Changing Appereance

Post » Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:48 am

Is there anyway to possibly change your characters appearance e.g hairstyle after the initial character creator screen? Thanks everybody in advance!
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Cameron Garrod
 
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Post » Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:33 pm

Is there anyway to possibly change your characters appearance e.g hairstyle after the initial character creator screen? Thanks everybody in advance!


No can do on console. Maybe you can on pc.
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Matthew Aaron Evans
 
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Post » Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:22 pm

Is there anyway to possibly change your characters appearance e.g hairstyle after the initial character creator screen? Thanks everybody in advance!

If you're on a PC, open the console, type

showracemenu

punch the enter key. It will open the character creation menu. Once open, leave the console. Voilà! :wink_smile:
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Dawn Porter
 
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Post » Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:23 pm

Just be careful when doing it on the PC, as it can screw up all of your stats. Make the changes you want, but do not hit the Done button. Instead save the game (if you keep the console open you can do this), and then load that save. That keeps your stats intact, and the changes you made.
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Kelsey Anna Farley
 
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Post » Wed Dec 07, 2011 1:02 pm

I have changed my character′s look a few times this way and it works fine. Just make sure to follow SubRosa′s advise
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Jack Walker
 
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Post » Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:17 am

One thing to watch is changing your race that way. You're likely to lose any racial abilities (such as resistances, daily spells) you had and not get the ones for the new race. You can add them back with the console if you know the formID of the "spell" that provides them, so having a CS handy is a good thing.
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Eve Booker
 
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Post » Wed Dec 07, 2011 3:00 pm

Also of note: SAVE before. You can screw it pretty hard. Sometimes you'll notice the face changes slightly when you open the race menu. Reload a save and try again. Be sure to be in a place with proper lightning. And unless you've got a fix installed (which is pretty much mandatory) DO NOT CONTRACT VAMPIRISM.

Getting a proper face in Oblivion is a nightmare. I'm usually only satisfied after many, many sessions of "showracemenu" commands, importing the damn face on a .esp with Wrye Bash, editing it in the CS (more freedom), importing it back into a save, "showracemenu" again, save, back to the CS, back to save, copy/paste the facegen codes into a custom race's default values with TES4Edit, reseting the face, edit over the editing, getting a modified head mesh, start the damn thing again from scratch... and end up with a character who seems to have been beaten to death with the ugly stick. Then I start it over... :brokencomputer:

...oh, you get the picture. :sadvaultboy:
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