Changing Ear Help

Post » Tue May 22, 2012 3:43 am

I'm making a new race for friend of mine and after I realized a few things it became easy, except two things and one I'll ask here. It's an elf of sorts, One part I need is to change their ears, however I'm having problems figuring out how to change the ears to the same ears as a Dark Elf or High Elf. As far as I can tell the elves in game use the same head model as everyone but the beast races, as such I don't know what is needed to change the ears of an other race to them. I used the Brenton as a base because we liked how they looked, and now that I have everything else done I just need to find out what to do about changing the ears. They are the same ones as the base head model, so I'm sure the Elf ears are just addons but there doesn't seem to be any obvious place they're added to, nor could I even find a mesh for them. I just hope someone can point this out to me, in the event it's too difficult to change for someone like me (with little modelling or texturing experience [given, I can do some things]) a good hair that hides ears will do the trick, but thank you to anyone that can help.
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Robert Bindley
 
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Post » Tue May 22, 2012 11:02 am

Hm, kind of tricky here.
The ears are part of the head nif models, the "base" head is human. Elves and Orcs are morphs to the human head, which is where the ear shape comes from. So, you can't currently have say, a human face with elf ears.

Options! Creating some extra ear models to tack on, cover them for now, or create a morph for your race that has the features you want.
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Rebecca Clare Smith
 
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Post » Mon May 21, 2012 11:38 pm

After a while I did come to the conclusion the ears would have to be morphed from the normal ears (and for the first time I noticed the horrible texture stretch on them), but I'm not really sure how to change the morph beyond what the CK allows, is there an import/export I can load into FaceGen? Awww if there is I'd love that because I missed scanning faces into the game in Fallout 3, NV, and Oblivion.
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