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Any asset created by me can be used freely. Other assets may require permission by the original author. Because of this I'd prefer if you ask me first before using anything from this mod. Feel free to use the plugin for anything you want though. There is no need to ask me if you want to translate, patch or merge it with anything. Thanks for understanding.
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Changelogs
Version R1.0
Remade the plugin from scratch using custom head parts.
Restructured the entire mod for more logical access to the individual assets.
Went through every sculpt, made adjustments or replaced them entirely where appropriate.
Re-exported all facetints with SE CK. They should overall look closer to their original design.
Integrated ENB Brow Fix, KS Hairdo's Transparency Fix, Seamless Males, Double Sided Vertex Human Mouth Fix and SUEMR into the facegens.
Integrated artsick's two-part eye meshes.
Added a custom hairstyle for Morndas which is flagged as playable.
Zora has a new scar made from scratch and will no longer use a custom face texture. The scar is flagged as playable.
Female NPCs will no longer use custom textures.
NPCs now share textures between each other to reduce filesize.
Separated the Salt and Wind textures from the default ones and moved them into a patch instead.
Added Alendriel, Sadrin and Larsdon.
Version 2.0
Added 26 new NPCs. Check the doc for further information. I consider this the final main version, unless major bugs show up.
Moved the male custom skin to the Misc Files. Male NPCs will now use whatever you have installed for better compatibility with SAM and SoS.
Overhauled the female skin for a sharper and more realistic look. Also optimized the skin for better performance.
Compressed and mipmapped several other textures that weren't before. Less VRAM usage now.
Overhauled Zora's skin for a more believable scar that should actually look like a proper burn now. Also fixed her glitched eye meshes.
Made tweaks to Meresine, Ureni and Y'tharil, who had wonky eyebrows due to bad sculpting.
Remade Rinori's sculpt from scratch when fixing the above NPCs, because her original one was lost.
Changed Ange's and Felena's appearance to a more fitting one.
Gave Rinori and Felena vampire fangs from BVFE.
Added proper orc normalmaps for Mugnor, Duraz and Shelur
Replaced the default tint masks with 1K versions for better performance.
2K tint masks are now available as optional download.
4K UUNP body textures are now available as optional download.
Cleaned up some redundant left-over files, so no seperate update file this time.
Version 1.4
Added 15 new NPCs. Check the doc for further information.
Fixed eye reflections on various NPCs thanks to aeloyis
Tweaked Viranya's and Offryn's faces
Fixed Melea's missing body color
Fixed incorrect eye meshes on Duraz, Ange, Ingarte and Veralene
Added new screenshots by Aenion for the update. Thank you very much!
Version 1.3
Added 17 new NPCs. Check the doc for further information.
Adjusted Tikrid's haircolor
Fixed Gorr's clipping beard (maybe)
Fixed Rinori's bugged face
Fixed a duplicate of Daenlyn to actually use his new appearance
Added tons of screenshots by the amazing Winedave! Thank you
Version 1.2
Added Duraz, Ange, Ingarte, Jerulith, Misha and Veralene
Interesting NPCs version 3.42 is now required. Other versions may freeze the game.
Adjusted Tikrid's hair and face
Removed all body meshes. NPCs will now use whatever you have installed so make sure you download the correct version.
Fixed errors on many of the head meshes caused by an incorrect version of NifMerge
Fixed Froa's hair
DESCRIPTION
This mod overhauls a large amount of characters from Kris Takahashi's Interesting NPCs. It includes all humanoid followers, as well as many quest-related characters. Apart from Interesting NPCs, no mod is required to use this overhaul, as all necessary assets are already included. The NPCs are not using a custom skin texture, so you can use whatever body and skin mods you want. A full list of overhauled NPCs can be found here.
The only hard requirement to use this mod is the latest version of Interesting NPCs. Please make sure you have version 3.42 of the mod and are not running the Hearthfire patch.
While not technically required, my sculpts are tailored for use with Expressive Facial Animation Male and Female Edition
RECOMMENDATIONS
These are entirely optional, but I recommend using the following mods:
Eye Reflections llygaid Eye Improver or Fair Skin Complexion Note: Fair Skin has a FOMOD installer, so you can pick just the mouth or eyes textures when installing, in case you don't like the skin.
My mod already covers a large amount of NPCs, but In case you want to cover even more, I recommend installing Hott Interesting NPCs and let my mod overwrite it, so you get a mix of both.
As children aren't covered by my mod, it's compatible with all overhauls out there. Load order does not matter in this case.
IMPORTANT: If you want to mix NPC overhauls, you absolutely must make sure your load order is correct. NPC overhauls are prone to breaking if you don't know what you're doing. So please be careful about which mod is taking priority over which.