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I thought the chick in the sewer with red hair that you get to sleep with after winning in the arena was a cute female NPC. Cass is not bad either. But I agree that the presets in chargen are not so great. A little better than Fallout 3 presets. I think if someone made a face gen program outside of GECK where you can use sliders and edit the face like in Outfit Studio using the brush or in RaceMenu and then allow to export that headmesh to replace the head mesh for a custom race to create as a custom character, that would've been the way to go.

There are a bunch of mods that seem to add presets of certain vanilla NPCs, mainly Cass, Sunny, Red Lucy etc., but don't seem to cover everyone. It would be awkward to play as them (or in fact as any other NPC) though. Better player presets are what we need. Player character presets are almost always shit in every role playing game, the female ones are especially neglected. I guess that's because of the mindset that assumes these games will be played by guys only, so they spend extra time to create attractive female NPCs, but no time for female player characters.

I've figured that if you modify an NPC -any NPC- and check the "Is CharGen Face Preset" flag in FNVEdit and save the modification as a new plugin you can then select them as a character preset at CC. Don't know whether or not it's possible to modify them using sliders etc, haven't tried that, but I'm sure you can at least change their hair style and color later on using showbarbermenu.

Found her. Have to admit she looked better in the dark. MerchantChick.7z

On 4/20/2023 at 1:01 PM, bjornk said:

I've figured that if you modify an NPC -any NPC- and check the "Is CharGen Face Preset" flag in FNVEdit and save the modification as a new plugin you can then select them as a character preset at CC. Don't know whether or not it's possible to modify them using sliders etc, haven't tried that, but I'm sure you can at least change their hair style and color later on using showbarbermenu.

Oh yeah, I knew about that. The blonde girl that I use as my character in Fallout 3 is a tweaked version of Lucy West.

After tweaking and saving the face many times (to keep my progress as new Editor IDs), I saved it, then went into FO3Edit and copied the hex values (geometry) and created a new NPC in my preset/follower mod and made her my own custom race playable character.