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Unique Races 1.0

Tired of having all NPCs looking the same with the same mesh and texture sets? Do you want to have an option to change it the way you want it?
Well the Unique Races and Unique Armor are the mods for you.

IMPORTANT
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THIS IS NOT A BODYMOD. THE MOD ONLY CONTAINS VANILLA FILES. THE IMAGES ARE JUST TO SHOW WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH THE MOD. YOU HAVE TO USE YOUR OWN BODY MODS AND CALIENTES TOOLS.

Unique Races series are “Placeholder” mods which allows players to use their own unique body and head meshes and texture sets for each race. It does so by separating the skin addon, head and face textures for each race and point them to separate locations. The BSA file contains the vanilla meshes and texture sets as well as the vanilla NPCs new Facegens.

Unique Armor series should be used together with the Unique Races series. It works the same way as Unique Races by separating the armor addons and pointing them to each race specific folder.

With the use of different body mods and Calientes Tools you are able to use unique armor, body and head meshes and unique body and head textures for each race.

Unique Races is made for all races and genders, including beast races. Used with Unique Armor

Unique Races Females is made for humanoid females only. The BSA is smaller since it only contains facegens for the female humanoid NPCs. Used with Unique Armor Females.

Unique Races Lite is made for just one body mod. It only separates the body meshes. Its BSA is very small due to no need of facegen. Used with Unique Armor.

Unique Armor contains separate armor addons, one for each race and armor, for almost all vanilla armor in Skyrim, Dawnguard, HearthFires and Dragonborn.

Unique Armor Females is the same as Unique Armor with the exception for humanoid females only and should only be used with Unique Races Females.

Links
Unique Races
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1763409042
Unique Races Females
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1763394123
Unique Races Lite
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1763376841

Unique Armor
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1763439766
Unique Armor Females
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1763427195


INSTALLATION
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Simple. Very Simple. Just copy the .esp and .bsa files of your choosing into the Data folder.
Then create the folder structure…….

Unique Races Mesh and Texture Structure
Create a folder named bvbur in Data\Meshes\Actors\Character folder
Create a folder named bvbur in Data\Textures\Actors\Character folder
In these folders create a folder for each race and gender
Example: FemaleArgonian, FemaleBreton, FemaleDarkElf etc etc MaleArgonian, MaleBreton, Male DarkElf etc etc like the picture is showing

For Unique Races Females you can skip the beastraces and male folders
For Unique Races Lite you can skip the texture folders

Unique Armor Mesh Structure
Create a folder named bvbua in Data\Meshes folder
In the folder create a folder for each race
Example: Argonian, Breton, DarkElf etc etc

For Unique Armor Females you can skip the beastrace folders.


HOW TO USE THE MOD
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See to that you have a chosen bodymod, armoraddon and Calientes tools installed.
Create a preset in Calientes tools for the race and gender you want. Build Body, Hands and Feet meshes. Then batch build the armors.

The body, hands and feet meshes ends up in Data\meshes\actors\character\character assets. The armor meshes ends up in the folders Armor, Clothes, DLC01 and DLC02 under the Data\Meshes folder.

Cut and Paste the files from \character assets into the bvbur\”genderrace” folder.
Cut and Paste the texture files from Data\Textures\Actors\Character\ female or male or beastraces folders into bvbur\”genderrace”
Example: bvbur\femalenord

Now go to Data\Meshes and Cut and Paste the folders Armor, Clothes, DLC01 and DLC02 into the bvbua\”race” folder
Example: bvbua\nord

See pictures

If you going to use the same bodymod and armoraddon on a another race then simply rinse and repeat. Otherwise install a new body mod and armor addon


ADDING NPC MODS
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Load up the creation kit with the mod together with either Unique Races or Unique Races Females.
Mark the NPCs you wish to create new facegens for and hit Ctrl + F4 buttons.

The head meshes, malehead.nif and femalehead.nif in the BSA files are separated for each race and the texture pointers are going into their own specific folder. So if you wish to change head meshes and create new facegens be sure to use Nifskope to edit these pointers accordingly.