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Adds female ish mutants to Super Mutant Redux. Standalone version now also available.
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HarmonicaBlues created replacement files that turns all mutants into a female version with the mod Female Super Mutants. Permission are set as "I don't care, do what you want with it!" so I have taken the art and sound files and created new records for them that fit into Super Mutant Redux. Current settings make about 20% of super mutants as "female".
The files from Female Super Mutants include reworking all the super mutant vanilla armor to fit the new body. Super Mutant Redux makes a lot of changes and options to the vanilla armor so I had to make some compromises. In general SMR has light, medium, and heavy versions of the armor with the vanilla looking most like the heavy. When on a female however all 3 types will look the same for the torso and legs. Arms and head armor appear to mostly fit the female body so the male version is used. Is at least one leg model that had no vanilla equivalent so the male version is used and clipping results. Also the vanilla armor style 3 which SMR calls Overlord Breastplate has a female version but it still does not fit that well. Changing armor is not in my current skill set so you get what HarmonicaBlues provided. Appears to be a lot of currently unused armor models in SMR and if they ever get added that will cause major compatibility issues.
The female super mutants have their own voice files also provided by HarmonicaBlues. This is most of the file size. The art files are just small .nif files.
Internal Technical Stuff:
I have gone through multiple iterations trying to get this to work properly. I have left in some unused records in the esp in case needed in the future. SMR itself has hundreds of unused records.
The final main technique used was to add females to the LCharMutantVoices Leveled NPC list. SMR changed this list from a size of 3 to a size of 153 entries. To get females to appear at a 20% rate I would need to add 30 more records. I have read that long leveled lists create problems so what I did was break up the list into categories based on the face texture.
Melee mutants presented another problem. To get Nightkin to spawn with other melee the LCharMutantVoices record could not be used as the template for Traits for the base spawn NPC. One side effects is none of the melee character ever had the face paints and did not change body type (skinny, fat, muscular). To get females to spawn as melee I have changed the EncSuperMutant0XMelee records to spawn a specific face texture. I tried using a LCharMutantVoices as a template for Traits but found out a level list does not work that far down in the template order. Before level 16 all melee super mutants that are not Nightkin will be female. As you get higher in level will see more of the males with different face textures but they will not have the variety of the ranged super mutants.
Fixes to Super Mutant Redux:
I did my work with version 2.5 of Super Mutant Redux. With all the iterations I went through that failed I did a lot of spawn testing of super mutants. I also looked through a lot of the records of SMR with FO4Edit. In the process I found a number errors.
Art for face paint type 7 exists but the Texture Set records points to the face paint 6. Face paint 7 is a cool effect but is not realistic. I chose to eliminate face paint 7 from the LCharMutantVoices list.
Face paint 5 Texture Set record pointed to the face paint 4. I have corrected this.
The NPC records for face paint 3 all used the face paint 7 Texture Set (which pointed to 6 resulting in face paint 6 used 3 times as much as the others). I have fixed the NPC face paint 3 records to used the face paint 3 texture.
A number of the NPC records that were set to use the vanilla face texture used the high resolution "MadMax" body texture. The result was if you use replace the vanilla super mutant textures with something like Supermutant Re-texture you got an odd mismatch between the face and body. This was important to me so I could get the female super mutants to use a better texture than the vanilla one without having to try to make one myself (which would not look good). I don't know if I have fixed all the cases of this mismatch but I have fixed many NPC records with this problem.
Open Issues:
Artwork changes are not in my area of expertise. I decided to learn a bit about nif editing and made some minor tweaks to the female face from the original Female Super Mutants. Would like to further distinguish it from the male.
Would be nice to have a custom texture for the females so they truly look different than the males.
The female body nif file still has the back of head attached to the rest of the body. Would be nice to change this so decapitation looks better.
All the armor work that SMR did for males could be done for females.
I don't think legendary version of super mutants will show up as females. Beyond that could try to do nightkin, pale, and maybe others as females.
I have not experimented with the fat, skinny, muscular sliders with this model. The height varies from .94 to .99 (compared to 1.0 to 1.09 for the male versions).
New version that does not use Super Mutant Redux:
Note: Right as I finished working on this version 4estGimp released a version of Super Mutant Redux that does not require AWKCR. Can just use it instead at https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/49091?tab=files My original mod appears like would work fine with it.
I started a new playthrough that does not have Armor and Weapon Keywords Community Resource (AWKCR). This means no Super Mutant Redux (SMR) but I was missing Super Mutant variety.
I do not level all Super Mutants to the character level and they also don't have the stronger equipment from SMR but I do give them the extra resists like SMR. This should make them a bit more challenging than the base game but not SMR level of difficulty.
Females remain a somewhat rare variety. About 1 in 7.
The texture package contains the vanilla games super mutant textures copied into their own unique folder. This means if you install a super mutant texture package the females will have a different skin than the males. If you copied a loose files super mutant texture package into Textures/FemaleSupermant folder then females would use those textures.
The files from Female Super Mutants include reworking all the super mutant vanilla armor to fit the new body. Super Mutant Redux makes a lot of changes and options to the vanilla armor so I had to make some compromises. In general SMR has light, medium, and heavy versions of the armor with the vanilla looking most like the heavy. When on a female however all 3 types will look the same for the torso and legs. Arms and head armor appear to mostly fit the female body so the male version is used. Is at least one leg model that had no vanilla equivalent so the male version is used and clipping results. Also the vanilla armor style 3 which SMR calls Overlord Breastplate has a female version but it still does not fit that well. Changing armor is not in my current skill set so you get what HarmonicaBlues provided. Appears to be a lot of currently unused armor models in SMR and if they ever get added that will cause major compatibility issues.
The female super mutants have their own voice files also provided by HarmonicaBlues. This is most of the file size. The art files are just small .nif files.
Internal Technical Stuff:
I have gone through multiple iterations trying to get this to work properly. I have left in some unused records in the esp in case needed in the future. SMR itself has hundreds of unused records.
The final main technique used was to add females to the LCharMutantVoices Leveled NPC list. SMR changed this list from a size of 3 to a size of 153 entries. To get females to appear at a 20% rate I would need to add 30 more records. I have read that long leveled lists create problems so what I did was break up the list into categories based on the face texture.
Melee mutants presented another problem. To get Nightkin to spawn with other melee the LCharMutantVoices record could not be used as the template for Traits for the base spawn NPC. One side effects is none of the melee character ever had the face paints and did not change body type (skinny, fat, muscular). To get females to spawn as melee I have changed the EncSuperMutant0XMelee records to spawn a specific face texture. I tried using a LCharMutantVoices as a template for Traits but found out a level list does not work that far down in the template order. Before level 16 all melee super mutants that are not Nightkin will be female. As you get higher in level will see more of the males with different face textures but they will not have the variety of the ranged super mutants.
Fixes to Super Mutant Redux:
I did my work with version 2.5 of Super Mutant Redux. With all the iterations I went through that failed I did a lot of spawn testing of super mutants. I also looked through a lot of the records of SMR with FO4Edit. In the process I found a number errors.
Art for face paint type 7 exists but the Texture Set records points to the face paint 6. Face paint 7 is a cool effect but is not realistic. I chose to eliminate face paint 7 from the LCharMutantVoices list.
Face paint 5 Texture Set record pointed to the face paint 4. I have corrected this.
The NPC records for face paint 3 all used the face paint 7 Texture Set (which pointed to 6 resulting in face paint 6 used 3 times as much as the others). I have fixed the NPC face paint 3 records to used the face paint 3 texture.
A number of the NPC records that were set to use the vanilla face texture used the high resolution "MadMax" body texture. The result was if you use replace the vanilla super mutant textures with something like Supermutant Re-texture you got an odd mismatch between the face and body. This was important to me so I could get the female super mutants to use a better texture than the vanilla one without having to try to make one myself (which would not look good). I don't know if I have fixed all the cases of this mismatch but I have fixed many NPC records with this problem.
Open Issues:
Artwork changes are not in my area of expertise. I decided to learn a bit about nif editing and made some minor tweaks to the female face from the original Female Super Mutants. Would like to further distinguish it from the male.
Would be nice to have a custom texture for the females so they truly look different than the males.
The female body nif file still has the back of head attached to the rest of the body. Would be nice to change this so decapitation looks better.
All the armor work that SMR did for males could be done for females.
I don't think legendary version of super mutants will show up as females. Beyond that could try to do nightkin, pale, and maybe others as females.
I have not experimented with the fat, skinny, muscular sliders with this model. The height varies from .94 to .99 (compared to 1.0 to 1.09 for the male versions).
New version that does not use Super Mutant Redux:
Note: Right as I finished working on this version 4estGimp released a version of Super Mutant Redux that does not require AWKCR. Can just use it instead at https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/49091?tab=files My original mod appears like would work fine with it.
I started a new playthrough that does not have Armor and Weapon Keywords Community Resource (AWKCR). This means no Super Mutant Redux (SMR) but I was missing Super Mutant variety.
I do not level all Super Mutants to the character level and they also don't have the stronger equipment from SMR but I do give them the extra resists like SMR. This should make them a bit more challenging than the base game but not SMR level of difficulty.
Females remain a somewhat rare variety. About 1 in 7.
The texture package contains the vanilla games super mutant textures copied into their own unique folder. This means if you install a super mutant texture package the females will have a different skin than the males. If you copied a loose files super mutant texture package into Textures/FemaleSupermant folder then females would use those textures.