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Barbarous Beauty 01

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Been working  on a new body texture mod for awhile now and I'm almost ready for beta. 
This is kind of "True Daughters of Skyrim" v2.0 I've learned a lot since making that mod and this is an opportunity to put some of those new found skills to use. 

I've also taken previous user feedback into account and have made changes accordingly such as, Shaved/pubic options, tanlines, cleaner (fewer blemishes) texture options, and easier installation (even I can admit that T.D.o.S was a pain in the ass to install).

Over all, these are definitely the cleanest (as in less sloppy) and best character textures I've put together thus far.

"Barbarous Beauty" will feature a full body/face texture suit with support for both CBBE and UNP (at least so far) and slue of texture options.

In addition "Barbarous Beauty" will also feature two themed Custom Character Presets each with a backstory, set of custom face and body textures and a unique outfit. (Racemenu Required)

Said characters will be "Neith" and "Britca" inspired by Egyptian and Celtic respectively.

The textures pictured above are from the "Neith" character preset. 

I wanted to do something different with "Neith" other than just a few generic tattoos and a darker skin tone, so I went for a "painted" motif, like the designs were stenciled then painted with a brush.

It still looks a little "plastic" and flat, but it's a work in progress and I've already started on a better sample.



Anywho, I'll be posting more screens as it progresses.  In the meantime leave a comment and tell me what you think.

6 comments

  1. Rusey
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    Wow. GORGEOUS design. I would love to design a character around this. I almost always use your TDOS and BI phenotypes resources for my characters, so love to see what else you do.
  2. cloudedtruth
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    Since I'm one of the few that plays as a male character, obviously TDOS won't work on the player. But, nearly all female NPC overhauls or custom female NPCs that I use, have had their textures replaced with TDOS. Even though my poor PC screams at me, I just can't remove the textures because they look so good. So, it's great to see you're working on a new texture, and I'm looking forward to trying it out!
    1. betterbecause
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      Yeah, performance was definitely a problem with T.D.O.S, it's another concession I've made with Barbarous beauty.

      Both the 4096 and 2048 versions will feature a lossless and DTX_1 (high compression) option, it should really help with performance.
  3. Ruiwen
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    Excellent work as always. I really like the uniqueness of the "painted" motif. Also I like that you have basically a package that includes presets and a backstory. Really cool stuff.
    1. betterbecause
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      Thank you, I've never really done presets before so it's new territory for me but it's been fun.

      I'll be sure to include some face screens soons.
  4. Visdagon
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    Look forward to seeing the finished results