Face Realist Mod Skyrim4/22/2021
Someone in the comment thread for The Goddess ENB Config had asked for some tips on how I make my characters faces and face textures look as good as they do, and since I get asked that a lot I thought Id pull together everything into one post here.Character Design Before going into the nuts and bolts of what textures, etc.
I use I want to talk about the most important thing for making a good looking character, whether male or female: have a basic understanding of anatomy and facial proportions. Theres no easy tutorial for that, unfortunately, but the human brain is hardwired for facial recognition to a degree thats kind of startling, and no amount of texture or ENB fiddling will make a face look good if the proportions are even a tiny bit off. ![]() Theres a ton of reference material online for artists, and even scientific papers on what makes faces attractive, but theres a lot of subjectivity that goes into making a character. So i suggest you look at photos of people that you find attractive for reference, and try to keep your features on the same sort of proportion and relationship that you see in their faces. A caveat: Gwynhyrs actually not the best example of that tip above; her facial features are all a bit exaggerated and stylized - youll never find anyone in the real world who looks like her - but theyre all exaggerated within the limits of natural human proportions. For reference I had in mind Bjork, Francoise Hardy, and 1970s-era Susan Deys mouth. She didnt turn out looking like any of them really, but it was a good excuse to Google for pictures of Francoise Hardy and Susan Deys mouth while listening to Bjork. Its tempting to make a character perfect, but that tends to be boring. The three women I used as reference are all beautiful in my mind, but they all have features that are far outside of the sort of bland norms of female beauty, but which make them stand out from the crowd of beautiful but bland faces. Rendering Once you have a good character design down you want to make sure that the game can make him or her look as good as possible. Theres a lot of personal preference involved in both, so Ill focus in on what I used to make Gwynhyr and my other characters look like they do. Ill start with the ENB config because its as much to do with the look of my characters as anything. Face Realist Mod Skyrim Skin Look BetterI built the Goddess ENB on the back of Jasmin 4.5 Real Cinema (no longer available), which I had initially chosen because it made skin look better than any other config that I had used. Over the months Ive been using it Ive been steadily tweaking it to make it look as good as I think I can make it - color, specularity, shadows, all work to make my characters look their best. And seeing screenshots from other users who all use different texture setups from mine makes me feel pretty confident that I have a good setup for character rendering. There are definitely other ENB setups that handle characters well - I personally really liked Akiro Unred and Undone, Countervibe was great - probably the closes to my on configs look as far as skin tones go - Midhrastic and The Wilds both handled characters well and were overall well-balanced, and Im sure there are many others that I havent tried. Your personal taste in ENB configurations should dictate what you use, but it does have a huge impact on what your character looks like. Textures Just as with ENBs, the skin textures that you choose depends on what you personally find attractive. For my game and my ENB I started with XCE and customized from there. It defines the surface look of the character, and is modified by the other textures.
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