Female Character

[The Old Man]

Is it even possible to create a female character that can be considered even SLIGHTLY good looking by human standards. Realism in games is a good thing but I still don't want to play a character that looks like it got banished from chernobyl for being too ugly.

[Starbug]

Sadly not. The famed potato faced villager syndrome has been in Bethesda games since like forever.

[talgaby]

Not with the built-in creator. There are a few fan-made faces on the Nexus I think.

[Ladez]

In-game - impossible.
In the GECK - slightly less impossible.
With improved head meshes - somewhat doable.
With "beauty mods" - yuck.
Overall verdict - don't bother. Seems like this is the approach Obsidian took as well.

[Archimemes]

It's the radiated post-nucluar distruction so I don't think beauty standards exist.


Case in point: Goul strippers.

[Vita, Mortis, Careo]

Originally posted by Drunk Peridot:

It's the radiated post-nucluar distruction so I don't think beauty standards exist.


Case in point: Goul strippers.

Things have improved quite a bit over the last 200 years. Business suits have obviously made a comeback. I imagine that cosmetics have as well.

[Vassago Rain]

You can create all of the following: awful white chick, black skinned chick with a white woman's features, kinda sorta maybe asian chick, white man who's always 40 some years old, black man with white man's features and not quite black man's skin color, and asian man who looks nothing like an asian.

It's pretty awesome that all options result in an equally horrible mess of a character. I like to go with loud facial hair and a pink mohawk, because then I can pretend I'm a Fist of the north star henchman.

[Incunabulum]

Originally posted by The Old Man:

Is it even possible to create a female character that can be considered even SLIGHTLY good looking by human standards. Realism in games is a good thing but I still don't want to play a character that looks like it got banished from chernobyl for being too ugly.

You can make a female character that is just as attractive as any male character - ie, not very.

If you want some pin-up or anime waifu ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ - then look at the mods.

[Incunabulum]

Originally posted by Vassago Rain:

You can create all of the following: awful white chick, black skinned chick with a white woman's features, kinda sorta maybe asian chick, white man who's always 40 some years old, black man with white man's features and not quite black man's skin color, and asian man who looks nothing like an asian.

It's pretty awesome that all options result in an equally horrible mess of a character. I like to go with loud facial hair and a pink mohawk, because then I can pretend I'm a Fist of the north star henchman.

That's why you are already dead.

[The Old Man]

Originally posted by Incunabulum:

Originally posted by The Old Man:

Is it even possible to create a female character that can be considered even SLIGHTLY good looking by human standards. Realism in games is a good thing but I still don't want to play a character that looks like it got banished from chernobyl for being too ugly.

You can make a female character that is just as attractive as any male character - ie, not very.

If you want some pin-up or anime waifu ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ - then look at the mods.

Yeah, that's exactly what I don't want but that seems to be the only options nexusmod is offering --> Girls with pink/blue or whatever hair and way too small faces.

There even was one guy who made a pretty looking character in GECK but he refused to share it because he didn't want others to play with his character....ehm yeah...creep.

[Rambo First Blunt]

Yawn, i want to see Big fat honey booboo size women. Now that would make me laugh.

[Bansheebutt]

I don't think they're ugly so much as they barely look like human beings.

https://41.media.tumblr.com/4a3b4d142ecdc74ec8b6f26468551fb5/tumblr_nu4k98ERCn1r4cgduo1_400.png

That's a default face, for the record.

[Pred]

Install this http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/39218/? it improves the look of faces A LOT.

[Ladez]

Originally posted by Bansheebot:

That's a default face, for the record.

No it's not. It's is just an example of face geometry that doesn't fit the chosen race. It's what happens if you switch race without resetting the face afterwards, which will apply the actual default face for that race. As such, it's really a bad example.

[Bansheebutt]

Really, because I just made 4 seperate npcs of each race and these were their profiles upon clicking preview

http://i.imgur.com/ez7Sd4s.png
http://i.imgur.com/dNgDcXY.png
http://i.imgur.com/jLdsrer.png
http://i.imgur.com/l9RWNgW.png

They always have that bizarre imploded nose and blownout cheekbones.

It's why I always tell people who want to put a female character in a mod to just copy and edit Trudy (or another character of an approapriate race). It's a lot easier than trying to save the damned souls the geck dredges up.

[Ladez]

Hint: click "Reset Face" in the Face tab. ;)

These are the real default faces of the four races: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50671837/img/default_faces.jpg

When you create a new NPC, it defaults to the caucasian race and uses the default face for the caucasian race. If you change race, the editor doesn't swap over to the default face for the new race, it preserves the old values. The same happens if you change gender. Click on the reset face button and the default geometry is loaded.

If you have all the addons loaded as well, a new NPC defaults to the MarkedMenGhoul race, which is why even your screenshot of the caucasian woman looks messed up.