Refresh my memory: Is Racemenu **required** to play Skyrim?

[anjenthedog]

title says it all.

 

thanks

[Fotogen]

No. Sort of.

 

It has better character creation menu. 

 

It also comes with NiOverride and this is required by a lot of other mod.  Its does all those tatoo and body overlays and dynamic body resize and so on. Body morphs.

 

 

[MadMansGun]

it just depends on what mods you want to use, i've been fine without it.

[Hex Bolt]

19 minutes ago, anjenthedog said:

title says it all.

Not required.  You can still enter "ShowRaceMenu" in the console to use the vanilla character customization.

[anjenthedog]

thanks. That answers that question. So Skyrim has a set of internal function in its vanilla format (ie no mods) for handling the player's visual assembly. Thanks

 

so by extension then, unless it's overwritten or overridden by some added mod that takes over its management, Skyrim itself is responsible for  "rendering" the player (ie assembling and displaying his or her diffuse, specular, normal, etc maps)

Edited April 30, 2025 by anjenthedog
clarity

[jfraser]

yes. if you started a game of skyrim without any mods whatsoever, of course the game would be able to render your character, with all required parts. it would just be super pinched-faced and ugly XD