Sorry, No More Supports & Updates for this mod. I finally quit Skyrim. I had played Skyrim for a long time since I just became adult age, but I don't think it is worth with struggling with too few male mods, and disgusting ugly faces even in LE anymore. If you have any questions about this, leave comments here, but no more updates.
Super Short Summary (SSS)
Bochu Race is a male race based on female headmesh and male body.
YS Skyrim Male NPC Overhaul is the most extensive Skyrim Male NPCs Replacer based on other modders’ resources (This is optional. If you don’t want the replacer, don’t check the box when you install it).
ㄴ.If you are gonna use YS NPCs Replacer, read Q2. in Q&A,
or YOU WILL SEE THE WONDERFUL SHINNYING PURPLES.
ㄷ.If you have SAM, read Q3. in Q&A.
ㄹ.If you got any bugs, read Q&A first!
Intro
Bochu Race is the only good race to make pretty boys in Skyrim. Unfortunately, original bochu1.0 mod has many problems and limited options. There is not only apparent neck seam on his body, but also incompatible with male hair, brows, eyes, etc. Proficient modders will fix these issues and create Adonis by themselves, but I wanna let more people create that boys as possible. Honestly, it is in order to utilize female headmesh based follower resources when replacing Skyrim male NPC faces for me.
YS Skyrim Male NPC Overhaul
Replacing most of human male NPCs in Skyrim. It is replaced with existing followers, presets from other modders. I am trying to get all sources’ permissions from them by sending messages and emailing. 200+ male NPCs are replaced so far. (I will keep working it until all human male NPC faces are replaced.)
Recommendation with YS replacer for other NPCs
KZ style
sidearmf93 replacer
face to face conversation
※ If some replaced NPCs have problems like black face, errors, or bugs, or becomes uglier than before please let me know.
Improvement
ㄱ. Body
I made 3 types of male body compatible, which are Vanilla(better males), SOS, SAM. Bochu Race has standalone body to fix neck seam and not to affect vanilla races’ body. But if you wanna use SOS or SAM body, it needs original mod first.
ㄴ. Variety Face Types
I made 8 kinds of face textures fixed neck seam. You can choose one by using “Complexion” slider in the character creation menu(showracemenu).
ㄷ. Eyes
I made The Eyes of Beauty, Eyes of Aber, and Mikan Eyes compatible with Bochu Race. Long eyelashes makes Bochu look a transgender or woman so I separated it to two lengths of eyelashes for Bochu and Vanila male race, too.
ㄹ. Eyebrow
I made SG Female Brows, Brows, True Brows compatible with Bochu Race. In addition, I let Rochu Race be able to use male and female brows both in Brows and True Brows.
ㅁ. Refitted hair
All male KS Hairdos’ hair and really few Apachiihair, and ApachiihairMale are fixed for Bochu Race (based on Ake headmesh). I’ve never learned how to use 3D tools and never used it, so I modified hair via BodySliders’ tool by myself and the hair might look really hack. Also, there are variety sizes of female headmesh from boy followers, so the hair might not fit their headmesh. I wish someone refits hair for Bochu Race, but I don’t think it is feasible……
+Yon don’t need Apachiihair, and ApachiihairMale. I add it standalone.
+I also refitted KS hair for Vanila male races. Download it in Optional and override it to original KS hairdo’s.
Recommendation for Bochu Race Voice (including shout voice)
If you feel the Bochu’s voice is weird because of true Nord voice, I recommend these.
1/2/2018 v1.00 Released Bochu Race Redone first official version from Bochu 1.0.
1/2/2018 v1.12 fixed vertex error and sliders error.
1/7/2018 v1.15 Enabling scars.
1/20/2018 v1.16 fixed Hair, added brows and beard,
1/22/2018 v1.20 got SAM texture standalone.
1/22/2018 v1.21 1st person camera bug fix
1/22/2018 v1.22 changed brows (three lengths to two lengths)
3/22/2018 v2.1 Added tints colors.
3/31/2018 v3.06 Added NPC replacers
4/1/2018 v1.X Separated it to Bochu esm and replacer.esp.
4/3/2018 v1.α+ Released v1.α+
6/13/2018 v1.β+ Added about more than 100 NPCs, and some hair.
7/26/2018 v2.0 Official version released. Redone for matching NPCs' age and personality.
Q/A
Q1. ECE USER(commonTri_vertexList)
= Bochu race is based on an old version of ECE, so it uses old ECE things. Therefore, I made it standalone instead of fitting with latest version of ECE because I don’t have that skill. Unfortunately, I am failed to make one standalone that is commonTri_vertexList.txt. It will overwrite the latest version of ECE’s commonTri_vertexList.txt. So it is not compatible with playing vanilla race and Bochu race by ECE.
If you want to play Bochu race with ECE, install this option and let this text file overwrite the text file in ECE. If you want to play Vanila race with ECE, don’t install it.
You don’t need this option if you use racemenu(Even if you install this option, it won’t affect anything to your Skyrim).
Q2. To use YS Skyrim Replacer
=I separated the two directories for face textures. The Vanila location is for boy textures, and the new location is for rough and manly textures. You can use same textures, but I strongly recommend following this instruction.
1.Put boy textures into textures\Actors\Character\male (and other race folders for msn files.).
2.Put rough textures into Textures\Bochu Race Redone\face
= I finally made Bochu’s SAM body textures standalone to fix neck seam. However, the body will not allow SAM’s script (Don’t worry about his gental. It works well like size, thickness, etc.), so do not use Samuel, and Samson options in SAM MCM. If not, you will get a seam around his gental. If you really really wanna use those two options to Bochu race, override original body mesh nif files to meshes\Bochu Race Redone\body. But it will bring a neck seam.
I recommend enable ‘Enable Automatic Race Setting’ in General options in SAM MCM, but DISABLE CLASS MORPH OFFSETS, AND WEIGHT CAP BOTH, AND SET VARIATION RANGE 0 right after you start new save. It sets any male NPCs’ body scale slightly with Samson and Samuel randomly, which brings a little gap to Bochu Race based NPCs.
Q4. SOS User
= When you use SOS, The NPCs based on Bochu Race will be wearing an underwear as default. I don’t use SOS, so if many of you guy wanna gental version, I will try it.
Ps. I am terrible at script modding, sorry.
Q5. Eyes are not on the right place, brows are weird, hair is too big to Bochu Race.
= There are also vanilla options to Bochu races too. If you choose vanilla male races’ eyes, brows, or hair, it won’t fit on his face or head. So please choose the name Bochu_ is prefixed.
Q6. There is a neck gap!
= if you input a headmesh in RM, add mask at the end of Neck, and then try it again. Or you can reenter showracemenu after creating your character although you just rescale his weight.
Q7. There are so few options for Bochu Races, I cannot select vanilla hair.
= If you start Skyrim with alternative start, the RaceCompatibility script won't be operated until you finish showracemenu. So you pick Bochu race, and create a character and name first. And then, start showracemenu again a few seconds later.
Q8. Hair is too small, so I can see his back head skin!!!
= This is for female headmeshes. If you are not gonna input a female headmesh, use vanilla male races’ hair.
Q9. Too many eyes!!!
= Oh well, Yeah. That’s right. I made it too many lol.
Q10. Using complexion tip
= if you choose another complexion, it might look paler than the default value in Racemenu. Choose a complexion first, and then reopen the showracemenu. Done :).
