Alec Ryder appearance.

Alec is set to the preset head you use. Preset 9 is black. No matter how fair skin you make her, Alac will always be black. If you want him to be a different colour, then you need to choose a different preset.

I think the only other thing that changes about Alec Ryder's appearance is his eye color: I think if the player changes the preset's eye color, Alec Ryder will have the custom eye color. Mama Ryder also changes to reflect customization so even if Alec Ryder dosen't look like the player character, she might.

Here is a video that explains the many faces of Alec Ryder:

Yes this is the video I watched. Hmm wish I could just tweak Alec a bit. Not sure what the mother will look like.. why does it go on just presets.. I want to be able to change brow shapes and nose shapes and other features.

The weird thing is preset 9 male is african, preset 9 female is definitely not african (hispanic perhaps.. most certainly not african), so if you play preset 9 female, which closer resembles a white person that black person, it appears a bit peculiar when you see your character's father.

Fortunatey I remedied this inconsistency by making my Ryder's brother use preset 9 male (which makes him look VERY much like Alec, especially with a slight hair / beard change) and I just figure they come from mixed ethnicity parents is all, with Scott having inherited more of his father's appearance.

Still, they should have made current preset 9 female a black preset to properly align with the male version.

Preset 9 doesn't look white to me. Her skin's pretty dark.

I mean I'm playing a preset 9 female character with no changes, and I didn't find Alec Ryder's appearance to be jarring at all.

Default Alec Ryder is the best looking human in the game. You don't want to change him!

And Frostbite to crush those modders' dreams!

like frostbite did to DA:I?

I ended up making a sister and brother Ryder that I liked. Fair skin, brown hair, they look alike and daddy Ryder turns out as ugly as sin.

Neh Inquisition had some decent mods, but the tools were never finished i think. Also most DLC didn't play nice with the mods. If the fanbase is passionate enough, we'll see some stuff for this aswell.

I understand that but female preset 9 imo has a good face to work with and when I made her white and her brother white. It was a bit jarring.
Why doesn't the game either adjust Alecs skin tone and facial features to match what we make.
Or give us an option to pic Alecs preset.
I'll just roll with default Scott and Sara. I mean man isn't he gorgeous .