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[Sticz]

I am looking for a way to or a mod that can modify the way vampires appear in the game. I am particularly interested in the female appearance. I am not fond of the haggard look vampires get upon becoming one (even with the age setting turned way down). I do enjoy the fangs, but the wrinkled face that is added is not particularly appealing. What mods or programs will do this to the actual .tri file?

I am not looking for a scripting solution, I am looking for an actual edit of the file itself. I have broused many many mods and none of them had the solution.

I would be happy to go with a tutorial, but the only one I have found left out MANY key steps.

Any ideas?


Sticz

[Karandras]

Well there are a few that can do it (I think, I have never used any of these)

http://www.tesnexus....ile.php?id=4308

http://www.tesnexus....ile.php?id=3577

http://www.tesnexus....ile.php?id=6695

Hope one of those helps

Edit: on re-reading your question it occured to me these are not be what you are looking for, could you explain a bit more? how would editing the .tri file be any different than than reducing/removing the aging?

Edited by Karandras, 01 October 2007 - 07:17 AM.

[Sticz]

The aging is controlled by the settings and if lowered, your character is not as ugly when a vampire. However, for the females in particular, the face still makes a noted change in that they look like they have been smoking 5 packs of cigarets a day for years: Wrinkles and a generally weathered look. I generally view vampires as being MORE attractive, not less, otherwise they would not be as capable of seducing their victims. Through reviewing multiple posts I have learned that this is controlled by humanhead.tri that controls the stages of vampirism.

This is where I would like to edit the file. I would still like the aging, but would rather it started at stage 3.

There are mods that change the way vampires age, but they are bulky and excessively scripted. I am looking for a single .tri file that will cover what I want to do, but do not know where to begin with the editing. I have downloaded several programs, but they are entirely greek to me. I have not seen any plugins for Blender or any other program that would make this more easily facilitated.

I was hoping that TesNexus would have the answer I was looking for when it came online as there were many links to files there from other sites. I have found nothing that included anything other than a Oblivion Plugin and new eyes.

Sticz

[Ryu Doppler]

Well someone was working on New facial morphs for vampires over at the Bethesda Elder Scrolls forums. Some were really scary looking and it was looking like a good future mod to try out. The thing that caught my eye was that the modder said there were doing Engine hacking to get the facial texture to change, so I really hope they can also fix the face shape bug that plagues vampire players too.

[Sticz]

Agreed, those are the aspects that I would like to change. I would, honestly, be fine if all that the character received in all the stages of vampirism was the fangs. I am not particularly a fan of the sunken cheeks of the later stages, but they encourrage you to feed.

Sticz

[Sticz]

Here is the link for the discussion on Vampire Morphs. They have been doing some really fine work on it and it looks like they are getting somewhere. I am posting this because I know what its like to rummage through dozens of topics and not have a clear idea where they actually solved their issue.

http://www.bethsoft....;#entry11037471

Hope this helps anyone else interested in this topic.

Sticz

[Yorkmaster]

Veritas Secreto who did Tamriels NPC's Revamped(TNR) (note that word ) was also working on a TNR-the vampires because she had the same issue but that was some time ago and I don't know what became of it the threads should be findable on the BGS forums. It might help...