ChiomaraEldrid

Hey Baby 

Great looking bunch of followers! 

Two things that could be improved IMHO...  One are the "corn row" scalp braids...  Nobody looks good wearing those.  Just MHO...  they aren't attractive in the least.  However, like Bo Derek when she appeared in Blake Edwards' film "10" who was immediately beautiful once again once she took out her braids after shooting the film, your follower here would indeed look lovely with just about any other hairstyle.  The other two ladies... well... they are already quite kissable!

The second opinion is a bit more constructive...  There are many ways to patch a neck seam.  I pasted a few links below to patches for some popular options.  I wasn't certain what body and skin you are using.  However, the concept is the same regardless.  So, I was thinking if your chosen combination is not below you could crack open the mods to see how it's done.  Hope that helps.

Bijin Skin and CBBE Muscle Solution Neck Seam Patch
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/57788

Fair Skin and CBBE Muscle Solution Neck Seam Patch
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/59227

Diamond Skin and CBBE Muscle Solution Neck Seam patch
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/57716

Apologies for slamming the corn row braids, especially if you like them.  Just not my taste at all.  You know I'm always honest to a fault so that when I give you compliments you can rest assured that they are, in fact, the genuine article as well.  The two other girls are a hit.  I need them in my game!  Corn row girl?  I'd have to fix that with an alternate hairstyle before allowing her in game.  However, she does have a rather lovely and fascinating face.  I also love your choices for wardrobe as well!  I'm especially enamored with that long, black leather trench coat!  Stand and Deliver!  Haha

Adventure ever on dear friend, Phat

Yeah... that black trench has that cool highwayman look.  I really dig it

Hey phat, thank you for your comment and the links, I will look at them. But I'm still on LE so I don't know if that works for me. I use ZZJays women of Skyrim texture set for face and body for the UNP body.

I'm glad you like the appearance of my "girls". Hair, this is really difficult stuff. I don't like most of the hairs available for LE. Either it looks like just done by a hairstylist - good for puppets, but not believable for women traveling and fighting. Or it don't fit well on the head. I don't like it if long hair is angularly worn above the breasts. Looks ugly. And the short hairs are not interesting enough. Sherda has a long, long braided tail, but that clips through every chair when she sits. Hmmmpff! The braids on the bald head are not very nice, but generally I like that design. I will try to improve that, so the head will not that bald under the braids. But maybe I will find another hairmodel... as I said, it's difficult to satisfy me.

The coat is a model from Asassin's Creed, I retextured that. But there is an issue with it I hope to get fixed.

I will be totally happy if I get that update finally finished and online. Then I need a downtime from modding. Really.

Good night

zzjay may have one out but I did find these for LE...

UNP neckseam fixes RESOURCES
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/46967

vwr Neck Seam Fix
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50329

I just typed neck seam fix into the search box at Nexus and they popped right up.  You could also try just searching neck seam without the word fix for more options.  Hope that helps

Love the coat   The other outfits are rather nice too   As for skin textures... I've tried many and always come back to my preferred Bijin skin whether it's LE or SE, UNP or CBBE.  I seldom if ever have a neck seam with Bijin skin.  Even though I use CBBE for my default female body, I still have a large collection of followers that use UNP, UUNP, UNPB and other assorted UNP based bodies.  I even keep a generous outfit selection of UNP based apparel on hand for those ladies.   If you really want a bold look for miss scalp braids.... maybe bald with a tattooed scalp!  Hahaha  That would certainly be different!   Anyway...  I meant no insult.  Just MHO on the braids.  I don't even allow my Redguards to wear those styles.  

Sleep well my angel  Dream big dreams that become tomorrow's realities

Adventure ever on, Phat

Really nice,  Tasheni!  They have "character" to them, and are not just the usual run of the mill types.  I do like the braided hair - and even if there is a little baldness it still looks good and different from all the "beauty shop" fashion model kinds of hair that we see.

1 hour ago, smr1957 said:

Really nice,  Tasheni!  They have "character" to them, and are not just the usual run of the mill types.  I do like the braided hair - and even if there is a little baldness it still looks good and different from all the "beauty shop" fashion model kinds of hair that we see.

There's a second vote for the braids to add to Tasheni's   I third the dislike for the beauty shop hairstyles, especially on warrior type ladies like Mjoll!  It's one of the few things in Bijin that I will change once I learn how... Mjoll gets new hair!  Hahaha  At present, she looks like some Beverly Hill debutante'!  Not having it!  I'll probably change her war paint while I'm at it.

Cheers my friends

PS:  This is what I need to fix...  Just going to tie it all up in the back like the Mjoll I know in game likely would.  Gotta keep that long blonde mane out of the fray of combat.

Okay Baby...  Went shopping for some LE hair alternative options for you.  Since I am retired and you work full time in addition to your mod authoring efforts and other IRL responsibilities I thought it was the least I could do for you.  I started with the tattooed scalp concept and found some interesting new hair with shaved sides that has a hard edge look both with and without the tattoo options.   There are female and male options all in one mod.  The other option is some multi-colored hair options that I had successfully used in previous plays.  Hope this helps.

KS Hairdos Tattoo
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/106204

(Tried this one...  it works)
Multi Colored KS Hairdos
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/83335

Now... I'm not saying you should change if you like what you have.  When I share thoughts and ideas they are free if you like them and easily trashed if you don't.  It's always your mod, your call, 100%, just like with my other dear friends who author mods.  It just sounded to me like you chose a "lesser of two evils" kind of option.  So, I went digging.  

Again, I hope this helps  

Fair thee well sweet maiden

Until our next meeting, Adventure ever on

25 minutes ago, phatbassanchor said:

Okay Baby...  Went shopping for some LE hair alternative options for you.  Since I am retired and you work full time in addition to your mod authoring efforts and other IRL responsibilities I thought it was the least I could do for you.  I started with the tattooed scalp concept and found some interesting new hair with shaved sides that has a hard edge look both with and without the tattoo options.   There are female and male options all in one mod.  The other option is some multi-colored hair options that I had successfully used in previous plays.  Hope this helps.

KS Hairdos Tattoo
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/106204

(Tried this one...  it works)
Multi Colored KS Hairdos
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/83335

Now... I'm not saying you should change if you like what you have.  When I share thoughts and ideas they are free if you like them and easily trashed if you don't.  It's always your mod, your call, 100%, just like with my other dear friends who author mods.  It just sounded to me like you chose a "lesser of two evils" kind of option.  So, I went digging.  

Again, I hope this helps  

Fair thee well sweet maiden

Until our next meeting, Adventure ever on

Hey there, Phat!  I really like that Ks Hairdos Tattoo mod and its selection!  Now a lot of those are styles I could see many of the Skyrim female fighters and adventurers wearing!

2 hours ago, smr1957 said:

Hey there, Phat!  I really like that Ks Hairdos Tattoo mod and its selection!  Now a lot of those are styles I could see many of the Skyrim female fighters and adventurers wearing!

My point exactly!   Our dear Tasheni seemed a bit dismayed by her lack of current choices.  I also know she tends toward the extremely busy side with insufficient time for things she would like to do.  So, I dug those up. 

I had tried the multi-colored hair before but not the tattooed scalp with the shaved sides hairdos as yet.  Both are more of a specialty type look.  I avoid the glam hair too.  I generally opt for simple and easy styles with tails and braids down the back or something a bit wild and free.  The Snow follower I mentioned on one of Chimara's other images uses the same hair as the lovely blonde in the image here.  It has a beautiful braid down the back that has a lovely embroidered ribbon at the start of the braid.  Danika, aka Real Warrior Woman by Triptherift, is another who uses this style in brunette coloring.  Now those are my kind of braids! 

I will always say no to corn rows and man buns!  Hahahahaha  Man bun?  Just say no!  Hahaha ;D  And, trust me, my hair is certainly long enough to braid.  But, like my Skyrim characters, I either let it flow down my back or just tie it up to keep it out of the way.  My long gray beard gets in the way enough!  That reminds me... I still need to mow my sideburns!  Looking far too much like Scotty dog again!  Hahaha  Woof!

LOL!  Yeah, I like that braid in the pic I could definitely see some of the woman in my game sporting that!  As for me, many years ago I used to have really long hair for a couple of years - kept it tied back so it was out of the way, until one day we hit 98 degrees Fahrenheit (around 37 C) in New Jersey and I just cut it off - LOL!

  Lately, for the last few months, I have been sporting a beard - never had one really, before.  Interesting.

@ smr1957

Yay, thank you! I tried from the beginning six years before to create interesting individuals, but my skills were very limited at that time. It took me years to recognize that there was a neckseam on some followers, lol! 

I like those braids really, but the hair model as a whole is a bit difficult: it's very thick and texture stretches a bit too much for my taste, if Eldrid moves her head. But I really think it fits her. I will try to get another hair model integrated into this, maybe that will be successful.

@phat:

Thank you so much for your help. I know about the neck seam fix resources, but couldn't get that to work. I have even problems with the unp texture blender - but mainly it bothers me to copy all my head, body, hand and feet files into the appropriate folder and move them away later. They are perfectly in order under the folder Tasheni, but texblend won't accept that. I would have to do it six times more for six followers. I did so much copy and paste and adjusted paths already, this becomes tiring But maybe I need to do that, because players are demanding That comes last.

Thanks for the hair links, I overlooked that tattoo mod from zzjay. But I'm not very happy with the look, and they are placed more at the sides of the head. This would be overkill. And KS Hairdos Multicolored are still KS Hairdos I use already...

Yeah, the braids of Chiomara from Apachii is way the best hair I've found, in my opinion. I wish there would be more in this style. I like that new hair for Sherda, too, it looks fantastic in movement and fits her,  but that long braid clips through every seating and through the floor and that looks hilarious. Maybe I will find a way to make the braid shorter, but I have no skills in modelling. Maybe I will ask ZZJay to help me. But there is again that time problem. I need to bother with ambush creating and voice recording...

On nexus they like the braids, too

Thanks for your support guys, it's much appreciated.

I always have ideas and freely share them.  When I do, you are always free to use anything I share or if it misses your vision then you know where the rubbish bin is. Hahahaha  No worries if my ideas missed the mark.  I'm merely thinking out loud.  Sometimes I hit a bullseye, other times I miss.  I am never offended if I give an idea and it falls in the sh*t can. Hahaha

I agree about the tattoos and multi-colored hair options.  Both are specialty type mods that wouldn't make my every day LO.  However, now that I found those shaved side hair styles, I may need to lift some to include in my game!  

The neck seam can also be fixed in bodyslide but that would require you to upgrade to UUNP, SeveNBase or BHUNP to allow you to use that tool.  It's why I use CBBE SE for my default body.  I can fully customize my female body in bodyslide.  I'm considering going with the CBBE 3BA in my new LO.  That would allow me to use HDT-SMP hair and cloth physics for hair and skirts that flow in the breeze.  Nico already has it working along side CBPC body physics in his game.  As with everything else, he promised to show me how it works.  I haven't decided yet.  We'll see...  I am certainly taking him up on mod making lessons!  That is certain!

Keep up the amazing work, dear friend.

Adventure ever on, Phat

Oh... this one is also in KS Hair... it's my favorite "wild child" look.  This is Luzie modeling it here.  I pronounce her name Lutzie, with a Germanic tz sound for the z.  It just sounds better to my ear.  

Now not so bald anymore. Is that alright by you? I also fixed that armor issues, yay! But I'm still thinking of reworking that hair. The normal map with the transparency is not very good done. Oh well, when I got the time...