Women of the Wasteland [http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/51084/] is a little something I've been piecing together on the side as I've been working on Oblivion and Skyrim mods. As FO3/NV and Oblivion have very similar character setups, it was very logical to work with after my Oblivion Character Overhaul.

I had a hard time making a female character that I'd like out of the models and presets the game shipped with and no mods out there quite did what I was looking for, so I took the head system apart, created copy races of the vanilla ones, set up custom headshapes for each, sculpted proper normal maps and did some texturing magic. The result is pretty neatly proportional and believable women, I dare to claim.

Screenshots with comparisons:

http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/images/51084-2-1374755636.jpg
http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/images/51084-1-1374755635.jpg
http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/images/51084-3-1374755637.jpg
http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/images/51084-4-1374755639.jpg

My original intent was to repeat what I did with Oblivion Character Overhaul and propagate the changes to all female characters in the game, but as I'm going back to work from my holidays and have literally 5 other ongoing projects in modding, it wasn't going to happen in any short timeframe. So in the spirit of sharing and encouraging mod efforts, I'm releasing my work as playable races AND modder's resources that are completely open to any use as long as my name is credited somewhere in the final result.

Hope you guys like it and get some use out of it.

I love this and I'd download it in an instant if my computer wasn't in the shop. This is fantastic as I've long complained that non-white races within New Vegas are not given proper justice.

I'm not a PC player, but I enjoy browsing mods and I have to say I like this. So many mods are, IMO trash or make nvde/sixual themed character mods, or bizarre anime characters in a Western RPG. I applaud your work to give them a more realistic texture and feel. I give this 5 Platinum Chips out of 5!

Yesss, this was a big thing for me! You cannot, just plainly cannot make a person of a completely different genetic makeup and ethnicity by just moving a few sliders around. A lot of games stumble at this and it's heartbreaking.

So what does this mod do exactly if it is used as a mod and not a source?

Does it do anything to the vanilla NPC's in the game (as I'm already using Redesigned 2) or is it just adding a new race for the PC only so we can pick some different pre-sets?

New playable races only on ESP-side. Though to my understanding a few people are already looking into using the resources for a vanilla preset and NPC replacer

Great. Using this for my next character then.

Very impressive. I'll be undoubtly using this on my next playthrough.

Use this last night to make my new character. To be honest I was surprise to only find one pre-set for each race, but they are good. I just tweaked the Asian a little bit and used it.

I got into an argument a while back on the GW2 forums that you couldn't just change a character's skin color to make them a different ethnicity, and eventually just gave up. Nice to see someone with a solid handle on facial morphology (and 3D modelling) take a stab at it. Excellent work.