Gallstafff01 Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 I'm pretty sure this is a noobish question but how do I use these .slot files in chargen/ECE? I have no idea where to put the file and or how to use it in the race menu. NOTE: I'm not using a steam version of the game so my game is just under my x86 folder. They would go in "\Data\SKSE\Plugins\CharGen\Presets" I see the .dll, do I have to create the folder or am I missing a file? I don't know what you're talking about, here.. I'll include a screenshot
coldcrow Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 I'm pretty sure this is a noobish question but how do I use these .slot files in chargen/ECE? I have no idea where to put the file and or how to use it in the race menu. NOTE: I'm not using a steam version of the game so my game is just under my x86 folder. They would go in "\Data\SKSE\Plugins\CharGen\Presets" I see the .dll, do I have to create the folder or am I missing a file? I don't know what you're talking about, here.. I'll include a screenshot Capture.PNG I just ended up creating a folder and it worked. THANKS THOUGH! I don't know why the chargen folder didn't come with chargen core but okay what ever. It works. WOOT!
Guest Miss Fortune Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 Decided to make a new character, no name yet ... Mods used: UNPB Feminine hands Femfeet redesigned ECE Pretty face Mature skin texture (Golod's version) / SG Renewal normal maps SG hair SG brows The eyes of beauty
AgendaDysphoria Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 Decided to make a new character, no name yet ... Mods used: UNPB Feminine hands Femfeet redesigned ECE Pretty face Mature skin texture (Golod's version) / SG Renewal normal maps SG hair SG brows The eyes of beauty Nice! Kinda looks like Amanda Seyfried IMO
denswaroneverything Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 Why not, heres my char. btw how do you guys do that spoiler screenie?
itt1968 Posted March 21, 2014 Posted March 21, 2014 Why not, heres my char. ScreenShot27.bmp btw how do you guys do that spoiler screenie? ..."add picture"...[./spoiler] ....don't use the period inside the last bracket ... easy as pie
gvman3670 Posted March 21, 2014 Posted March 21, 2014 Why not, heres my char. ScreenShot27.bmp btw how do you guys do that spoiler screenie? She looks good. What body/texture/hair/etc. are you using?
denswaroneverything Posted March 21, 2014 Posted March 21, 2014 Why not, heres my char. ScreenShot27.bmp btw how do you guys do that spoiler screenie? ..."add picture"...[./spoiler] ....don't use the period inside the last bracket ... easy as pie thanks friend!
denswaroneverything Posted March 21, 2014 Posted March 21, 2014 Why not, heres my char. ScreenShot27.bmp btw how do you guys do that spoiler screenie? She looks good. What body/texture/hair/etc. are you using? Thanks! I'll post her mods later & my save file. Just trying to figure out this screen thing lol!
denswaroneverything Posted March 21, 2014 Posted March 21, 2014 Why not, heres my char. ScreenShot27.bmp btw how do you guys do that spoiler screenie? [.spoiler]..."add picture"...[./spoiler] ....don't use the period inside the last bracket ... easy as pie thanks friend! Why not, heres my char. ScreenShot27.bmp btw how do you guys do that spoiler screenie? She looks good. What body/texture/hair/etc. are you using? Thanks! I'll post her mods later & my save file. Just trying to figure out this screen thing lol! ok here goes! Her name is Alisia: UNP Blessed Body - UNPB REDUX PROJECT Better Make up for SKSE Arandia Lace Dress (outfit) dwissglasses (glasses) FS Ultimate Assortment (glowing necklace) MinaArmors (gloves) SGHairs Pack 1-6 SGEyebrows The Eyes of Beauty The Ningheim race Body sweat mod Fair Skin Hope this helps!
Gallstafff01 Posted March 21, 2014 Posted March 21, 2014 Changed my character since my last post, thought I would share the results. I changed the base skin texture, the eye color, and the hair. Mature Skin (clean, no moles) Women of Skyrim (normals) Flan's eyes Racemenu & Chargen Extension Fair Skin Tint-Masks Mature Lips SG_Hair
AgendaDysphoria Posted March 22, 2014 Posted March 22, 2014 Changed my character since my last post, thought I would share the results. I changed the base skin texture, the eye color, and the hair. Please remember to include a list of mods used if you're posting your character here!
Gallstafff01 Posted March 22, 2014 Posted March 22, 2014 Changed my character since my last post, thought I would share the results. I changed the base skin texture, the eye color, and the hair. Please remember to include a list of mods used if you're posting your character here! I edited my last post.
AgendaDysphoria Posted March 22, 2014 Posted March 22, 2014 Changed my character since my last post, thought I would share the results. I changed the base skin texture, the eye color, and the hair. Please remember to include a list of mods used if you're posting your character here! I edited my last post. Thanks
Guest Miss Fortune Posted March 22, 2014 Posted March 22, 2014 Decided to make a new character, no name yet ... Mods used: UNPB Feminine hands Femfeet redesigned ECE Pretty face Mature skin texture (Golod's version) / SG Renewal normal maps SG hair SG brows The eyes of beauty Nice! Kinda looks like Amanda Seyfried IMO Thank you. The eye shape maybe? I don't know.
itt1968 Posted March 22, 2014 Posted March 22, 2014 Well... after hours of fine tuning my Nikki, I'm going to say she is complete... of course, more armor choices would be nice for this body but, people are finally starting to make some good ones, so I can't complain much. I consider myself a boob man but, not big boobs... Nikki has a 20 weight with this body, which is bigger than I normally like but, her nips are just beautiful... and that's why I'm a boob man The Mods: UNP Top Model body Univision eyes, skin mesh (FSC) and head Coverwoman makeup #2 and lip tints with lace war paint ECE (for all your fine tuning needs) Oblivion hair Final V she also has the X32 enhanced skele and a female WIP skele (placed below the X32) I've had a lot of fun watching Nikki bloom into what she is now and I have many of you to thank for it as well... So, Thank You so very much
Reokudo Posted March 23, 2014 Posted March 23, 2014 Remake upon remake upon remake. So here she is in her latest incarnation. Mods: UNPBO Ningheim, Racemenu, http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/4686/? for texture. Now, if only I could make her chin "smoother". That way it didn't have the little rough edges. Like the character? Want to learn about her? Read her background story here: tinyurl.com/SacreiaChapter <.< >.>
AgendaDysphoria Posted March 24, 2014 Posted March 24, 2014 Here ist my Char Please try to remember that this thread is not just for showing your characters, at the very least you also need to include the mods used!
mackeyz Posted March 24, 2014 Posted March 24, 2014 My chara, sorry if she is ugly Mod used, nothing special : ECE Eyes of beauty CBBE SG texture renewal SG hair Pretty face So any suggestion for improvement ??
denswaroneverything Posted March 24, 2014 Posted March 24, 2014 My chara, sorry if she is ugly Mod used, nothing special : ECE Eyes of beauty CBBE SG texture renewal SG hair Pretty face So any suggestion for improvement ?? She's not ugly dude, she's pretty
Monsto Brukes Posted March 25, 2014 Posted March 25, 2014 NSFW: Hi, this is my kitchensink 5 minute edit of a preset throwaway char for HDT testing Nord Melanie Griffith wannabe, and this is her story. Note : This is a lenghty/image-heavy post aimed at (semi) newbies, and if you are after high quality ENB-heavy screenshots of pin up babes you should just skip this post, as I wanted to share some of tips/methods I use for char creation, which I feel what this topic should be about. Consider everything past this point to be nsfw (though nothing extreme). Also, please ignore the DD collar and arm cuffs cause she had slight mishap at beginning of game and I've not been able to take em off since . First and foremost, English is not my native language and if spelling and grammar errors offend you deeply, its probably best to stop here. About visuals: I dont use ENB cause of simple reason that my computer is too shit to run it at decent framerates. Only lightning mods used here are ELFX and Climates of Tamriel + fog patch (+medium gfx vanilla settings, shit computer is shit, iknowrite). All screenshots were captured via Steam and not particularly high quality either. Seasons of Skyrim HD6 Tribute ENB I occasionally use While it does bring you some spectacular sights, ENB mods are too heavy for my rig to enable smooth gameplay, which is always my main concern. At this point though, I prefer the vanilla clean looks over ENB cause of the image clarity. Onto real stuff: This isnt intended as complete newbie tutorial (though I might make one at some point), but I will mention some of absolutely necessary mods (IMO): RaceMenu + ChargenExtension (and all of its morphs, using both normal/ECE ones, with EEO support on top) Immersive Hud Camera control mod (This is the one I use, + SexLab's own /tfc command with its default NUM3 mapping) DISCLAIMER One does not simply touch the boob As I mentioned already, this is throwaway char I made for testing HDT .xmls and body shape can appear wonky in some screenshots (you do not wanna see whats happening to her belly here, not to mention horrid hand textures/maps ), its not important since body is not my main focus of attention here anyways, but I will still list all the things used below: Face : SG textures + normalmap Shitty pixelated lip tints I always forget to fix Body: HDT 1.4 bodyslide by blabba A mishmash of textures (This body texture + SG normal maps + healthy dose of both Fitness Body and Body Options texblends by SvarogNL. both face and body use Dry Skin and No Ugly Bronze specular/shine maps. Other stuff: Eyes of Beauty SG Hairs SG Brows Superior Lore Friendly Hair (not sure if pictured in screenshots here, recommending it anyways cause its real good) HN66's lashes Camera and FOV controls: These are especially important when you really want to get into serious editing. Skyrim has default FOV of 65 , though you maybe editied the default value to something higher, I will demonstrate the value of changing FOV in character editing. In this next picture I used default Skyrim FOV and entered tfc mode by pressing num3 (sexlab default, you can do it via console too) : FOV 65 and centered in free cam mode If I enter console now and change FOV to lets say 50 I will get this (note: ~ is default console key, and just type "fov 50" without quotes): FOV 50 Bringing it lower to 30 and centering camera on face: FOV 30, camera recentered on face If you open console again and open race menu (type "showracemenu") you will get your current view instead of RaceMenu default. You can still change FOV value while inside RaceMenu, setting it to extremely low values like 10 or so will allow you extreme close up details: FOV of 10 with racemenu open This is very useful if you want to fine tune certain facial features, do note that your idle animation will still play (at least it does with HDT ) so you might need to switch to less active one if you want your character to keep still. I'm sure by now you noticed some imperfections which are result of "morph hell" as I call it, will talk more about it later. About this particular character: As I said, this is a quick and dirty edit of existing preset, RaceMenu allows you to do lots of fun stuff via presets, my favourite one being "transplanted" faces to other races. The base of this character is Danariel Stormbow (be sure to visit as the page contains lots of useful info on its own, with some other recommendations as well). Now you maybe see the similarity or you dont, personally I have no idea if they look alike, cause you will see how the process went shortly . Without further ado, this is how Danariel preset looks in my game (on wood elf race, no edits, just textures and shit I use): And now we'll switch race to Nord and load that exact same preset : Well thats um... nice? I guess. For some reason I decided to go with this anyways. As describing every single step I did from now on would be quite hard (not to mention I forgot half of shit I did) I will just try to show some important "landmarks" in the process. But first and foremost , READ THIS ! I cannot stress this enough, as facial proportions are something lot of people mess up and compensate with more makeup and stuff (I'm one of them too ). The age of you character is important when considering proportions, I cannot really give you more advice here than to look it up via google for some real life time lapses of women aging and stuff. Another note I'll give here is about ECE and standard morphs, yes you can combine em, yes thats exactly how I made characters in following screens, but this is something thats frankly quite time consuming and bit of a hassle to nail "just right" , as I didnt really care that much about "perfect" face for this char I just went with what looked good This is "morph hell" I mentioned earlier and just by experimenting on your own you will quickly learn what I was talking about. Only advice I can give here is : extreme values on certain eye and lip morphs can give you surprisingly good results ! dont be afraid to experiment. Lets get started shall we: 1000 hours in photoshop The first decision here was keeping the similar general looks of the original face, cartoonish~anime like big eyes and face, added ridiculous lips on top to compliment. Note I didnt change original face proportion in any major way, its just different eye/mouth shapes. Note: All the following screenshots will have wildly varying hair/hair color/makeup/eye color. I always do this just to get fresh perspective on face, just pick whatever random style, it doesnt really matter. Next edits are bit more dramatic, the middle one being most important one. Eyes are even more enlarged/pronouced keeping with the "anime" theme, nose is shifted, as well as mouth, spacing between eyes / brows / etc changed as well. This is basically template all next faces came from. Note: RaceMenu has 50 preset slots, just use them! Save every step you feel satisfied with, dont be afraid to branch out to new ideas as well. Face on right side is example of this, tried with even wider eyes and longer nose and slightly repositioned mouth, I wasnt quite satisfied but still saved it as reference. while they might look different at a glance, changes to actual important facial features are miniscule All of these edits are slight, repositioned/reshaped mouth and eyes, all by a tiny amount. Basically all of them conform to the proportions I decided as template earlier, when I got to one in bottom corner I didnt edit anymore. Difference between her and first screen in this post is lip/skin color and hairstyle... Facial Expressions and you: Are we done yet? She looks tired a bit doesnt she? In the above screenshot I edited original char with 0.01-5 values on brow angle, eyelid height, mouth corners and iris height. I purposely did it this tiny, so you can just glimpse how much these sliders set the tone for whole expression you character will end up having. Body language is complex and I just wanted for you to keep it in mind, you could end up tweaking your char for hours and still not getting the desired "feel" cause of body language you "read" off his/hers face. Note the "messy" shapes around nose and mouth, its side effect of combining ECE and normal morphs, like I mentioned before its something that takes bit more time if you want to get "perfect". Also keep in mind this is naked vanilla game + ELFX + CoT in the screenshot, there's no anti-aliasing or ENB and other filters that would help with keeping things "smooth" So thats the basics I wanted to cover here, she took around 5-10 mins to make from loading preset to this stage, making this post took me way longer than making the actual face And another disclaimer at the end: All of this is just my personal way of doing things, not necessarily the best or even the right one... Beauty is in the eye of beholder anyways, having a character that YOU like is way more important than keeping to perfect proportion barbie doll face. All your pics are busted. A link to image hosts is in my sig.
shadowfake Posted March 25, 2014 Posted March 25, 2014 I made a little guide about it! Enjoy! http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=241945636
AgendaDysphoria Posted March 25, 2014 Posted March 25, 2014 So I switched from NMM to Mod Organizer, it's awesome! I decided to change some of the mods I was using to make my character look a little more realstic: Mods: ECE UNP Topmodel Real Girls Textures (including face normal maps) SG Female Textures Renewal (for all other textures not supplied by Real Girls) ApachiiSkyHair and ApachiiSkyHair Natural Retexture The Eyes of Beauty Brows Face Light No More Ugly Bronze Shine _6_commonTriRaces.zip
fenrir19 Posted March 25, 2014 Posted March 25, 2014 My chara, sorry if she is ugly Mod used, nothing special : ECE Eyes of beauty CBBE SG texture renewal SG hair Pretty face So any suggestion for improvement ?? is there anyone says ugly ?? tell me i'll kick his/her ass right away for god damn shake >:0 btw what a sweety u have :3 i like her
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