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Dark Ages Skins

Published: Category:Dark Ages SeriesWritten by: Vexonar

Rugged Beauty

This module includes skins to help you create your perfect character. All races and genders are included to carry the aesthetic throughout the game while fitting to your load order and file size needs.

Features

Natural Athleticism

This module creates a more rugged, classic skin set that covers all races. Men and women have aged more appropriately with updated scars, freckles, body hair, and moles. Women have a defined abdomen, thighs, calves, arms, and shoulders. Men are broad-shouldered, a bit rougher around the edges, with properly proportioned muscles, and body dimensions.

Custom meshes were used to reduce the mesh seam gap that can occur around the neck, wrist, and ankles. We cannot fully remove it, as they are separate meshes, but it’s reduced to near 0.

All-new body meshes

  • Realistically proportioned; anatomically-correct
  • UNP Style Female Meshes: body, feet, hands
  • Vanilla Enhanced Male Meshes: body, feet hands
  • Updated open-toe meshes that also conform to beast races

Photo-realistic 3D scanned textures

  • Vampires still look like vampires.
  • Makeup overlays: upper and lower socket, eyeliner, cheeks, chin, nose, forehead, neck
Want more Freckles? Try Divine People of Skyrim (DPOS) for more options.
 
Want a brushed look for War Paints? Try Divine Warpaints.

Female Human & Mer

  • Diffuse textures
  • Normal sk textures
  • Specular map textures
  • Pores, scars
  • Complexion sliders (complexion sliders are the ones with the aging and rough/pock marked look)

Male Human & Mer

  • Diffuse textures
  • Normal sk textures
  • Specular map textures
  • Pores, scars
  • Complexion sliders (complexion sliders are the ones with the aging and rough/pock marked look)

Khajiit & Argonian

  • Diffuse textures
  • Normal sk textures
  • Specular map textures
  • Pores
  • Complexion sliders (complexion sliders are the ones with the aging and rough/pock marked look)

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Enhance Your Game

Build your perfect character.

Athletic. Rugged. Be the best you.

Technical Info

Compatibility

This is an overhaul of meshes and textures of all races and genders. Not compatible with textures and meshes that do the same thing.

To complete the look and add 1 million options to character creation, add Divine People of Skyrim (DPOS) to your load order.

Load Order

Body Meshes and Textures on your Logical Load Order sheet.

How To Use

Add mod to your favorites from the Bethesda.net website.

Download mod to your library from in-game.

Enable.

Have fun.

This mod would not possible without the following resources:

Artwork

Nuska, for her guide about normal maps and skin textures
Maven for the starting basis of understanding what it means to make mature skins for women – if you’re on PC or switching to PC go here. They’re amazing to use.
 

Software

  • 3DSMax
  • ZBrush
  • BodySlide
  • Nifskope
  • Photoshop

Thanks to the Marauders for testing!

FAQ

A. Because it is a different mod

A. You are using a custom animation pack that attempts to hijack the hand meshes to show a different pull string. This is a conflict that cannot be fixed. Either do not use the custom animation or do not use body meshes that include hands.

A. The light rendering in the Alternate Start cell highlights the meshes in strange ways. Once you leave the cell, the lighting should be fixed. If the seam occurs outside the Alternate Start cell, exit to the dashboard, close Skyrim completely, reload Skyrim, and then reload your save game.

A. No. The goal of this skin series is to be comprehensive so that the aesthetic carries through the entire game and not just the player character.

Place any beast race meshes and textures underneath to override.

A. The characters were created with sliders from DPOS. It gives you 1 million possible combinations. Try it out yourself.

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