Differences between CBBE and JaneBod?

[Frozium]

Hi guys, just installing FO4 mods for the first time and I was wondering which body replacer should I use. If anyone around here remembers me, you know how much I like buff women. I've seen JB can make amazing muscles, but also Heard that not all outfits are converted to JB (confirmation needed). In the other hand, CBBE is complete and also has a muscle slider, BUT I haven't seen any screenshot of it.

Help me deciding guys, I wanna know the main points of each Body.

 

Thanks

[AWP3RATOR]

For me, this comes down to how much time I want to spend editing meshes and converting outfits.  CBBE is the de facto standard in modding Fallout 4 outfits (nearly every outfit released is for CBBE), while Jane Bod and Atomic Beauty have limited, but growing support.  So first and foremost, you'll need to decide how import the body shapes are to your personal tastes, because that will directly correspond to how much additional modding you'll be needing to do.  Fortunately though, most popular outfits released will have an Atomic Beauty or Jane Bod version released either along side the original or shortly thereafter.  But converting them is fairly simple as well - just takes a bit of time and artistry in Outfit Studio.

 

In terms of the actual bodies themselves... the main differences are (in my opinion):  CBBE is geared more to the masses.  It's got a lot of popular options but is limited overall in the shapes it can achieve due to the sliders included in it.  Jane Bod on the other hand is an extremely detailed body, and includes nearly 3x the amount of sliders for precise adjustments to individual muscle and body part areas.  Atomic Beauty is somewhere in the middle of these two, in my opinion.

 

Nightasy included CBBE to JB conversion sets in his mod - so if you choose to use this body, and an outfit you like doesn't exist for it - it's simple to convert them one off.  What adds time are large sets of outfits, like Eli's Armor Compendium or 2pac's Skimpy replacer.  These mods include large amounts of outfits - and if you were converting them to JaneBod, it would take some time to achieve.

 

I personally highly prefer JaneBod over Atomic Beauty - but in the end, I use CBBE as it's got the most support and I'd rather spend time creating other content than converting outfits to my niche body preference.  But to each their own!

[Frozium]

On ‎31‎/‎03‎/‎2018 at 6:33 PM, AWP3RATOR said:

For me, this comes down to how much time I want to spend editing meshes and converting outfits.  CBBE is the de facto standard in modding Fallout 4 outfits (nearly every outfit released is for CBBE), while Jane Bod and Atomic Beauty have limited, but growing support.  So first and foremost, you'll need to decide how import the body shapes are to your personal tastes, because that will directly correspond to how much additional modding you'll be needing to do.  Fortunately though, most popular outfits released will have an Atomic Beauty or Jane Bod version released either along side the original or shortly thereafter.  But converting them is fairly simple as well - just takes a bit of time and artistry in Outfit Studio.

 

In terms of the actual bodies themselves... the main differences are (in my opinion):  CBBE is geared more to the masses.  It's got a lot of popular options but is limited overall in the shapes it can achieve due to the sliders included in it.  Jane Bod on the other hand is an extremely detailed body, and includes nearly 3x the amount of sliders for precise adjustments to individual muscle and body part areas.  Atomic Beauty is somewhere in the middle of these two, in my opinion.

 

Nightasy included CBBE to JB conversion sets in his mod - so if you choose to use this body, and an outfit you like doesn't exist for it - it's simple to convert them one off.  What adds time are large sets of outfits, like Eli's Armor Compendium or 2pac's Skimpy replacer.  These mods include large amounts of outfits - and if you were converting them to JaneBod, it would take some time to achieve.

 

I personally highly prefer JaneBod over Atomic Beauty - but in the end, I use CBBE as it's got the most support and I'd rather spend time creating other content than converting outfits to my niche body preference.  But to each their own!

Well I just don't know how to make anything in Outfit Studio at all. I really wanted to use JB but at the end I had to choose CBBE mainly due to some of the armor mods I wanted the most are only available on CBBE (CROSS' mods, Eli's Compedium and many more misc armor mods). It really saddens me because the muscle sliders for CBBE ser insignificant (as in muscle tastes, not as in work put into it).

 

I recall being an entire thread regarding UUNP conversions for Skyrim, is there such a thing for JB?

[AWP3RATOR]

I don't believe there has been such a thing as a whole thread for JB yet, but you are certainly welcome to start one!  The conversion is not actually that difficult to JB (it's far easier than Atomic Beauty for example) - I'm surprised it hasn't caught on yet.

[Frozium]

12 hours ago, AWP3RATOR said:

I don't believe there has been such a thing as a whole thread for JB yet, but you are certainly welcome to start one!  The conversion is not actually that difficult to JB (it's far easier than Atomic Beauty for example) - I'm surprised it hasn't caught on yet.

It's not like it's easier tan X or harder than Y, I just don't have any clue at all about what to do. Also, the last FO4 update screwed half of my mods and rendered FO4 unplayable so I uninstalled it, I'm willing to learn how to do things but not now.