DISCLAIMER: Ok, I'm going to set a big fucking disclaimer here, because some people around the internet seems to want to be stupid about this mod right here.
THIS MOD HAS NO NUDITY AT ALL AND IT ISN'T INTENDED TO HAVE IT, NO NUDE MESHES OR TEXTURES HERE.
Have in mind that whatever the user does with this is the user's own responsability. I'm not responsible for whatever modifications are done to it, and I won't give support for any modified version of this mod.
Description
THIS MOD HAS NO NUDITY AT ALL AND IT ISN'T INTENDED TO HAVE IT, NO NUDE MESHES OR TEXTURES HERE.
Have in mind that whatever the user does with this is the user's own responsability. I'm not responsible for whatever modifications are done to it, and I won't give support for any modified version of this mod.
Description
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This mod changes how children in Skyrim look.
Special thanks to the DemWaifus group in steam for helping me with some female NPCs.
Remember to read the readmes.
Remember to read the readmes.
Update: The playable version is back, and I made a patch for Hearthfire.
Name: Xvision Children - Skyrim Children Overhaul
Version: 2.1
Date: 09/10/2012
Category: NPCs
Homepage: http://bagserk.blogspot.com/
Description
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This mod changes how children in Skyrim look.
Details
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One day I decided I was sick of potatohead children. They're all the same, and probably the ugliest creatures in Skyrim, only second to Hagravens.
This changes female children faces to use Enhanced Character Edit for the meshes and Univision Face for the textures, and the male children to use Better Facegen for males and a blend of the Univision
face with Final Younger Characters. All credits for these go to the authors of these mods.
It also gives children a custom Underwear. This is so they don't get a huge seam if you happen to remove their clothes (you however can't, normally). The mesh I used for the female underwear was Oblivion's "Minibloomers recolor",
and for the skin itself some body mod which its author I don't know. For the males, an edited Male Body No Hairy, and an edit of the Better Males mesh (_0 weight only).
It also replaces female children clothes with a fixed version by Haishao so they get no neck gaps when dressed, and an edit of the male children clothes I did to fit to the male body mentioned up.
Also Babette has a slight texture edit for her clothes, they have something to identify her as part of the DB.
About the male children... some of them might look like dwarves to you. Your mileage may vary, in my opinion, I prefer somewhat variated dwarves to WE ARR ROOK THE SAME potatoheads.
Another BIG FIX in 2.0 is, I fixed the children not looking up when they see someone taller than them. I modified the skeletons I was using a bit (scaled the NPC bone to make them as tall as the vanilla
skeletons without modifying the other bones individually) and then set the children races heights back to 0.8. Notice there's no optional folder anymore, because the children now use a skeleton named
skeletonkids and skeleton_female_kids for males and females respectivelly.
Another somewhat big fix in 2.1, I fixed the conflict custom races which copied the armature data from the default race had. This means the kids can be made playable, I included the plugin which has their
races set as playable. Any other fixes, like combat data, copying headparts from other races with racial compatibility and such, I'll leave it for someone else, since I don't really care about playing
as a kid. This also allows kids to be able to use almost any armor in the game, and any added custom armor. So I'd say you can customize it as much as you want to.
About the playable version, it could be better. It's usable though, and modifying the mod should make the races behave as any other race, but I don't care about playing as a kid.
Install
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1. Extract the Data folder in the .7z to your Skyrim install directory.
2. Optionally, extract the plugin inside "playable races plugin" and overwrite. Only do this if you want the kids races to be playable.
3. Start either Skyrim's own launcher or NMM, and enable "xvisionchildren.esp".
Uninstall
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1. Start NMM or Skyrim's launcher, disable any of the esps in this mod.
2. Delete the files/folders as I explain here:
In "Data\meshes\actors\character\character assets" erase the file skeletonkids.nif, and at "Data\meshes\actors\character\character assets female", the file skeleton_female_kids.nif.
In the folder "\Data\Meshes\Actor\Character\FacegenData\Facegeom\Skyrim.esm\" erase the following files:
00013292.NIF
00013294.NIF
0001329B.NIF
000132A9.NIF
00013359.NIF
00013363.NIF
00013378.NIF
0001337A.NIF
00013385.NIF
000133AB.NIF
00013477.NIF
0001347E.NIF
000135E5.NIF
000135EE.NIF
000135F1.NIF
00013642.NIF
00013668.NIF
000136B9.NIF
000136BA.NIF
00013B78.NIF
00013BA9.NIF
00013BAD.NIF
00013BAF.NIF
00014132.NIF
00014133.NIF
0001434B.NIF
0001434C.NIF
0001434D.NIF
00019A2C.NIF
00019C01.NIF
0001C185.NIF
0001C18A.NIF
0001D4B7.NIF
0001E82C.NIF
000274A5.NIF
0009F839.NIF
000B94A3.NIF
000B94A9.NIF
In the folder "Data\meshes\actors\character", erase the folder "xvisionc"
In the folder "Data\textures\actors\character\FaceGenData\FaceTint\Skyrim.esm" erase the following files:
00013292.dds
00013294.dds
0001329B.dds
000132A9.dds
00013359.dds
00013363.dds
00013378.dds
0001337A.dds
00013385.dds
000133AB.dds
00013477.dds
0001347E.dds
000135E5.dds
000135EE.dds
000135F1.dds
00013642.dds
00013668.dds
000136B9.dds
000136BA.dds
00013B78.dds
00013BA9.dds
00013BAD.dds
00013BAF.dds
00014132.dds
00014133.dds
0001434B.dds
0001434C.dds
0001434D.dds
00019A2C.dds
00019C01.dds
0001C185.dds
0001C18A.dds
0001D4B7.dds
0001E82C.dds
000274A5.dds
0009F839.dds
000B94A3.dds
000B94A9.dds
Erase the tga files too if you have them. I included them in 1.0 by mistake. Again, sorry about that.
In the folder "Data\textures\actors\character", erase the "xvisionc" folder.
Clothes:
In the folder "Data\meshes\clothes", erase the "Childrenclothes" folder to go back to vanilla meshes.
In the folder "Data\textures\clothes", erase the "Childrenclothes" folder to go back to vanilla textures.
Finally, delete the .esp you were using, or both if for some reason you had them both in your Data folder.
Upgrade
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Just repeat the same steps to install and say yes to any overwrite prompt.
Incompatibility
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Any mod that modifies Children races or Children NPCs. Seriously, be careful with this, when I say ANY mod that modifies children races, I mean it.
Known Issues or Bugs
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Non-playable version:
Kids will get oversized when they use the forge or stuff like that. I can't fix it, that in fact happened with the vanilla ones. Blame Bethesda for that.
No other problem I know of.
Playable version:
Kids don't have a working weight slider for their underwear, so using anything over the lowest weight will result in a huge gap at the neck.
History
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2.1, 2012/10/09 - Fix conflict with custom races when copying the armature data from the default race (this wasn't the actual problem).
The playable version is back, but still not supported (mostly because I don't care about it). It should be fine now though.
Cleaned the plugin a bit, it was editing the femalebretonpresets, not anymore.
2.0, 2012/09/21 - Replaced male children.
Fixed children not looking up when they talk to someone taller than them.
Fixed neckseams on girls.
1.0, 2012/05/16 - Initial release.
TODO
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- Give children variated clothes maybe. This depends on modders actually caring about this. Since I have almost 0 artistic skills, I can't do them, so yeah.
Credits
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Thanks to Enhanced Character Edit and Univision Face authors (tktk and RAN46 respectively), since their meshes and textures together are useable to replace potatohead female children.
Thanks to Better Facegen for Males, No Hairy Male Body, Better Males and again Univision Face authors, I used these resources to somehow replace potatohead male children (they look like dwarves
I know, but some people told me they prefer dwarves to the old ones, me, I don't give a crap abut anything else than replacing the potatoheads).
Tools Used
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7-Zip
Readme Generator
Skyrim's Creation Kit
Blender
Photoshop
Impressive dude. So now we can have your Schierke race as a proper child race, is it?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, my compliments once again.
Can't get any custom hair to work with this.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the update! I was using the previous version with just the girls and it looked a lot better than vanilla Fallout 3 clones.
ReplyDeletehello there i must say that i have ejoyed this mod i hated those potato heads too so thanks a lot and if i may request a new version compatible with the new hearthfire dlc cuz i noticed the kids added by it show no face texture and the head looks like an adult
ReplyDeleteI don't have Hearthfire yet. I will when I buy it.
ReplyDeleteHearthfire patch added.
Deletetanx a lot mate :)
ReplyDeleteAll Children have black skin?
ReplyDeletebut,Thank you for mod. I very love it. :)
No. You have a conflict or did something wrong..
DeleteHey, is there a way to give the boys more girly faces? Or could you make a version/patch for this?
ReplyDeleteAnd why would I want to do that?
DeleteThank you this is a lot better but I have one issue the female children don't move their mouths it is really freaky
ReplyDeleteYou have a conflict with something.
DeleteI fixed it moved it close to the bottom of the load order thanks again.
Deletehas anyone ever wondered why are there no elven kids? i mean considering the elven population in skyrim there should be a couple
ReplyDeletesomewhere around
Great mod.
ReplyDeleteMy only problem is that when I use the playable version my character wont regenerate magicka or health. is there a way to fix that?
Thanks.
No idea. The orc race has a similar defect in vanilla Skyrim too. It might be inside the combat data table, which I think I already said I didn't touch.
DeleteThere is a fix located here (I don't know if its for the right version as I fixed the problem myself before finding this and it is from May of this year):
Deletehttp://www.loverslab.com/showthread.php?tid=8070
Its actually really easy to fix, the child races simply have no values for health and mana regen. Setting these to the same values as the normal races fixes the issue. Also the children race seem to have twice the stamina regen of the normal races.
First off I wanted to say this is great the kids faces annoyed the crap out of me lol.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to edit an orphans face to make it look like it could be a child of my player character but I keep getting the dark face bug and the usual ctrl+F4 doesn't seem to fix it. Any ideas why this might be?
Cheers
Ctrl+f4 should work. If it doesn't I have no idea.
DeleteFirst of all. Thank you. My girlfriend and I love your mod and are so happy you made it. Do you think you will make elven kids in the future? I don't want to pretend like I know what you did or how hard it was to do, but elven kids could technically look the same as regular kids except with different skin colors and slightly longer ears. Orc kids wouldn't even need to have exposed teeth. I hope you work on this some day as you would be the best person to do it.
ReplyDeleteEh, don't know, the scope of this mod is modifying the existing kids, not adding more.
DeleteThank you thank you, a thousand thanks! Finally, a way to make the children look unique, and not all nord clones! If you mentioned this before and I missed it I apologize, but I imagine uploading this to the steam workshop would be helpful for many people.
ReplyDeleteThank you again!
I don't upload to the workshop, and I tried already uploading to nexus and it was a bad idea, I prefer having control over the stuff I upload.
DeleteThis is going to sound really strange, but do you think you can upload a standalone of the undergarments or a replacement for the vanilla races' underwear?. They are simply too cute!
ReplyDeleteAlso nice work on Babette. As the only kid (technically) that I don't dislike, it's nice to see her as a non-potato.
Someday, maybe.
DeleteDoes this mod somehow make children killable? I was messing around and struck a child one day, and she died. Tried it again on another kid and the same thing happened. I'm not sure when it started, but this is practically the only mod I have, so I was wondering if this might be the cause.
ReplyDeleteIt does.
DeleteI'm curious about this. Does this make children with quest with them, killable too? (Dark Brotherhood comes to mind) Would that break the quest?
DeleteThere appears to be a bug in Hearthfire with adopted children AI packages, at least as far as Sofie and Lucia are concerned. Instead of idling around doing the normal child routines, they instead appear to be doing non-child actions such as mining, using the forge, chopping wood, drunkenly dancing to the bard songs, etc. Tried removing other mods, but it appears to originate from this one.
ReplyDeleteNo idea, I didn't edit the AI packages of the children, I only modified the appearance. Although since the CK goes stupid when you load hearthfire, who knows what might be happening.
DeleteKids used to do adult stuff before I made xvision children though, like hammering random walls and such.
The Mod is perfect..now it is one of my Must added to mods list..still now i have strage issue..used it before with CBBE body pack at skyrim nexus and it worked great..now with a new install used UNP and all the female children faces arent moving..no lips moving..no mouth..no eyes or brows just pretty frozen face..males are okay but females are totally messed up!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis mod is completely standalone, it only changes stuff related to children. Sounds like you messed up something on your own.
Deletecan you make fully playbale children race ? ^^
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ReplyDeletemuch much better thank you so much is there a way to use custom hairs on them?
ReplyDeleteoh my god! i absolutely love this! i was really looking forward to having some change in children's feature when hearthfire got out. of course my expectation failed miserably. i mean seriously why even my own child should look like anyone elses-and not even pretty. this is exactly what i was looking for. awwww thank you thank you thank you so much!
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im so sorry to ask you about this, but do you have any plan on making this just for hearthfire's added children? just that 4 of them. if so, that would be really helpful to run it more lightly. just a hopeful thought! anyway thanks again!! muahhhhhh
Hey mate, is it possible to fiddle around with the nif and dds files to swap some of the styles on some characters?
ReplyDeleteBagserk, I have to inform you that current version of Xvision Children isn't compatible with Dragonborn dlc. When I activate dragonborn.esm in NMM, kids faces and lips aren't moving. Everything works fine when dragonborn.esm is deactivated. BTW this mod is great, i really love it. Keep up the great work. Best regards.
ReplyDeleteI fixed it. Works fine with Dragonborn dlc.
Deletecan i know how did you fix it?
DeleteBTW for those who don't know, the solution for oversized kids 'bug' is to open the console by pressing the tilde key ( ~ ), left click on the oversized child then type setscale 1 and press enter.
ReplyDeleteClean up the dragonborn.esm with latest tes5edit first. This mod works, but I note that Aeta (in the Skaal village) isn't dressed, even if trying to equip her with dresses.
ReplyDeleteJust put it somewhere at the bottom of your load order. If you have a mod that edits the race, that's your culprit. So... Bagserk, any plans for Aeta? She's potatofied by Bethesda.
ReplyDeleteNo, the load order is okay, and it's really an issue with Aeta, so I'll have to fire up CK and fix her up.
DeleteYeah, it's actually a clothing bug with the DLC, so I came up with a fix (http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/31639). The good news is that XVC superbly does away with Aeta's potato appearance, but bad news is that she needs a bit of a cosmetic fix.
DeleteThanks for your effort. I think I'll fire up CK and see if I can come up with my own personal Aeta appearance until Bagserk releases his own.
DeleteHi Bagserk, I wanted to ask permission to use some assets from this mod in a Solstheim mod I'm making that would add Dark Elf kids (I already made one in my game).
ReplyDelete(potatofied) hahaha nice one, so is there a possibility to release a dragonborn patch cuz i know crap bout CK so there's no way ican fix it myself :b thx again for this cool mod
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ReplyDeleteI noticed Mila Valentica (Whiterun - fruit vendors' daugther), and Runa Field Shild (Riften orphanage) have no face texture even after the patch~ other's are fine~
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot for the mod~ ^^ ~
Made the gameplay much better~ Visual wise~
@uglydemon
ReplyDeleteSure.
@Sylence Terrence
I don't have Dragonborn yet so I have no way of knowing what's wrong there. If you mean without Dragonborn, it works fine here and this is the first time someone tells me there's a bug like that so, again, it might be a problem with some of your mods.
This a great mod! Excellent work. It always bothered me that all the children looked the same ha ha. Thank you so much.
ReplyDeleteThe download link doesn't work anymore? Or is this just me? Looks like a good mod though..
ReplyDeleteYeah download is broke =( mediafire claims it's a broken zip and said it contacted the author
ReplyDeleteIt's fixed. Read the post I did about Mediafire for more information.
ReplyDeletefirst its really really great mod! undoubtedly kudos for you! thanks a lot. now children of skyrim can be pretty! but can you make standalone version of hearthfire's added 4 children? your work is really amazing but kinda heavy for me. i just want my children to be pretty!
ReplyDeleteCan you upload the mod somewhere else please ?
ReplyDeleteI can't download it from box.com, I get this error message : http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2013/09/1361830983-box.png (in french sorry, basically it say "the user behind this file is outside the bandwidth" or something like that)
Cant download the mod. The site says that the uploader is out of Bandwidth
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ReplyDeleteThanks for fixing the dl link :)
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ReplyDelete文件 解密出错 啥意思？？
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure what i did wrong but all the boys are changed and look great, but the girls have disappeared from the game completely. =(
ReplyDeleteI fiddled with it a bit and managed to fix whatever the problem was. Now the girls are there too and so cute! Thank you for this mod i love how my daughters look in game now!
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ReplyDeleteI would like to see a non-kill-able kids version... I tried to make one for myself and while I was able to reset the flags for the main mod the Hearthfire patch just crashes the CK... issues finding some soure files
ReplyDeleteNever mind i fixed the error in the editor but making a "official" version would still be nice
ReplyDeleteThe boys seem to be fine and the girls are speaking nd functioning correctly, but the girls faces/heads are gone. They just have hair floating over their bodies.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the file and all the work you've done!
ReplyDeleteI was dying for this mod, thank you so much for this. Beautiful work.
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly what I was searching for, the childs in Skyrim looked all the same and that was really boring and non-immersive, thanks !
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DeleteIs there anyway new hairstyles can be made for the children? To change the hairstyles up from the vanilla traditional versions? Such as adding braids or long hair or even curls?
ReplyDeleteOH and also... AMAZING work! What an ass of me not to tell you what awesome work you've done. i can't play another minute of Skyrim without your mod. Thank you SO much! :)
ReplyDeleteFor some reason I can't download the file it only gets to 52%
ReplyDeletesame exact % for me too.
DeleteThe links were taken down because of "Claim of Alleged Infringement". Funny, because this has no resources that weren't part of other mods for character creating.
ReplyDeleteUntil I get a response from MEGA, I'm not reuploading shit. They also threatened with an account termination if said "copyright infringement" happened. Some bullshit.
PLEASE upload to a new site. I made a wordpress account just to ask this.
Deleteother link for download ?
ReplyDeletethx
Damn,what a shame dude,i really like your mod.
ReplyDeleteAll the strength for you
For some reason i downloaded the original and the HF patch, but only HF children have it. The base game ones have an adult-like face morph with textures. Kinda creepy. the load order is like that:
ReplyDelete[X]xvisionchildren.esp
[X]xvisionchildren - hearthfire.esp
Am i supposed to uncheck or change any of these? =/
Hey I'm wondering if there's any way to get this mod now? These kids are butt freaking ugly and I'm not adopting any of em until I get my paws on your awesome mod.
ReplyDeleteI made a wordpress account just to type this:
ReplyDeletePLEASE upload to a new site
PLEASE someone send this to me or upload somewhere.
ReplyDeleteIf someone can send it to me I can upload it to my website for all to download until the MEGA bs clears up.
ReplyDeleteNevermind, I managed to find a copy of this from Mother Russia.
ReplyDeleteI took the privilage of uploading it to my website tempararily until the MEGA bs is fixed. I also translated the russian back into english, as well as tested it myself and both of my children no longer look like potato's! Thank you so much Bagserk for creating this awesome mod.
http://www.syndicateunderground.com/content/xvisionchildrenv%202.1.rar
NOTE: If the reasoning behind both of Bagserk's uploads being "cut off" is due to a copyright issue. By all means feel free to contact me directly to discuss this matter. Make sure you bring proof that it's yours too, 'cause I'm pretty sure it isn't.
To Bagserk, I hope you're okay with me doing this. If you're not, please contact me via steam and I'll remove the upload A.S.A.P.
Steam Account: thedrofhack
Well, there's one thing wrong so far. The name's of the children appear to be in Russian, but it's not too bad. Still beats the heck out of potato faces.
DeleteI managed to fix that russian name problem with the construction set. The reference names are still in english, so it's just the game names that are russian. it was a simple matter of copy/paste.
DeleteAhhh, okay. Could I have a copy of the one you modded? I don't really want to give out my email account on a public forum. If you have Xfire, we could transfer the mod that way.
DeleteXfire: ragnarok27
ah i would like the mod aswell tbh :( I tried to change the names myself but for the hearthfire children there's an issue, so if you're able to do so, upload it somewhere for a while so we can both download it.
DeleteDropbox would be an easy solution to do that :)
Thanks !
I will as soon as I am able, until bagserk tells me to take em down.
ReplyDeleteFiles for this wonderful mod are no longer available, this is sad and unfortunate.
ReplyDeleteHey man, your mods are great but why do you keep posting them on mediafire or that kind of site? Why not the Nexus? A lot less broken links BS and much more convenient for the community...
ReplyDeleteDude, I second that. Which is why I'm uploaded it to my site. I'm trying to get the English .esp file if anyone has it.
DeleteBecause I don't like Nexus' upload rules, nor do I care to follow them.
DeleteAll right. I reuploaded the links. Let's see if Mega goes full retard again.
ReplyDeleteI think it's gone full retard again, LOL!!! I can only get to 48%. All I need is the .esp file and I can upload it to a better server for ya.
ReplyDeleteThat's more Mega being slow, I meant them not taking down my stuff for no reason. Try downloading later.
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