Mod articles
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ECE Slider Mapping to RaceMenu Addon
For the sake of naming consistency and readability in the interface, I changed the name of some of the ECE Sliders. Below are the sliders whose names were changed and what they were named to. If you're trying to remake an ECE preset in RaceMenu using the sliders you'll want to refer to this chart.
Wings of Nose Size(Z) -> Nose Wing Thickness
Wings of Nose Height -> Nose Wing Height
Wings of Nose Up Down(X) -> Nose Wing Tilt
Wings of Nose Open Close(Y) -> Nostril Spread
Dental Bite Forward -> Overbite
Eyebrow Head Height -> Inner Brow Height
Eyebrow Head Length -> Inner Brow Width *this slider was also invert... -
Adding Sliders to RaceMenu Via Plugin
RaceMenu provides an API allowing you to add new sliders to Skyrim's racemenu without modifying existing RaceMenu or interface files.
To define new sliders you need the following components:
A set of Tris with keyframes corresponding to the facial morphs you are adding
A set of definition files to map these Tris and their keyframes to slider variables and import them as resources available to RaceMenu
Translation files to expose language mapped definitions to the slider variables
Creating the Tris
I'd recommend using the Tri editing programs from Animation Tools N2. Alternatively Blender has some available plugins for Tri creation. The instructions provided here make use of the N2 tools.
A valid Tri consists of the f...