{"id":1547,"date":"2018-07-22T22:52:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T05:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2018-07-25T20:51:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T03:51:50","slug":"adventures-in-mesh-replacers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=1547","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Mesh Replacers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I did the thing I said I&#8217;d never do: I tried out a character mesh\/texture replacer mod for Morrowind. I had decided that the faces in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusmods.com\/morrowind\/mods\/44701\">Races Redone mod<\/a> looked pretty good and were very true to the style of the original faces, so a lot of the original feel\/character seemed like it was preserved.<\/p>\n<p>However, I did not like the hairs at all. I much preferred the Vanilla hairs. I just about spat out my drink when I saw Aryon&#8217;s new &#8220;haircut&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aryon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1549\" src=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aryon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aryon.png 553w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aryon-300x288.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 85vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is actual footage of Steen coming back from adventuring, and seeing (and reacting to) Aryon&#8217;s terrible new haircut that makes him look like he&#8217;s a 5 year old child about to go to get a family portrait:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Seinfeld - Jerry&#039;s New Haircut\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oQTI9JaHecE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t a huge fan of Aryon&#8217;s old dorky-ass haircut, to be quite honest. But this&#8230; Peewee Herman monstrosity of a haircut was&#8230; irredeemable. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, it is gorgeously rendered, and absolutely 10000x better than anything I could make a mesh for. I just feel like it doesn&#8217;t quite have the same feel as the original, and it looks like it was made with a much younger character in mind. Which, given how few hairs there are to choose from in Morrowind, maybe it was.<\/p>\n<p>The new face is great, though. It is pretty much how I&#8217;d always seen him in my mind. The facial tattoos are a bit of creative license here, since the original texture did not have any. But, they&#8217;re subtle and such things are common enough in Dunmer society that I don&#8217;t mind them.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t like Steen&#8217;s new hair, either. I hated how it was luxurious and flowing and beautiful, because Steen&#8217;s hair is none of those things and it never should be. So I suppose maybe she waited too long between haircuts here in this photo:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/steen.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1550\" src=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/steen.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/steen.png 306w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/steen-234x300.png 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 85vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Again, the face is great, but ugh the hair &gt;:-( no way would Steen be caught dead with hair like that. Or even be willing to maintain it, for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>I also don&#8217;t like anybody else&#8217;s new hairs, but obviously Steen and Aryon are the most important characters for me to be happy with.<\/p>\n<p>So then I had to go on this mad goose chase to get the vanilla hairs without the ears (because then otherwise he&#8217;d have 4 ears), but alas then there was still a problem with the hairs clipping into the new face model, making Aryon and Steen both have bald patches.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad, too, because if not for the clipping, the aesthetic of these new faces plus the vanilla hairs is PERFECT for me. Like, exactly what I was looking for. I thought everybody looked great.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1551\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1551\" style=\"width: 569px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ScreenShot172.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1551 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ScreenShot172.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"569\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ScreenShot172.png 569w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ScreenShot172-300x264.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 569px) 85vw, 569px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Master Aryon with the new face and Vanilla hair&#8230; pretty much exactly what I was looking for, except for the clipping giving him a weird bald patch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1552\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1552\" style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ScreenShot173.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1552 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ScreenShot173.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ScreenShot173.png 285w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ScreenShot173-230x300.png 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 85vw, 285px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steen with the new face but Vanilla hair. I love this look a LOT. I wish this is how it could be.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So I set out on a gallant mission to tweak all the vanilla (earless) hairs in Blender to solve that clipping problem. But, several hours in, and now I apparently have like 5 different versions of Blender installed (because that&#8217;s important for Morrowind meshes&#8230; for some reason&#8230; I don&#8217;t even know anymore), and yet ANOTHER version of Python installed on this machine, non-working .nif files all over the place&#8230; it&#8217;s a madhouse. I might&#8230; I might just go back to Vanilla faces and hairs. Because the clipping is a tiny bit too much to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>And also also&#8230; I am partial to the tall rabbit-ears of Vanilla Morrowind mer. These stumpy little Skyrim-style mer ears are not cartoony enough for me, I guess. I&#8217;m just too used to all the original meshes and textures, I have trouble adjusting to anything else.<\/p>\n<p>I might have just wasted an entire day on this, because I nuked everything and went back to vanilla meshes and textures. Oh well! It was funny to think of Aryon getting a terrible haircut. Luckily it grew back \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I did the thing I said I&#8217;d never do: I tried out a character mesh\/texture replacer mod for Morrowind. I had decided that the faces in the Races Redone mod looked pretty good and were very true to the style of the original faces, so a lot of the original feel\/character seemed like it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=1547\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adventures in Mesh Replacers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,368],"tags":[385,437,378],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-videogames","tag-master-aryon","tag-mods","tag-morrowind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1556,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}