Description 

NVICO attempts to be a simple overhaul of the vanilla game NPCs by utilizing excellent mods such as High Poly Head, Expressive Facegen Morphs, Vanilla Makeup HD, and multiple others included in the credits below. It differs from past overhauls because it offers users flexibility by dividing the overhaul into two standalone modules, each with its own choices to further personalize them. The last manner in which it differs from other NPC Overhauls is that it not only covers the generic NPCs and bandits. It also addresses vanilla flaws in the generic pools, such as unrealistic facial proportions and repeated NPC faces leading to less diversity. To help familiarize you with what all options are available, I’ll list them below.

Townie Module:

- Contains all named NPCs in Skyrim.

- Fixes default generic faces for all named NPCs

 - Has three options once installed: Custom Hair, No Bosmeri Antlers, and Vanilla Hair.

- Custom Hair was applied with three principles: poly count, believability, and lack of clipping.

- If using other NPC Overhauls, load them lower than the NVICO Townies ESP.


Bandit Module:

- Contains all Generic NPCs in Skyrim to include Bandits and Guards.

- Has two options once installed, which include: Bosmeri Antlers and No Bosmeri Antlers.

- Repeated and generic enemy faces edited to add variety to several overlooked enemy factions, including Reavers, Afflicted, and Thalmor.

- Fully compatible with other NPC Overhauls with a few notable exceptions (Kalilies NPCs, etc.). 


Improvements Over NVICO 1.0:

- Cleaned ESPs of all minor and unnecessary changes, which makes the mod a breeze to patch.

- Hair colors edited to be less bright and colorful. Added a standalone ESP with the new hair colors to Misc Files.

- Bandits have been more thoroughly reviewed for quality.

- How NPCs are divided by ESP made more sensible.

- FOMODs included for easy choice selection during installation.

- ESP naming scheme makes upgrading and swapping between options safe.


Optional Plugins:

- Unique Redguards & Unique Bretons: Gives Redguards and Bretons their own unique textures thanks to the talented Vobla's Sapphire, Sakhr, Sunday, and Svein skins. Supports UNP, CBBE, Vanilla Male, SOS, and SOS Light currently.

- New Guard Recruits: Adds 72 additional Nord faces to the guard pool. Female guards will now patrol Imperial-controlled cities.

- Visual Compatibility Patches: Updates NPCs from Interesting NPCs, Alternate Start, Legacy of the Dragonborn, OBIS, Immersive College NPCs, Citizens of Tamriel, Immersive Patrols, Inconsequential NPCs, Beyond Skyrim: Bruma and Wyrmstooth to match NVICO NPCs by giving them new tintmasks and High-Poly Heads. Inconsequential NPCs requires personal port.


Patches Available:

- CRF with edited faces and HQ Tintmasks

- AI Overhaul

- Legacy of the Dragonborn

- OBIS

- SRCEO

- Immersive College of Winterhold

- Unplayable Faction Armors/Guard Armor Replacer

All patches come in three versions – NVICO Townies Only, NVICO Bandits Only, and NVICO Townies and Bandits Combined.


Potential Issues:

- Female Bosmer added by this mod use their own normalmap, so make sure your installed texture has a Wood Elf Female folder or you may get neckseam.

- Swapping between vanilla hair and custom hair options may cause certain NPCs to be de-clothed. Open the console and input resetinventory to fix them.


Requirements  

USSEP (Hard Requirement)

High Poly Head (Hard Requirement) 

Expressive Facial Animations Male & Female (Hard Requirement)

Expressive FaceGen Morphs Racemenu Plugin (Soft Requirement, Only need if experiencing facial glitches)


Mods Used In Screenshots  

Fair Skin (Custom Normal Maps) 

SAM Light Texture Add-on (Dizona Face Specular) 

Authentic Eyes 

Brows

SC - Vanilla Female NPC Overhaul - Oldrim Mod (Only the Hair Textures)


Closing Notes

With this update, I feel the mod is complete. However, I’ll still be monitoring the comments if anyone has any questions or concerns.


Credits

Meshes

High Poly Head by KouLeifoh
Expressive Face Gen Morphs by Niroku
Eye AO Clipping Fix by Artsick
Cuyi’s Bosmeri Antlers by cuyima, Nightshade, Dreldyn, Khisartin
 
Hair

KS Hairdos by Kalilies and Stealthic
ApachiiSkyhair by Apachii
HG Hairdos by summerdew

Textures

Vanilla Makeup HD by Domain Wolf
Vanilla Warpaints Absolution by DomainWolf
ALT 1: UNP Tintmasks by Khisartin/Letho0036
Fair Skin Lip Tintmasks and EFA Mouth Texture by HHaleyy
SC - KS Hairdos Retextured by ShinglesCat
Svein, Sunday, Sapphire, and Sakhr Skins by Vobla
Vitruvia INPC Teen Male texures by mandragorasprouts

Additional Resources

Vanilla NPCs Without Headgear ESL by Herowynne
Realistic Haircolors by Redprincess79
ALT 1: UNP Wood Elf Female Normalmap Fix (Included With ALT-1 Textures) by Khisartin/Letho0036
Cleaned Skyrim SE Textures by kartoffel

Additional Credits/Inspiration

Bethesda – For a wonderful modding platform
SSEdit by ElminsterAU and the xEdit team – For making it easy to combine changes to NPC Records
Mors Feminine Females by 5133p39 – For Identifying Females Flagged with Opposite Gender Animations
High Poly Expressive NPCs by deletepch - For the original ESP that the Extra module was modified from
Remove Facial Dirt - No ESP by XanderVirtus – For Identifying Dirty Faced NPCs
Imperial Captain Is Your Friend  by takuya1030 - For The New Name Given To The Imperial Captain At The Beginning of the Game
WICO by Windsong – Initial NPC Presets & Face Paint Setting
Bijin Series by rxkx22 – NPC Skin Color & Face Paint Setting
Pandorable NPCs by Pandorable – NPC Skin Color
Kalilies NPCs by Kalilies – NPC Skin Color
Pride of Skyrim Series by PoeticAnt44 – NPC Skin Color
Males of Skyrim by Aberin – NPC Skin Color
Diversity by NEVERMOREPJM – Initial NPC Presets
Diverse Guards Skyrim by winterlove - Riverwood and Dragonbridge guard fixes