Naked NPCs New Mods
Approach and Potential Roadmap
NOTE: Several of the proposed mods below have already been created since this article was originally published in Oct 2023. I will continue to edit this article with updates as plans progress.
Now that the Tube Dancers, Holograms, and Sex Workers mods are fairly complete, I'm interested in going further.
How much further? We'll see how it goes... It'll be based on my interest level and whether the legend @woodbricks returns for NPCs Gone Wild (or if other mod authors pop up). I'm doing this as a labor of love for this game, my interest in modding, and enhancements to the adult the experience.
This is the plan I'm thinking about. I'd appreciate any constructive feedback. This post is primarily to set some loose expectations and to wrap my head around an approach.
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Overall Strategy / Requirements
- Continue with the .archive mod format (less flexible than coding, risks incompatibilities with other mods, but is more straightforward for me to create and maintain, easy to install having no required dependencies).
- Allow users to optionally install certain sets of naked NPC mod files based on their preference. Each set should be compatible with other sets, to increase/decrease the level of nudity. Segmentation should align with the game asset files to avoid conflicts between the mod sets.
- Balance the number of separate mods and optional mod files within. There is some maintenance overhead with multiple mods on Nexus, but I'm getting used to it. Some pipeline automation may help, but too refined would be too much I think for everyone.
- The modifications on particular appearances will be subjective based on my preferences with the appearance and how much work is required. This may not fit with everyone. I won't be restricting changes to topless only, but it will probably turn out mostly that way. In some cases, I will leave an open jacket on but will remove the undershirt/bra beneath. Or changing clothing to transparent (where transparency is available). Aim would be to have some wider variance of sexy with a range of clothed / partially clothed / nude.
- Focus on female NPCs for the time being.
For background perspective, NPCs Gone Wild had 3 levels of mod files:
- Lots of NPCs (main version)
- Smaller portion of NPCs (mild alternative version)
- Strippers and Prostitutes only
I appreciated the mild and stripper options since the main version could a bit much for me at times. For these Naked NPCs mods I was thinking there's an opportunity here to separate things further, to mix and match certain sets of NPCs, at the risk of confusing the average user. NPCs Gone Wild was very easy for users to choose (just pick one) with the tradeoff of lower customization.
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Future State
In looking through the game asset files, and considering how to organize the "sets of NPCs", here's what I'm thinking... (in priority order)
Naked NPCs Crowds (new mod) ✅Complete
Link: Naked NPCs Crowds
1. Main mod is all of the below crowd social class alternative mods combined into one.
2. Alternative mods organized by 3 levels of social class:
1. Low Class: citizen_freak, citizen_homeless, citizen_junkie, citizen_lowlife
2. Middle Class: crowd_districts, citizen_aldecados, citizen_biker, citizen_mallrat, citizen_tenant, special_braindance
3. High Class: citizen_rich, citizen_nightlife, citizen_workout, citizen_business, citizen_corpo
Notes:
- This one moves away from the very specific NPCs (sexworkers, holograms, dancers) into the wider population seen on the streets and inside venues.
- Alternative mods grouped by Social class could give options for users to limit, while minimizing the number of mod sets to maintain.
- The proposed files and which social group they are in may change as I dig in. ie. Maybe bikers are a better fit in low class, or braindance in high class.
- NPCs gone wild included most of these, as comparison (some extras here).
Naked NPCs Mobs (new mod) ✅Complete
Link: Naked NPCs Mobs
Perhaps one Main mod here that covers all the gangs
- gang_generic, gang_6thstreet, gang_adecados, gang_cyberpunk, gang_kurtz, gang_maelstrom, gang_mox, gang_scavenger, gang_tyger, gang_valentinos, gang_voodoo, gang_wraith
corpo_generic, corpo_arasaka, corpo_militech, corpo_ncpd, corpo_netwatch, corpo_zetatech, corpo_nusa(I've decided against these for the moment as nudity doesn't fit as well within their context as the other types)
Notes:
- This one I'm not as interested in, but may help to broaden out and be fun to be distracted in battle.
- If you have thoughts on some reasonable/minimal groupings within this one, I'd be interested in hearing.
- NPCs gone wild covered the "gang_*" files, but not the "corpo_*".
Naked NPCs Service Workers (new mod) ☐ WIP
Perhaps just one Main mod that covers all the other service workers:
- service_dining, service_driver, service_media, service_medical, service_receptionist, service_religious, service_ripperdoc, service_vendor, service/paradise (PL), service_default (PL), service_vendor (PL)
- Request: Move croupier appearances here (from sex workers mod)
Notes:
- This one I'm not as much interested in, but there seems to be interest here from the community.
- NPCs gone wild only included service_dining and service_vendor from this group - those might be a good place to start from.
- Development had started, but I changed priority to work on Main Characters
Naked NPCs Main Characters (new mod) ☐ WIP
Link: Naked NPCs Main Characters (pre-release)
A mod that includes primary NPC characters (8ug8ear, Clair, Evelyn, Judy, US Cracks Band, etc.):
- base\characters\appearances\main_npc\*.app : Default main character appearances
- ep1\characters\appearances\main_npc\*.app
- base\characters\appearances\quest_temp\*.app : Main NPCs (and others) appearance adjustments for certain quests
- ep1\characters\appearances\quest_temp\*.app
- base\characters\appearances\service\service__fixer_wa.app : Regina Jones
Notes:
- Recommendation by @ToeCutter23
- I was expecting other mod authors to tackle these as these characters are more popular, but not seeing much progress currently. If I'm incorrect here, please keep me honest.
- 13 Dec 2023: Mod (Repajin) Always Naked Main Female NPCs by cyberpicaro (Alt, Judy, and Panam)
- Feeling like these characters shouldn't be totally nude but definitely more revealing... but perhaps Judy should go topless to show off those sweet tats. Would be fun to experiment with transparent clothes and clothing swaps.
Others
There are other miscellaneous appearance files that may fit inside or outside the sets above, but needs more research.
- blackwater, black_sapphire
- Edit:
crowd_parade, scrapper, outcast paradise(included in Crowds)
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Conclusion
Thanks for reading if you made it this far. I've got a lot of love for this game, and I hope that these mods and this approach can yield some extra entertainment for you as they do for me.
Feel free to post feedback. This is a strawman - plans could change if there are some compelling arguments.
Stay tuned for new mods in the near future. Cheers
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With that being said, are you planning to add nude models to chubbier female models? I can see plenty of them having no nudity.
1. your nude mods are absolutely amazing. Love and appreciate the work.
2. would also enjoy some chubby love. big girls need some time in the sun too ;)
In all seriousness, the hyper-sexualization often present in the cyberpunk genre has been both entertaining (I too, like bewbs) and interesting. It ties into the runaway corporatism, the commodification of anything and everything, and as we all know, sex sells. Whether it's an accurate reflection of how this would function were it to happen in reality or not I cannot say, but it's certainly possible that it would trickle down into the mainstream culture.
This is what I think this aspect of the genre is seeking to explore, and why more casual nudity could easily be common place. Especially in a culture where "bodysculpting" is at least a good couple of orders of magnitude beyond what our current real world cosmetic surgery can do (look at the DNA modification and cloning in the TTRPG, for example), do our bodies often become actual product? Showing off the bodysculpt you just got by flaunting it in only the most flatteringly minimal clothing you can is perhaps not so different from driving slow in a fancy new and freshly waxed sports car.
For my specific suggestions:
I tend to think that for mostly practical reasons (ie, dirt and rain, not wanting to put your bare bits down where other peoples bare bits have also been) this means more in the way of revealing cuts and (semi) see-through clothing most of the time for most of your average citizens.
I can imagine nudity being embraced by some gangs, though, like some of the Animals might have a Celtic warrior "nothing but blue woad" sort of sensibility, and I could see some Maelstrom, especially the more heavily chromed, want to show it all off. Valentinos and Tygers I would see closer to the mainstream, though perhaps the latter with their more "pop/rave" vibe might lean into revealing fashion a little more.
Corps I think would shy away from it. A suit is basically a uniform, after all, and as much as I like sexy cops (police, I didn't misspell "corps") I can't see them or Militech soldiers being sexy on the clock, either.
Certain workers, yes please! I don't know if it's possible to do it by location, but if so that'd be ideal.
That's my two cents. Make of it what you will.
NPCs mercs/edgerunners, though, if they are a discrete group you can edit, would be great for that. "Style over substance, choom."
I mostly wanted to reply to elaborate a bit on what I meant by editing workers by location. I guess I meant more by brand/franchise? Medias, for example, could vary a lot between on and off camera. An anchor would be much more fashionable, right? So, more naked if that's the fashion. A "nurse" in a back alley ripperdoc would probably not be dressed any different from an average person, so they'd mirror the "Crowds" mod, but a fancier place or a place that's flavoured as a bodysculptor might even have sexy nurses (if you're selling bodymods, then you'd want your work on display, right?). Waitresses in one place (Tom's Dinner?) again might be dressed more or less like average people, or in a uniform that isn't far off that standard, but imagine what a "Hooters" in Night City would look like.
All that may be beyond what's even possible for you due to limitations of how the game handles things, but I wanted to mention it. Just in case, you know? :)
But then I had the thought that, someone's probably already requested that you make a Naked-NCPD variant, because, right what's left? Naked Sex Workers, why not Naked Service Workers? Haha....well maybe what I outlined above, but hey, got to give the people what they want.
I was wondering if you could offer some alternate models for the two female joytoys; there haven't been any joytoy replacement mods in years in seems like, and the only ones that seem functional/acceptable are ones that replace them with main story characters, which is kind of immersion-breaking. I just feel like there are more attractive NPC models walking around that could take their place
Coming here from the good work of woodbrick, I'm happy that I was wrong. I agree that prudishness has no place in a cyberpunk setting but that doesn't mean we're all nudist in the future! XD
2.1 putting all gameplay to a halt finally convinced me to come check out your work and I just installed the collection. Really can't wait till Cyberpunk 2077 is playable again to find out how impactful your suite of mods it :D
After a few weeks on CP2077 version 2.0 I started getting really impatient waiting for updates to NPCs gone wild which pushed me into figuring things out for myself and sharing that work. Started from scratch with the dancers, holograms, sexworkers as those were primarily the ones I was interested in, then moved into these other groups based on feedback.
Hope it works out for you, but if not, perhaps others are willing to put their own spin on things with the guide I'm working through.
More like its gonna be Nudist City at this rate hahaha