vaguely recall also getting permission to use unmodified textures from CBBE 3BA as long as this is done in a sparse, tasteful manner, but if Acro ever asks me to replace the normal map, the addon would have to be slightly modified to accommodate this request.

 

Hope you all enjoy!

 

Spoiler

 

[Wonders of Eros]

MINOR ANNOUNCEMENT:

 

I have released a new poll inquiring what you users wish me to do next. I especially encourage avid commenters and people who have a long term interest in the collection to vote on it. The poll can also be reached from the mod's front page.

 

CLICK HERE TO VOTE

[hellwolf95]

so any chance you could make a slime race

 

[AzureFox12]

great job on it and thank you

[Dudalis__mir]

Good job! Thx you. I like prototype "Isaar"

 

[Wonders of Eros]

On 11/14/2023 at 11:17 PM, hellwolf95 said:

so any chance you could make a slime race

 

 

If by "slime race" you mean some sort of deformed, gooey humanoid, then no. The know-how required to implement something like that -- especially if you want gooey parts to fall off the character as they move -- is way above me. I think you are going to have a really hard time getting anyone to do that unfortunately. Do not get me wrong, I like the idea, but it would be incredibly hard to implement, even for modders at the highest level.

 

There are definitely ways to create a see-through race (or a race with some sort of moving, water-texture overlay for skin), but if you would like to have organs with that serving, then I'm afraid you are gonna have to wait a good while, as it would necessitate the modeling and texturing of each individual organ. Rigging and Havok physics would not be hard to implement for a more experienced modder, and I will definitely get to that level some day since one of my personal goals with this entire collection is to eventually make an elephant race with a fully functional trunk and slowly flapping ears.