High Poly Head - RaceMenu Patcher

High Poly Head - RaceMenu Patcher

This Tool patches RaceMenu relevant records to use High Poly Head records instead of their equivalent vanilla Records for character creation, making the default presets use the High Poly Head parts, normally you need to manually select the High Poly Head parts not anymore.

And it disables all their vanilla equivalent parts for character creation to prevent the use of the replaced parts.

To some this might look like a useless thing since "it is only a few clicks", well while that is correct those are clicks you can save yourself (if you love creating characters a lot even more so) or others (if you are making a collection or wabbajack modlist).

Requirements:

- You need to have finished your NPC replacer setup.

- It can be changed afterwards, but you should sort out all your NPC overwrites and patches before using this.

- I highly recommend focustense's EasyNPC Tool for managing your NPCs.

- You need to remove all other patches you might have that address the character creation with in regards to High Poly Head.

- This means patches that remove Vanilla headparts from character creation by tweaking heaparts in the headpart records or the race records. (Using       the Vampire fix included with the High Poly Head FOMOD is fine!)

- A working Synthesis setup.

- Make sure to run Synthesis through your Mod Manager (in my case Mod Organizer 2).

Installation:

- Download the .synth file from this modpage.

- Launch your Synthesis installation.

- From your mod manager of choice.

- Double-click the .synth file.

Instructions for this step with a gif are found here in the official Synthesis Wiki.

Well now that the patcher is imported into Synthesis only thing left is to select it (and other patchers you want to run) and to run them.

Make sure that the generated esp is enabled in your loadorder after closing Synthesis.

Does this work with Custom Races and their High Poly Head patches ?

They can, with the worst case scenario being that they just stay the same as before.

The best case scenario would be that they work out the box.

If you want to make sure which of those applies to you and how to move your custom race from the worst to the best case scenario just follow this Article.

What exactly is this patcher doing ?

- It starts with searching for vanilla versions of High Poly Head (HPH) parts and stores that 1:1 binding.

- While searching it removes the playable flag from every headpart that has a HPH replacement (this flag decides which parts are selectable inside of the RaceMenu).