Creating Custom Body From Scratch [Help!!]

[wonderasunder]

My modding skills has been limited to the following:

 

making a follower (not standalone)

duplicating gloves (I wanted to use mystic tuning gloves)

making a custom race (with custom assets, though said assets are just duplicates of vanilla ones)

 

and I usually have to refer to various guides created and posted online to even be remotely successful. I want to expand my modding skills! And work on the custom race I created. I play as a male so I want the male to have a unique body, which is, er, the CNHF body

 

with altered chest and crotch area, possibly slight hip-slimming as well. The CNHF body has a really nice shape, and I would really love to use it. I know popular male body replacer mods like SAM and SoS might get recommended to be used instead, but I wanted the body to have a subtle delicate touch to it, which this female body replacer mod, when modified in the chest and crotch area, can achieve. I know I'll have to deal with permissions and stuff if I want to publish it publicly, which hopefully, when successful at making this, I get to do. I could really use learning this modding skill and I hope there'll be some kind modders that are willing to help a noob like me! So we can get to make more mods for the community! Haha!

 

Some stuff;

 

How I can get the custom race use the female head? Because the female head is what fits this body

What tools do I need to make this body? What about other concerns like: skeleton, hands/first-person hands, feet??

 

How do I do this?????? What are the steps I need to take?

 

 

Thank for your time!!

[Kaz Aanh]

Just get UUNP, if you are not 3d graphics specialist.

[wonderasunder]

Just get UUNP, if you are not 3d graphics specialist.

 

Hello! Well CNHF 2_5 is UNP based, and there's still the issue of not being able to use the body replacer for a male player character, as well as the chest and crotch area of the replacer itself... the chest area forms a different silhouette than a male's chest area, which is more squarish, I should say. The crotch area, everyone knows the difference, haha.

 

I'm not a specialist but I still want to learn how, I just don't know what tools to use and how to go about using those tools.

[Kaz Aanh]

 

Just get UUNP, if you are not 3d graphics specialist.

 

Hello! Well CNHF is UNP based, and there's still the issue of not being able to use the body replacer for a male player character, as well as the chest and crotch area of the replacer itself... the chest area forms a different silhouette than a male's chest area, which is more squarish, I should say. The crotch area, everyone knows the difference, haha.

 

I'm not a specialist but I still want to learn how, I just don't know what tools to use and how to go about using those tools.

 

 

So far I was mostly messing with the small stuff like hiding *erected nipples* to prevent clipping though the cloths and imitating a fake breast *squish* against hard material like *tight leather straps*. All done by editing vertices in the 3dsmax.

 

I guess you will have to find some decent sculping program if you want something more advanced.

 

I have heard mudbox and zbrush are quite popular choices.

[wonderasunder]

UPDATE:

 

- I got the go ahead from calyps to use their CNHF body, so that's done.

- Before posting this thread, I had a custom race mod already made. It had its own assets (though copied from the vanilla .bsas). I changed the male's meshes and textures to duplicates of the female meshes and textures. 

- After pointing the new male meshes to the correct texture paths using nifskope, I tested it in-game, et voila! Both male and female look 'female' naked, though there are issues when clothing them. (Armours and clothing would need to be converted.)

 

But at least I got to use the female head shape on the male which is what I wanted to happen.

 

CONFLICT happened with the presets, because the vanilla male presets are unsuitable for the new male head, which I still have to sort.

 

- I generated a CNHF body through BodySlide (hah, I did get a UUNP body after all!) because it has high poly hands and feet. BodySlide permissions allow using their assets, so that's cool. First person hands look a bit better with the BodySlide-generated CNHF.

- Overwriting assets with CNHF assets (both male and female), the meshes are then pointed to the correct texture paths, tested it in-game. Again, it works properly when naked.

- browsed for skin texture mods, I tried a few, ended up with a mashup with a slight neck-seam I have to fix.

 

Anyway, with those done, I'll get on with shaping the chest and look up the programs Dagren suggested. When done with the chest, I'll move on to the crotch area.