Technologies
The following are the tools, programs and coding resources that I use in my modding projects.
3ds Max
3D modelling and animation software.
Related Pages
- Freyja - Female Head Mesh Overhaul | Mods
Complete overhaul of the female head appearance. Improved meshes, better animations, more beautiful CharGen morphs and less extreme race morphs.
- Freyr - Male Head Mesh Overhaul | Mods
Complete overhaul of the male head appearance. Improved meshes, better animations, more beautiful CharGen morphs and less extreme race morphs.
- Njord - Children's Head Mesh Overhaul | Mods
Complete overhaul of the children’s head appearance. New and improved meshes for both sexes, better animations, new CharGen morph options and different race morphs for all non-beast races.
- Dreadlocks For Women | Mods
Adds a new dreadlocks hair option for women to the game.
- Symmetrical Leather Armour | Mods
Female leather armour mesh replacer. Symmetrical, either with or without extruded pauldrons. Compatible with everything, including texture replacers. No ESP file.
- Head Mesh Fixes | Mods
Fixes various issues with head parts, head mesh generation and NPC head meshes.
Blender
3D modelling and animation software.
Related Pages
- Freyja - Female Head Mesh Overhaul | Mods
Complete overhaul of the female head appearance. Improved meshes, better animations, more beautiful CharGen morphs and less extreme race morphs.
- Freyr - Male Head Mesh Overhaul | Mods
Complete overhaul of the male head appearance. Improved meshes, better animations, more beautiful CharGen morphs and less extreme race morphs.
- Njord - Children's Head Mesh Overhaul | Mods
Complete overhaul of the children’s head appearance. New and improved meshes for both sexes, better animations, new CharGen morph options and different race morphs for all non-beast races.
- Dreadlocks For Women | Mods
Adds a new dreadlocks hair option for women to the game.
- Symmetrical Leather Armour | Mods
Female leather armour mesh replacer. Symmetrical, either with or without extruded pauldrons. Compatible with everything, including texture replacers. No ESP file.
- Head Mesh Fixes | Mods
Fixes various issues with head parts, head mesh generation and NPC head meshes.
- Head Mesh Designer | Tools
Blender plugins used for editing head meshes and morphs. Covers male, female, and children characters’ meshes.
Cathedral Assets Optimizer
Game asset optimising tool.
Related Pages
- Head Mesh Fixes | Mods
Fixes various issues with head parts, head mesh generation and NPC head meshes.
Creation Kit
Official modding tool for Skyrim, Skyrim SE, Skyrim AE and (subsequently) Enderal and Enderal SE, provided by Bethesda Game Studios.
Related Pages
- Head Mesh | Articles
How to deal with head meshes.
- Freyja - Female Head Mesh Overhaul - Patch Center | Mods
A collection of patches for Freyja - Female Head Mesh Overhaul.
- Freyr - Male Head Mesh Overhaul - Patch Center | Mods
A collection of patches for Freyr - Male Head Mesh Overhaul.
- Comely Coiffures - Vanilla-Style Hair Overhaul | Mods
Replaces all male and female vanilla hairstyles with realistic and lore-friendly KS Hairdos and Apachii Sky Hair hairstyles. All non-beast races are covered.
- Endralean Needs - Survival Mode for Enderal | Mods
Survival mechanics for Enderal.
- Rhalâta Tattoo Revisited | Mods
Adds the Rhalâta tattoo as a tattoo option to the character creation menu, making it available to the PC. Allows the Rhalâta NPCs to use the standard face textures.
- High Quality FaceTints | Mods
Replaces all NPC FaceTints with new, high-quality ones, complete with compression and mipmaps. Optionally with or without make-up, face discolouration and dirt.
- Head Mesh Fixes | Mods
Fixes various issues with head parts, head mesh generation and NPC head meshes.
Delphi
Programming language used by the xEdit API.
Related Pages
- Comely Coiffures - Vanilla-Style Hair Overhaul | Mods
Replaces all male and female vanilla hairstyles with realistic and lore-friendly KS Hairdos and Apachii Sky Hair hairstyles. All non-beast races are covered.
- Endralean Needs - Survival Mode for Enderal | Mods
Survival mechanics for Enderal.
- Head Mesh Fixes | Mods
Fixes various issues with head parts, head mesh generation and NPC head meshes.
GIMP
Image editor and 2D asset creation tool.
Related Pages
- Comely Coiffures - Vanilla-Style Hair Overhaul | Mods
Replaces all male and female vanilla hairstyles with realistic and lore-friendly KS Hairdos and Apachii Sky Hair hairstyles. All non-beast races are covered.
- Rhalâta Tattoo Revisited | Mods
Adds the Rhalâta tattoo as a tattoo option to the character creation menu, making it available to the PC. Allows the Rhalâta NPCs to use the standard face textures.
- High Quality FaceTints | Mods
Replaces all NPC FaceTints with new, high-quality ones, complete with compression and mipmaps. Optionally with or without make-up, face discolouration and dirt.
- Salt and Wind - KS Hairdos - Update | Mods
Retextures for KS Hairdos hairstyles that aren’t covered by other Salt and Wind mods. Supports the latest KS Hairdos version (1.9).
- Hair Texture Creator | Tools
GIMP Python plugins that facilitate and automatise the creation of DDS texture files using pre-made resources.
NifSkope
Community-made NIF mesh viewer and editor.
Related Pages
- Freyja - Female Head Mesh Overhaul | Mods
Complete overhaul of the female head appearance. Improved meshes, better animations, more beautiful CharGen morphs and less extreme race morphs.
- Freyr - Male Head Mesh Overhaul | Mods
Complete overhaul of the male head appearance. Improved meshes, better animations, more beautiful CharGen morphs and less extreme race morphs.
- Njord - Children's Head Mesh Overhaul | Mods
Complete overhaul of the children’s head appearance. New and improved meshes for both sexes, better animations, new CharGen morph options and different race morphs for all non-beast races.
- Dreadlocks For Women | Mods
Adds a new dreadlocks hair option for women to the game.
- Symmetrical Leather Armour | Mods
Female leather armour mesh replacer. Symmetrical, either with or without extruded pauldrons. Compatible with everything, including texture replacers. No ESP file.
- Head Mesh Fixes | Mods
Fixes various issues with head parts, head mesh generation and NPC head meshes.
Paint.net
Image editor and 2D asset creation tool.
Related Pages
- Salt and Wind - KS Hairdos - Update | Mods
Retextures for KS Hairdos hairstyles that aren’t covered by other Salt and Wind mods. Supports the latest KS Hairdos version (1.9).
Papyrus
Scripting language used by the Creation Engine.
Related Pages
- Endralean Needs - Survival Mode for Enderal | Mods
Survival mechanics for Enderal.
PowerShell
Command-line shell, scripting language and configuration management framework for Windows.
Related Pages
- Freyja - Female Head Mesh Overhaul | Mods
Complete overhaul of the female head appearance. Improved meshes, better animations, more beautiful CharGen morphs and less extreme race morphs.
- Freyr - Male Head Mesh Overhaul | Mods
Complete overhaul of the male head appearance. Improved meshes, better animations, more beautiful CharGen morphs and less extreme race morphs.
- Njord - Children's Head Mesh Overhaul | Mods
Complete overhaul of the children’s head appearance. New and improved meshes for both sexes, better animations, new CharGen morph options and different race morphs for all non-beast races.
- Comely Coiffures - Vanilla-Style Hair Overhaul | Mods
Replaces all male and female vanilla hairstyles with realistic and lore-friendly KS Hairdos and Apachii Sky Hair hairstyles. All non-beast races are covered.
- Head Mesh Designer | Tools
Blender plugins used for editing head meshes and morphs. Covers male, female, and children characters’ meshes.
Python
High-level programming language used by the Blender and GIMP APIs.
Related Pages
- Freyja - Female Head Mesh Overhaul | Mods
Complete overhaul of the female head appearance. Improved meshes, better animations, more beautiful CharGen morphs and less extreme race morphs.
- Freyr - Male Head Mesh Overhaul | Mods
Complete overhaul of the male head appearance. Improved meshes, better animations, more beautiful CharGen morphs and less extreme race morphs.
- Njord - Children's Head Mesh Overhaul | Mods
Complete overhaul of the children’s head appearance. New and improved meshes for both sexes, better animations, new CharGen morph options and different race morphs for all non-beast races.
- Comely Coiffures - Vanilla-Style Hair Overhaul | Mods
Replaces all male and female vanilla hairstyles with realistic and lore-friendly KS Hairdos and Apachii Sky Hair hairstyles. All non-beast races are covered.
- Salt and Wind - KS Hairdos - Update | Mods
Retextures for KS Hairdos hairstyles that aren’t covered by other Salt and Wind mods. Supports the latest KS Hairdos version (1.9).
- Head Mesh Fixes | Mods
Fixes various issues with head parts, head mesh generation and NPC head meshes.
- Head Mesh Designer | Tools
Blender plugins used for editing head meshes and morphs. Covers male, female, and children characters’ meshes.
- Hair Texture Creator | Tools
GIMP Python plugins that facilitate and automatise the creation of DDS texture files using pre-made resources.
TRI Tools
Command-line tool that packs/unpacks TRI files.
Related Pages
- Freyja - Female Head Mesh Overhaul | Mods
Complete overhaul of the female head appearance. Improved meshes, better animations, more beautiful CharGen morphs and less extreme race morphs.
- Freyr - Male Head Mesh Overhaul | Mods
Complete overhaul of the male head appearance. Improved meshes, better animations, more beautiful CharGen morphs and less extreme race morphs.
- Njord - Children's Head Mesh Overhaul | Mods
Complete overhaul of the children’s head appearance. New and improved meshes for both sexes, better animations, new CharGen morph options and different race morphs for all non-beast races.
- Head Mesh Fixes | Mods
Fixes various issues with head parts, head mesh generation and NPC head meshes.
xEdit
Community-made modding tool for Skyrim, Skyrim SE, Skyrim AE, Enderal and Enderal SE.
Related Pages
- Njord - Children's Head Mesh Overhaul | Mods
Complete overhaul of the children’s head appearance. New and improved meshes for both sexes, better animations, new CharGen morph options and different race morphs for all non-beast races.
- Comely Coiffures - Vanilla-Style Hair Overhaul | Mods
Replaces all male and female vanilla hairstyles with realistic and lore-friendly KS Hairdos and Apachii Sky Hair hairstyles. All non-beast races are covered.
- Endralean Needs - Survival Mode for Enderal | Mods
Survival mechanics for Enderal.
- Dreadlocks For Women | Mods
Adds a new dreadlocks hair option for women to the game.
- Symmetrical Leather Armour | Mods
Female leather armour mesh replacer. Symmetrical, either with or without extruded pauldrons. Compatible with everything, including texture replacers. No ESP file.
- Head Mesh Fixes | Mods
Fixes various issues with head parts, head mesh generation and NPC head meshes.