Helm Hair - Superseded

Superseded by Helm Hair - Updated

Original Description:

.: Overview :.

Normally, while using a custom hairstyle, your character goes bald when they put a helmet or hood on. Until now, your options to actively approach this problem were limited to letting hair clip through, use a especially made wig or simply turn headgear invisible. Helm Hair is a very simple and lightweight script-based alternative that allows you to give your character a vanilla hairstyle to show under headgear. Everything is done under the hood (pun intended) using only events and existing resources. There's no script polling or constant magic effects that could hit performance and no use of additional menus or configuration spells.

.: Requirements :.

Skyrim Script Extender (SKSE)

Keyword Item Distribution (KID)

.: Compatibility :.

Compatible with:

All custom hair mods available (Apachii, KS Hairdos, SaLa, Yundao... you name it), including versions with physics enabled.

Animation mods related to hair or headgear, such as Let Your Hair Down (LYHD) and Read The Room (RTR).

- Keep in mind while setting up LYHD that only the last hair you set - up or down - will be registered as your main hair.

- To avoid issues with lowered hoods, add RTR to the exclusion list in INI file (Keyword = HelmHair_Excluded|Armor|ReadTheRoom.esp).

Possible conflicts:

Any items with ArmorHelmet or ClothingHead keywords will trigger hair changes.

- You can edit HelmHair_KID.ini to exclude or include items, mods or keywords according to your needs.

Incompatible with:

Equipment manager mods that work without actually (un)equipping items, such as Equipment Toggle 2 and Dynamic Lowered Hoods.

- Helm Hair is unable to understand if an item was simply turned invisible or if its armor addons got replaced.

.: Installation :.

Download and install Helm Hair as normal. Load order doesn't matter.

To uninstall later on a playthrough, do as inst