MWV Human Skin Overhaul
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 2.5% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #39 of 54 Appearance mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Description
MWV Human Skin Overhaul is a skin refinement project focused on improving natural skin response, pore visibility and micro surface detail in Starfield while preserving a believable human appearance.
The goal was never to create an exaggerated “wet skin” replacer, but rather to reduce the flat/plastic look often visible under certain lighting conditions and restore a more organic skin reaction to light.
This project evolved through extensive tweaking, texture reconstruction, roughness balancing and Starfield-specific normal map pipeline experimentation.
MWV Human Face Overhaul – NPC Edition
This addon extends the MWV Human Skin Overhaul to NPC face textures and currently provides partial MWV FaceCustomization coverage and supports a large number of MWV-enabled female NPCs. 547 for now.
Additional FaceGen coverage may be expanded in future updates. the same FaceCustomization paths used by MWV FaceGenTattoos and FaceGenTattoos2.
The goal is simple: improve visual consistency between body and face by allowing the satin skin effect and updated facial skin textures to correctly apply on supported MWV NPCs.
This is not a standalone NPC replacer and does not introduce new NPC coverage.
It mirrors 547 FaceCustomization coverage already used by the MWV FaceGen texture packs.
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[]Satin facial skin effect for supported MWV NPCs[/]
[]Improved consistency between body and face appearance[/]
[]Compatible with MWV Tattoos and Freckles[/]
[]Uses loose FaceCustomization texture overrides[/]
[]Designed to work alongside the main MWV Human Skin Overhaul body mod[/]
Important:NPC coverage is limited to the FaceCustomization paths already present in MWV FaceGenTattoos / FaceGenTattoos2.
Main Features
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[]Rebuilt skin normal map pipeline for Starfield[/]
[]Improved natural skin microdetail and pore visibility[/]
[]Reduced flat/plastic skin appearance[/]
[]Enhanced specular breakup and light response[/]
[]Consistent body, head and hands skin rendering[/]
[]Multiple selectable roughness variants[/]
[]FOMOD installer included[/]
[]No ESP/ESM required[/]
Vanilla Enhanced / Light Satin
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[]Very subtle refinement close to vanilla visuals[/]
[]Slightly softer roughness for a more natural skin response[/]
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[]Rebuilt skin normal map pipeline for Starfield[/]
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Starfield Mods
- Author
- Vincent1681
- Version
- 1
- Downloads
- 1,722
- Endorsements
- 43
- Category
- Appearance
- Created
- 5/21/2026
- Updated
- 5/27/2026
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