The Creation Kit is MEAN!

[sts2]

I'm trying to give Vilja a snazzy new hairstyle from SG's Hair Pack, but when I select her hair, everything is default. I can't even change her eye colour.



This is after convert to an ESM in Wrye.  CK be the death of me.

[sts2]

Ouch it posted before I was ready

[Falion]

Just use this mod by Wolf and save yourself some headache

www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/48470/?


Unless you have your heart set on the "one" style you have in mind.

[sts2]

I don't use Apachi sky hair, so unfortunately that's not an option for me.

I kinda wanna do this myself to gain expirience, too.

[jet4571]

Did you check to see if Vilja's race even has the options you want? If the eyes and hairs are not set to be used by the race they wont be an option when changing her looks.

[sts2]

Oh, damn. She is her own race, isn't she.

I'm stumped. Is there any way I can feasibly do what I want (change her hair) here or am I pooched?

[CollinMacleod]

If I were you I would grab one of the optional face textures that are already done, open it up and see what they did. It will give you a good idea what is involved. Take a close look at how the file structure is set up and the names of the files included.

[sts2]

Hm. I just did what you said and I still don't seem to get it, because taking the files I want to use and overwriting the ones in the optional file I downloaded didn't work.

I'm a teeny bit hopeless, I'm sorry.

[CollinMacleod]

Well her hair is Wolf's baby. He talks about what you want to do here.

emmates.proboards.com/thread/880/tutorial-swapping-head

[sts2]

I... kind of... started there...?

I'm really sorry.

[CollinMacleod]

Don't be sorry, But I would ask there, Wolf is very helpful.

[jet4571]

Ok it is not in the race menue. what you need to do is open Vilja and the hair esp. Open Vilja's race and open the Face Data tab, tick the Female checkbox. Back to the Object Window In the Character section is HeadPart. inside that is all the hairs. Find the one you want Vilja to have and drag and drop to the Base head parts. specifically the Hair. That changes her default hair to the one you want.

[Wolf]

Hi!

If you want to learn to work with the creation, Vilja is the least best choice to edit an NPC.

The easiest way to change Vilja's hairstyle (NOT to edit her appearance!) is this way:

1. Open in your Skyrim\Data folder the Meshes\actors\character\character assets\hair\EMVilja folder. If it is not there, just create it.

2. Drag and drop the .nif files for the hair and the hairline of your desired hairstyle into this folder. If your hairstyle has no hairline, just duplicate the hair file. The .tri files are usually not needed.

3. In the EMVilja folder rename your hair files to EMViljaHair.nif and EMViljaHairline.nif. If these files are already there delete them before or make a backup.

4. Now open the CK, click on the actor AAEMVilja and press Ctrl F4 and export thereby the facegeometry data.

Easy, isnt' it?

BUT... Vilja's face will look differently and she will get a sort of potato nose because she has an own headmorph. You have to export her orignal headmesh as wavefront object and import the headmesh into your new .nif file.

AND... Vilja is using a temporary wig when she is changing her equipment. This means for some seconds Vilja will switch from your hairstyle to her blonde braids and back again to your hairstyle. That will look a bit strange.

As for my little Hairstyler mod. I can't include hairstyles from the SG Hairmod because this mod uses unauthorized contents and was therefore banned from Nexus, for example hair models by Newsea. I got the permission from Newsea at least for one of the hairstyles that is also present in the SG pack.

I hope I could help a little. But if I were you I would start for exammple with Lydia or someone else.

[sts2]

Thank you!