What is the 'Hair Length' G.E.C.K. supposed to do?

[73K]

Not urgent or anything, but it doesn't change anything when I use it, I'm kinda curious.

[Guest endgameaddiction]

Now that you mention it. I never bothered to find out myself. Well I slightly take that back. I've messed with the slider and don't recall seeing anything change in hair and length.

[KainsChylde]

I too have messed with it with no visible change. This is a very good question.

[jaam]

Nothing !

 

[73K]

Well, Google didn't help. My theory is that hair was probably supposed to be controlled by FaceGen (or some sort of similar system), and then the devs figured it would be too difficult/time consuming and dropped it.

[A.J.]

It has the same purpose of the Weight parameter.

[jaam]

Weight at least is used and copied around. No visible effect so far though. Hair length just sit in the character definition doing nothing.

 

[Odessa]

An enterprising modder might use the value to store some arbitrary data on an NPC. NX variables are more powerful for that though.

[jaam]

And there's not really a shortage of number fields, what is missing are form fields or string fields

 

[BruceWayne]

This is a leftover from Oblivion, where this slider had an actual effect on vanilla hair length in character creation..

[DJFrosted]

I think its a preset ported from Oblivion