General Enquiry about Custom Followers and creating them

[andypuk1980]

So I've just started playing Skyrim again, I didn't actually play it much before so wanted to give it the full beans so to speak, I don't have the Special Edition, just the original and the dlc's and I have a bunch of mods installed mostly for custom followers and cosmetic stuff like hair, CBBE and the bodysliders etc and SKSE, but I was curious about making my own custom followers and how to implement them.

I've tried different mods and had varying sucess, the one I've had better luck with is Familiar Faces, but some of the mods just won't work for certain things such as implementing the CBBE Bodyslide, Familiar Faces won't do it, I tried the Creation Kit and again no full body preset settings, they only seem to copy the face and hair and just use the default game bodies.

If I use Familiar Faces together with the Extensible Follower Framework, EFF does have an option in Tattoos that allows you to change the body using CBBE Bodyslide, but I'm looking for something thats more of a all in one package rather than having to mess about using several different mods and clicking on each follower to edit them everytime, so does anyone know if there is a way round this or am I out of luck and just stuck with FF and EFF?

Do I need to get the Special Edition to have better sucess with more mods and better options?

Another query I have is I downloaded some custom followers from the Steam workshop and on Nexus, I can remove the outfits from some of them and they appear naked thanks to CBBE, but others have underwear and can't be removed or no option to remove them, is there a way of getting around this or is it something the mod author has impleted and made it so the followers can't be naked when you remove the armor, I don't know how to mess about the mod files, so again is there a tutorial somewhere that tells you how to do this if thats what I have to do?

Just a few questions if anyone can advise

[RomeoZero]

You can create whatever companion with face and body your heart desires in meta rpg Skyrim LE, be it from anime or movies or comix. Good that there are online video tutorials for those tasks. All you need to know is this important things:

• Need to learn basics of what is Nifskope and how to use it to make meshes work properly on your projects
• Need to learn Bodyslide and Outfit studio basics (better do advanced level of creating bodies and outfits)
• Know how to use "export face" option from Racemenu\ ECE plugins to create faces
• Learn basics of Creation Kit creating outfit \armor \ character \ hair \ faceparts tabs from wiki
• pump you playlist with power rock music and start working bro

Edited September 6, 2023 by RomeoZero