Children Extended - Separated Meshes and Textures for each Gender and Race
⚪ Last updated 2016⚠️ Install Order · 2 steps
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 3.1% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #8 of 19 Modders Resources and Tutorials mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Edit: I just logged into this account for the first time in four years. I really wouldn't use this mod if I were you! It was very early, never really bug tested or updated, and doesn't do much. There are undoubtedly superior mods to achieve whatever you're hoping this will achieve. You have full permission to do anything you like with the esp and textures.
Original description:
In vanilla Fallout 4, human boys and girls share all their meshes and textures, except for their body textures. Furthermore, ghoul children have only male textures and no female textures available. This mod changes that with an .esp and some loose files. Now each type of child has unique body and hand textures and meshes, located in data/textures/ChildrenExtended and data/meshes/ChildrenExtended.
For the time being, the only real benefit provided by this mod will be for users of Abbalovesyou's Playable Children, who will now be able to create female child ghoul characters with working body meshes and textures, or jenthecopycat's Child Settlers, as that mod includes a female ghoul child. Children Extended is compatible with all of those mods and Abbalovesyou's other mod, Killable Children.
Right now this mod is more of a modder's resource than an actual mod. Installing it will result in no noticeable changes whatsoever without being combined with other mods, as the only non-vanilla assets it includes are those for female ghoul children, and there's none of those in the base game anyway. Hopefully other mod authors will create improved body meshes for children in the future. Please do message me if you're planning a mod like this and would like to use all the stuff in this mod's .esp in yours.
In the future I intend to grow this mod to hopefully improve the game's oddly identical children in more ways. I could possibly extend it beyond children, for example allowing different body mods for different adult races, but I think the sort of texture issues that would solve (e.g. CBBE breaking female ghouls) are solved in other ways by my other mod, Additional Body Textures.
This modder's resource separates child meshes and textures by gender and race in Fallout 4, enabling female ghoul children. With 2,817 endorsements and 90,723 downloads, it's a popular base for modders. Last updated in 2016, it remains a foundational tool for custom child NPCs.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Community-approved with 2,817 endorsements.
- High download count (90,723) shows real demand.
- Opens up new possibilities for child NPC variety.
⚠️ Cons
- Last updated in 2016 — may need patches for current game versions.
- Requires modding knowledge to use effectively.
For Fallout 4 modders who want to create diverse child NPCs with gender and race variations. Perfect for those building settlement mods or quest mods featuring children. Skip if you're a player looking for ready-to-use content — this is a resource, not a gameplay mod.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Use a mod manager like Vortex or Mod Organizer 2 to handle file conflicts.
- Check the mod's file structure to understand how meshes and textures are organized.
- If you're new to modding, start by using this as a base for a simple child NPC replacer.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Fallout 4 Mods
- Author
- NickCageForever
- Version
- 1
- Downloads
- 90,723
- Endorsements
- 2,817
- Category
- Modders Resources and Tutorials
- Created
- 1/2/2016
- Updated
- 1/2/2016
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