Yay, my first solo mod hot file! FYI, there is now a patch that will let you have the children killable. If you have Playable Children, see the patch in the description!
Note if you don't like the hairstyles there's a "Revised Hairstyles" version that used less long and curly styles, though I will NOT be making a completely vanilla version as there's only 2 hairstyles for girls and 3 for boys.
Big update is postponed indefinitely until the modder that was helping by creating child clothes gets through their IRL issues. Child body textures I forgot in my release are under the "Miscellaneous" file section.
So, for those having issue with 2k blackfaces (HD-DLC, LMCC2k, RealHD Faces 2k), after spending awhile troubleshooting for myself i thought i'd upload these fixes. One is a Patch for HDDLC that includes items not covered by RealHD2k or LMCC2k. Put early in load order to patch vanilla stuff. Black Face Fix for Kids2k.7z
The other is a patch for Diverse Children 2k - load after mod. DiverseChildren 2k.7z Since these were up-scaled and had to be re-saved with compression i did some airbrushing to smooth out the neck/hand seams, so this file includes all head, body, hand textures to be consistent/complete for 2k.
I wanted to clarify something. I did not have any mods that changed kids, but I did have the Real HD Faces Main and textures. Then I noticed that a Diamond City overhaul I installed added generic kids to the game. They were brown-faced, basically because Real HD couldn't recognize these little kid face maps that weren't there one save ago.
I want to thank YOU ozfreee for the above two files which, if installed carefully, synch with my mods BEAUTIFULLY. Here's how they go in MO2 for me.
RECCOMENDED LOAD ORDER Real HD Faces Main and Textures Black Face Fix for Kids (to recognize face maps for ANY vanilla-base kids that other mods put in your game for you) ANiceOakTree's Diverse Children DiverseChildren 2k Patch
MO2 told me DiverseChildren 2k Patch is overwriting loose files in Black Face Fix for Kids (THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD BE.)
BUT!!! Black Face Fix for Kids is LOOSE FILES. And for some reason, it includes files for GhoulFemale, GhoulMale and BaseHumanFemale. I have Ghouls Revamped (does not affect kids) and Real HD Faces, so I needed to manually delete those random adult-base files so they wouldn't take priority and mess up face textures for all my intelligent ghoulies and female women...apparently.
Love the mod, but it looks like the game picks caravan guards from the pool of valid settlers which means there are now child caravan guards, which breaks immersion for me. Is there any way to have child settlers but not child caravan guards?
Some of these are now coming up as BC7 Format. ChildFemaleHead_d.DDS ChildMaleHead_d.DDS idk if that has anything to with it but every single one of the children I encounter now have brown face.
Just putting it out there that some might appreciate an option to keep certain children untouched by this mod. Like I have played without it so long and been to diamond city so much that seeing Nat looking different is weird. I'll see if I can't do that myself but yeah
Great mod! Works as it's supposed to. Brings a bit of life to the game. No two children look exactly alike unless they are twins. Thanks for bringing some immersion to the game.
My criticism is that suddenly my settlements are flooded with kids. Disabled some at one settlement but the settler count did not go down, so markfordelete seems to be the only good option. Tried to uninstall, but the game kicked out upon loading without it being active. Kids act like kids, no good for settlement defense. One girl running around in her underwear, and others assigned as caravan guards. The hairstyles are, in many cases, too 'grown up' or just plain adult. You would think a ten year old girl in this situation wouldn't have much by way of hair care, let alone salon looks, so keeping them very simple would be better, IMO, as the 'salon' looking hair reeks of 'bad wig'. Totally breaks the immersion, especially with the number of them. I would rather see a choice to pick the number per/50 or 100. I would choose 1 or 2%. Next playthrough this gets nixed, unless you're still modding for this game and I see a significant update.
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If you have Playable Children, see the patch in the description!
Note if you don't like the hairstyles there's a "Revised Hairstyles" version that used less long and curly styles, though I will NOT be making a completely vanilla version as there's only 2 hairstyles for girls and 3 for boys.
Big update is postponed indefinitely until the modder that was helping by creating child clothes gets through their IRL issues. Child body textures I forgot in my release are under the "Miscellaneous" file section.
The other is a patch for Diverse Children 2k - load after mod. DiverseChildren 2k.7z
Since these were up-scaled and had to be re-saved with compression i did some airbrushing to smooth out the neck/hand seams, so this file includes all head, body, hand textures to be consistent/complete for 2k.
~cheers
I wanted to clarify something. I did not have any mods that changed kids, but I did have the Real HD Faces Main and textures. Then I noticed that a Diamond City overhaul I installed added generic kids to the game. They were brown-faced, basically because Real HD couldn't recognize these little kid face maps that weren't there one save ago.
I want to thank YOU ozfreee for the above two files which, if installed carefully, synch with my mods BEAUTIFULLY. Here's how they go in MO2 for me.
RECCOMENDED LOAD ORDER
Real HD Faces Main and Textures
Black Face Fix for Kids (to recognize face maps for ANY vanilla-base kids that other mods put in your game for you)
ANiceOakTree's Diverse Children
DiverseChildren 2k Patch
MO2 told me DiverseChildren 2k Patch is overwriting loose files in Black Face Fix for Kids (THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD BE.)
BUT!!!
Black Face Fix for Kids is LOOSE FILES. And for some reason, it includes files for GhoulFemale, GhoulMale and BaseHumanFemale. I have Ghouls Revamped (does not affect kids) and Real HD Faces, so I needed to manually delete those random adult-base files so they wouldn't take priority and mess up face textures for all my intelligent ghoulies and female women...apparently.
Anyway THANKS AGAIN.
Did the NG update kill this mod?
ChildFemaleHead_d.DDS
ChildMaleHead_d.DDS
idk if that has anything to with it but every single one of the children I encounter now have brown face.
I found a duplicate record (02001ECE EncWorkshopNPCChildFemaleFarmer02) Is it safe to remove one of the records?