Bodyslide Slider Expansion

[Jayce Dimmer]

For the past wee while, I've been busy conforming the CBBE mesh to various CBBE-based bodies, such as coldsteel's New BBW Body and CHSBHC.

 

Alongside this endeavor of mimicking the look of other bodies, I have been converting Bodyslide presets to sliders, fixing up any problem polygons (a jagged sternum, wrist/ankle/neck seam-gaps, that sort of thing).

 

The thing is, it's becoming extremely tedious to inform each individual, that has a preset which I've found to be pleasing to my eye, about the project and requesting permission to convert the preset into a slider.

 

It is also a mind-numbing experience, combing the web for CBBE variants, particularly when I have to navigate through Japanese and Chinese sites. And no, I don't understand a single lick of Japanese, nor do I understand the smallest tidbit of Chinese.

 

 

So, I figured that it would be a good idea to make this more of a community project.

 

People who have found CBBE-based bodies (as in, they are wholly compatible with CBBE textures) are most welcome to link said bodies, so that I may generate a slider mimicking the body.

 

And those who have put effort into the creation of their presets, are more than welcome to provide them, so that I may turn them into sliders. Especially if they make use of the sliders added by the mod; the variation in body shapes has the potential to be greatly expanded upon.

 

 

The first end-goal of this skull-duggery, is to have a massive range of sliders, that will allow users to generate bodies much more in-line with what they wish to have in their game.

 

The second, is that when there are a sufficient number of sliders added (as in, we have plenty of sliders for all manner of phenotypes), I will create conversions of the vanilla & DLC outfits, which will be able to make use of all the sliders in Bodyslide, as well as those provided by the mod.

 

Edit: A side goal, for this project, is the development of various HDT plugins, which would cater to the more exotic sliders; as it stands, there are plenty of great HDT .xmls which look mighty fine on fairly "light" body types. But when these are used on meshes with gigantic bellies, humongous breasts, thunder thighs and the like...They fall short.

 

This side goal is more of a learning experience, than anything else, particularly when there is the new HDT SMP. The trick is to find someone to help and guide me along with the creation of various XMLs, which others can then modify to their liking and share with others; needless to say, I've not got much clue on how to create an XML, as it stands.

 

 

 

In short, if you know of CBBE body variants, do share them. If you've created a rootin'-tootin' preset, do share it. The more sliders we have, the better we can shape the characters of Skyrim.

 

 

Oh, and you can find my current progress at this Nexus page. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/59876/?