How To Install Skyrim Body Mods
Skyrim Nexus
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)
a)
SKSE 1.7.1
b)
RaceMenu 2.9.6
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.
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.
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.
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.
1) Women of Skyrim female face
texture and Companions Supported
female body mesh CBBE,UNP,UNPB,UNPC,7B,Vanilla and DG
2) Mature skin texture and
body Supported female body mesh
UNP, CBBE and ADEC
3) SG Female Textures Renewal Supported female body mesh
UNP and CBBE
4) True Daughters of Skyrim
Supported female body mesh
CBBE, UNP and Vanilla
5) CBBE skin texture Supported female body mesh
CBBE and UNP
6) Real Girls Realistic Body
Texture Supported female body mesh
UNP, UNPB and SeveNBase
8) Fitness Body Supported
female body mesh
CBBE and UNP
9) Smooth Male Body Supported male body mesh
Better Males by by Chris57 and FavoredSoul
10) More Muscular Men texture
normals Supported male body mesh
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...
You would need to replace the existing textures of "custom race" with the 4 K textures, this can easily be done using the Creation Kit....
ReplyDeleteSo, I have a question as you seem to be much more knowledgeable than I about this body texture business. I have a mod that uses a fair skin body texture that I really like more than any other body texture I have seen, but I want to use the "UNP Blessed" mod. Is there a way for me to use this skin tone with the blessed mod? I tried changing the skin tome after I installed the blessed mod, but to no avail. I prefer Dark Elf and the lightest is still no where near what the fair skin mod does. Here is the fair skin mod link. Any help at all would be helpful, even if it is just a "no this wont work any way you try".
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/51602/?
Theoretically it should be possible to replace the existing "UNPB" skin textures with the "fair skin" textures and it should work ....
DeleteThe "fair skin" mod author has posted textures for Cbbe v7 and UNP his page notes mention that UnP variant meshes like UNPB are compatible ..
So as far as i can tell all you need to do is find the "existing" UNPB textures and replace them with the "new" fair skin ones.... at the most you might get some anomalies or skin clippings.. but it should work ....
P.S it a good practice to make a back up of the existing textures before playing around with them .. All the best...
im looking for racemenu for skyrim 1.8.51 patch, i installed the latest racemenu but it didnt work, the ui works but it doesnt give changes in editing the character, please give me solution :( thx before
ReplyDeleteThe latest version of Skyrim is 1.9.32 which is compatible with the latest version of Racemenu 3.2.1 along with SKSE 1.7.2...
DeleteIf you don't have the latest versions of these apps you would face anomalies in your Game-play... updating is always better... Cheers...
I've tried everything step by step it seems that its not working to me at all and I don't know whats the problem cuz I'm new at this....if you can contact me via skype :kimoganna_warlock
DeleteIn case someone uses standalone follower mods (with their own textures and meshes) when should be installed? Before or after the installations you've already mentioned?
ReplyDeleteIf I would like to install Schlongs Of Skyrim, when should be installed? Before and/or after what installations??