Hi. I want to make only ONE companion to use the curvy female body while the rest NPCs use the original body.

I suppose it has something to do with creating a copy of skeleton.nif and associate it with the curvy female nifs. And then just have that specific companion use this new skeleton.nif.

Is that correct? If so, does anyone know how to do that (linking the new skeleton.nif to the curvy female nifs)?

Thanks.

I have never tried it, but my guess would be that you would need to copy the NPCs Race-type (so if they're an Imperial, make a copy of the Imperial Race), make your modifications to that Race (there's a tab for assigning Skins and Skeletons-- not sure if it's actually Meshes/models, or just Textures, unfortunately), then assign the NPC to that Race.

yeah, unfortunately it only allows you to change the textures to the race - not the mesh.
but you can change the skeleton.nif mesh to the NPC.

however, the original skeleton.nif links to the original femaleupper.nif, femalelower.nif ...
so I need to create a new skeleton.nif that links to the new curvy body femaleupper.nif, femalelower.nif ...
then I can assign this new skeleton.nif to the NPC.

problem is, I don't know how to link the curvy female body nifs to the new skeleton nif.

You'll probably need NifSkope, then:http://niftools.sourceforge.net/wiki/NifSkope

I'm no expert, but I'll take a look later today and try and see what goes where; no promises, unfortunately-- but it'll be good experience (I've been trying to learn a little more about working with Nifs, with limited success :S )

Edit: Well, after some looking, I'm afraid I can't see anything which controls this... I might just be being completely blind, or missing the obvious, but I can't seem to see anything that links the Skeleton Mesh with the Body Meshes... It may be hard-coded to look for the specific name of the upper/lower bodies, but I don't know for certain...

hmm .. so the skeleton.nif doesn't link to the female body parts ..
guess I need to find out which place exactly searches for the female upper/lower nifs ...
you said hard-coded .. but there must be a place that links all females to use those nifs.

btw, the nifs are at: Data/Meshes/Characters/_Male/

and there are 4 of them:
- femalefoot.nif
- femalehand.nif
- femalelowerbody.nif
- femaleupperbody.nif

Remember that the characters take off their body to put on armor and clothing, so all you need to do is equip them with armor/clothing of the shape you prefer. Just make sure that the head/hands match at the seams, or the clothing covers any gaps.

If they have both clothing and armor in their inventory, make sure both choices use the same body shape.

oh that could work! I'm gonna give it a try. thanks for the advice =)