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About this mod
The Skyrim Vanilla femalehead.NIF has asymmetrical eyes. The right eye looks smooth, on a skinned mesh, but the left eye is larger and looks like a torn pocket. The vanilla NIF causes ALL Skyrim NPC females, except player-characters, to have uneven eyes. This replacement NIF makes all human NPC female eyes symmetrical.
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Femalehead.NIF Tweak 1.0 for female human races in Skyrim Vanilla and LE:
This nif is a LOOSE FILE, to be downloaded only by Experienced Modders who want it, DIRECTLY TO PC Desktop.
This NIF is intended for modders who can manually replace the existing femalehead.nif in the vanilla Skyrim archives with our "improved" one. (See WHY below, about why we bothered.)
Please do not install our loose file with your Mod Manager. Also, please do not drag our folder/NIF into your mod manager..
From your download folder, unzip our folder, and then find and copy the femalehead.nif direct to your PC desktop, only.
WHY would anyone want this femalehead.nif replacement?
The Skyrim Vanilla Female Head (femalehead.nif) for human races has uneven eyes. The right eye looks smooth on the skinned mesh (NIF), but the left eye is measurably larger and looks like a "torn pocket." See images on this Nexus page.
Whether the developers missed mesh errors, or did it on purpose, is unknown.
What the vanilla NIF seems to do, however, is cause ALL Skyrim NPC human-race females, (meaning Bretons/Imperials/Nords/ Redguards), to show the same pair of asymmetrical eyes--a left one noticeably larger than the right. And so do ALL custom-NPC female Mods or character-makeovers Mods that rely on/depend on or use the vanilla femalehead.nif mesh found in the Skyrim archives.
Therefore, this tiny replacement femalehead.nif provides an "improved" replacement femalehead.nif for the one inside the vanilla files. Please note that this replacement NIF mesh is Low-Poly like the original, intended to avoid creating texturing errors and conflicts for the original 32-bit version of the game.
Experienced modders can make a backup of the Skyrim vanilla femalehead.nif in their archives and save the backup somewhere safe, while replacing it with this "improved" one.
WARNINGS!
This tweak is for experienced modders/Skyrim gamers comfortable using BAE, Bethesda Archive Extractor. It is also for modders and gamers experienced with editing NIF's in NifSkope. You will wish to check or revise the texture paths on our replacement femalehead.nif to match those in your existing setup/folder structures. Our textures point to Skyrim's correct texture files, but you may have a mod that provides different texture paths. You will also wish to make backups of your Skyrim vanilla original femalehead.nif, on your PC desktop, in case this replacement causes in-game issues.
Anticipating Vortex, Mod-Managers, Organizer possible deployment-interference issues?
We do not know if Vortex and other Mod-Managers check Skyrim archives' files for "dates/times" modified consistency of packed files. We think not. But, if these managers do check dates, and alter mod-deployment when finding inconsistencies, you may get game errors, using this tweak, because you will be replacing the archived femalehead.nif with our newer one, which has different dates of creation/modification than the ones in your archives. A workaround is to use BulkFileChanger, or a similar program, to alter the date-modified of our replacement file to match those in your Skyrim archives.
LOW-POLY Head vs. HIGH-POLY HEAD?
If you run Skryim Vanilla/LE at 2K or better, for your personal playthroughs, we might recommend that you download a High-Poly head, with female eyes made symmetrical, from a modder who has made such a mesh, and who has replaced all the Skyrim vanilla human femalehead.nif races with a High-Poly nif that also fixes the eye-asymmetries. Note, that this workaround may not fix all your in-game female-character eye-mismatches, however. Why? For one reason, many NPC textures in vanilla Skyrim are 256 by 256 or 512 by 512 pixels. 2K Mods overwrite many of these with textures with 2048 by 2048 pixels. So a High-Poly mesh may not catch all. Perhaps, some High-Poly texture-size mismatches might break your NPC's or your game. If you have CBBE or a similar mod that mass-corrects texture sizes, you might be OK. But note how many custom-female NPC mods, along with many custom overall character-enhancement mods, have their own nifs, ALL based on the original asymmetry of the vanilla femalehead.nif. These custom mods may overwrite or clash with an intended high-poly femalehead.nif in your Mods load order, because they return to the vanilla asymmetrical-eyes NIF. Or you may go to Skyrim SE? We have successfully tested this mesh on Skyrim LE with only two texture sources, the Skyrim vanilla, and the CBBE. We do not know how it may work with other skin-mods.
Also, please note that an excellent High-Poly head mod may not overwrite all races' texture paths, in which case you will get neck-seam and dark-face issues.
WHO NEEDS THIS?
+Any modder who has not liked the asymmetrical eyes on the vanilla femalehead.nif
+Any modder who wants to build custom female-human NPC's in vanilla and LE starting with symmetrically sized eyes. Your saved NIF's will now have the matched eyes
.+Any modder who is puzzled about why so many Skyrim vanilla human females have eye-mismatches, and doesn't like it.
+Any modder who is puzzled and annoyed about why so many custom NPC's female mods also have mismatched eyes, when you look closely.
-No one who is happy with the Skyrim vanilla female human faces.
-No one who likes the seeming idiosyncrasy that all Skyrim human females, including many custom NPC female followers, have that same exact cute quirk of the left eye larger and more skewed than the other.
REQUIREMENTS:
What experienced modders will likely need: BAE, NifSkope.
1) Make a back-up copy of Skyrim (LE), plus the DLC, if you like, in the unlikely case replacing a vanilla nif in your Skyrim archives breaks all of your game. (Online tutorials at Steam, Nexus Forums, and elsewhere, explain how to make zipped/compressed backup copies of your legitimate copy of Skyrim.) This single replacement femalehead.nif did not break our games, and we tested it on 3 PC's with only Skyrim LE (i.e., DLC) enabled, and with no other mods. On one PC, we're on save number 250 with this tweak, and the Skyrim human females all show symmetrical eyes, though perhaps unrealistically.
2) If you are considering owning and installing this femalehead.nif tweak, you know how to use Bethesda Archive Extractor, BAE. You may need to use Nifskope, in case you need to open our femalehead.nif and revise the texture paths.
DOWNLOAD METHOD, NOT WITH YOUR MOD MANAGER, PLEASE. Unzip and DOWNLOAD OUR femalehead.nif LOOSE FILE MANUALLY TO YOUR DESKTOP. From there, you can find, copy, and backup your original femalehead.nif from your Skyrim BAE archives, and then replace that original with this "improved" one with a simple copy-replace process. Please let us know if it works or not!
Credits: Bethesda.
This nif is a LOOSE FILE, to be downloaded only by Experienced Modders who want it, DIRECTLY TO PC Desktop.
This NIF is intended for modders who can manually replace the existing femalehead.nif in the vanilla Skyrim archives with our "improved" one. (See WHY below, about why we bothered.)
Please do not install our loose file with your Mod Manager. Also, please do not drag our folder/NIF into your mod manager..
From your download folder, unzip our folder, and then find and copy the femalehead.nif direct to your PC desktop, only.
WHY would anyone want this femalehead.nif replacement?
The Skyrim Vanilla Female Head (femalehead.nif) for human races has uneven eyes. The right eye looks smooth on the skinned mesh (NIF), but the left eye is measurably larger and looks like a "torn pocket." See images on this Nexus page.
Whether the developers missed mesh errors, or did it on purpose, is unknown.
What the vanilla NIF seems to do, however, is cause ALL Skyrim NPC human-race females, (meaning Bretons/Imperials/Nords/ Redguards), to show the same pair of asymmetrical eyes--a left one noticeably larger than the right. And so do ALL custom-NPC female Mods or character-makeovers Mods that rely on/depend on or use the vanilla femalehead.nif mesh found in the Skyrim archives.
Therefore, this tiny replacement femalehead.nif provides an "improved" replacement femalehead.nif for the one inside the vanilla files. Please note that this replacement NIF mesh is Low-Poly like the original, intended to avoid creating texturing errors and conflicts for the original 32-bit version of the game.
Experienced modders can make a backup of the Skyrim vanilla femalehead.nif in their archives and save the backup somewhere safe, while replacing it with this "improved" one.
WARNINGS!
This tweak is for experienced modders/Skyrim gamers comfortable using BAE, Bethesda Archive Extractor. It is also for modders and gamers experienced with editing NIF's in NifSkope. You will wish to check or revise the texture paths on our replacement femalehead.nif to match those in your existing setup/folder structures. Our textures point to Skyrim's correct texture files, but you may have a mod that provides different texture paths. You will also wish to make backups of your Skyrim vanilla original femalehead.nif, on your PC desktop, in case this replacement causes in-game issues.
Anticipating Vortex, Mod-Managers, Organizer possible deployment-interference issues?
We do not know if Vortex and other Mod-Managers check Skyrim archives' files for "dates/times" modified consistency of packed files. We think not. But, if these managers do check dates, and alter mod-deployment when finding inconsistencies, you may get game errors, using this tweak, because you will be replacing the archived femalehead.nif with our newer one, which has different dates of creation/modification than the ones in your archives. A workaround is to use BulkFileChanger, or a similar program, to alter the date-modified of our replacement file to match those in your Skyrim archives.
LOW-POLY Head vs. HIGH-POLY HEAD?
If you run Skryim Vanilla/LE at 2K or better, for your personal playthroughs, we might recommend that you download a High-Poly head, with female eyes made symmetrical, from a modder who has made such a mesh, and who has replaced all the Skyrim vanilla human femalehead.nif races with a High-Poly nif that also fixes the eye-asymmetries. Note, that this workaround may not fix all your in-game female-character eye-mismatches, however. Why? For one reason, many NPC textures in vanilla Skyrim are 256 by 256 or 512 by 512 pixels. 2K Mods overwrite many of these with textures with 2048 by 2048 pixels. So a High-Poly mesh may not catch all. Perhaps, some High-Poly texture-size mismatches might break your NPC's or your game. If you have CBBE or a similar mod that mass-corrects texture sizes, you might be OK. But note how many custom-female NPC mods, along with many custom overall character-enhancement mods, have their own nifs, ALL based on the original asymmetry of the vanilla femalehead.nif. These custom mods may overwrite or clash with an intended high-poly femalehead.nif in your Mods load order, because they return to the vanilla asymmetrical-eyes NIF. Or you may go to Skyrim SE? We have successfully tested this mesh on Skyrim LE with only two texture sources, the Skyrim vanilla, and the CBBE. We do not know how it may work with other skin-mods.
Also, please note that an excellent High-Poly head mod may not overwrite all races' texture paths, in which case you will get neck-seam and dark-face issues.
WHO NEEDS THIS?
+Any modder who has not liked the asymmetrical eyes on the vanilla femalehead.nif
+Any modder who wants to build custom female-human NPC's in vanilla and LE starting with symmetrically sized eyes. Your saved NIF's will now have the matched eyes
.+Any modder who is puzzled about why so many Skyrim vanilla human females have eye-mismatches, and doesn't like it.
+Any modder who is puzzled and annoyed about why so many custom NPC's female mods also have mismatched eyes, when you look closely.
-No one who is happy with the Skyrim vanilla female human faces.
-No one who likes the seeming idiosyncrasy that all Skyrim human females, including many custom NPC female followers, have that same exact cute quirk of the left eye larger and more skewed than the other.
REQUIREMENTS:
What experienced modders will likely need: BAE, NifSkope.
1) Make a back-up copy of Skyrim (LE), plus the DLC, if you like, in the unlikely case replacing a vanilla nif in your Skyrim archives breaks all of your game. (Online tutorials at Steam, Nexus Forums, and elsewhere, explain how to make zipped/compressed backup copies of your legitimate copy of Skyrim.) This single replacement femalehead.nif did not break our games, and we tested it on 3 PC's with only Skyrim LE (i.e., DLC) enabled, and with no other mods. On one PC, we're on save number 250 with this tweak, and the Skyrim human females all show symmetrical eyes, though perhaps unrealistically.
2) If you are considering owning and installing this femalehead.nif tweak, you know how to use Bethesda Archive Extractor, BAE. You may need to use Nifskope, in case you need to open our femalehead.nif and revise the texture paths.
DOWNLOAD METHOD, NOT WITH YOUR MOD MANAGER, PLEASE. Unzip and DOWNLOAD OUR femalehead.nif LOOSE FILE MANUALLY TO YOUR DESKTOP. From there, you can find, copy, and backup your original femalehead.nif from your Skyrim BAE archives, and then replace that original with this "improved" one with a simple copy-replace process. Please let us know if it works or not!
Credits: Bethesda.