This Skyrim Game Guide will help you install a Custom Body
Replacer for both Female body and Male body, it’s important to follow the steps
in the right order to avoid having to troubleshoot later. There are suggested
Skyrim Mods for textures and Armour, the popular ones being CBBE and UNP
textures; And of course the UNP and CBBE Armour mods. The suggested Skyrim mods
are based on personal preference feel free to use the ones that suit your taste,
if you download a mod from Skyrim Nexus don’t forget to Endorse, a lot of time
and effort goes into making these mods... Cheers...
Step 1
Install a Skeleton
that is compatible with the required Body Mesh Type and the respective Actor
Animation.
XP32
Maximum Skeleton Extended is one the best since it supports almost all of
the Body mesh types; it also supports
BBP
(Breast and Butt Physic),
TBBP
(Tender Breast and Butt Physic) and
HDT-PE
(HDT Physics Extension) enabled Bodies
After XP32 left
the modding community Groovtama took
over and the most recent skeleton is called Groovtama’s XP32 Maximum Skeleton
Extended aka XPMSE
Step 1.1
How to
Install XPMSE
There are certain pre- requisites that need to be met for
the XPMSE to function correctly; failing to meet these requirements will result
in “Crash to Desktop” (CTD).
Install the below mentioned Mods before XPMSE
Recommended Mods to make use of all the XPMSE Features (For
In-Game Weapon position switching)
Once the above requirements have been met Install the
XPMS mod and choose the
respective options depending upon your requirement.
Step 2
Install the
HDT Physics Extensions –
HDT-PE is a SKSE plugin that applies the existing Havok physics engine used in
Skyrim. It facilities- Swishing hair, flowing skirts, Bouncing Pony Tail, BBP
etc
Step 3
Body Mesh
Replacer
This is essentially the body mesh shape that will overlay on the
XPMSE.
There are a lot of body shapes available for both Male and
Female actors, this can be confusing at times, listed below are some of the
Body Shapes along with a basic description.
Step 3.1
FEMALE BODY
REPLACERS
CBBE Body
1)
CBBE -
Calientes Big Bottom Edition
CBBE – Vanilla
CBBE – Slim
CBBE – Curvy
CBBE comes with BodySlide
- An application that allows you to customize the body shape to have pretty
much any proportions you want.
UNP Body
2)
UNP – UNpretend also
called as
Dimonized UNP
UNPS – UNP – Slim
UNPB – UNP Blessed
(Bigger Breasts)
UNPC – UNP Curvy (Bigger Hips)
UNPB-BBP – UNPB with Breast and Butt
Physics
UNPB-BBP-x and UNPB Redux - UNPB meshes
with extra weight painting to give bounce.
UNPK - Gooboo’s
tweaked UNP body
DG - DreamGirl by Petrovichs
7BUNP – Combination of SeveNBase
Bombshell body with Dimonized UNP body
3)
ADEC -
Acdale EyeCandy - The body mesh consists
of larger legs, hips, thinner waistline, enhanced butt and modifications to arms
and shoulder.
4)
CHSBHC -
Cherry Hotaling’s Super Busty H Cup
5)
7B/
SeveNBase -
Sevennity's
designed Body shapes - A custom body replacer
specifically tweaked
to emphasis wider shoulder, bigger breast and full thigh simulating a strong
(not too muscular) and sensuous Amazonian woman.
6)
Manga Body - A Custom
CBBE and ADEC Body – This is one of those out of proportion
body shapes IMO,
large breasts, thin waistline and regular butt. Although these proportions can
be modified depending on one’s preference using Body Slide.
7)
CNHF -
Calyps and
Nuskas Heroic Form – A body shape that looks the part of a Hero a
beautiful and muscular body replacer.
Step 3.2
MALE BODY
REPLACERS
Better Males Skyrim
1)
Better Males – An all in
one pack that contains body meshes from “
FavoredSoul”
and “
Sundracon” also contains
textures for Face and Hairstyles.
2)
Males by Thegal – The
body mesh contains minor modifications to the Vanilla Body mesh.
Step 4
Types of Skin
textures
Skyrim Textures
The important thing to remember is that the Textures need to
match the skyrim Body mod shape, for example a CBBE body shape will need CBBE
compatible textures, failing to do so will lead to seams and other visible
deformities.
Listed below are a few Textures with their compatible body
Shapes.
UNP, CBBE and ADEC
UNP and CBBE
CBBE, UNP and Vanilla
CBBE and UNP
UNP, UNPB and SeveNBase
CBBE and UNP
Better Males by by Chris57 and FavoredSoul
Better Males by by Chris57 and FavoredSoul
Step 5
Skyrim Animation
Install
Animations depending on your preference
Step 6
Install Armour
Mods
CBBE Armour Mods
UNP Armour Mods
Supports CBBE Body
Supports CBBE Body and UNP Body
Supports CBBE HDT
Supports UNP body
Supports CBBE Body and UNP Body
Supports CBBE, CBBE BBP and CHSBHC
Supports SeveNBase and UNPB
Supports UNP and UNPB
Supports CBBE Body and UNP Body
Following the above steps should help you create a Custom Skyrim
Body along with the respective skin textures and Armour.
Feel free to let me know what you think about the mentioned
Skyrim Mods and if you would like to add to this list of Skyrim mod...
