[Idea] Hair for Helmets

[rikulf]

I just thought of an idea for a mod were the hair shows up when you wear any helmet. This probably wont work, since I lack any modding experience at all. And I don't know any the limits or difficulty for this, and its probably already been thought of.

 

So I was thinking if someone was able to make it so when you wear any helmet it changes your hair to one of the vanilla Skyrim hairs, and when you take it off, it goes back to your hair. I was thinking you would be also able to use SkyUI (MCM) to pick which default hair you want it to change to when you equip the helmet. Also when it changes to vanilla skyrim hair it would keep your original hair color, now I doubt it would normally, but if someone could make it happen that'd be awesome, or add in basic hair colors in the SkyUI (MCM) part of the mod, were you could choose the type of hair color like Red, Blue, Purple, Black, White, Brown, etc..

 

Now I don't know if any of this would work again, or how hard it would be, but thought of this idea and decided to share it, just incase it actually works

Well I might not reply right away, but should within a day or two. 

[kingkong]

good way to start !

 

first you extract all bsa meshes with skyrim mod manager (helmets in your cas) and keep architectures of folders.

 

second pick up all hair you want and place them each one in a specific folder (meshes/armor/...(armor name).../...(files.nif)...)

with the files.egm/egt        than rename the hair.nif to helmet.nif     (you might need to change path to textures in hair.nif with nifkope for your hair color).

 

if you want more options for hair color you might duplicate the hair mesh  and do some gimp variation for color(here i am not sure) depends on hair textures you have. than in creation kit you creat a mod that add different helmet(hair) in to the game merchant or inventry  (for more details on how   here you have a tutorial : http://www.creationkit.com/Main_Page)

[Koko.Hekmatyar]

Technically Apachii has a mod that adds hair under the helmets but I doubt it has an MCM menu.

[LaEspada]

Technically Apachii has a mod that adds hair under the helmets but I doubt it has an MCM menu.

 

But those are just equipable wigs. If you add the hair to the actual mesh of the helmet it's much less of a headache to the player.