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A lore friendly and compatible NPC overhaul that aims to preserve the rugged aesthetic of people in Skyrim.
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The Cathedral Concept
Humans, Mer, and Beastfolk
Humans, Mer, and Beastfolk
The Cathedral Concept is a comprehensive visual overhaul for Skyrim. It is simply designed, consisting mostly of retextures and improved models, so that you can use it as a foundation without having to worry extensively about compatibility.
Humans, Mer, and Beastfolk is a lore-friendly overhaul of the various races of Skyrim. It seeks to preserve the vanilla aesthetic while improving model and texture quality. The mod was inspired by Total Character Makeover and is composed of similar mods.
The following authors have contributed with their mods below. Consider that modifications have been made and HMB does not necessarily reflect the authors' original works. Please download, endorse, donate, or leave comments of support to the following authors for their contributions to Skyrim modding and The Cathedral Concept.
Note: new screen shots were taken using my ENB Soul Spectrum alongside Cathedral Weathers... Different ENBs and weather mods will of course look different!
Models
- Males of Skyrim by zzjay - (high poly hands for males)
- Seamless Males SE by triptherift - (male head mesh)
- Expressive Facial Animations for Males by Niroku
- Expressive Facial Animations for Females by Niroku
- Vanilla Body with UNP Textures by Shiva182 - (optional file if using vanilla body type)
Skin
- Lucid Skin by Novelyst (normal textures)
- Bijin Skin by rxkx22 and Shiva182 (female diffuse, specular textures and lip makeup)
- Feminine Khajit (Chameleon) by MONSTERaider (Leopard used instead of Grey if using real feet for males option)
- Masculine Argonian Textures (Lizard) by MONSTERaider
- Mild Complexions by nicostein
- Pure Skin Texture by Anini n Regenbot03 - (SSS textures for females)
- SG Females Texture Rewewal by Hello Santa and Shiva182 (elder females only)
- Tempered Skin for Males by traa108 - (vampire face normal map for seam fix, head specular texture to fix shiny heads, snow elf and afflicted skin textures; only included with real feet, and real feet compatible textures)
Hair
- Superior Lore-Friendly Hair HD 2K - Rough Hair by skyrimaguas
- Mild Hair Colors by nicostein
- Beards by Hvergelmir
- High Poly Vanilla Hair by Macxhiin with fixes by Sadovnik
- Vanilla hair remake by jg1
- Vanilla Hairs Fixes (EFM Compatibility)
- Improved Short Hair by Jampion
Eyes
- Natural Eyes by nevenbridge81 - (humans, orcs, snow elf)
- Kala's Eyes by Kalahira - (humans & elves)
- Argonian - Khajiit Fabulous Eyes by tzarbaby000 - (beasts)
- UHD Dawnguard Vampire Eyes by Willock - (vampires)
- xrayys HD Eye Normal Map by xxray
- SUEMR SE by Ruhadre - (default eye meshes, vampire fixes and no beast glow)
- Llygaid Eye Improver by MassiveMaster (simple life cube map and reflection effect)
Scars, Makeup and Warpaint
- PAINTERLY - a High Res Vanilla Warpaint Retexture by gobbldygook
- Forsworn and Blackblood and Boethiah Tatoos by evgirunslaad
- Northborn Scars by Northborn
- High Res Warpaint and Dirtmaps for Men by Geonox
- Vanilla Makeup HD by Domain Wolf (dirt maps for men)
- Brows by Hvergelmir
- Argonians Enhanced by Blackwolf24 And KrittaKitty
- Nezzar's HD Dirt and Scars by Nezzar
Tools
- optimize-facegen by Deorder
Recommended but not included: these must be downloaded and installed manually; recommended for visual quality and consistency, and also for the player to benefit the same as NPCs
Vanilla Warpaint Absolution by DomainWolf - (install before/above HMB, and ONLY install the vanilla Khajit and Argonian warpaint; Painterly does everything else) NPC tintmasks were created using these so NPC argonian / khajit will benefit, but not the player without downloading.
Vanilla Makeup HD by DomanWolf - (install after/below HMB) NPC tintmasks were created using these; if you want the player's makeup to match you'll need to install this
Expressive Facegen Morphs by Niruko - (Install after/below HMB) NPCs facegeoms were created with this installed and it is highly recommended if you want the player to also benefit of the improved face morphs. Required for user Facegen!
Compatibility
Compatible with any mod that edits or adds NPCs but likely incompatible with other character visual overhauls. Compatibility is complex however and there may be combinations that work. We recommend you use only Cathedral Character Overhaul and recommendations unless you are an experienced modder.
CATHEDRAL MODDING
There are two primary philosophies when it comes to modding, Parlor and Cathedral, originally coined by the former modder, Wrye.
In the Parlor view, we consider mods as privately owned works of art displayed in a modder's parlor. We invite others to come appreciate our work. We directly receive compliments and endorsements, encouraging us to produce further work.
In the Cathedral Concept, we consider modding a joint effort. We share our work with each other to foster further mod development, to keep the community alive, and to contribute in the construction of mods of monumental scales, akin to Cathedrals. Individually, our contributions may be small and not worth doing for themselves, but by each person contributing something, we construct something larger and more worthwhile than any of us could do on our own.