How To Make A Beautiful Female Character - 2016 Edition

A Guide on how to make beautiful female characters in the Skyrim universe. 50 mods or less to make a beautiful woman in your game instead of the pig ugly vanilla crap that were given. Making it so we can have better facial expressions and skin textures and eyes and a whole load of other things. Vanilla crap is for the consoles - this is pc - this is the next generation and we can do so much more than consoles

The Basics

Ok here is were we begin.

To start with making a beautiful female character the first thing to do is download the Nexus Mod Manager from the nexus website which can be found here

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/?

Then once installed and activated we use this for downloading the mods we will need for making a beautiful character. Thankfully most of the mods we will need will be here on the nexus website aside from a small handful. With this in-mind let us begin making our character

SKSE - before everything else

Ok so before everything else your going to need SKSE installed for starters. In English its a mod which makes it so the scripts from new mods work correctly. Long story short you NEED it.

Its very complicated to explain so heres a video which does a much better job explaining how to install this than i could try

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTGnQIiNVqA

Once this is installed lets continue with the rest of the mods needed

RaceMenu

Here is what we will use to create our character - RaceMenu -

This is a new layout design for creating a character and will need you to learn a lot of new menus as this has a fair few added to it and is a lot more detailed (and complicated) than what ECE has - however this offers much more choice for creating a character and more options like overlays

The mod can be gotten from here

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/29624/?

Once installed and you get into game activate it via pressing ` on the keyboard and typing - showracemenu - and then hit return.

A new menu will open up giving you dozens of options. The finished result were aiming for is something like down below



To compare this is the ugly vanilla crap and then a finished version of what we should hopefully get once all the mods are installed via mod manager and loaded in the correct order.



Now Racemenu itself is rather complicated BUT your going to have to get used to it. A good feature of racemenu is the ability to bring other peoples creations to you gave via the sculpt option. This is again rather complicated and more details can be found on the nexus about this, however here is a screenshot so you can see what im trying to describe



Racemenu is the best character creation option to use as now the latest version can do so much more than it previously could and also has many of the features ECE did now installed into the latest racemenu

Various Eye Options

Now to make the eyes look more better rather than the terrible vanilla eye preset which just looks awful. We have a selection of 2 mods here - long story short these 2 mods will all you should ever need for eye mods

We have - Eyes of Beauty - and also - Cherry Eyes

These x2 mods can be gotten from here

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/13722/?

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/60111/?

These x2 mods will add loads of new eye options for you to choose from. Simple install via mod manager and there going to be in the new race menu set-up



Ok eyes sorted - lets go onto the next thing

Body Type + Textures and Skeletons

Ok now were going to need a new body and with that a new skelton because the vanilla one doesnt work very well with a lot of the new body types created out there such as sevenbase/cbbe/unp and others so were going to need a new body + skeleton and skin textures.

Now the textures of the body - The main body textures in vanilla need changing because they just look horrible. Download and enjoy SG textures from here

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/35267/?

These will replace the standard body textures in the vanilla game to a much needed improvment. There are some other texture packs out there but in general i myself and others mainly use this texture pack as its easy to work with.

Ok now for the body itself - This is were things can become a little difficult - You can use various body meshes such as sevenbase and cbbe etc etc but if you do this you also need to remember to download the correct clothes that also match that style of outfit otherwise you might get CTD issues with outfits not working correctly.

The best way around this (I found) is to install this

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/68000/?

Then once this is installed with the skeleton body above i found my own character could wear sevenbase outfits and unp without any problems. Most outfits are unp so thats an easy solution. You can wear CBBE outfits but they wont be perfect. Some glitches might show and afew other things but at least you will be able to wear them

SG Eyebrows

Ok now the eyes are all set we need female eyebrows to match

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/35327/?

Install via mod manager again and these new eyebrows will be under the eyebrow section.

Need these really considering the Vanilla eyebrows for female dont look that great

RaceMenu - The Overlays

Ok so we have a body mesh + skeleton + textures and eyes. Now all we need is some overlays for racemenu such as tattoos and warpaints and other various mods.

Firstly lets install some Tattoo's and Warpaints

Install these as they will give you dozens of options to choose from

Warpaints

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/13970/?

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/41210/?

Freckles - Freckle Mania

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/52841/?

Body Tattoos and face

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/35677/?

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/28740/?


Once these are installed you should have all the options needed for adding new warpaints or tattoos to the body such as these examples

MFG and Face Animations

Ok now onto making a good smile and other facial expressions. Firstly we need to reinstall MFG which is a command option that needs to be put back into skyrim

This mod can be gotten here

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/44596/?

A much more detailed layout for MFG can be found here by my friend Kaz

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=187155077

His guide will help explain MFG command better than i ever could and as you can see from 1 of his screenshots - he can make a girl smile

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=457172411

This mod is for a better smile/facial animations as the vanilla ones look awful. With this animation mod installed your character should be able to have a proper smile and not look silly when -ME 2 100 - has been selected.

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/35303/?

Finally your character can have a proper smile now and not look goofy like how the vanilla animations make you look.

HDT - Physics and Heels

To explain this easier rather than making it more complicated than it needs to be - lots of mods in skyrim use HDT for the feet so you can wear high heels and other types of heel shoes.

HDT Physics is more an optional choice if you want your characters chest and bottom to wobble when walking and ducking etc.

Firstly lets download the - Heel - mod which can be found here

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/36213/?

Now once installed the game wont CTD when you try to wear high heels which a lot of newer outfits require you to have to begin with. Enjoy the shoe fetish show




Ok now the more -optional - part is if you want to wobble when walking. Download this mod and make sure you have the skeleton and others mentioned above or else you will end up with CTD issues that need to be messed about with in order to work

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/54044/?

As mentioned before this just makes you wobble when walking or running and ducking. Enjoy

KS Hairdos - Renewal

This is the link to the hair mod which your going to need. Comes with loads of selections and also Physics hair (ie hair that moves when you move) but remember your going to need the physics mod mentioned here for the physics hair to work correctly.

Here is the link to the hair mod

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/68311/?

Simply download via mod manager and the hairs will be in racemenu for you to select via a slider



Remember to install the other racemenu add-ons in order to make all the hairs load up once you open - showracemenu- or else the game will crash or freeze.

Poses - Good for Screenshot

With all the mods installed this is more an optional one to make your girls pose and stand out more in screenshots. Again this is more an optional mod but considering all the effort your going to be doing making a character its obvious your gona be doing this for poses

The poses can be gotten here from HaloMod

http://mod.dysintropi.me/

You going to need FNIS as well

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/11811/?

Once installed your going to need to go into the TOOLS folder and open -FNIS for users- and click activate. Once done the mod should be installed correctly. You need to do this in order to make the poses work otherwise you end up with everyone doing a T impression.

The poses also come with optional poses for male characters as well.





You can now also get x2 new poses from different makers also

We now have Aloer-poses

http://aloe-ygroot.tumblr.com/post/115535676262/aloe-poser-出来たよ

and also GomaPero

http://gomaperopero.tumblr.com/

you install these the same way as Halos and then just run fnis afterwards

Final - The End

With all these mods installed you should be able to make a new amazing beautiful character into your skyrim game. Remember to test each mod out once installed to make sure no issues happen, if you do run into trouble then revert back to the last mod and try messing with it till it works.

Remember to enjoy your new skyrim beauties

Final - Extra - Crashes

Some people have said they are getting crashes when trying to start skyrim after all this is installed. Long story short its going to be done to the user installing 1 mod incorrectly.

Usually if the game loads (Assuming your using the SKSE loader shortcut like your supposed to be doing) IF you get a crash then its going to be a CTD issue right after the skyrim logo appears. This will USUALLY be down to installing a skeleton incorrectly.

Depending on your choice of body type - 7base/cbbe/unp/bbd - your going to need to have the right skeleton body mesh installed. To do this you need the correct skeleton mesh installed and then the correct body mod installed.

An example of this is that for 7Base you need XP32 extented

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/68000/?

Then the 7Base body mod installed as well. Once these 2 are loaded correctly your game will load alright. You need to make sure for EACH body mod you install you also install the correct skeleton mesh or else its CTD time.

All other mods such as eye/eyebrow/mouth/textures should not give you any ctd issues. So IF your having problems go back and check your last body and skeleton meshes

[Cat Daddy]

WHICH outfit?

[Nullo_Numero]

Cute. Please give a link to the outfit with screenshots.

[Ykcud]

nice

[llucas510]

good!

[HUAHHHHH!]

I tried this and now my game CTD's,

[Severian]

Instructions unclear, penis stuck in avatar.

[Katz]

Wow... just... wow... *dumps Mod folder on trash bin*

[Dr. Wizard PHD]

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