1. Skyrim change npc appearance racemenu » Thu May 17, 2012 5:22 pm I'd love to see a way to customize NPCs in the game through the showracemenu interface, or something like it.The possibilities of updating Lydia's look, and some others would be great.
2. Skyrim change npc appearance racemenu » Thu May 17, 2012 5:22 pm I'd love to see a way to customize NPCs in the game through the showracemenu interface, or something like it.The possibilities of updating Lydia's look, and some others would be great.

I am attempting to mod for the first time, and I realize I may by in over my head. I want to change the appearance for a few of the 3DNPC followers and replace them with the faces of custom followers, but I have no idea where to begin. I gather it involves TES5edit and Creation Kit, but that is about it. Skyrim Change Npc Appearance To open the console in Skyrim, press the ` key (grave) or key (tilde). To send commands, simply type them into the console and hit ENTER. For more help opening and using the console, see our Skyrim console guide. Over the years I've become quite picky with how my NPCs look and always wanted to tweak them to my liking. Now, with the help of the Creation Kit and Racemen.

Quick Walkthrough[edit]

1. (Optional) Hear rumors about the Face Sculptor from an innkeeper or guard.
2. Find Galathil in the Ragged Flagon.
3. Pay her to change your appearance.

Detailed Walkthrough[edit]

Any time after installing the Dawnguard add-on, you may hear a rumor from an innkeeper or guard about someone new in Riften: 'People say there's someone in Riften that can... change your face. Make you look completely different. Do you believe that?' Your quest journal will update with the objective to locate the face sculptor. Your map will not be updated with a quest marker, but if you travel to Riften, a guard will make a negative comment about the face sculptor, conveniently providing her location: 'Take my advice, don't listen to that talk of the 'face sculptor' down in the Ragged Flagon. 'Face butcher' is more like it from what I've heard.' Make your way to the Ragged Flagon, located within Riften's sewer network and accessible through the Ratway. Sitting alone on a bench is Galathil, the face sculptor you're seeking.

Upon approaching her, she'll speak to you before you can say a word: 'Hmm, I suppose I can work with your face. After all, the sculptor cannot always choose the finest clay.' If you are a vampire, however, she will be able to tell and instead say, 'What have you done to yourself? I can't work with you in this state, night-walker.' You can ask her what she's talking about, or tell her you've already heard of her. Either way, she will subtly insult you, by implying that your appearance is not 'artful' or referring to you as the 'scum of Skyrim'. She will then check to see if you are a client, asking 'So are you here as a client? Shall I remake your face?' unless you are a vampire, in which case she'll tell you 'But, my techniques only work on the living, not those that have crossed over into undeath.'

At this point, you can choose to have your appearance changed, back out, or question her qualifications. If you tell her you'll have to think about it, she'll respond, 'Indeed. It is no small thing to submit yourself to the flesh sculptor's knife.' and begin to read a book. You are still able to approach her again with the same options if you do this. If you question her, she'll answer defensively, telling you how experienced she is: 'I have not always been a ragged beggar. I learned my art from the masters of the art of flesh sculpture. I studied with the Faculty of Chirurgeons in Cloudrest. I walked with the Hollow-Faced Men of Nohotogrha for three years. I count the nobility of both the Empire and the Dominion among my clients', and then angrily add 'And yet, I have fallen so low that I must justify myself to a wanderer in the sewers of this backwater of the world.'

If you decide you would like her to change your appearance, it costs 1000 gold. If you can afford it, she'll say, 'Hmm. Very well. Just tell me what you desire - beauty or hideous deformity, nothing is beyond my skill', but if you don't have enough gold, she'll be offended and dismiss you: 'Despite my present low estate, I am no beggar. Begone until you have the coin to warrant my skills.'

When you pay her the gold, you will enter a screen nearly identical to the initial character creation option from beginning your game. You can change almost all aspects of your appearance, the only exceptions being your character's race or sex. There is no limit to the amount of times you can repeat this quest.

Achievements[edit]

One achievement is unlocked when you complete this quest:

• A New You^DG (20 points/Bronze) — Change your face

Notes[edit]

• Vampires cannot get their faces changed. You must cure your vampirism in order to start this quest.
• Changing, or even overhauling, your appearance will not impair any NPC's ability to recognize you. Therefore, it cannot be used to, for example, erase bounties or start relations over with an NPC you've fallen out of favor with by making them think you're a different person.

Bugs[edit]

• Occasionally, pushing 'Done' in the character customization screen will have no effect. The only way to leave the screen in this instance is to load a previous save. It is unclear whether the face sculptor can ever be used on a save that exhibits this bug, but it is possible for other saves to use the sculptor. ^?

Quest Stages[edit]

• The following empty quest stages were omitted from the table: 50.

It’s no surprise that when we talk about mods,we have to mention Skyrim. With over10,000 mods just a bit under a year of the game’s release, the number of mods has only grown tothe point where the Special edition re-release specifically was created to makeadding mods to the game easier regardless of system.

An Introduction

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Greetings, my name is TomAlchemist. Ever since I first realized the fun and customization available via adding mods to a game I have been a firm believer in modding. Not surprisingly, one of the first games I modded was Skyrim. Furthermore, Skyrim was also the first game I started using transformation styled mods. Talking about all the transformation mods available to the game would be several articles worth of content, so instead I’ll be focusing on transformations that can change the avatar’s body type or the body types of the NPCs in the world.

Now there are plenty of other mods that give different body types to your character or NPCs. These mods though don’t really have a transformation aspect to them. For example, Fat Bastards replaces the appearance of several male NPCs with a fatter version of themselves, but it doesn’t allow you to change them within the game. Since we are interested in the transformation aspect of these body types, we will only be talking about mods that allow characters to change their appearance within the game.

CBBE and Bodyslide

Most body type transformation mods require some sort of body mesh replacer. The two main ones available are UNP and CBBE. Between the two of these, I recommend using CBBE primarily due to many of the additional mods I will be talking about use this body mesh replacer. Now some of these mods will still work with UNP, but oftentimes you’ll need a different supporting mod. With CBBE installed, you’ll also want to install Bodyslide and Outfit studio. This will be your primary source for creating the body types you want your character and the various NPCs to transform to.

With Bodyslide, unless you want to change armors yourself, you’ll need an outfit replacer. One thing that is nice about nexusmods is that it mentions in the Required section mods that require a specific mod in order to work. You can use this to see various outfit replacers. A simple one to get you started is a simple vanilla armor replacement mod (note the additional required mod). With this installed, you are now ready to launch Bodyslide.

Bodyslide Basics

Bodyslide has two sections, one for a low weight and one for a high weight. These correspond to your character’s weight attribute in game. A weight of 1 will put a character’s appearance at the high weight values. A weight of 0 will put a character’s appearance at the low weight values. Values in between will likewise put the character somewhere between the values. It is important to note the low weight doesn’t necessarily need to be untransformed. For example if you’re focusing on weight gain, the low weight doesn’t need to be skinny and the high weight doesn’t need to be fat. However it is important that the two weights vary in some way; otherwise,while you might create a character state that you like, you won’t be able to transform characters to or from that state.

Another tip is that while the sliders only go from 0 to 100 percent, you can actually manually enter other numbers in each category. This can be used to make certain aspects larger, however it also increases the chance of armors clipping in game.

Additional Sliders

There is an additional sliders mod that modifies Bodyslide. At a glance, it’s a nice mod as it allows for many more body type transformation types (for example, there’s a slider for a muscular body). While, I was able to get it to work within Bodyslide, loading the start of the game’s story sequence caused tons of animation glitches. I am not sure at this time whether it was due to an issue caused by combining mods or due to the mod no longer being maintained (at least according to the nexusmods posts). I bring this to your attention though as it has a large amount of potential and is at least worth the attempt at getting it to run.

The Actual ‘Transform’ Part of Body Type Transformation Mods

You’ve now done a bunch of setup, now it’stime to discuss the mods that you can then use to transform your character andthe NPCs.

WeightMorphs

The first mod in question which is also my top favorite is WeightMorphs. While initially set up for weight gain, it can also be used with other body types. Essentially, eating food, potions, or alchemy ingredients causes your weight number to go up and moves your character’s appearance closer to the mod’s specific High Weight category. Sprinting (and potentially other stamina draining actions) causes your weight number to go down and moves your character’s appearance closer to the mod’s specific Low Weight category. It’s important to note that the High Weight and Low Weight categories can be different from those you selected in Bodyslide, but I recommend using the same to avoid armor clipping (some clipping may still be present however).

The expected way to use this mod is to eat a bunch of food to make your character fatter and then sprint if you wish to lose it. However, you can play with the numbers and change the behavior. For example, I reversed the behavior such that eating actually causes the character to lose weight, making potion use a sort of penalty while also avoiding the need to use a bunch of consumables to remain at a high weight.

You can also configure the mod to apply consequences such as slowing your character at high weights or increasing your stamina at low weights (stamina changes do seem to be a bit buggy so be careful messing with that setting). Out of all the mods I’ve taken a look at, this is the only one that allows for transformation outside of spells or level ups. This allows you to enjoy the mod from the very beginning of the game.

Weight Alteration Spells

With WeightMorphs you can change your character, now what about other NPCs? For that, I recommend the weight alteration spells mod. This provides a spell to increase or decrease a character’s weight statistic. Embiggen moves the target towards Bodyslide’s high weight appearance and Ensmallen moves the target towards Bodyslide’s low weight appearance. There’s also versions of this spell that apply to your own character. Be careful using this with WeightMorphs also enabled as it can quickly cause graphics glitches. Similarly, changing the target’s weight too quickly from high to low and vice versa can also cause graphics glitches (including the character’s body from no longer rendering, potentially crashing the game). I recommend avoid using Embiggest/Emsmallest while the character still has the glowing green aura that is applied when they are affected by these spells.

Breast and Butt Slide Scaling for NPCs

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The final mod I will be speaking of is Breastand Butt slide scaling for NPCs. This mod provides spells to affect NPCs, increasing or decreasing theirbreasts and/or butt. It’s a bit morelimited than the weight alteration spells mod as it can only apply to a limitednumber of characters at a time. The advantageof this mod is that in the past when I’ve used it, I’ve never had any graphicalproblems when using this mod. At thevery least, it seems more stable than weight alteration spells even if it is amuch more limited mod.

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Interested in games that offer body type transformation in the base game? Check out our article about the Top 5 Weight Gain Games.