TUTORIAL | How to make NPC Replacers - NO ESP!

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This has been requested A LOT. I tried my best to explain all the steps, but feel free to ask in the comments any question that you may have. I added the timestamps in case that you want to skip some parts ♥
Also, sorry if this feels like a 2010 video. I had trouble with my screen recorder and had to take several screenshots instead of making a smooth video (which was the original idea). If I'm able to, I would like to remake this tutorial in the future.
Down below you have all the tools I use to make my replacers and their download links. All of them are completely free.
In this video I'm making the replacer for Skyrim Special Edition, but the steps can be applied to Skyrim Legendary Edition.
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· RaceMenu - www.nexusmods....
· Creation Kit (CK) for SSE - store.steampow... *Creation Kit for Legendary Edition is no longer available in Steam.
· XEdit - www.nexusmods....
· NifSkope - www.niftools.org
· PaintDotNet or GIMP (Optional) - www.getpaint.net / www.gimp.org
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00:11 Start
00:37 Getting weight and skin color values with SSEEdit
02:01 Making the custom head with RaceMenu
04:03 Setting the same skin color and weight values
05:12 Exporting the custom head
05:33 (Optional) Checking the custom head texture
05:40 Moving the custom head into our folder
05:52 Using CK to export the vanilla head mesh
06:30 Copying the vanilla head mesh into our folder
06:44 Opening the vanilla head with NifSkope
07:02 Opening the custom head with NifSkope
07:41 Comparing both heads and changing values
08:40 Fixing the facetint path in the custom head
09:02 Renaming the custom head and texture
09:13 Placing the custom head and texture into the correct folders
09:31 Spawning our vanilla NPC with custom head
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[@PigeonsOfVoid]

It's really helpful and easy thank you

[@anukethmods]

@@PigeonsOfVoid You're welcome! I hope that this video encourages more people to try out the different modding tools 🤗

[@PigeonsOfVoid]

@@anukethmods It probably did, I started making replacer mods thanks to you

[@luissc7122]

Good afternoon, this was somewhat helpful, i would love to see a tutorial with the ESP since i am triying to make one that requires the Creation Kit but it helped me a lot to understand better nifskope 😅

[@luissc7122]

Hey man thanks for the heart, i already made my first npc replacers and all, you were very helpful and were my first step to learn, i uploaded the replacers to nexus and you help to start with the right foot, cheers!

[@Harjawalda]

I'm having problems to get this workflow to work for custom race COR and smp hair replacer. My replacer is positively possessed, the mesh glitching out wildly. I assume any physics meshes with smp dependency require an .esp? I tried various tutorials but not one really works. Could you please elaborate on how to extend your workflow to this more complex scenario? Your workflow also does not address how to adjust weight and skin color. Normally, I'd set those in an .esp...

[@anukethmods]

I use vanilla head mesh and static hairs because of that problem. I haven't been able to make replacers without esp with CotR or SMP hairs. I'm afraid, as you say, it would need an esp. In the process before making the head in RaceMenu I used xEdit to see the vanilla values for weight and skin tone, then emulated them in character creation. For example, if vanilla Brelas has weight 10, I put weight 10 when creating the character. If vanilla Brelas has skintone R 100 G 50 B 200 (I just made this value up) I put the same skin value in RaceMenu. This way we won't have problems like neck gap (caused when the exported weight is different from vanilla's) or neck mismatch (caused when the exported texture is different from vanilla's). I hope this helps!

[@Harjawalda]

@@anukethmods Thanks for the reply. I managed to get my preset working using an .esp with CotR, SMP is still a no go.

[@miggyluv]

This doesn't work for me, which is a shame cos it looks super easy

[@anukethmods]

Which is the part that doesn't work? I would like to help you

[@miggyluv]

@@anukethmods I don't know. Lol. So sorry. Maybe it's because I'm using high poly head? Or trying to.

[@anukethmods]

@@miggyluv I never got HPH to work with no esp heads, that might be why!

[@miggyluv]

@@anukethmods ah thanks. Maybe I'll just ditch high poly heads then 👍

[@zoldyg7979]

​​@@miggyluvmiggyluvvvvvv hey buddy what's up? please more male khajiit presets 😭😭😭😭