Less Wrinkled Expression and Forehead for Face

While the loose textures give you greater flexibility and options, the PAK is one size fits all.

If you are unsure what to do, just download the PAK and it should make a difference. I appreciate this is somewhat of an unwieldy mod page to navigate and have done my best to clarify things.

When your character emotes a lot, there's a texture overlay 'wrinkle map' that adds wrinkles. I thought the wrinkles on the face were pretty dramatic for a relatively stylised head, especially if you use a head mod which may be even more stylised than the vanilla heads. So I painted the texture to be softer and to remove most of the heavy forehead creases.

This will affect any other NPC that uses the texture as well, including companions.

Although this mod doesn't make a drastic difference to them if you're worried about that, it won't remove any of the smile lines/wrinkles on their base face texture at all. This just edits the emoting overlay.

If you would like it to not affect the companions, I recommend checking out Padme4000's Unique Companion Assets framework, which gives every companion a wrinkle map unique to them.

The main file of the mod- Shadowheart's wrinkle map- should definitely work for all female humans and all female half elves. It may also work on some female dwarves, and some female elf heads. (As well as the companions Shadowheart, Astarion and Minthara.)

Check the spoiler tag below for the list.

I have added Tieflings (should work on all Tieflings, except certain NPCs), a generic human male one (affects some male humans and a variety of characters) and Gale's wrinkle map (will affect Gale, some other male humans, and the male dwarves). Also Githyanki females map, which also will affect Lae'zel.

I am beginning to suspect elf males and such don't actually use a wrinkle map, as for example Halsin uses a blank one.

This is my in progress list of what heads use what wrinkle map, if it helps you at all:

(This is player characters and generic heads only, some NPCs or elders have something specific)

Human M Heads A, C, D, E all use HUM_M_NKD_Head_A_WM_NM_A

Human Male Strong head uses HUM_M_NKD_Head_A_WM_NM_A

Human M Heads B, F,G,H,I use HUM_M_NKD_Head_Gale_WM_NM_NM

All HF heads: ELF_F_NKD_Head_Shadowheart_WM_NM

All Dwarf M heads:  HUM_M_NKD_Head_Gale_WM_NM_NM

Dwarf F Head B: HUM_M_NKD_Head_A_WM_NM_A

Dwarf F Head A, C,D, E, F, G:  ELF_F_NKD_Head_Shadowheart_WM_NM

Dwarf F Head H: Unknown

Elf F head A:  HUM_M_NKD_Head_A_WM_NM_A

Elf F head B-C:  ELF_F_NKD_Head_Shadowheart_WM_NM

Elf F head D: Unknown

Elf F head e-h: ELF_F_NKD_Head_Shadowheart_WM_NM

All Female Half-Elf heads: ELF_F_NKD_Head_Shadowheart_WM_NM