How do I make weight-specific face morphs?

[joojo95]

Basically I want to do what More Variation did in LE: actual and realistic weight variance.

 

The body is easy to do with Bodyslide, but I think that a thin face in a chub body looks unrealistic, and that's been the hard part for me.  I did go ahead and scuplt myself a weighted head part (see image below), and made it into a slider inside Outfit Studio, but thing is, my game CTD's when I open RaceMenu and change gender to female.

 

Surprisingly it didn't take me just deleting Overwrite from BS to fix the game, and it took me forever to find the file that was crashing, which in fact was coming from Expressive Facegen Morphs. 

 

Ugh.

 

Is there any other optimal way to do it?

 

 

 

Spoiler

 

Edited June 16, 2023 by joojo95

[joojo95]

in case anyone wants the sliders here are the files.

 

My original goal is to merge them with the Bodyslide preset in a single mod

sliderosd.osd slidernif.nif sliderbsd.bsd sliderbj.obj

[ghastley]

The problem is likely to be that the expression and phoneme morphs can’t work with the head mesh any more. But I would expect a distorted face, rather than a crash.

 

The various noses, mouths, etc. all have to fit, too.

Edited June 16, 2023 by ghastley

[V2022]

On 6/16/2023 at 1:11 PM, joojo95 said:

in case anyone wants the sliders here are the files.

 

My original goal is to merge them with the Bodyslide preset in a single mod

sliderosd.osd 22.74 kB · 1 download slidernif.nif 256.96 kB · 1 download sliderbsd.bsd 25.96 kB · 1 download sliderbj.obj 324.73 kB · 1 download

 

Thanks for this. How do you get the dds textures to fit on this face? When I bring it into Nifskope, I can't get it to match. Do you have facetint for this?

[joojo95]

On 7/11/2023 at 5:08 AM, V2022 said:

 

Thanks for this. How do you get the dds textures to fit on this face? When I bring it into Nifskope, I can't get it to match. Do you have facetint for this?

 

tbh i don't know lol

 

i imported the head into outfit studio and morphed it in there

[Jenova23]

Has anyone managed to get this to work? If possible can this be used as a head replacer? 

[traison]

5 hours ago, Jenova23 said:

Has anyone managed to get this to work?

 

What, you mean the body variance or the custom head?

 

If you mean body variance, then look into BodyGen, a feature of RaceMenu. There's bound to already be presets for this on the Nexus, even though its a somewhat hidden feature.

[Jenova23]

15 hours ago, traison said:

 

What, you mean the body variance or the custom head?

 

If you mean body variance, then look into BodyGen, a feature of RaceMenu. There's bound to already be presets for this on the Nexus, even though its a somewhat hidden feature.

Well, I'm simply trying to turn it into a head replacer, which I will then use to individually edit each NPC in the creation kit.

[anjenthedog]

If I were to try such an interesting thing (truly... imo cool idea if done right), I'd try to use Racemenu and preset swaps, although I have no idea how you'd push Racemenu processing as a background (silent) or for that matter, instant operation

 

Or., unless they're unresolvable, an array of nioverrides to dynamically reshape the face (again no idea how I'd do that but it seems ... possible from nioverrides and body morphs that are already evidenced in ABBA and so forth)

 

Edited January 12, 2024 by anjenthedog
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[Jenova23]

Would anyone be willing to create a head replacer?