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High Poly Head 1.4

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About This File

High poly heads for all playable vanilla races based on the vanilla head meshes (male and female).  A simple name for a not-so-simple mod.  Available for both LE and SE.

Features

  • smooth high poly male and female heads
  • complementary high poly brows, beards, scars, and hair to fit new head shape
  • includes morphs for RaceMenu's extended sliders
  • compatible with vanilla-based head textures
  • compatible with existing presets for the vanilla male/female head meshes (excluding sculpt data)

Requirements

  • RaceMenu (LE, SE)
  • Expressive Facegen Morphs (LE, SE) [optional]
  • Expressive Facial Animation Male Edition (LE, SE) [optional]
  • Expressive Facial Animation Female Edition (LE, SE) [optional]

Installation

  • Use a mod manager to install the original .zip file and follow the install script for easy installation.  Do not manually extract anything.

Manual Installation

  • 00 - Base mod (required)
  • 01 - Loose files needed for FaceGen creation in the Creation Kit (optional)
  • 02 - no Dawnguard DLC (optional)
  • 03 - vampire head fix (optional)
  • 04 - remove sunken vampire face morphs (optional)
  • 05 - symmetrical eye sockets (female) (optional)
  • 06 - adds Aesthetic Elves (optional)
  • 07 - adds Expressive Facegen Morphs (optional)
  • 08 - adds Expressive Facial Animation Male edition (optional)
  • 09 - adds Expressive Facial Animation Female edition (optional)
  • 10 - adds high poly vanilla hair as optional replacers (optional)

Usage

  • For the player character
    • Use the Face Part slider in RaceMenu to switch to the high poly head.
    • If the head turns dark, change the player weight to force the skin shader to update.
    • Don't forget to also change the vanilla brows/beard/scars to the included high poly versions.
  • For NPC/follower mods
    • Add this mod as a master and then swap the vanilla head parts with the high poly version
    • Generate new FaceGen data (Ctrl + F4) in the Creation Kit.
    • This method does not work for sculpted head meshes.

Known Issues

  • minor clipping with certain vanilla hair meshes
  • eyes/scars appear darker than vanilla in SE.  can be fixed by changing player weight.
  • changing to vampire race will reset the high poly head back to vanilla
  • eye mesh may have flickering/rendering issue after switching to high poly head.  can be fixed by closing RaceMenu and opening it again.

Modder Resource (xEdit Scripts)

  • Skyrim - KL Filter Race.pas
    • Filters NPC records based on races supported.
  • Skyrim - KL Swap Headparts.pas
    • Swaps vanilla head part records for their high poly versions.
    • Custom head parts are not supported.
    • Requires High Poly Head.esm to be loaded into xEdit.
  • Skyrim - KL Copy NPC Protected Status.pas
    • Copies NPC Protected status found on all plugins currently loaded (eg. NPCs Protected Redux.esp)

Tools Used

Permissions

  • You may use this mod for your NPC/follower mods that will be shared with others.
    • For clarification, these NPC/follower mods may be uploaded to other sites.
  • You may add extra RaceMenu morphs.
  • You are not allowed to modify (in part or in whole) and claim it in its entirety as your own.
  • You are not allowed to reupload this mod to other sites.

For other usage not mentioned, please ask me first.

Credits

  • Niroku for Expressive Facegen Morphs and Expressive Facial Animation
  • tktk1 for Enhanced Character Edit head mesh reference
  • ruddy88 for Aesthetic Elves

What's New in Version 1.4   See changelog

Released

  • added high poly vanilla hair meshes as optional replacers
  • added high poly Argonian brows
  • replaced missing vanilla male Dremora racial morphs with Dark Elf
  • fixed UV mapping for humanbeardshort01.nif
  • adjusted Orc horns to fix gap
  • adjusted male Wood Elf racial morph to reduce clipping near ears
  • adjusted male Ear Shape morphs to reduce clipping
  • added custom xEdit scripts as a modder resource (updated since preview release)
  • Like 352
  • Woah! 4
  • Hmm… 1
  • 🍑 9
  • 🍆 by Kazu 14
  • Hot 20
  • Hyper! 6
  • Thanks! 36
  • Green Love 5
  • Dislike 2
  • Thumbs up 43



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yababayaga69

  

Hello everyone from Ukraine !!! The mod is just amazing !!! Now the heroine has become like a man and not a Pithecanthropus erectus.

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IBAGadget

  

I absolutely love this mod, but I do have one issue that I just can't seem to get rid of - the dreaded neck gap.

I'm using BHUNPv3

My character is just fine, and I have no problems there, but my mod-added followers (Coldsun's Pantheon and Vindicator Goddess Series mostly) all have a neck gap. I have tried the usual setnpcweight command to make sure that they are the correct weight according to their file, but nothing works.

I do have my body preset set as a single weight, with no difference between low and high slider positions - could this be the culprit?

I have my load order set with HPH coming after BHUNP3BBB and Expressive Facegen Morphs (a load order change recommended on Reddit that seemed to work for some people)

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TheKingofSass

  

Best High Poly head <3 Thank you for your amazing work KouLeifoh!
Not gonna lie, I would absolutely love an option for Ethereal Elven Overhaul, dead ass I will pay big time if you ever consider.

Ysmir's blessing on You.

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Xynisteus

  

great mod, genuinely improves aesthetic experience by lightyears! Though recently i've been experiencing a skin tone change issue for my face only when used in combination with cbbe 3ba body meshes, is there a way to fix this?

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maliciousgamr

  

OUTSTANDING WORK!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE AMAZING MOD!!

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Jayee

  

does this work with vanilla skyrim? whats the point of the LE and SE? i dont have to rebuy this game for a mod do i? 

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Sayge

  

In the past, I had read negative comments which had caused a reluctance to try this mod out. Curiosity finally got the better of me, and since using this, I haven't looked back. Personally, I have experienced no negative issues with this in my game. It works very well, it's easy to use, and it makes character creation more of a pleasure than a chore. Very happy with it.

 

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_Hein_

  

Thank you for this great mod and all  the hard work you put into it. This mod is great!

I noticed that the beards of some of my characters are clipping (or rather not moving with the face) when I use the High Poly head on LE. When I investigated further I realized that the "humanbeardshort06.nif" and the .tri shapes for "humanbeardshort06" is not included in the downloaded file. I don't know if it is somehow just me not finding it, but I downloaded version 1.3 (LE) also and none there either. I used "00KLH_HumanBeard06" for one character and Hvergelmir's "HumanBeardShort01" (this use the humanbeardshort06.nif and the .tri shapes for HumanBeardshort02) for another on a High Poly Head. I figured that I may have to create the Hverg beard myself with the High Poly meshes in CK, but then I found there are no humanbeardshort06.nif in the file.

Your mods are great, they are among some of my basic-unable-to-go-without mods for playing Skyrim.

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AWEyeforaneye

  

Hello!

Thank you for your amazing mod!

Can you help me to know, what is it "For Shadow I SIMP"? Should I install it?

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golgoth

  

cracking work, many thanks for all your efforts.

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Harly

  

Hallo ihr Lieben da draußen möchte hallo sagen. Ich bin ein blutiger Anfänger. Die Mod ist echt gut.

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melkite

  

great piece of work 

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Galishai

  

This is what makes the game playable for me.  What's the point in having the environment look good when every NPC looks like garbage?

I love all the mods which use High Poly Head, and I myself have started patching mods to add High Poly Head to their NPCs.

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Depr

  

Noice

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Jacab1480

  

how do install it with MO2

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SkittlesWarrior

  

Love itAsh Ketchum Yes GIF by Pokémon

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Dey

  

Amazing 😍👌

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kakto

  

Amazing, thank you!!

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eddie66683

  

Obrigado, 

Muito obrigado. Mod incrível.

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JMOF8

  

Thank You For The Mod

Cheers :)

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metatron

  

Thank you for this wonderful mod! Lovin' it!

 

 

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bloodymary

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 awesome work, thank you!

finally I was able to get the right look for my character

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chewstcraft

  

Great job but what face textures are you using for males? Im so lost..

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katoasumas

  

hey! i love this mod i just have one issue, when i’m a vampire i have to keep going into race menu and “resetting” the head part setting(it’s already on the proper vampire race head but it doesn’t render in until i move the slider back and fourth in race menu) i have the vampire fix from this mod as well as another which involves imperious races + this mod. it’s not game breaking but it’s a bit annoying to have to go into racemenu after every load/transformation :) 

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joylust

  

THX the mesh is amazing 

any suggestion on a skin/body mods that is working with this head????

i have a neck stem with Real Girls skin and CBBE Curvy 😭😭

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