Seren Posted March 10, 2012 Posted March 10, 2012 The Ashen - A custom race for TES V: Skyrim V2.1 HD Features: * Well-tested Custom Race with lots of custom assets and its own unique style. You can either make a realistic yet beautiful character or a more unrealistic one. * Includes custom-made CharGen morphs by RadioRagae for more smooth faces * The race includes its own separate body and all included textures are HD. Have a body type that is separated from the other NPCs and switch to another whenever you want! * More than 46 eyes to choose from! A lot of them have also been mixed-and-matched so you can have two different eye colors! * 38 New eyebrows to choose from. * Besides the original vanilla warpaint you can also choose from 15 beautiful new custom warpaint types. * 8 Revamped new presets that function as good base to make your own character from. * Working Mounted Horse Combat! Download Link Screenshots: New Preset 1 New Preset 2 New Preset 3 New Preset 4 New Preset 5 New Preset 6 New Preset 7 New Preset 8 Preset 8 different hair Announcements: Announcements ---------------------- Thanks for all the downloads, comments and images everybody! You're the best. Upgrading from The Ashen V2.0? Read this!: If you've already installed the new version, you have probably noticed your character's face doesn't look like it did before. Better or worse. This is because I have used new CharGen morphs and are meant to make your character look better. If your character does not have his/her desired look, then go to the Recommended section and download "Show Race Menu Options". With this mod you can safely and quickly edit your character to look in top shape again! On request (PM me) I can upload a version that uses V2.0's old head mesh, but I don't recommend it. Dawnguard Notice: I have provided a temporary fix. For now I am waiting for feedback whether it lets you transform in the new vampire jiggamabob thing or not. Whether this fix works or not, there's a better scripted fix coming soon as well. However, I have no control over its progress, because I can't afford to buy Dawnguard right now and thus can't mod for it. If this fix doesn't work, you can always try changing to the vampire counterpart of the race manually. 1) Open the console by pressing tilde( `). 2) Type player.setrace OraezeRaceVampire . 3) Do so well before it is required of you to change into the new type of vampire and not right before it. Tips that will increase the chance the race loads 100% as it should down below! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I also know of a way to ensure you can start a new game with this race and even later on edit your character without experiencing nasty crashes: 1) Download "Sex change crash Workaround" to ensure your game won't crash when switching from male to female. Use ONLY for female characters. 2)Use "Show Race Menu Options" if you want to be able to edit your character later on with a lower risk of crashing and messing up your character's stats. =) I also discovered that it's best to wait 30 seconds before switching the race to Ashen or you could have missing body parts such as hair or eyes. What I usually do is that I go to the hair section of the default starting character and move around some sliders to ensure the game will load it for The Ashen as well. Take your time and the race will load entirely! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Notice: The vanilla version doesn't exist anymore. If you're using a prior vanilla version of the race you have to rename the plugin (OrientalRace.esp) to OrientalRace - Vanilla.esp to ensure your character won't be missing his/her head. For anyone experiencing problems regarding dialogue that is race restricted or mentions this race I would like to redirect you to expired6978's Race Compatibility page and submit the error in the following format: Racial Dialogue The NPC who spoke the dialogue The line spoken Expired6978's Race Compatibility plugin is the most extensive and best way to make sure custom races are compatible with eachother. To any modders who are reading this, I strongly suggest to use it for your custom race as well for a better user experience through one unified system. It's simply the best option.[/align] 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. This is RadioRagae's beautiful race replacer made into a separate custom race so you can enjoy it's aesthetically pleasing looks without changing the look of every NPC in Skyrim. In this release you will find one race named "Ashen" which has a unique variant for both the female and male variant. Available to you are a set of presets so you can easily make a beautiful character; male or female. For your character's face you can choose the regular vanilla options plus new custom HD material consisting of 46+ of RadioRagae's new eyes, 38 eyebrows, 8 types of warpaint and revamped makeup added on top of those. 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 12 seconds and regenerates stamina for 7 seconds (nearly a full bar) thanks to your heightened reflexes. Recommended additional mods: Ashen-related Mods and/or Saves ------------------- - Ashen V2 Follower - Aelis Blackwatch by thekineticeffect - Oriental Housecarl Replacer by MC - Aya - Nord or Ashen female Level 2 Save File by Alstar80 - Freyja Ashen Race by NuclearFuzion (Save file) - The Ashen Beauty - Valkyria Dragonborne -Tifa like char by xp32 - Miyuki - Ashen Assassin by Lestatt Gaara (Save File) - Hiroku Level 1 Ashen Race Female with Perks by FalmerBane - Ashen Race - Raven by jc1977 (Save File) Some save files show an older version, before the HD version for instance so a character can actually look better with this version. Recommended Additional Mods ------------------- - Sex Change Crash Workaround - Show Race Menu Options - Showracemenu Alternative (For switching from another race to this one, else I recommend Show Race Menu Options) - ApachiiSkyHair - Hair packs of TES IV: Oblivion - Hair packs of Fallout 3 - Cazy hairs and demoness hairs conversion by zzjay - Lovely Hairs by zn00p - Xenius' Character Enhancement (to make the vanilla parts HD) - XCE - Brows(To make the vanilla brows beautiful HD) - Extended Color Slider Patcher (For more color variations!) - The Skeleton of Female Models (Better proportions for female bodies and fixes sheathed weapons clipping) Bugs: Bug(s) ------------------- - For some installations the script does not get activated properly. This can cause a multitude of bugs such as: * No additional hair showing up * Missing parts of the head or the head itself * The fixed DB quest not working You can usually fix these problems by opening your console in-game (tilde-button: ` ) and typing these two separate commands: stopquest OrientalRaceController startquest OrientalRaceController This is preferably done in an interior that has nothing to do with the DB quest that was fixed. Requirements: Requirements ------------------- - A legal copy of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Patch 1.6 or up) Installation/uninstallation instructions: Installation --------------- Before installing make sure you have downloaded the correct variant of the race to prevent any texture errors from occuring. To install the mod you can either: - Install using the Nexus Mod Manager (NMM) by downloading the archive that is required for your female body type. You can download the archive for use with the NMM using the "Download with manager" button in the files section below the file you require. Once it is downloaded you can install the mod by using the button that says "Activate selected mod" under the "Mods" tab in the NMM. - Or do a manual install by following these steps: Open the archive and drag the included folder named "data" to your skyrim folder which is normally found in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\skyrim. Choose "Yes" when asked to merge the folders. Activate the OrientalRace.esp file through either the Skyrim launcher under "Data Files" or activate the mod with the Nexus Mod Manager (NMM). Uninstallation ------------------- To uninstall the mod with the Nexus Mod Manager go to the "Mods" tab and select this mod. Choose "Deactivate Selected Mod". To uninstall the mod manually disable the OrientalRace.esp and remove the following folders from your skyrim/data folder: - skyrim/meshes/actors/character/Oriental - skyrim/textures/actors/character/Oriental - Also delete the OrientalRace.esp file in skyrim/data. F.A.Q. FAQ ------------------ Q: Can I use this custom race along with the Better Vampires mod? A: Yes, but make sure to install Better Vampires after this race and use the "Use Custom Race" option in Better Vampires. It can be accessed with the {Customize or Reset Better Vampires Mod} at the bottom of your Powers to set variables and reinfect your customized race with vampirism. You will be able to play my mod as a customized race and enjoy all of the abilities and powers! Use the "Reset Better Vampires" menu option to remove this change. Q: I decided to switch from vanilla to ADEC/CBBE/CHSBHC/UNP/UNPB and now my character doesn't show up in-game. What do I do? A: After having installed the correct version for your new body-type go and rename the OrientalRace.esp to OrientalRace - Vanilla.esp. Your character should show up again. Changing race to Ashen without resetting skills, or stats: Use the "Showracemenu Alternative" mod! Why won't the extended color slider mod work with this race? You will need to download the Extended Color Slider Patcher and patch this race. Download it here: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=6923 I'm missing parts that should work for the race. OR A race-specific portion of a quest is bugged, while you said that was fixed. The script that adds/fixes it must have gotten bugged somehow. Use the following console commands to stop and start it to fix it. stopquest OrientalRaceController startquest OrientalRaceController My game will freeze or even crash when I try to load the race in the character menu. Your game freezing when loading the race is normal. The game must load new assets and a couple of scripts that prevent conflicts will start to apply. However, if your game crashes it may mean that you don't have enough RAM memory left, either because your computer doesn't have a lot of it or because Skyrim has a lot of mods loaded (especially HD ones will contribute to the problem). Try switching off some heavy mods temporarily (ENB included), make your character and save it before turning the mods back on. TIP!: Use showracemenu in-doors. It will load way faster because there isn't so much scenery. What hair mods are used in some of the screenshots? The only ones I know so far are: - Apachii Skyhair - Lovely Hair Styles - My Type Of Hair - Numenume Hair I just checked the CK and your race isn't added to all the necessary FormLists to get hair working! Wrong! The scripts add the race to those Forms dynamically to prevent conflicts with other mods. Don't manually add the race to those FormLists to prevent conflicting mods!!! I'm getting texture seams. What should I do? Check whether you've downloaded and installed the right variant of this mod. Also check whether you are indeed using the right body mod (feet and body mesh). Why is part of this mod called Oriental!?!?!?!?!?!? To show that it's a conversion of RadioRagae's "Oriental Women and Man Mod". I used the "showracemenu" command in the console to change my character to your race and I'm experiencing problems. Don't use showracemenu and just make a new character. For example it messes up your stats and it also makes the werewolf transition not work properly. I'm using a mod that adds armor/clothing/necklaces/rings and some of them don't show up! That mod's author probably did not include the Default Race to the list of races that can use his/her mod. Contact the author for a fix or do it yourself in the CK by going to Items->ArmorAddons and look for pieces that belong to the mod. Open such an item and on the right-hand you'll have a list of valid races. Click the race called "DefaultRace", press OK and save. Now it should work. Version History: Version History --------------------- V2.1- Mounted Horse Combat has been fixed - 15 custom warpaint added on top of vanilla ones - better texture for the female lips - Dawnguard fix provided, remaining as optional download for now - BFG implemented for better-looking characters and easier character generation - Presets revamped to give a much better base look - Contains own custom body and skeleton now V2.0 - Race is now mostly HD. A lot of parts have been replaced with better versions. 32 New eye textures which are also mixed to get combo's of them. 7 New Eyebrows added. Included ADEC version. Fixed a skin reference that got reset. Updated males slightly. Better CK IDs in some cases. Hotfix #2 for V1.1c - Same as Hotfix #1, but better and the Dark Brotherhood quest that requires your character to be a vanilla race has been fixed. You'll be called a Breton at that point. Hotfix #1 for V1.1c - Removed custom warpaint to ensure all chosen make-up remains after saving. V1.1c - Included a better fix for the vampire/werewolf/hair problem thanks to expired6978 of the "Extended Color Slider Mod". CHSBHC support added. French translation available Hotfix #2 for V1.1b - Makes Reflex last 10 seconds instead of 3. Adds more compatibility with hair mods such as MTOH. Hotfix #1 for V1.1b - Corrects some issues with the face textures. 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. Credits Credits --------------------- Many thanks to: - Bethesda Softworks for Skyrim and the Creation Kit - RadioRagae for the face textures and everything concerning the head of your character including BFG - Won-bin for his male textures - RAN46 for his head mesh - Caliente for his CBBEv3 body, its textures and TexBlend (Original link: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=2666) - Dimon99 for his DIMONIZED UNP( body and textures textures (Original link: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=6709) - Calyps for his UNPB variant of the UNP body (Original link: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/14899) - Acdale for the ADEC body and its textures (Original link: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/5390) - Cherry Hotaling for the CHSBHC body (Original link: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/4888) - XP32 for BBP - Expired6978 for providing me a better fix for the vampire/werewolf transformation and the problem with hair not showing up - Everybody who has pointed out bugs and suggestions for improvement - Anyone else I might have not credited accidentally
Valkynaz666 Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 This is by far my favorite cosmetic mod, thanks for making it; oh and really looking forward to the HD textures. =D
teninoru Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 Fantastic. Been trying to create a pc who looks like Alice from Madness Returns, this was perfect!
sdd500 Posted March 26, 2012 Posted March 26, 2012 Thanks for the Eyebrow textures. Thats right, lol. I dont use the race just eyebrows.. Kidding
Seren Posted April 9, 2012 Author Posted April 9, 2012 (Little repost from the general Ashen thread) Woohoo free stuff time! I'm not gonna wait releasing the next version anymore. I've been ill for the last couple of days and expected RadioRagae (the texture guru) to have responded to my request for the original face texture file so I could make some personal additions. No offense to him of course, he's a great fella. I just wanna provide new stuff. I've got one little problem left and that's that the CHSBHC version is either messed up or not. I don't use the body type myself and I would rather not go through the hassle of installing and deinstalling it. (I'm not at full power yet ) So here's the HD CHSBHC version I'm releasing tomorrow, up for testing: -Link removed, old version- The only problem this version could have is that I included too many texture files. A friend of mine told me he had mismatched hand and/or feet textures. If anyone would want to try out the new version and report their findings here that'd be great! (preferably someone who knows his/her way around folder structures and knows some texture basics) Tips for adjusting your character: - DON'T be outside when you use showracemenu! The mod's become 3 times bigger so be in a zone where your game can really spend the resources on loading the race. - If your game crashes while trying to use showracemenu: DON'T give up! I had to try 4 times once. Bethesda just isn't very good at the whole memory-allocation deal. - It may sound weird, but try using showracemenu when facing your character's back. Crashed the least for me when I did that and loaded the quickest. The other versions will follow tomorrow around the same time as this post.
Seren Posted April 11, 2012 Author Posted April 11, 2012 New version's up! I'll do a proper update message tomorrow, but I'm not feeling well enough right now so I'm gonna sleep.
myuhinny Posted April 16, 2012 Posted April 16, 2012 Looks really good vamprism looks like it works pity it looks like it makes her face look a bit uglier the eyes look nice though. I was just wondering are there any muscle mods that will work with this I have a few on it but I don't think they work with this. Might have to try one then another till I find one that does.
xiro8877 Posted April 24, 2012 Posted April 24, 2012 This is an amazing race. Thanks so much for your hard work (especially the CHSBHC textures). I'm currently using the "elf" version of this race that's on Lovers Lab but I just had to thank you so much for your hard work on the original of course!!! Much love to you! I'd hit the thanks button if I could find it LOL.
Trykz Posted April 24, 2012 Posted April 24, 2012 Seren, this looks amazing. So amazing in fact, I was wondering if I could use it as a foundation for attempts at bringing over The Synx, and possibly The Forgotten races from Oblivion? The stuff you used in this just seems like a perfect fit Let me know, and thanks for yet another fine mod
thekineticeffect Posted May 8, 2012 Posted May 8, 2012 Thanks for making this fantastic race, it's my favorite by far. The V2 textures look fantastic, but there is a small bug I'm having with the CBBE version. I think that you may have saved the body textures (femalebody_1_s.dds, femalebody_1_msn.dds, femalebody_1.dds) without mipmaps, and in my game this causes weird black polygons to appear on my character's skin after a while. My problems manifest on 2xSLi GTX680 and 12GB RAM. Perhaps you may need to release a separate pack of these textures with mipmaps, as Caliente did for the stock CBBE textures? Again, thanks for the great race!
Kayin Posted May 10, 2012 Posted May 10, 2012 Seren' date=' this looks amazing. So amazing in fact, I was wondering if I could use it as a foundation for attempts at bringing over The Synx, and possibly The Forgotten races from Oblivion? The stuff you used in this just seems like a perfect fit Let me know, and thanks for yet another fine mod [/quote'] Try, you may want to hold off on the Synx. Tetro is hard at work on reviving the Synx for Skyrim, so just be patient (trust me, his textures so far are gorgeous.)
Algester Posted June 13, 2012 Posted June 13, 2012 hmm though I have'nt experimented with race modding much (in fact I'm just starting to add race mods) the sad thing is that for some unknown reasons most of the race mods I got keeps on getting CTDs Monli, this mod, and Elin race I did get the race compatibility mod and I too also saw that this adds race compatibility mod as well but still keeps on crashing, most of my given mods are more of graphical overhauls so I dont see the point of it crashing unless I'm doing something wrong by installing and not tweaking the race compatibility mod
Seren Posted August 6, 2012 Author Posted August 6, 2012 Well, I've been away from modding (and Skyrim) for a while now, but I finally have the will and especially time to do some good ol' updating again! This time the update for the race is going to be really good. This is a character I made in 5 to 10 minutes with the first preset. (Click for larger image) The next update includes these changes: - The Ashen is now merged with Better FaceGen and Enhanced Character Edit, enabling you to create faces that not only look MUCH better than before but are also easier to make. The ECE version even enables you to tilt eyes and change the width of the character's nose! No more awkward nose/mouth/eye shapes or blocky faces! - Seeing as this is primarily a female-oriented race, I applied even more HD upgrades to the face texture. Among these upgrades are more-visible skin pores and better lips. - 15 fully-custom new warpaint types added on top of the vanilla ones! This character has one of them near her left eye. - The race uses its own files for the female body and skeleton. No more super-model body grandma's required! - Dawnguard and mounted combat fix included with the new vastly-improved release! The release is tomorrow!
jancicc Posted August 6, 2012 Posted August 6, 2012 so after all decided to make it compatible with ECE/better facegen? tho curious, what files did u use from better facegen as without it u can achieve same face as this redhead or did u mean that u have added all morph files and users can choose by themselves what to use?
Seren Posted August 6, 2012 Author Posted August 6, 2012 You can choose between a BFG and ECE version unless I end up mixing the two together, but I'm not sure as I'm not done with the ECE version yet. BFG only contains morph files, so yes this character used those. Furthermore, I can clearly see the difference between BFG and vanilla as the face ends up more sleek and the mouths and eyes are of a different shape.
Seren Posted August 8, 2012 Author Posted August 8, 2012 New version 2.5 (used to be 2.1, but that version is misleading) is up! Enjoy and feedback is always welcome Check the first post for the download link and a good overview of new features.
Reokudo Posted August 8, 2012 Posted August 8, 2012 Going to check sometime today, downloading now. Hopefully, my character's appearance improves :3. Thanks for your hard work!
Cyider Posted August 8, 2012 Posted August 8, 2012 Might be a stupid question, but is this compatible with ECE?
Duoleb The Chosen Posted August 8, 2012 Posted August 8, 2012 i hate this shit about Nexus goddamn delay about their goddamn servers
Seren Posted August 8, 2012 Author Posted August 8, 2012 Might be a stupid question' date=' but is this compatible with ECE? [/quote'] It will change your character's mouth and head. The face chargens are the only thing that this mod changes for The Ashen. If I were you I'd try it, but I think the result may be pretty ugly. This is the reason why I was considering to upload a version that uses no new chargen morphs and no new head mesh: so you can also use ECE. Do you want to have it? i hate this shit about Nexus goddamn delay about their goddamn servers Oh man, you don't wanna know how many times my files, images and description changes would just get rejected. It even said a couple of times that I can't edit my mod page because "The author has set it to invisible" LoL.
Cyider Posted August 8, 2012 Posted August 8, 2012 Hmm sure, im still trying to download the files, maybe it will look good with ECE Im more concerned about stability of the game, ECE's ygnord race was rather buggy, freeze everytime i try showracemenu, which is why im wondering if the new .nif is safe with ECE.
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