Vivid Hair Colors

Updated August 15 2024 to V3

Vivid Hair Color is BACK!

What are the changes in V3?

I've gone through and more thoroughly tested the 15 "primary" hair colors to ensure they look good in various types of lighting.

Eyebrows actually look good now, though they do color shift in outdoor lighting.

Beards also updated to match Vivid Hair Colors 3.

The 8 "secondary" colors are NO LONGER INCLUDED. I haven't found an easy way to replicate the "colored highlights" look so I opted to not touch em.

What is it?

V3 of this mod only replaces the 15 "primary" colors. Includes Hair, Beards and Eyebrows.

Also includes modified "ao" files for each hair type to reduce their shine. Only the hair though; not the eyebrows or beards.

Colors looks COMPLETELY different in MY game?

Starfield's lighting is absolutely atrocious. It changes constantly depending on the imagespace you're in, time of day, shadows, etc.

further explained in the next question...

Some of these hair colors look too similar to one another / are too different from vanilla!

The problem is two-fold:

1. The lighting in the character creator is NOT REFLECTIVE OF THE IN-GAME COLOR.

2. Imagespace, lighting and "visual injector" mods make hair colors look wildly different.

For your convenience I have uploaded four sets of screenshots for you to compare the new colors.

1. Enhance! w/ Vanilla Hair Colors

1. Enhance! w/ Vivid Hair Colors

2. Outland (indoors) w/ Vivid Hair Colors and  StarLuminous.

3. Just outside The Viewport (outdoors) entrance w/ Vivid Hair Colors installed and time locked to 12pm to ensure identical lighting in these screenshots.

In all three cases Luma is installed. Though I do have "Vanilla Menu Shading" enabled so I don't think Luma affects the character creator.

You ruined my favorite hair color!!

It's REALLY difficult to make decent looking hair colors in Starfield. Tiny changes in Hue/Saturation or light Value can result in looking good in one area of the game but terrible in another.

Every time I walk into shadows my hair looks BLACK / ORANGE / NOT RIGHT??

Yup. I have no idea what to do about it. It's why making custom colors is so difficult. I tried to avoid MASSIVE colorshifts but its inevitable.

I did my best.

My scalp color is completely different to my actual hair color??