

You should have the NPC’s head in the mod folders (the. This might require a bit more reverse engineering on your part, but it’s totally doable. – If you don’t have a preset for the NPC. If you’re good with digital painting you can even try to make your own version using a pre-existing tintmask as guideline, but I haven’t tried that one yet :P. Now you can see your pretty NPC’s face 😀 Take that file and rename it to the NPC’s tintmask name, go to the facetint > folder, replace the. This will create a couple of files in the CharGen folder (path: Steam > steamapps > common > Skyrim Special Edition > Data > SKSE > Plugins > CharGen): a. Once you are done, go to the Sculpt tab and click “Export Head”.

(You can find many tattoos, overlays, and makeup on modding sites – DomainWolf has a lot of them for example). Add, remove, change colors, and personalize all the makeup you want from the Makeup tab. In this case just load the preset in Racemenu. jslot file for Racemenu) – many mod authors also provide the character presets, or you can kindly ask 😀 – If you have a preset of the NPC that you want to change (a. It’s really that easy!īut how do you create a new face paint with your custom overlays? If you replace the tintmask with a new one, the new face paint will appear in game without any issue. dds with Gimp, IrfanView, or similar software to see what it looks like: nif file that contains the head mesh (and can be found here: meshes > actor > character > facegendata > facegeom > skyrim.esm – if the NPC is one of the vanilla, or. The name of the file will be the same as the.

This file can be found in your game Data folder ( Steam > steamapps > common > Skyrim Special Edition > Data) or in the mod folders, following this path: textures > actor > character > facegendata > facetint > skyrim.esm – if the NPC is one of the vanilla, or. (But if you want to be more accurate, Nifskope and Gimp may also help).įirst of all, all that goes on a NPC’s face, from war paint, face paint, makeup, skin details etc. So today I’ll try my best to explain how to do so in the quickest and seamless way possible. There are a lot of awesome NPC replacers and new followers made by the awesome Skyrim modders out there, but sometimes you’d like to change things a bit or spice them up according to your roleplaying, and the mod authors can’t make everyone happy with a thousand variations, so how can you take things in your own hands even if you have almost zero knowledge of modding?Ĭhanging, adding, or removing a face paint or makeup from NPCs is as easy as replacing a single file, if you know what you’re doing. This tutorial only applies to existing NPCs, both vanilla and modded ones (not your played character).
