Yeah, what else to say?
Disclaimer first: Gonna be bloody honest,as I always am about my arts and works(and in case you don't already know from my statement in the Modder's Resource: Hairstyles Uploadhere) - I usually only mod for private mod usage. Means I normally don't share mods publicly, because I'm simply not the type for maintenance works @ updates. Luckily this kinda mod will most probably be version-independent. So this mod is a final as-is state and will only be changed/updated if I need a detail to be changed that annoys me or I can find a way to optimize eventual clipping even more.
Background/Motivation:
As there are basically no long hair styles in ER, only at best shoulder lengths, I was very glad to see Ikaros' depiction of a long-hair style for female characters.
Inspiration for this specific, final style was Kain (Blood Omen 2 variant mostly) from the Legacy of Kain franchise. As there's already a great mod existing to deliver the Blood/Soul Reaverand to me the character model I learned to know Kain was with Blood Omen 2, this will always be the main orientation on how Kain should be and look.
However, now here's a hairstyle that is a mix out of his initial, plain long Blood Omen 2 Hair and a ponytail accent added with the later games as a - to me - very first, serious option for male characters.
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BUT you need to test the function yourself here. I just did a convenience update for you to Beta test it here, as I was able to quickly do it, but I don't have a working game version installed here, only an old ghost of a frozen version we played in co-op. ~Anyways:
One time offer: Leave a comment and let me know if it works right now. I will re-check the mod page the next days a bit more to look at feedback, but this will decrease over time, as I can already promise you. Just being honest.
As you might have noticed, I also uploadedthe below mentioned female versionas well. I know we didn't reach the 25 mark in 2023, but to hell with it. It was an experiment anyways and I had the hair style for our sessions created and adjusted anyways, so tell me how you like it.
Done in this final update:
- Updated the supposedly working DLC compatible version of the Male Hairstyle.
- Uploaded the new Female Version of the Hairstyle now as a premiere! Enjoy!
Credit and Background to this update:
The reason why I could upload a fix quickly:
Send your thanks toZLOHORT, for sharing a simple method to update the mod through a rather uncomplicated process I could easily squeeze into my busy daily process that have nothing to do with modding anymore. Yeah I did the final steps to the update myself, BUT: Really,
send this guy some love or Kudos if you can, he's a truly skilled asset of a Soulslike-Artist and dedicated to Modding. I am certain we would have NO hair mods for ER still if he didn't share his knowledge with the guys here around. So he rly invested into these topics, different than hobby modders like me.
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ModEngine 2: (recommended)
- Download and setup ModEngine 2. (Make sure to do the obvious, like disabling CheatEngine, play offline, ect)
- Download my mod-hair version here and make sure to put the mod folder in the mod folder. Path should look like "ModEngine-2.0.0-preview3-win64\mod"
Done. If you've done everything right, your mod folder now contains a new/updated parts-folder and a menu-folder. Non-ModEngine 2 way:
Ofc you can also unpack all vanilla files with UXM, ignore the ModEngine 2 convenience way totally and replace files in the games-folder directly then. But you wanna make a backup of all vanilla files in general, else it's gonna be messy if you need to recover things later.
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Additional variants?
As teasered above, I have worked much too long on trying to perfectionate this hair style to fit with most armors and prevent possible glitching. It now is best possible and I hope you enjoy it as I do in our co-op playthrough. It is possible I may upload a variant as creativity gets the better of me.
- "Can you maybe make a more female version from it?"
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- ZLOHORTfor granting permission to use his base model, the incredible guidance, patience and offering of a helping hand in order to get myself through the process of modding hair styles for ER. Thanks for the open mind, great exchange and expertise in souls-modding, Sir! Part of the frontal head hair is from one of his indirectly released works here. His personal engagement in helping and general modding is just epic!
- Ikaros473for granting permission to use his base model, as well as delivering the very reason to get into modding hair styles at all with publishing hisRealistic Long Hairmod that delivered the very basement to start a merge process in order to have me turning the female-oriented hair style into a male version eventually with this mod here. The back hair comes from his mod's mesh.
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- "Which hairstyle does this mod replace?"
- "Why didn't you make a new hair slot?"
- "Which armor/helmet Masks is this hairstyle using?"
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(Occasionally Asked Questions)
"Can you update the mod to the latest version, because convenience & y-not?"
- "Can you make a cloth-physics version (real quick)?"
- "Your advice of the day/year?"