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Okay - I've had a lot of requests going way back about either finishing any of my incomplete mods for Skyrim, or changing permissions etc. For one reason or another I haven't gotten around to this at the time, & then Life Happens & I totally forget. Again. It's about time I just set aside a few minutes to get this done & let folks get on with what they need to do.
Housekeeping - Permissions:
ALL MY ARMOUR MESHES ARE NOW FREE FOR USE IN YOUR MODMAKING FOR SKYRIM AND/OR SKYRIM S.E. - YOU CAN ADD PART OR ALL OF THEM AS YOU NEED TO, AS LONG AS YOU CREDIT ME AND ANY OTHER AUTHORS/CONRIBUTORS NAMED.
IF YOU USE ANY PART OF THE BODY MESHES INCLUDED IN ANY OF THESE ARMOURS, PLEASE GIVE THANKS TO THE CREATORS OF THE SEVENBASE BODY.
YOU CAN PORT MY PRESETS MODS TO SKYRIM S.E.
YOU DO NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO CLAIM MY WORK OR ANYONE ELSE'S AS YOUR OWN.
YOU DO NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO UPLOAD MY MODS TO ANY OTHER SITE. EVER. NEXUSMODS ONLY.
I AM UNABLE TO PROVIDE SUPPORT/TROUBLESHOOTING.
HAVE AT IT!
Done!
... now - how come this took me so long? Well... there's a story there...
The last two mesh mods I was making really did my head in - no matter what I did, they broke. It was a technical glitch which I lacked the ability to fix. I got help - and even got things fixed by others, eventually. But every time I opened these things on my own machines they broke. So, I took a break to clear my head. A few weeks turned into months turned into... etc. etc. etc.
("I used to be a modder like you. Then I took a .nif file to the knee")
Further down the track I'd moved on. In my free time I was doing a host of other fun things & especially spending way more time at the gym than I had which has been awesome. I always meant to get around to tinkering with things again & restarting modding for Skyrim, still had plenty of ideas & so-on. But I realised that had never even finished the game - I'd ended up spending more time trying to get mods to work together and then fix them again and again and again than I ever did actually playing the game. While I enjoy making mods, in this case it felt futile. And by that point in any case I had nothing like the free time I'd had when I started making all this stuff.
I happened to have a free day today - and, finally, I actually remembered to stop by here & do this. For all those who over time have asked me to get this done I am really very sorry!
I won't be modding another Bethesda game. After the amount of work needed to "fix" Skyrim, I just don't have the free time for a repeat. Plus, none of their other titles really grabbed my interest.
I do play other games, and I am (slowly) learning Blender and DAZ3D, so I may in time make things for those and for other games I sometimes play - if I do, it will be under the same name whether here or elsewhere. So keep a look out, it'd be great to hear from y'all! Happy Gaming!
YOUR ENDORSEMENT MATTERS! IT'S A GREAT ENCOURAGEMENT TO KEEP AT THE MODDING GAME!
IF YOU LIKE WHAT YOU SEE HERE, WHY NOT TRY MY OTHER CHARACTER PRESETS - CLICK THE IMAGES BELOW TO HEAD STRAIGHT TO THE MODS! ALL MY PRESETS INCLUDE BOTH MALE AND FEMALE OPTIONS!
*NEW!!*
I recently got the Special Edition and there just isn't anything like these available for it, while there are plenty of great body mods and body textures... Still stuck using the old default facial presets and textures with them...
I would soooo love to see these and his other presets ported over to SE.
[C] failed to parse esp file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim\Mod Organizer\mods\BLOOD and SAND - Imperial and Redguard Presets by FastestDog - FULLY SEVENBASE 7B UNPB CBBE RACEMENU EC...
I have tried to load the mod up in TES5Edit to check for conflicts (as per suggested from someone else in the comments) but TES5Edit was never able to finish loading it.
I have also tried to install this mod via manual install and NMM, but neither seem to do anything. The mod will say it is installed, but there is no change to the presets for Redguards or Imperials.
Basically I'm not sure what to try next, or what I might be doing wrong. If anyone could offer some insight it would be much appreciated!
Have you tried moving the mod up in your load order? - I'd place it just below COS, or Bretonia.
But, anyway, I... think. It might be working.
I'm not entirely sure to be honest, I am now getting some presets other then the standard default ones, but they don't look anything at all like the Imperial or the Redguard ones in the pictures above. In fact, even though I seem to be getting different Imperial and Redguard presets now... it seems as though the faces in the pictures above, just don't exist.
I think I may have found part of that problem though... a long time ago I attempted to use Racemenu to "sculpt" one of my Follower's faces, onto my Imperial... with somewhat disastrous results, as it didn't really turn out too well since the Followers face whom I was trying to copy, was a Nord and not an Imperial, so I played around with the sliders to get something half way decent... still wasn't ever perfect...
I just used the "Clear Sculpt" option which reset the faces to their default appearance; but they still... didn't quite look the same as whats pictured. I think the foreheads, eyes and eyebrows are a very close match but the lower half of the face, especially the lips... just the facial curves alone... don't look anything like the pictures.
I think it might have something to do with the face textures that I'm using.I'm using HelloSanta's "SG Female Textures" for my body, and I think I have their facial textures installed too.. So I tried downloading a couple facial textures that FastestDog noted in his description that he's using... but I still can't get the chins or lips to come anywhere close to whats in the pictures... so I've just spent the past day playing with the sliders and I think I've got something pretty decent looking now for my Imperial.
The Redguard presets though are still pretty funky. They look better then the default ones, but they also still don't like anything close to the pictures above.
Different normal maps (included with full texture sets) will have a lot to do with variability of appearance on a head sculpt. Also, Loot is an excellent tool, but not perfect. Try positioning the presets in positions in and around FD's other mods - it should work.