Creating a custom follower with a PC appearance created by Racemenu

[Sunja44]

I want to give my PC a twin sister as follower (maybe I will add even more sisters). First I thought I could maybe use an existing follower mod and just change the appearance (meshes, textures etc.), but I want them as real twins (so not just appearance, but combat style etc. too) and in addition I read that it won't be that easy to attach head meshes created by Racemenu to a follower NPC.

 

Of course I asked google and got some ok guides for

 

-creating the follower in the CK

 

http://wiki.tesnexus.com/index.php/Adding_a_Follower_NPC_to_Skyrim#Using_a_custom_hair_for_your_NPC

https://levelskip.com/rpgs/Hot-to-Turn-Your-Skyrim-Character-into-a-Follower

 

-for attaching Racemenu head meshes and textures to the created follower 

 

http://wiki.tesnexus.com/index.php/Using_a_face_made_with_Chargen_Extension_on_an_NPC_for_Skyrim

 

In special I have the issue, that my current PC (with its apearance I am very satisfied) uses a Citrus head mesh for more polygons. I saw follower/NPC mods which use the Citrus head mesh, so it might maybe not impossible to copy such a thing to a NPC.

 

I found this: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/84202/? and it reads quite complicated and you might need a unique race character for that. So for the beginning a default Racemenu head mesh would be already ok.

 

 

I just want to ask if these guides are still up to date and if there are others I don't know yet. So I would be glad of every up to date source posted here. I appreciate guides for unique race followers too. The above I currently want to create, don't need a unique race, but I have heard that it has advantages if you do so (for other followers in the future maybe). 

[Sunja44]

Those are pretty awesome. Alone the first video already explains almost everything to take care of and the created follower is not dependable of a custom race mod, but how to make it dependable of a race mod is predictable.