Making Player Characters into NPCs Options

[SubRosa]

I found this little tidbit on the official forums, and thought I would share it for those people who use imaginary mods that include other characters in their games. Here is a way that you can create a character, save their face, and then use that face for an NPC which you create (or replace the face of an existing NPC). So you could make Darnand, save his face, replace Marcurio's face with Darnand's, and then change Marcurio's name to Darnand. You instantly have Darnand the follower. Or you could just make an entirely new NPC with that face. Or you could take your old player characters and turn them into followers for your latest character.

There's also a way you can use the Character Creation (showracemenu) to export faces for NPC creation.

Just adjust the sliders like normal and get the type of face you want. When you're done, open the console and type SPF <insert a name here>. The saved SPF file will default into your game's root folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steamapps\Common\Skyrim) Open the CK and go to the Character Gen Parts tab and click the "Import" button. Now you have an NPC with the desired face that you want in the game.

I've made a lot of unique looking NPC's and followers using this method.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Oct 12 2012, 06:25 PM

[SubRosa]

Sort of. If you save the face as above, then open the file with notepad, you will it looks like this:

Sex:F
Race:00013746
Slider0:-0.500000
Slider1:-0.300000
Slider2:-0.500000
Slider3:-0.300000
Slider4:0.000000
Slider5:0.000000
Slider6:-0.600000
Slider7:-0.800000
Slider8:-0.000000
Slider9:0.000000
Slider10:0.100000
Slider11:-0.300000
Slider12:0.100000
Slider13:-0.300000
Slider14:0.500000
Slider15:-0.600000
Slider16:0.100000
Slider17:-0.100000

Those are the slider settings (and there is more after). You can print that out, and then use that to manually set the sliders for your second character using showracemenu. As I understand 0 is dead center, -10 is full left, -0.5 is five ticks over from the left, etc... all the way over to 10 at full right.

Obviously this would be easier if you use one of those mods that displays the numbers for each slider position.