HC Mods corner (SotTR, HFW)

[hornycopter]

On 8/13/2025 at 6:13 AM, Batcreature said:

Just so you know, it moves in a few different ways, lol.

Having trouble trying to recreate it. Do you have "shader toggler" in ReShade enabled? Does this happen to all variations of this outfit or only with this one in particular?

On another subject - made archive with HFW original table of content files - for those who struggling to restore game files after Mod Manager errors:
HFW streaming_graph v1.5.80 backup.zip

 

Files need to be placed to "Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition\LocalCacheWinGame\package" folder.

 

Edited October 16, 2025 by hornycopter

[JustCurious10]

After using your amazing mod for some time, i noticed that her belly / hip looks a little weird as soon as Aloy crouches. It would be nice if you could improve her in this area, but this is only a minor annoyance.

Edited August 13, 2025 by JustCurious10

[ozzel77]

On 8/12/2025 at 12:12 PM, hornycopter said:

Found several vids on youtube - added them to mod page.

 

There is also gif by faith103 😍:

 

Awesome thx
I'm surprised how well nudity fits Aloy in game.
A fighting Amazon.
Doing Aloy things.
I've finished HFW and still prefer playing HZD, the mechanics just fit me better.
But I'd gladly watch HFW start to end with this mod

[hornycopter]

Update to starting outfit Nora Anointed/Champion is now avaliable:

[ibmeto]

16 minutes ago, hornycopter said:

Update to starting outfit Nora Anointed/Champion is now avaliable:

Nice Update

Just wondering where the meshes for the loincloth and top are...
Want to add it to the simple nude version

Thanks again

[Reaper59]

48 minutes ago, hornycopter said:

Update to starting outfit Nora Anointed/Champion is now avaliable:

Fantastic.

Brilliant work HC.

Quick question, does the last variation have a slightly different one without the armor on the arms?

[hornycopter]

5 hours ago, ibmeto said:

Just wondering where the meshes for the loincloth and top are...

4 hours ago, Reaper59 said:

Quick question, does the last variation have a slightly different one without the armor on the arms?

Files description list also updated now. But as we figure out before in this thread - looks like you can only remove outfit parts by swaping *_mesh.stream files. So not sure it gonna work for mensioned parts.

I think I'll add 2-3 extra variations little bit later. It's first outfit of the game and it has biggest number of color options for loincloth and top - so it makes sense to add more.

Speaking about color options - here's new screenshots with HC Aloy outfits progress so far and various standard color dyes applied:

 

Edited August 14, 2025 by hornycopter

[elarabloom]

Great work, will you add a non-barefoot version?

[Reaper59]

5 hours ago, hornycopter said:

Files description list also updated now. But as we figure out before in this thread - looks like you can only remove outfit parts by swaping *_mesh.stream files. So not sure it gonna work for mensioned parts.

I think I'll add 2-3 extra variations little bit later. It's first outfit of the game and it has biggest number of color options for loincloth and top - so it makes sense to add more.

Speaking about color options - here's new screenshots with HC Aloy outfits progress so far and various standard color dyes applied:

 

Brilliant. Love the new variations, its just the armor on the arms that I'm not a big fan of. Can't wait to see what you got cooking up for us.

[hornycopter]

6 hours ago, elarabloom said:

Great work, will you add a non-barefoot version?

Not for current ones. Most likely in next outfits.

Whole game has "beach holidays" vibe for me - most of the map is either some tropical paradise with some kind of water always nearby - plus a lot of desert/savannah.
As I remember - not much time of story is spent in other locations - in snowy mountains, deep forests, etc. -  where tribal shoes make more sense for me.

So overall I think majority of my outfits for HFW will be bare feet - I will add shoes just from time to time, if they have cool design or make real sense for particular outfit or faction.

Edited August 15, 2025 by hornycopter

[alonso14959]

I might be tripping, but I never saw this bug while playing the base game, so I’m gonna assume this is a mod-related bug.

 

While in photo mode, I noticed that when the option "follow the camera" is disabled, and even during poses where this option isn’t available at all (and during some cutscenes), Aloy still follows the camera with her eyes randomly (when the option is on, she normally follows it with her head too).

 

(The HUD is in Portuguese, but the highlighted option is the one indicating that "follow the camera" is disabled.)

 

It’s actually a very funny and scary bug, so I’m just sharing it for fun since it doesn’t bother me too much.

[depma]

Is it possible to bring in the areola and smaller nipples from your Lara mod into this game? Also a lighter brown and light pink areola options? 

[Pilotti]

3 hours ago, alonso14959 said:

I might be tripping, but I never saw this bug while playing the base game, so I’m gonna assume this is a mod-related bug.

 

While in photo mode, I noticed that when the option "follow the camera" is disabled, and even during poses where this option isn’t available at all (and during some cutscenes), Aloy still follows the camera with her eyes randomly (when the option is on, she normally follows it with her head too).

It's not due to the mod. I tested it and the result was that it only appeared in some poses, not all. The same phenomenon occurs in the non-modded game as well.

Edited August 15, 2025 by Pilotti

[Fooker19721121]

5 hours ago, alonso14959 said:

It’s actually a very funny and scary bug, so I’m just sharing it for fun since it doesn’t bother me too much.

 

Personally, I interpreted this as a lewd metafictional feature, suggesting that Aloy is actually aware of her exposed costume and is just "kindly" accepting it and smiling at the player over the screen. 🤤👉👌

[Batcreature]

On 8/13/2025 at 5:30 AM, hornycopter said:

Having trouble trying to recreate it. Do you have "shader toggler" in ReShade enabled? Does this happen to all variations of this outfit or only with this one in particular?

On another subject - made archive with HFW original table of content files - for those who struggling to restore game files after Mod Manager errors:
HFW streaming_graph v1.5.80 backup.zip

 

Yeah, I have 'Shader Toggler' enabled in ReShade, but it was happening even before I installed it. Haven’t tried the other versions, I just like this one, It doesn’t happen all the time, just sometimes.

[semri]

hornycopter You're a legend! Thank you so much! I've been waiting for this mod for a year and haven't played it. I hoped and believed. You're just a handsome man! Please tell me which other armor you will be making mods for. And about how often they will be released. In how many days. I understand you also have a personal life, but at least roughly. Otherwise, I think I'll wait and play when all your mods are ready. And if you also do it on NPCs.... It will be a sensation. 

[kingcody]

@hornycopter the Nora annointed stuff is AWESOME!!!!! thank you!!!!!
Do you think there's a way you can make an edit where she has all the necklaces, but is still topless man? like this?
 

[kingcody]

@hornycopter also, I love your mods man, but seriously can you stop... I can only restart this game so many times to see new outfits in the cutscenes! xD

[semri]

4 hours ago, kingcody said:

@hornycopter то, что Нора анонсировала, просто ПОТРЯСАЮЩЕЕ!!!!! спасибо вам!!!!!
Как думаешь, можно ли сделать так, чтобы у неё были все ожерелья, но при этом она оставалась топлес? вот так?
 

And the nipples are cool here.😋

[kingcody]

On 8/9/2025 at 1:59 AM, hornycopter said:

Made file list of all HC Aloy modded files with descriptions. So you can interchange mesh files between outfits variations or bundle mods your own way.
 

For example - To remove Cape from Tenakth Recon/Reaver - you can copy "58_5E568520_mesh.stream" and "58_5DFBA642_mesh.stream" files from "HC Aloy - TR - Nude No Cape" folder to any other variation folder and replace files in those folders.

 

Can anyone get this to work? I copy the two cape mesh files from the Nude No cape folder and put them to my desired folder, then boot up MM and pack the files, but it always crashes when I try to load into game

I'm trying to get the TR Armor Bottomless with the No Cape... 
 

[etf76816]

6 hours ago, kingcody said:

@hornycopter the Nora annointed stuff is AWESOME!!!!! thank you!!!!!
Do you think there's a way you can make an edit where she has all the necklaces, but is still topless man? like this?
 

Don't expect too much,he rarely responds to requests from custom editors.

[kingcody]

Ok so I've gotten the mods working but I keep getting this huge long black vertical line from Aloy's belly button down to her feet that doesn't go away, when using the TR topless armor or Nude armor... anyone have any idea what's going on? Is this a MM issue or the mods themselves?

[DoxingPatr1ot]

49 minutes ago, kingcody said:

Ok so I've gotten the mods working but I keep getting this huge long black vertical line from Aloy's belly button down to her feet that doesn't go away, when using the TR topless armor or Nude armor... anyone have any idea what's going on? Is this a MM issue or the mods themselves?

The black vertical line popped up for me as well. A fresh install did not fix it either.

[hornycopter]

On 8/13/2025 at 6:13 AM, Batcreature said:

Just so you know, it moves in a few different ways, lol.

 

13 hours ago, kingcody said:

Ok so I've gotten the mods working but I keep getting this huge long black vertical line from Aloy's belly button down to her feet.

Ok I tested things a bit - this issue is really weird. I think it's not connected to how mods made or how any combinations of mod work together - most likely it's the part of bigger issue with how Aloy's custom models load to game - i.e. sometimes they don't load at all when you try to change outfits. I think this also happens sometimes with outfit replacements from other modders.

 

So, when I need to delete outfit parts - I can't actually delete them completely - I replace them with some tiny meshes from same outfit parts (small rivots, rings, rope pieces, etc.) and hide them inside Aloy body model. When you change outfits - some of those small parts (but not all of them strangely) get detached from Aloy skeleton completely - they just float around by using same world coordinates as Aloy (also they get prolonged poligons sometimes).

I can't fix this issue - only thing I can do on my part is maybe scale down those small parts even more so they can be less notisable then appear. I'm not sure it can be fixed at all - the only one who can maybe try to fix it is id-daemon if he change somehow his packing method so game can load custom files in more robust way.

How can you avoid it on your side? Looks like during load of the game you have highest chance to load custom files correctly without any bugs (if outfit was already applied to Aloy before save). So, here kinda working solution:

• Select outfit and Apply It.
• Close inventory and make sure custom outfit is visible in-game.
• Save the game and then Load that new save right away.
• After that don't change outfit at all to avoid faulty load of custom files - avoid even opening outfits preview menu.
• Want to change outfit again - repeat all steps again.

 

Edited August 17, 2025 by hornycopter

[Batcreature]

35 minutes ago, hornycopter said:

 

Ok, probé un poco las cosas; este problema es realmente extraño. Creo que no está relacionado con cómo se crean los mods o cómo funcionan juntas las combinaciones de mods; lo más probable es que sea parte de un problema mayor con cómo se cargan los modelos personalizados de Aloy en el juego, es decir, a veces no se cargan en absoluto y luego intentas cambiar de atuendo. Creo que esto también sucede con los reemplazos de atuendos de otros modders.

 

Entonces necesito eliminar partes del atuendo; en realidad no puedo eliminarlas por completo; las reemplazo con algunas mallas pequeñas de las mismas partes del atuendo (pequeños remaches, anillos, piezas de cuerda, etc.) y las escondo dentro del modelo de carrocería Aloy. Luego cambias de atuendo: algunas de esas pequeñas partes (pero no todas, curiosamente) se separan completamente del esqueleto de Aloy y simplemente flotan usando las mismas coordenadas mundiales que Aloy. También a veces reciben polígonos prolongados.

No puedo solucionar este problema; lo único que puedo hacer de mi parte es tal vez reducir aún más esas piezas pequeñas para que puedan ser menos visibles de lo que aparecen. No estoy seguro de que se pueda arreglar en absoluto. El único que tal vez pueda intentar arreglarlo es id-daemon si cambia de alguna manera su método de embalaje para que el juego pueda cargar archivos personalizados de una manera más robusta.

¿Cómo puedes evitarlo de tu lado? Parece que durante la carga del juego tienes mayores posibilidades de cargar archivos personalizados correctamente sin errores (si ya se aplicó el atuendo a Aloy antes de guardarlo). Entonces, aquí hay una solución que funciona:

• Selecciona atuendo y aplícalo.
• Cierra el inventario y asegúrate de que el atuendo personalizado esté visible en el juego.
• Guarda el juego y luego carga ese nuevo guardado de inmediato.
• Después de eso, no cambies de atuendo en absoluto para evitar una carga defectuosa de archivos personalizados; evita incluso abrir el menú de vista previa de atuendos.
• Si quieres cambiar de atuendo nuevamente, repite todos los pasos nuevamente.

 

Thank you very much, I’ll do that, honestly, your work is amazing, you’re the best sculptor in modding. And if you can’t solve it, no worries, you already gave us an incredible mod.