OBLIVION CHARACTER OVERHAUL by nuska

FIRST COMPLETE RELEASE 1.0


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OCO is an all-in-one total overhaul of how characters in vanilla Oblivion look. It both makes it far easier to create an appealing-looking player character and vastly improves NPC faces. It does a whole lot in one go:

-Makes all of the characters in Oblivion easier on the eyes as a whole without excessively beautifying or smoothing out faces - the original intent is preserved and consistent with the rest of the series
-Gives every playable race its unique head shape that builds on their distinctive features
-Elves look like proper elves now and are easy to differentiate by a glance
-Comes with full highres texture sets for each race with original sculpted normal maps and age slider steps
-Age slider now has greater distinction between old and young, young characters genuinely look young
-Modifies elf ears to be more elongated and pointy, on par with Skyrim/Morrowind standards
-Adds face patterns to Khajiit age slider
-Roughly 80% of NPC faces rebuilt to adapt new face system and vastly reduce comically distorted and discolored heads
-Adds a number of extra eye colours for Bosmer (black sclera) and Khajiit, with black-and-red MW/Skyrim style textures replacing Dunmer eyes.

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INSTALLATION
!!If you want to use a body replacer, be sure to install it BEFORE Oblivion Character Overhaul!!


Nexus Mod Manager installation recommended! Overwrite when prompted.

OR OBMM (also recommended): Create an OMOD installation out of the ZIP archive for easier file removal if you ever need to uninstall OCO.

Drag and drop: put the contained Data folder in your Oblivion directory and overwrite when prompted. 

Really, only install this manually if you're absolutely sure you can be bothered to go through that many files if something blows up. This mod is huge, even I hate manually fiddling through all this stuff and I -made- it.

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UNINSTALLING OCO MANUALLY

Delete the following folders:
Oblivion\Data\meshes\characters\nuska
Oblivion\Data\Textures\characters\nuska
Oblivion\Data\Textures\Faces\Oblivion.esm
All 'Headkhajiit' files from Oblivion\Data\Textures\characters\khajiit
All 'Headhuman' files from \Oblivion\Data\Textures\characters\imperial
All 'Headargonian' files from Oblivion\Data\Textures\characters\argonian

Oblivion\Data\Textures\characters\eyes -> eyebosmer_, eyedarkelf, eyekhajiit_ files
Oblivion\Data\meshes\characters\imperial -> headhuman.nif, headhuman.egt, heahduman_50.nif, headhuman_50.egt

Honestly just look at the whole installation package for reference and trace the individual files from there, there are so ridiculously many of them scattered around that it's even a pain in the butt to type down. Really really install with OBMM or NMM. I told you OCO is a big thing.

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CREDITS & PERMISSIONS

Throttlekitty & co for Working Eyelashes and invaluable information on modifying head meshes
Luchaire for body seam reducer, integrated to this mod
Bethesda Softworks for Oblivion mesh assets
OFF Optimized Facegen Files for argonian & khajiit EGTs

Texture assets and mesh work are mine. All other assets are used with permission.
Anything in this mod may be used as a resource. I permit making personal alterations to OCO and creating compatibility patches for other mods. ESP translations are fine as long as the entire mod isn't distributed alongside it - the main files must still be downloaded from my Nexus page.


2013 nuska