Sandow Plus Plus - Ripped Bodies

This mod changes the body normal maps for vanilla races according to their body weight, so they can visually reflect their physical fitness.

Heavier means more ripped.

Best of all: it has zero performance impact on your game!

You see, Skyrim has always been capable of doing this, but vanilla game doesn't use this capability.

I originally created this mod as an optional download for Sandow Plus Plus, but I ultimately decided to add it as a separate mod, since this doesn't really need Sandow Plus Plus to work.

You can think about them as companion mods.

Another companion mod to form the trifecta is this Bodyslide preset.

How to use

It has 6 levels of muscle definition:

• []Low. Going from 0 to 16. 99 body weight.

  []Low-extra. Going from 17 to 33. 99 body weight.

  []Medium. Going from 34 to 50. 99 body weight.

  []Medium-extra. Going from 51 to 67. 99 body weight.

  []High. Going from 68 to 83. 99 body weight.

  []High-extra. Going from 84 to 100 body weight.

  You need to provide your own normal map textures, renaming them accordingly.

  It all depends on what texture mod you are using.

  Fortunately,

  I've already packed the textures you've seen in the sample pictures

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  You can use them as a template and overwrite them if you want to use other normal maps.

  • []The male textures are kindly provided as is by traa108's excellent Tempered Skins for Males - Vanilla and SOS versions.

    []The female textures are modifications I made myself to the epic Leyenda Skin. I got the blessing of its author, HeroedeLeyenda, to publish them.

    []MONSTERaider gave me permission to modify and distribute his Khajiit and Argonian textures, so beast races are now supported from v1. 2 and on!

    Thanks to both of you, guys! You are awesome!

    I highly suggest you to use them both, especially if you use the normal maps I provide... unless you want...

    Neck and wrist seams

    If using this mod gives you them, it means your hand/face normal maps don't match with the body ones provided by this mod.

    For example, you are using Fair Skin as a base, but installed my normals, which were made for Leyenda. Or worse, you are using my CBBE textures for a UNP body... you get the idea.

    []The easiest way to solve this is to install Tempered Skins for males and Leyenda for females and be done.

    [*]If you don't like them for some reason (why???) or you are using UNP/7B/whathever, you'll need to find proper normal maps for whatever skin texture/body