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[KouLeifoh 2,831]

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SAM High Poly Conversion

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This is a high poly conversion of SAM meshes.  The resulting meshes are smooth and contain around 4x the amount of vertices while still being usable for general gameplay.  It started out as something for my own personal use, but I decided to share it with everyone.  Compatible with SAM and SAM Light for both LE and SE.

High Poly Body Mesh

• high poly body for both SAM and SAM Light variants
• underwear was given high poly treatment
• there are some minor sharp edges on certain poses due to weights
• if you're on a low end system and worried about performance, stick with the default body mesh

High Poly Genital Mesh ^new

• high poly genitals for both SAM and SAM Light
• smoother edges are noticeable when zoomed in

High Poly Hand Mesh

• high poly hands for playable human and beast races
• new mesh is based on the vanilla HandMaleBig mesh
• optional fingernail mesh to enhance details
• hand mesh v2 requires manual texture editing for fingernail textures

High Poly Feet Mesh

• symmetrical feet meshes (original mesh had a smaller right foot)
• optional toenail mesh to enhance details even further
• feet mesh v2 requires manual texture editing for toenail textures

High Poly Tail Mesh ^new

• high poly tail meshes for Argonian and Khajiit races
• vertex weights smoothed to look less blocky during movement

Refits

• full vanilla refits made specifically for high poly SAM
• minor clipping may occur during movement
• currently does not include:  briarheart body mesh or USLEEP/USSEP changes

Fingernail/Toenail Mesh Texture

• v1 mesh uses a separate texture for the fingernails/toenails.  Color won't change, but certain skin tones might make the nails look out of place.
• v2 mesh requires the fingernail/toenail textures to be on the same texture as the hand/body.  This allows the use of the skin shader to change the color of the nails to match skin tone.  Use the provided texture resources to copy and paste the fingernails into the hand textures and the toenails into the body textures.

Installation

If using a mod manager, just follow the installer.

Manual Installation

• 00 and 01 - high poly body + genital meshes, select between SAM or SAM Light (cut or uncut)
• 02 - hand mesh, select between high poly hand with or without fingernail meshes
• 03 - feet mesh, select between high poly feet with or without toenail meshes
• 04 - high poly tail meshes for Argonian and Khajiit
• 05 - refits, each subfolder covers a specific armor part (body, hand, feet), base folder covers all armor that does not include skin

Credit goes to Vector for the creation of Shape Atlas for Men.

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• Submitter
  KouLeifoh
• Submitted
  04/11/2018
• Category
  The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

 

[SavrenX 10,309]

Awesome bro. Thank you for this. I pray you will get solution for your body too. 

[Xenotunak 6]

Do we need to keep the hand patch for the glitch some of us have or does your mod fix that too? 

[KouLeifoh 2,831]

1 hour ago, Xenotunak said:

Do we need to keep the hand patch for the glitch some of us have or does your mod fix that too? 

It's not needed.  My mod already uses the correct hand mesh as the base.  I've tested it in 3rd person and 1st person in both Oldrim and SE.  The weights still need a bit of fine tuning, but I'll come back to that once I'm done with the fingernail meshes.

[LazyGuy 2]

Can we overwrite mesh files from your  HDT BBB Bounce for SAM mod safely? 

[KouLeifoh 2,831]

1 hour ago, LazyBoy said:

Can we overwrite mesh files from your  HDT BBB Bounce for SAM mod safely? 

The weights to determine body bounce are stored on the body mesh itself.  You can use the high poly hand and feet meshes but not the body.  Once I'm satisifed with the weights for the body, I'll add support for body bounce later.

[Kyoshi 215]

Thanks for your great work!

Do you have a plan to make high poly meshes about genitals?

[LazyGuy 2]

12 minutes ago, KouLeifoh said:

The weights to determine body bounce are stored on the body mesh itself.  You can use the high poly hand and feet meshes but not the body.  Once I'm satisifed with the weights for the body, I'll add support for body bounce later.

OK, thank you for the reply!

[KouLeifoh 2,831]

6 minutes ago, Kyoshi said:

Thanks for your great work!

Do you have a plan to make high poly meshes about genitals?

That might be a bit overkill, but it shouldn't be hard to do.  Keep in mind that texture quality matters too.

[Discotheque7 8]

Which hand and body textures do we have to edit to see the higher quality finger and toenails? The SAM Textures HD pack has so many different versions of both.

[KouLeifoh 2,831]

Unfortunately, you'll have to edit all of them since they're all used by SAM.  It's a relatively simple but tedious process of copying and pasting.  There's no way around it other than using a single texture set.

[LordSidious0815 1]

On 5/10/2018 at 3:45 PM, KouLeifoh said:

Unfortunately, you'll have to edit all of them since they're all used by SAM.  It's a relatively simple but tedious process of copying and pasting.  There's no way around it other than using a single texture set.

Hello, really great work. When will the body support HDT?

[KouLeifoh 2,831]

6 hours ago, LordSidious0815 said:

Hello, really great work. When will the body support HDT?

I have some free time this month, so I'm hoping to get around to doing that along with a few other things.  Also, being Pride month is more of an incentive for me.

[infiniteone 198]

On 6/3/2018 at 6:50 PM, KouLeifoh said:

I have some free time this month, so I'm hoping to get around to doing that along with a few other things.  Also, being Pride month is more of an incentive for me.

Thank you so much Kou   You're a sweet guy and an artistic inspiration.  I hope you have a wonderful pride month! ?️‍?

[JDAnchor 37]

What high-quality textures can we use on this? I can't seem to find any links to any

[KouLeifoh 2,831]

Texture options are limited for SAM.  You can get away with using a better diffuse/specular map, but the normal maps matter a lot.  The main reason I shy away from doing a full SAM texture replacer is due to the large number of normal maps it uses (8 weight sets x 3 body parts [body,hand,genital] x 3 races [human,argonian,khajiit] = 72 normal maps).

[boo 1]

So, I'm actually just about done with a conversion of SAM to "vanilla" UVs because I was frustrated by the lack of compatibility between body meshes and textures. I also did a high-poly version (before I knew that this existed xD).

[KouLeifoh 2,831]

The recent update includes my own personal vanilla refits for high poly SAM.  The biarheart body mesh and USLEEP/USSEP mesh changes were not included.  The biarheart body requires a drastic mesh edit for the heart area and most of the USLEEP/USSEP changes removed normals from the skin mesh (not an issue for SAM).  I plan on refitting vanilla rings and amulets at a later date.

Due to the size of the update (493mb), there may be issues with the download.  It took me a couple of tries to successfully upload it.

[Dark Spyro 3]

Thanks for the update @KouLeifoh, and Happy New Year.

Edited January 3, 2019 by Dark Spyro

[nemiens 0]

On 1/1/2019 at 11:48 PM, KouLeifoh said:

The recent update includes my own personal vanilla refits for high poly SAM.

I assume those other SAM (separate) DB, DG, and Vanilla refit files aren't needed anymore, right?

[boo 1]

I've identified a few issues with weight causing the chest to get pinched with physics enabled.

[Kestrel 0]

where i can find 4k texture for body/hands/head?

[KouLeifoh 2,831]

On 1/3/2019 at 9:59 AM, nemiens said:

I assume those other SAM (separate) DB, DG, and Vanilla refit files aren't needed anymore, right?

That's entirely up to you.  My refits have the high poly body/hand/feet meshes included in the refits where needed.

On 1/5/2019 at 9:37 PM, boo said:

I've identified a few issues with weight causing the chest to get pinched with physics enabled.

That's a known issue.  Vertex weight painting isn't my strong suit.  Ideally, the problematic vertices need to be weight blended with nearby vertices, but I'm still learning how to do this properly.

On 1/6/2019 at 6:21 AM, Kestrel said:

where i can find 4k texture for body/hands/head?

I'm not aware of any 4k textures that are (publicly) available for SAM.  Most of the time, 2k textures are fine.

[boo 1]

I fixed the weights on the chest. Also looking at cleaning up some stuff around the rear / spine.

[boo 1]

So the meshes I'm working with also use a vanilla + SOS UV map that should theoretically make texture conversions easy peasy. The one caveat being that the feet on almost all these maps have a non-standard mapping and I'm specifically trying to avoid that. SAM's feet are preferable for that reason.