Skyrim Special Edition

About this mod

A lore-friendly overhaul of 78 NPCs in Riften and the surrounding area
(BB's The Rift available here as alternative legacy option)

Requirements
Permissions and credits
Translations
  • Russian
Changelogs




This mod overhauls a total of 78 NPCs in the Rift area with an emphasis on detailed realistic faces.

The general appearance of NPCs is achieved through a combination of sculpting and normal maps.

This isn't a beauty mod.
There are some pretty NPCs. There are ugly NPCs. There are average NPCs. There are aged NPCs. There are young NPCs.
The goal is to make the worldspace feel that it is inhabited by authentic characters rather than virtual dolls. 

Expressive Facial Animations the only soft requirements for this mod.
The mod will function without it, but it is strongly recommended. Everything else you need is in the installer.

There are some options in the FOMOD/download page for you to get this working properly with your set up.
  • choose whether to use all NPCs, just males or just females
  • compatibility for vanilla, CBBE and UNP bodies
  • compatibility options for RBT users
  • 1K facetint by default; 2K Face Tint files on downloads page for high res screens.
  • BB's Riften can be found under "old versions" as a legacy option.


If there are any issues, please use the "Bugs" tab to report it.
I struggle to keep up when they are in the comments.
Thank you kindly ♡



NightmareZone@PATREON
Everyone is welcome over on my Patreon and not all of my content is hidden by tiers, like early version of upcoming mods. ANY support is amazing. Sub for a month, or longer, or not at all - I understand that donating isn't for everyone (I myself live the broke student life), so other ways you can support me is downloading and talking about my mods, patching, translating, taking cool screenshots and sharing them here on Nexus or over on R/skyrimmods, etcetera ❤







Requirements: 
As of v.1.2, Expressive Facial Animations for Males and Females is a soft requirement (see requirements tab & stickied post)

Recommendation: This mod looks best with a skin texture mod. Vanilla skins don't look good.
My recommendation will always be BnP Female Skin and BnP Male Skin since NITHI series is built to work best with it.
If you PC is a potato, try the 2K textures or downscale them to 1K if you need to, using something like CAO.


INSTALL:

1) Download the requirements and the FOMOD installer.
If you are updating, uninstall the old version before installing the new version.

2) Choose your install type and patches. 

3) Check the plugins is loading late. You may have to do this manually with vortex.

4) If you want the 2K tints, get them now from Optional Files and install them over the main mod.

5) Play!

If you want your NPCs to look like exactly like mine you will need:
  • RBT (Race Based Textures)
  • BnP Skin 2 or 4K for Females & males (RBT files)
  • Obsidian Weathers
  • Pi-Cho ENB for Obsidian Weathers
  • LUX






NITHI NPC ENHANCEMENT


PROJECT COUGAR ELDERS




THANK YOU to all the talented mod authors below for your contribution to NITHI NPCs 
Check them out and show them some love by downloading and endorsing!


HEAD AND SKIN:

FRECKLES, MAKE-UP & SCARS:

EYES:

HAIR:

* no assets used directly, but are baked in the NPC mesh or tint files