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

[King Coin]

KC, congrats! She's spectacular and I love her voice - it seems to quite suit her and Aravi did not learn her speech from Khajiit anyway.

Thanks! That is my favorite of the available voices.

You might also make Aravi a merchant, and have her sell anti-vampire things. Stuff like Stendarr's Aura and Sunfire spellbooks, Bane of the Undead Scrolls, cure disease potions, that sort of thing.

That's an interesting idea. I might consider that later. Right now I'm testing her combat AI and adjusting it. Currently she's using the assassin AI package, because that's one of the few that dual wields. I want to see how often she uses her bow.

Is that Serana's voice?

Nope, that's one of the standard voices.

Oh my gosh, I adore her! The outfit you chose shows off her unique coloring so well, and I love her sweet voice. It was awesome to see her at ease moving around the campfire with the other Khajiit.

Thanks for showing her equipment, you know I was dying to see! Have you given her some spells?

Yay, this is exciting!

The bad thing about that outfit is that she looks so cold when they are north!

As for spells, I've given her a TON of perks and the Lord stone ability. I'm going to give her a couple of healing spells and see what she does with them. I'm also going to see what she does if I give her the fire breath words.




Right now she uses the standard follower quest. Something I'd like to do is pull her out of that one and make a different controlling quest for her, so that she doesn't use the standard follower slot. Something else I could do is make it detect when the player levels up and make it add a perk to Aravi instead of loading her up with perks like I have.

I had to deal with the infamous 'white face' bug with Aravi. That ended up being a simple fix. After creating your character in the CK, click on them in the Object Window and press ctrl+F4 and that exports their face tints. The files will appear at: Skyrim\Data\textures\actors\character\FacegenData\Facetint\YourModName. Just leave them there, and in game your character's face will be correctly colored.
EDIT: There are meshes generated as well, you need them too. They will have the same path as the face tint textures, just in the meshes folder instead.

This post has been edited by King Coin: Nov 8 2013, 05:35 AM