The Ashen - Oriental Beauty Race

[Seren]

Hello LoversLab!

 

I thought I'd open a thread here aswell for my recently released custom race, which is now named "The Ashen".

It's a conversion from RadioRagae's "Oriental Beauty Women And Man Mod" to a custom race.

 

Race download link

 

Race description:

 

The Ashen are a small race of people who live scattered throughout Tamriel. It is said that The Ashen originate from the Akaviri homeland from which they fled, fearing Tsaesci enslavement.

Most of them live in secluded areas of the land in relative peace away from the troubles of the world. It is unsure how many of them live in modern society due to the fact that they look a lot like other humanoid races. Most of them prefer to keep their identity a secret to prevent any unwanted attention.

Legend has it that the Ashen have regenerative capabilities that surpass that of all other races which enables them to recover from most wounds with decreased scar tissue and gives them their youthful appearance. Having their body in top shape at all times make The Ashen very capable fighters and are known to have reflexes that surpass that of most other races.

 

Base Stats:

 

One-handed +10

Conjuration +5

Block +5

Destruction +5

Light Armor +5

Restoration +5

 

Total Skill Bonus = 35 (Just like vanilla races)

 

Race perks:

 

Health Regeneration: Outside of combat you regenerate your health more than twice as fast than other Tamrielic races. Despite this, health is not recovered faster than Stamina in this state.

 

Reflex - Daily power: Time slows around you for 3 seconds and regenerates stamina for 7 seconds (nearly a full bar) thanks to your heightened reflexes.

 

The race includes new cosmetics as well: 13 of RadioRagae's new eyes, 24 eyebrows, 8 types of warpaint and revamped makeup.

 

Currently supported body mods:

 

- Vanilla

- CBBEv3

- UNP

 

Body mods not (yet) supported:

- CHSBHC (Coming soon!)

- Acdale Eyecandy (Not enough demand, if I'm not mistaken)

 

Version History:

 

 

V1.1 - The female variant of the race has received an additional 9 eyebrow textures, making a total of 18 new eyebrows. The first 12 eyebrows in your character generation, the last making your character have no brows, are vanilla eyebrows and the next 18 are the new ones.

There are also 6 new eyebrows added for the male variant.

 

Base race perks changed:

- Adrenaline rush is now Reflex: a daily power that enables slows time around you for 3 seconds and regenerates stamina for 7 seconds (nearly a full bar) for those tight situations.

- The magic resistance of 25% has been changed to a health regeneration that is more than twice as fast, but still not faster than your stamina bar regenerates.

 

Elven eye and nose forms have been removed from the race as they looked very awkward.

 

Contrary to what I believed, the texture paths in the femalehead.nif did need a change to work properly. It would sometimes mix up textures causing neck seams. This is now fixed.

 

Several new presets.

 

The head texture now fits seamlessly on the body texture!

 

Necklaces and rings can now be equipped normally again! They don't stack anymore and they DO show up.

 

Werewolf and Vampire transformations are fixed.

 

V1.0 - Added a new custom race called "Oriental" that adds a race that uses textures and a mesh from RadioRagae's "Oriental Beauty Women and Man Mod".

First version features the addition of new cheek tintmasks, eyebrows, eyeliner styles, eyesocket textures, eyes and lips. Later version will probably include RadioRagae's new warpaint as well.

 

 

 

Comments and feedback are always appreciated.

[strelitzia]

Love this race :3 glad to see you here!

[SummGai]

random fact, the ashen or aschen was also a race of evil humanoid beings in Stargate SG1, who used their advanced alien technology to befriend more primitive races by granting them longevity but secretly sterilizing the entire population with their longevity serum.

 

The more you know! XD

[sisgood]

Wonderful to see you here! I love your vanilla replacer mod and will probably be trying out this one in the next few days.

 

We have been looking for this hair and no one can find it. Could you please share the download link? We don't have the Nexus rules here. lol Just check our "what mod is this" thread.

[glemtvapen]

Will you be supporting the Extended Slider Color mod? Vanilla Hair colors lack that bright color I need for my cute Ashen. More brighter eyes support will also be good.

[guilmonex]

Good work, seams gone and the only problem that annoys me is the left half of her face. Especially, the left eye and left part of the mouth.

 

Can you make them the same as the right half of her face?

[Seren]

@SummGai

Haha, I knew it was a SG-1 race, but I forgot about what they did.

That's pretty cool actually. XD

 

@Sisgood

Don't forget that the vanilla replacer is all RadioRagae's work. For the custom race we worked together: he made the textures and I did the painstaking CK work.

I'll try to look what hair that is- oh wait, I saw the post in the "What mod is this?" thread and it's a private mod... Don't worry though, it's a hair I had in Oblivion so it can't be long before someone else makes it for Skyrim.

 

@Glemtvapen

Actually! That was what I was going to look into next. I already have the mod ready for installation for use with the CK, so I'm curious to see why it doesn't work at the moment. My guess is that it simply doesn't use a race called "DefaultRace" from which my race get it's ability to actually use items and not just be nude. xD

 

@Guilmonex

Whoa, that shouns odd... Got a screen shot? I'm really curious to see what it looks like. Wait, I think I know what you're seeing: the texture around the eyelids isn't the same for the two halves, but I can't find the mouth problem you're having.

 

I just looked at the texture and the face texture actually isn't the same for the two halves over at the eyes. The lips are still the same as in V1.0 though: mirrored.

Could you post a screenshot and mark the area where you think the eye texture bit looks the best.

Looking at my own character I think her left eye looks the best (so that means left from her perspective, the one with more eyeliner).

 

My character:

 

 

 

Edit: Scratch that, I just looked in-game some more and the right eye is better because it is more natural and has less make-up so you can still add it yourself.

[guilmonex]

One more problem, I can't save the war paint(maybe the makeup too). when I load her save, no war paint and makeup seems different. Is it cause by the Makeup mod from oriental beauty FandM?

 

And here is the texture problem of the lips, well not a big problem but it makes she always smiles with only one side of the mouth.

 

[Seren]

Okay, I fixed the eyes:

 

 

 

I'm going to see what looks best for the mouth next.

 

And I just checked what you said about saving. The warpaint and most of the makeup doesn't save indeed.

I'm going to fire up the CK, but I'm almost starting to think that Skyrim doesn't want to use custom stuff.

[guilmonex]

Yes, I think so.

 

I used command to set carryweight to 9000 and every time I load her save, it goes back to 3XX.....

I hope the quests can be saved properly, otherwise....

[Seren]

You're a great help, Guilmonex. Thanks!

 

Could you check whether old completed quests are in the list of completed quests?

 

I'll look into those things not staying on save.

 

Also here is the mouth fixed:

Version where left part is copied to the right (looks odd, not going to use it):

 

 

 

Version where right part is copied to the left(Will use this):

 

 

 

I thought the smirk actually looked pretty cute. xD

[guilmonex]

I'll check it now.

 

The second one is better, do want. XD

[Seraphyx]

I have a bit of an issue with the shadows cast on the character. I did have a ton of other aesthetic mods installed with mod manager (which I uninstalled before switching to dimonized and overwrote everything) so maybe that would have been the issue?

 

Anyway here's a screenshot, you can see on the edge of the face/cheeks below it has vertical shadow lines:

 

Contains nudity:

 

 

 

This also happens on the body when clothes are removed and I'm really not sure why. When in shadows or a bit dimmer lighting you can't really see but when facing a light source you can see them pretty clearly.

 

It's not a HUGE problem but just something that's going to bug me every time I notice. I'm sure it's a problem on my end since I didn't see this in other screenshots.

It's also only with this race, no other ones seem to have this shadow issue.

[guilmonex]

The completed quests are still there and skills are normal.

 

Don't know what cause that shadow, can't help.

[Seren]

The carry weight problem you're having is really weird, because I just tried changing it, saving and then restarting Skyrim and it just keeps working.

 

Also, the save bug is something that's probably out of my reach and I'm trying to get some (expert) help over at Bethesda's own forums.

Nevertheless I will keep looking; I won't give up so easily.

 

Guilmonex, I heard one person say that when reverting back to human form from werewolf you lose your head. Could you test this?

[sisgood]

The Nexus has a mod to fix that shadow problem. I think it's still one of the "hot" mods. If not, just search for shadow fix and you should find it.

[Seraphyx]

The Nexus has a mod to fix that shadow problem. I think it's still one of the "hot" mods. If not' date=' just search for shadow fix and you should find it.

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I tried that actually, I don't think it's the same problem to be honest, though it does look similar.

 

I installed it anyway but the problem is still there. It's always in the same places and it's not exclusive to happening in doors. Overall it doesn't bother me very much, even when taking screenshots I can find an angle where those don't appear.

[guilmonex]

The carry weight problem you're having is really weird' date=' because I just tried changing it, saving and then restarting Skyrim and it just keeps working.

 

Also, the save bug is something that's probably out of my reach and I'm trying to get some (expert) help over at Bethesda's own forums.

Nevertheless I will keep looking; I won't give up so easily.

 

Guilmonex, I heard one person say that when reverting back to human form from werewolf you lose your head. Could you test this?

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Yes, I can test that but it need some time, she just reach Whiterun at the moment.

[Seren]

Oh okay, well there's also player.addspell 00092c48, but I don't think you need to test it anymore.

The reason is that the people who reported the problem used their old character and did the ol' showracemenu trick. Since the werewolfscript registers what your character first was, you will switch back to that character's original race and yes: lose your Ashen's head.

[guilmonex]

I saw that one not long ago. How is it going on the face texture?

[Seren]

The remade texture is progressing quite well. I can already see more detail, especially the lips look fantastic now.

 

I was told not to post anything to soon by the guy who's helping me, but I'm doing it anyway. xD

 

 

 

This was the way it looked a day ago and it looks even better now. Don't pay attention to the white-ish patch of skin, it's not the color it's going to be. The new normal + specular will increase how real the skin looks, you can already see some pores and the lips have some depth due to them.

 

I have an important question though:

Can someone here please convert the female head texture for use with CHSBHC? I tried it, but I can't get the neck texture from the body on the head.

[guilmonex]

Looks like there is still some makeups on her left eye?

[Seren]

The eyes weren't even touched there. It's the original texture (with the fix).

[ahddubbuddah]

hey Seren, im having the issues with my game freezing when i go to try to change my character to the Ashen Race in the race menu. any ideas on how to fix it? im using the latest version of your mod, the hotfix for cbbe, and the most recent version of the cbbe body

[lyfsavor]

My game is freezing up when I try to choose the female gender of this race, anyone have a clue why?