Skyrim Special Edition
Vanilla hair SMP remake

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I've started playing around with adding physics to the vanilla hairstyles. Turns out those models are unsuitable for that, being mostly a single sheet, so I remade a similar hairstyle from scratch to serve as a replacer.

I've been trying to find a reasonable balance between quality and performance. The vertex count is about twice that of vanilla, half that of High Poly Vanilla Hair. The physics system is about as light as they come. Just like the original hair was made to run on just about any PC in 2011, this should run on just about any PC in 2022.

I'll try a couple more before sharing them.

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  1. Timthelegend
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    As someone who likes to keep the vanilla feel of the game, while still updating stuff like animations and textures, this is an incredible project. Thanks for what must be incredibly tedious work!

    Edit: Didnt know you were the creator of believable weapons. My absolute go to mod for vanilla weapon mesh replacers, along with artefake. 
  2. DarkDominion
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    This is a nice surprise
  3. DenisWinter
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    Physics of us humans have always been complicated to reproduce digitally.
    Human skin texture has been complicated - resolved, within Skyrim as well, the nice female walk - resolved. And when it's about the hair - 10 times harder. But resolvable, sooner or later.
  4. darksynth0
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    Oh yes please!!!
  5. SonnyM94
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    Finally someone took up the challenge!

    Agree with having to make it as a 3D model as the vanilla hairs do look quite flat.

    As long as you dont go crazy with subdividing the meshes in Blender and use Faster SMP HDT (more updated, stable, better performance, has an installer where you can even configure which AVX method to use depending on CPU and it replaces the original mod) should be fine.
  6. Thebowgal
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    ARE YOU FOR REAL???!!!! 
    Are you gonna make all vanilla hairs? Because if you do, then I am gonna have to ask you to marry me xD 
    Jokes aside, this is really nice! Looks good and vanilla like. Will that affect the player only? And in that case could we maybe have the static ones as vanilla replacers for npcs?

    Amazing work, can't wait to see more! 
  7. mfoosh
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    Yes! thank you for taking this on.
  8. MercyKnifed
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    Awesome! Was looking for something like this for a while. Looking forward to your releases!
  9. xddfan
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    Thank you!!
  10. epicollie
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    Well done!