HQ Eyebrow Stubble and Scalp Hair Replacers

This mod will apply to all faces (both PC and NPC) by replacing the default eyebrows, beard stubble and scalp stubble options with smooth, detailed versions that stay largely true to the vanilla shapes (since changes alter the character's perceived expression) while fixing various issues that they had. It will not affect any modded faces that have brows/stubble built in to their textures.

If you enjoy this mod and would like to contribute screenshots, that would be great! I did my best but there's only so many different combos and angles I can cover before I keel over.

Pending issues

(Last updated: 11 Jun 2022)

Fine detail work was a bit difficult for me for a few months, which is why there's been a delay in updating this, but I'll get on it as soon as I can. Thank you for your patience!

• []Bushy brows still have pretty bad wiggle issues when lowered on all heads other than human male.

  []I intend to overhaul all brows in this mod as soon as I can. I've been staring at face textures and I've identified a lot of areas where I can improve them.

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  Fixes and changes to vanilla shapes

  []Avoiding the character looking sad when you lower their brows. (This happens because where the eyebrows exit the face loop that defines the brows, there's a few polygons that stretch horrendously due to the vertices above them not lowering nearly as much as the ones above the brow loop. This makes any texture inside them, ie the inner section of the eyebrows, suddenly look much taller, and makes the brows look like they're lifted in the middle.) There's little to be done except avoid those polygons (also partly because of a badly distorted polygon next to them), so the brows look a little more pointy towards the nose, but you won't get sadbrows. The bushy brows go so far past that cutoff vertically that they don't have so much of an issue.

  []Avoiding the outer ends of the eyebrows wiggling upwards when you lower their brows. (This also happens because of polygons there that don't lower nearly as much as the ones in the main brow loop, leaving the end of the eyebrow angled sharply upwards.) I've shortened the brows a little from their vanilla lengths to avoid most of this, but I didn't want to make them too short, so there's still a bit of a wiggle at the end. Funnily, the wiggle is less noticeable in vanilla because a lot of the brows go pretty transparent at their outer points. With more filled-in brows the wiggle looks worse, but I think I have a decent balance.

  [*]The bushy eyebrows are a little bit less tall (their lowest edge is the same; it's the upper edge that's been lowered). So help me, those things were huge. They seem to me like they were modelled on the male dwarf head, where they look just like thick eyebrows, rather than