When not in a mood to game, I like to edit faces of NPCs, sometimes to make them better-looking or sometimes to make their faces reflect their personality. I've altered appearance of several vanilla NPCs and in some cases when developers used the same face for more than one people (e.g. almost all masked Legion Decani have the same face), I created new faces.
Let's take Legate Lanius, for instance. He's the main antagonist in the game and he wears his mask at all times because his face is supposed to be disfigured. It's not true, though, his
vanilla face is completely normal. I completely changed Lanius and while I don't claim that my Lanius is "better" than the vanilla one, he now at least has a reason to wear a mask at all times.
My Lanius 1My Lanius 2Notice the shortened (beaten) nose and asymmetrical face features.
I also altered one of the vanilla companions - Craig Boone. He looks tough already in the base game but only with his
sunglasses and beret equipped. Otherwise, I can't help it, he looks
plain dumb to me.
My Boone looks completely different. And another
screenshot.
I edited various other NPCs but another one I want to show, is Siri (
vanilla). Siri will play an important role in Alan Webb's story and while I don't find anything to be wrong with her vanilla face, I wanted her to be more 'impressive'. I wanted for Webb to notice her and possibly get interested in
her. I think it did the trick.