An edited version of Broken_one's female face mesh (updated by Barf). I re-mapped the model to use Native textures and altered the mesh somewhat to strike a balance between the Native face mesh and Broken_one's mesh.
I also redid all the vertex animations (for face morphing sliders) and tried to strike a balance resembling what Iboltax did in his fantastic "Face Improvement Project" (for male faces), so you get a decent variation in the face morphs, but the sliders are not so extreme that the ladies' faces look too unrealistic (especially a problem with the ladies that use very extreme slider positions in their face gen).
Hopefully I've struck a fine balance and this mod can be used as a nice companion to Iboltax's male face mesh.
This is only the mesh by the way, I did not add or modify any textures at all. It will use whatever textures are already there of course. (which was kind of the point of the whole thing, as Broken_one's mesh had its own mapping and so needed its own textures)
Issues:
- Because it uses the original textures, including the normal map, the normals are not perfect, but this can only be solved by baking the new mesh to create a new normal map. I am considering doing this as it would only require a replacement of two texture files (woman_normalmap and woman_old_normalmap) to use, but it would also require me to recreate the wrinkles for the old woman normalmap, so I'm undecided on the issue. I think I'll just gauge the reactions to this version first and then decide if there is any point in me taking it any further.
Files:
- The new mesh model on its own in a BRF file // for use by anyone who knows how (not that hard really) so it can be added to any mod.
- A complete 'meshes_face_gen.brf' with the female face replaced // for use with Native 1.153 (may work with older versions too)
- A complete 'min_fac_face.brf' with the female face replaced // for use with Floris Expanded Mod pack 2.54 (may work with older and/or other packs)
Installation:
- Make sure to back up the original files first!
- For Native:
- - Copy the 'meshes_face_gen.brf' file into your "Mount and Blade/Modules/Native/Resource/" folder
- - Edit the following line in "Modules/Native/module.ini" : 'load_resource = meshes_face_gen' => 'load_mod_resource = meshes_face_gen'
- For Floris mod
- - Just copy the 'min_fac_face.brf' file into your "Mount and Blade/Modules/Floris Expanded Mod Pack 2.54/Resource/" folder (or wherever you have installed the Floris mod)
- For any other mod:
- - If it does not change the 'meshes_face_gen' file you can just copy the Native installation but in the correct directory, ie: "M&B/Module/{mod name}/"
- - Otherwise you have to use OpenBRF to import the face mesh from the 'new_female_face_mesh.brf' file into the relevant BRF for that mod. (If you didn't understand that you can try asking in the mod's forum or in the comment thread here and I'll try and help you)
--- EDIT ---
Someone asked about importing this correctly into another BRF and while I gave a reply in the comments I thought I would post it here too, so others can see it.
To import correctly:
- Open the BRF that you want to import into, in OpenBRF
- Choose 'Import -> Anything from a BRF' from the menu at the top
- Select the 'new_female_face_mesh.brf' file that you downloaded (this mod)
- Delete the old female head mesh entry in the brf (default is 'female_head'), don't delete the 'lod' versions though
- Rename the new entry you imported to what the old one was called (default is 'female_head'), if needed
- Save
Don't forget to make a backup of your BRF file before you try to import anything or make changes!
--- /EDIT ---
Credits:
- Broken_one for the face mesh
- Barf for updating it
