SKYRIMLE CMO - Complete Male Overhaul - Skyrim's Men Reimagined (by Mok Chaoticran)

[rootsrat]

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/54568/?

 

 

 

Complete Male Overhaul, is a mod focused on bringing the standard for the appearance of male characters up to snuff with the standard for female characters catered to in a variety of Skyrim mods. The face and body have both been modified in texture, with new normal maps baked out, diffuse painted and overlayed with detail from the new normals, and speculars customized from some ideal specular maps here on the Nexus and a little handiwork in GIMP.

 

Fresh upload, so I thought I'll bring it to your attention guys. 

 

Personally I don't quite like it, they're too "magazine cover looking" for me, but maybe some of you will like it

[phazer11]

Uhh... just from the screenshots on the Nexus I'd have to say I'll pass; for now, most of them look too cherubic I guess is the word.

[rootsrat]

Yeah, I was looking for a good expression, but couldn't think of anything (see my edited OP) :D

[DoYouEvenModBro]

Definitely not even going to open this mod at work haha.

[Kuldebar]

TBH, the pictures posted by the author did nothing for me. :/

 

I'm pretty happy with Better males - Beautiful nudes and faces - New hairstyles by Chris57 and FavoredSoul for aesthetic, custom-ability other g-rated reasons.

[Octopuss]

The guy that made it to the cover screenshot for the mod looks like Frankenstein or some other abomination. I wonder why people destroy perfectly fine looking vanilla models by being overcreative. Less is somometimes more.

[TehKaoZ]

They kind of remind me of those Disney animated movies, sorta cartoony

[Octopuss]

They could scare children with them :P

[Kuldebar]

I totally understand the motivation for the mod, but reading the fairly bothersome nature of the compatibility of the mod along with the overall results I see in the screens...it just isn't close to appealing to me.

 

To establish where I am coming from on this: I don't like vanilla faces; for starters, there's nothing particularly redeeming about playing a hero that looks like a 40+ hobo with a dirty face unless that's the specific role I chose to play. A blank canvas is best to start with, one already painted...not so much.

 

I use Better Males mainly because it accomplishes three important things: pretty good neck seam elimination and near 100% compatibility with armor and clothes and last but not least; it allows you start pretty and go ugly if you want.

 

 

CMO, while certainly not as "pretty boy" as Better males can be, looks to be Disney Price Charming-stylized as TechKaoz mentioned:

 

 

 

Mainly in the over sized angular jaw and eagle noses, but in the brows and smooth faces.

 

 

Disney isn't really my style, but I'm not afraid of believable good looks:

 

 

 

But, variety and choices are the most important thing so that's great; the only thing keeping me from firing CMO up and giving it a try is the rather bothersome compatibility implications (unlike Better Males, etc.) since the mod relies on record edits and I don't wish to untangle that mess in my current mod build, nor am I enticed enough to consider doing so later.

Edited June 11, 2014 by Kuldebar

[Kesta]

Sadly this one have been removed from the nexus. Though the "bye" message from the author let some hope for a futur versions which show great promises : 

 

Support for this mod has long died out. If I'm going to have a mod for Skyrim's men visible, I want it to be one that is complete, self sufficient, and one I'm proud of. This mod does not meet those requisites. 

Keep an eye out in the near future.

 

 

That said, if anyone have a backup of this somewhere and feel like sharing... well, my message box have some room left ;) 

Edited August 15, 2015 by Kesta