How do I add body and out presets to NPCS?

[Solaire]

I'm getting tired of looking at the plain old NPCS since their not that pretty to look at. I want to add attractive characters that use CBBE body and outfit presets to NPCS so how do that? I do have Caliente's Beautiful Bodies Enhancer installed but the characters still don't look that pretty.

If anyone knows how to add body and outfit presets to NPCS then let me know?

[Ilja]

CBBE does not do a thing on it's own. You will need to BatcBuild bodies and gear in BodySlide.

The process is simple enough.
- Select the body preset from lower drop list on top.
- Set morphs active.
- (Hold RCTRL, if you want to select target folder) and click BatchBuild option. This will create all bodies and gear for selected preset.

Some presets have two options. standard and Outfit. Second one gives a push-up for gear, so that female breasts to do seem to hang freely under the top. In this case you can build bodies and outfits separeately.

Selected body requires matching clothing conversions. CBBE comes with it's own vanilla conversions. If you want to use replacements or custom gear, then just install them in to your mod manager (make sure that paths are correct) and run BodySlide again. BodySlide will ask about conflicts between the outfits. Which ever you select from prompt will appear in the game.

Changes made by CBBE bodies are quite subtle. You get better body meshes for females. The default Curvy preset does not make any drastic changes to female bodies in games - you do not see massive boobs or butts. If you want more defined preset, then check Nexus for premade ones, or get familiar with sliders and craft your own preset. I am building my own presets.

Bodies are not enough to make big changes though. Check compatible skins from Nexus, to make more visible changes to female faces. There are also mods for better eyes, etc.

Beyond that, it gets a bit hard. If you want drastic changes to NPCs, then you will need to install direct character replacement mods, like Bijin mods. In these cases authors have created face presets in RaceMenu/Ece and used CK (maybe WryeBash "ESMfied" option in between) to properly include custom hairs as well.

You can do that yourself, but it first requires that you get yourself familiar with at least Creation Kit and xEdit, likely with WryeBash as well.

Remember that you can use custom male body meshes as well. I am currently running CBBE 3BBB bodies for females and HIMBO bodies for males. How you manage these bodies depend on your mod manager of choice. I am using Mod Organizer 2 and created folders Output CBBE 3BBB and Output HIMBO to keep male and female meshes clearly separate from each other.

[wawawiwa]

don't know anything about mod that change NPC outfit, but i do know good NPC replacer

try pandora
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/19012
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/24135
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/30680

[Solaire]

Originally posted by Ilja:

CBBE does not do a thing on it's own. You will need to BatcBuild bodies and gear in BodySlide.

The process is simple enough.
- Select the body preset from lower drop list on top.
- Set morphs active.
- (Hold RCTRL, if you want to select target folder) and click BatchBuild option. This will create all bodies and gear for selected preset.

Some presets have two options. standard and Outfit. Second one gives a push-up for gear, so that female breasts to do seem to hang freely under the top. In this case you can build bodies and outfits separeately.

Selected body requires matching clothing conversions. CBBE comes with it's own vanilla conversions. If you want to use replacements or custom gear, then just install them in to your mod manager (make sure that paths are correct) and run BodySlide again. BodySlide will ask about conflicts between the outfits. Which ever you select from prompt will appear in the game.

Changes made by CBBE bodies are quite subtle. You get better body meshes for females. The default Curvy preset does not make any drastic changes to female bodies in games - you do not see massive boobs or butts. If you want more defined preset, then check Nexus for premade ones, or get familiar with sliders and craft your own preset. I am building my own presets.

Bodies are not enough to make big changes though. Check compatible skins from Nexus, to make more visible changes to female faces. There are also mods for better eyes, etc.

Beyond that, it gets a bit hard. If you want drastic changes to NPCs, then you will need to install direct character replacement mods, like Bijin mods. In these cases authors have created face presets in RaceMenu/Ece and used CK (maybe WryeBash "ESMfied" option in between) to properly include custom hairs as well.

You can do that yourself, but it first requires that you get yourself familiar with at least Creation Kit and xEdit, likely with WryeBash as well.

Remember that you can use custom male body meshes as well. I am currently running CBBE 3BBB bodies for females and HIMBO bodies for males. How you manage these bodies depend on your mod manager of choice. I am using Mod Organizer 2 and created folders Output CBBE 3BBB and Output HIMBO to keep male and female meshes clearly separate from each other.

How do I fix the purple abomination I get when I load in the preset? I got all the requirements and stuff but still get the purple weird color texture on my character when I load in the preset?

[Ilja]

Purple color can only point to two things:
1. Textures are in fact missing, or in wrong locations.
2. Computer VRAM can not run textures.