Warpaints United

[phryxolydian]

So I was browsing the Nexus and came across some very cool looking warpaints like the ones in Battle Hardened Warpaints and Raven Warpaints. However I see that there are quite a few reports from people not being able to get these type of mods working, if this is because their own stupidity or not, I don't know. :: But, if someone could clarify, warpaints from RaceMenu plugins are only available for the player and no NPC will wear them, correct? If this is the case then I much rather make a custom selection so that any NPC may wear them, I don't think there's actually a huge number of NPCs wearing warpaints so...

 

Anyway, I've made a custom selection for Raven Warpaints 1-7 and I noticed that femaleheadwarpaint_07.dds was missing in all of the packs, is this file not used by the game or something? Somewhere else I read that _10.dds was the one which is basically not used by the game at all, is this true? 

 

And also, why are all warpaint replacers using either maleheadwarpaint_1-10.dds or fenakeheadwarpaint_1-10.dds? What about all of the specific race warpaint files on the tintmasks folder, are these interchangeable (excluding beast races? I.E., can I use any femaleheadwarpaint file and rename it to femaleheadredguardwarpaint or whatever? Or will they just not fit the specific race head?

 

Also, if anyone else has other warpaint mod recommendations, please share!

[phryxolydian]

Well, I've figured out that indeed any femaleheadwarpaint may be renamed to any race specific warpaint and it will work just fine. But after selecting warpaints for each race, replacing all of the vanilla warpaints for females, I did a player.placeatme for both Aela and Mjoll and found they were still using their default warpaints, I don't know if it's because it wasn't on an entirely new game, even though I haven't met either of them on this character, which I've just been using it to test stuff. I was hoping I'd be able to get rid of Mjolls horrible default warpaint..  :confused:

 

I still have that doubt about whether warpaints from plugins are only available for the player or whether they'll also be used by NPCs? How does the game handle warpaints in general, I don't actually recall meeting that many NPCs wearing them.. Kulde? rootsrat? 

[Kuldebar]

Hmm, my warpainting needs have been supplied by High Res Warpaint and Dirtmaps for Men and Hi-Res Vanilla Warpaint Women. Both mods don't require any ESP's and really improve Warpaint appearance.

 

When I was searching for warpaint mods, the end result was me choosing the two above. One of the criteria was compatibility and no direct edits to vanilla records.

[phryxolydian]

Thanks, Kulde. I've already done the females but I'll check out the one for males, I don't like Xenius' warpaints tbh, even if they're HD, I think the warpaints look positively worse than vanilla so an alternative is very much welcomed. 

 

You know, I probably chose a very bad thread title.  I find it very weird that nobody here knows about warpaints!