Vampiric Bloodline Visages

Part of May Modathon 2022

Vampiric Bloodline Visages

MWSE required. There are 3 vampire bloodlines in the vanilla game and they all look the same, this mod attempts to give each bloodline a visual distinction.

Basically I just colored on them and added some glow maps.

Description:

Okay so I'm going to try make this vanilla spoiler free, so that leaves out just about every thing but the installation.

Installation:

Requires MWSE

Not compatible with openMW

Install with choice of mod manager or if manual install drop contents of archive into Data Files. You know the drill, if not then I am flattered that this is your first MW mod but i would suggest following a guide and learn the basics first because I am terrible at explaining things.

Okay so the main plugin VampiricBloodlineVisages.esp is required for the lua script to work.

Do not merge, rename, add spaces, or change capitalization. If you do you will have to edit the lua script, but for reals just leave it be

it just works.

This plugin contains the body part objects for all the extra vampire heads.

The extra plugin VampiricBloodlineVisages-PlayableChargenHeads.esp is optional and does not require mwse and is openmw compatible. What it does is add all the new heads as non vampire playable heads, in case you want to play with a vampire head or just preview the heads.

The lua script will detect vampires and which bloodline and give them the appropriate head. Non bloodline vampires and non vanilla races are ignored by the script and use vanilla default vampire heads as normal.

The MCM option toggles on bloodline heads for the player. Default is off. This has not been tested but in theory when toggled on if you become a vampire of one of the vanilla bloodlines and vanilla race you will get a bloodline head. If this option is off you will get the default vampire head. Which gives you an opportunity to have a unique vampire head if you use a vanilla head replacer ;)

The textures are not as polished as I would like, there are 60 meshes and 100 textures I rushed through it and I'm not even good at textures in the first place. So there will probably be an update someday maybe.

Credits and Permissions:

I went for the vanilla look, I used the meshes from Facelift and textures from Intelligent Textures as a base. I do not plan to make a westlys, better heads, mackholm, etc version but I encourage anyone willing and able to go right ahead.

The lua script is based off OEA's Better Head Diversity as I am using the same event and similar filters so ended up being almost a carbon copy

Known Issues:

The animation Is missing on the female wood elf, this