Skyrim Special Edition

As I won't be adding the different Khajiit furstocks as playable races, I wanted to share what mods I used for the different furstocks to help anyone who wants to recreate them to play. Some are already just playable race mods anyways that I just tweaked.

For all digitigrade races I used the assets from Yiffy Age, but you can get them from Khajiit Overhaul (same assets.)






General Assets
  • Eyes Replacer: I really like a mix of Kala's Beast Race Eyes and Natural Eyes, with some from the Eyes of Beauty. The eyes from the Serval Race are also quite nice.
  • Body Textures: Lioness Look (for females only) and SC Khajiit Improvement (I only use for males) (textures only from both) are my favorites for a base. You can see them in the Cathay Khajiit screenshots: they allow for a good amount of customization using overlays. Plus they are a little closer to vanilla than anything CoverKhajiit-based.
  • Face Textures: Depending on the look I'm going for, I use either the Serval Race facetints, or Vanilla Warpaint Absolution.
  • Hair Textures: Salt and Wind for Vanilla, KS Hairdos, and Apachii. I've included the textures for the KS and Apachii hairs I used.




Cathay (Vanilla Khajiit)
  • Khajiit Overhaul (high poly heads). I prefer this head over High Poly Head's mostly due to it having lips that (mostly) cover the teeth. It's more accurate to actual cats, that usually down have teeth extending past their lips unless they're making a face, or have a medical issue.
  • Katie's Khajiit Overhaul Male Head Preset (used as a base for male khajiit, because it's sorely needed)



Cathay (Cattish Morph)
(seen in addons)


Cathay-Raht


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Cathay-Raht (lioness morph)
  • Lioness Look (for females only, and can only be seen in addons)
  • rest same as Cathay-Raht



Dagi



Ohmes


Ohmes-Raht
  • Dagi-Raht Race (aka Lunar Lattice)
  • cat-like facetints from Lunar Lattice Male Retexture (will need manual editing to work for females)
  • eyes are a mashup of The Eyes of Beauty and Kala's Beast Race Eyes (Catlike Eyes from LE also works here) EDIT: Feral Eyes actually uses the same iris textures, so use that!)
  • Expressive FaceGen Morphs (males only, takes a lot of editing. I prefer the custom head for females, as they're based on Nuska's work iirc)


Pahmar-Raht




Suthay-Raht (cheetah morph)






Suthay-Raht (tiger morph)




Tojay


Just for Fun- Some Design Principles I Use
  • Eyes: bigger furstocks have more 'big cat' type eyes- eyes with smaller, rounded pupils instead of slits like most small cat breeds have.
  • Scars and warpaint: I reserve most scars and warpaints for NPCs who are actively warriors or mention fighting in the past. If I decide to give them a blind eye, I try to also give them a scar that makes sense with it (... if that makes sense.)
  • Corruption: if a Khajiit is involved with some dark entitiy (for example, Kesh and Ra'jirr) I try to give them some obvious signs of magic/corruption- usually oddly colored eyes and/or unusual face markings. For example, Ra'jirr's eyes are actually based on sheets of ice. This also applies to NPCs said to be addicted to Skooma- I usually give their mouths a slight purple stain and add a slight (or not so slight) purple tint to their eyes (as well as making them look a little strung out. Skooma: Not even once.)

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