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    WHAT IT IS: A VERY simple mod that just tweaks the weights/builds of all the vanilla races for (hopefully) improved visual appearance, with the intent of making the females appear more curvy and feminine and the males appear more muscular.


    DESCRIPTION: 

    I love Morrowind, but one of my biggest gripes with the game has always been how skinny and disproportionately small-framed the characters are. I'm a child of the Eighties, I like heavy metal and women with CURVES. Anyway, I recently switched from everyone's favorite Morrowind body mod Better Bodies to Robert's Bodies, and while on the whole I feel like it's a marked improvement and a wonderful mod(no disrespect to Better Bodies, it's held up remarkably over the years in performing the Herculean task of making Morrowind NOT look like a world full of beef jerky people), one unfortunate side effect was all the in game characters(particularly the ladies) looked even more malnourished and anorexic than usual. Nords and Orcs would garner derisive "do you even lift bro?" queries at my local 24/7 $10/month meat market/commercial gym, and the smaller races had painfully scrawny builds which, for me at least, was extremely irritating. Of course, this being an aspect of the game involving such basic aesthetics, I figured there had to be tons of mods already addressing the issue. However, after doing an extensive search of the Nexus and MW Modding History, I actually wasn't able to find much of anything(of course, I still expect there may very well likely be some mods I missed), and nothing that addressed the issue directly. Hence the creation of this little mod.

    All I did was increase the "weight" value for all races, both men and women. I tried my best to find a balanced "sweet spot" that looked appealing and realistic without going overboard and becoming ridiculous or distorted, while keeping all races in proper proportion to one another. Nothing else was modified, and heights were not touched. For most races, males are slightly larger than females(similar to vanilla). It will affect all characters, PC and NPCs, both naked and clothed/armored, as well as the character model on the inventory screen(which looked to my eyes abnormally thin using Robert's bodies). That's it.


    To give you an idea of the effects of this mod I've included a bunch of choice screenshots(I even included a few pics of dudes in a lame attempt to not seem like a sexist pig). All screenshots were taken using Robert's Bodies.


Mod was cleaned using TESTool, it's completely safe. Works fine with a new or existing savegame.





REQUIRED: Morrowind.esm

RECOMMENDED: Robert's Bodies for Morrowind(Should work fine with Better Bodies, but I have no idea how it will look. Ditto for vanilla). I also use Better Clothes/Robes and Better Heads, they all work fine together and are wonderful.


INSTALLATION: unzip the archive to a temp folder/location. Drag and drop the esp into your Morrowind/Data Files folder and activate in MW launcher or mod manager, if you use one.


BUGS: Highly doubtful, but it is Morrowind so if anyone finds something just let me know.


CONFLICTS: Any mod that alters the vanilla races(height/weights, skill bonuses, base attributes or abilities/powers) will conflict. New/added races should be fine. Aside from that no worries.





TECHNICAL INFO/CHANGELOG:    (no heights were changed)


RACE            VANILLA WEIGHT            MODDED WEIGHT

Dunmer female-        0.9                1.25
Dunmer male-        1.0                1.30


Nord female-        1.0                1.45
Nord male-        1.25                1.50


Redguard female-    1.0                1.35
Redguard male-        1.10                1.40


Breton female-        0.9                1.25
Breton male-        1.0                1.30


Imperial female-    0.95                1.30
Imperial male-        1.25                1.35


Altmer female-        1.0                1.30
Altmer male-        1.0                1.30


Bosmer female-        0.9                1.25
Bosmer male-        0.95                1.20


Orc female-        1.10                1.45
Orc male-        1.35                1.45


Argonian female-    1.0                1.15
Argonian male-        1.10                1.25


Khajiit female-        0.95                1.20
Khajiit male-        1.0                1.25








This is my first released mod, hope someone somewhere likes it. Any feedback is welcome.

Thanks to everybody in the wonderful Morrowind Mod Community, and Bethesda, for once upon a time making two of the most incredible RPG games ever, Daggerfall and Morrowind. Later.