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I've recently replied to someone with a step-by-step analysis of how sliders are put together. Gonna document it here.
We're looking at the Calf Bulk slider. It's a good example, because it contains both scaling and translation.
$CME_CalfBulk, 1385, 202, Dummy, 0.1, NPC L Calf , x, NPC R Calf , x, NPC R Foot , (1/x), NPC L Foot , (1/x), +CME L Knee , x, 0, 0, -24, +CME R Knee , x, 0, 0, -24
$CME_CalfBulk is the slider name, it's replaced ingame by the name defined in the language file
, is a separator. Get used to seeing them.
1385 is the slider's unique ID
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202 is the slider type (202 is scale and/or translation) 1
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Adding nodes needed for full functionality
As of XPMSE 3.63, there are only 8 nodes per skeleton that need to be added for full functionality. Without them, this mod will still work fine, it will simply be missing 9 fairly non-essential sliders:
Upperarm Muscle Height
Wrist Height/Position
Pinky Position X
Right Magic (X/Y/Z)
Left Magic (X/Y/Z)
I've learned from my past mistake of not documenting everything as I go; the Google document linked below contains a list of nodes needed for a "complete" skeleton. The list of starred nodes and the sliders they enable is still incomplete, but this isn't a problem since again, XPMSE now includes most needed nodes.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ujWjnfLGpfph1puPDtEA1qsFZoHy4wSyoErHlqrRma4/edit?us... -
CME Hair node: information and adding it to a skeleton
I originally included an extra node attached to the head for the purpose of manually moving/scaling hair (surprise!) independent of the scalp/head itself, but for whatever reason, it ended up crashing the game whenever the player (or an NPC using the skeleton) got decapitated.
As I want the mod to work properly out of the box for as many people as possible, the node ended up being omitted starting with update 7/version F.
However, the entries are still in the slider files (there was no pressing need to remove them, and I use them myself), and the sliders will appear if the appropriate node is present in the skeleton.
It's not only for hair; it can also easily be repurposed to instead be used for any head accessory. Heck, if you wanted to, you could...