Foster did a mod called "Fat Bastards in Skyrim" some time back. It was pulled for a while, but is up here again. It's a replacer, so the chap selling his wife's crafts at Warmaidens is pretty big.
Might check it out for inspiration?
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/57875/?
I'd like to see another replacer like that personally. Hope you get around to it someday!
this mod doesn't work for me... i don't have any mod that messes with the skeleton so i don't know. i can't select it from the character creation, and i can't do Setrace Fatnord. am i doing something wrong? this is a list of mods i have installed: nighingalearmortweak, mxlevelupallperks,mxunfearedvampire,strongerarrows,brisingr,damagemultiplier,deadricassasinlightarmor,Alternatestart, adventcalendar,playerhouse,cookingcareer,valuablehunting,guarddialougeoverhaul,enhancedgameplay,alcoholiceffect,removesundamage,barenziahquestmarkers,the asteria. That is also the load order for the mods, can you please help? ive done it both manually and with the nexus manager, none of them work? (if you read trough all the mods im surprised)
To the skeleton, I took the bones, added a parent ninode and translated it out on the z axis, then scaled said nodes until it looked.... right. If you look at my other mods, they are all acheived the same way.
If you move the bones in 1 direction on the z axis, it scales it up on the z axis. If you move it in the other direction, it clips the bone at either end. This is my own personal discovery derived from reading stuff. As a result, I am completely unsure on why this is the way it is, though.
Your mod works, sort of, but the mesh is oddly distorted (very far out under the pecs and then sloping in quite flat back to the pelvis) and there's a slight gap along the belt line where the torso has detached from the pelvis and you can see through it. I though I might be able to tweak it a bit based on your comments, but no luck.
I'm very new to Skyrim modding, and I've been playing with NIFScope and tried to recreate your effect based on this comment, but I honestly cannot figure out what you've done at all. Would there be any chance at all of a video tute showing just the process of making the skeleton change the mesh scale/position like this?
Same situation, it became a re placer for all my bodies (male). I relay want this to work, because not only does it fill out the super model and body builder archetype of skyrim with something more reconcilable as a human figure, but bypasses the monotonous Texture, Mesh monopolizing and constant maintenance of the other body alteration mods out there.
Okay so I tested it and I got CTD with both the file named fatskeleton.nif AND skeleton.nif when I tried to change my race to fat nord.
BUT leaving the file name "skeleton.nif" made my normal nord fat. It looks pretty funny with the Real Bodies male body but more barrel chested than fat. The ass is big and fat though.
Anyway, I think there ia something wrong with the esp because the custom race is causing CTD and the file is probably misnamed in your package because I don't think you intended to distribut it as a replacer.. You'd better check it out.
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Might check it out for inspiration?
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/57875/?
I'd like to see another replacer like that personally. Hope you get around to it someday!
So they're not fat, they're big-boned.
Go to SkyrimDatameshesactorscharacterCharacter assets
and rename Skeleton.nif to skeletonFat.nif !!!!
Your mod works, sort of, but the mesh is oddly distorted (very far out under the pecs and then sloping in quite flat back to the pelvis) and there's a slight gap along the belt line where the torso has detached from the pelvis and you can see through it. I though I might be able to tweak it a bit based on your comments, but no luck.
I'm very new to Skyrim modding, and I've been playing with NIFScope and tried to recreate your effect based on this comment, but I honestly cannot figure out what you've done at all. Would there be any chance at all of a video tute showing just the process of making the skeleton change the mesh scale/position like this?
BUT leaving the file name "skeleton.nif" made my normal nord fat. It looks pretty funny with the Real Bodies male body but more barrel chested than fat. The ass is big and fat though.
Anyway, I think there ia something wrong with the esp because the custom race is causing CTD and the file is probably misnamed in your package because I don't think you intended to distribut it as a replacer.. You'd better check it out.