Share your Ryders (Good looking edition)

Thank goodness for existence of smart modders - our saviors! What you see is Preset 8 - but with Default Sara skin texture. If you ever wanted to modify default Sara - here is your chance!

And I finished another run. This one's Adam Ryder. I tried to maximize nearly all sliders on him to create a somewhat different look but alas the preset is still recognizable. 
Nevertheless he is my favorite Ryder so far. I got the feeling that everything just matched in this playthrough, like it did when I was playing my canon Shepard and Inquisitor. I don't know if that makes any sense to you guys but at least I guess I found my canon Ryder. 

wow, and preset 8 looks totally different. This is the Sara mod, using her skin? Would you please post the numbers, sliders you used? Specifically the eyecolor? I can never get Sara's eyes that shade. Wow, finally can get this look!

Sliders - yes, but eye color I'm afraid not - this Sara did not go to Archive, and I did not save that number. The general idea is to go to blue specter (closer to light blue) and use grey part of it - darker for outer- and lighter for inner circle.

And sliders are here:

Sliders:

Skin: 0.2
Brow: 6, 14
Cheek: 8, 7, 16
Chin: 14, 19, 5, 5
Eyes: 8, 12, 8
Mouth: 14, 20, 2, 8
Nose: 12, 8, 8, 6

But you would need both mods (Default Sara's skin for presets (number 8 in this case) and Character Creation - Pale Skin Unlocked) or manually replace skin texture as Fialka explained in here ).
Good luck!

Wow. Preset 8 with it's normal texture is terrible but now it's really pretty. It's amazing how big difference it is... 

My newest Sara

Anyone tried preset 7 with default Sara's skin texture? I'm curious!

Ok, so i tried this...I followed your instructions (I have modded plenty of games before) but the game wouldnt load after I had done the texture swap.

I had to do a verify/repair to get the game working again....so I can use your face but not with those textures.

Does anyone have a clue why this would cause my game to not load? It was there in my task manager but didnt load properly.

err nope...this wasnt in the instructions....do all these texture mods require offline mode?

Not sure what's going on here. You shouldn't have to play the game in offline mode. I don't and it works fine. You do have to make sure you're using a face texture from another preset in that same location... I tried using Cora's (as in our squadmates) and the game wouldn't start, and since default Scott's textures are in a weird location, it apparently won't work either.  (so no using, say, a female texture on a male character). I know someone else followed my instructions and it worked just fine. 

I do highly recommend this tool though for if you want to try it again: www.nexusmods.com/masseffectandromeda/mods/122/?

Takes literally minutes to back up the necessary files, and, like, two seconds to recover them if something goes wrong. I've probably used it a dozen times to 'fix' my game between testing things out and it works like a charm. Someone did re-write my tutorial in the OP here: bsn.boards.net/thread/9736/borrow-skin-brow-younger-ryder

Try following that to see if you maybe missed a step the first time around (the descriptions and tools needed is a bit more in depth than what I posted).

EDIT: Looking at the file structure, preset 9 ("Cora") has some weirdness with the file names. Make sure the textures you're replacing are from hmf > head > Cora > pca > textures. And that you're replacing norm_mean.res and NOT norm_mean.ebx. Also that you're not just going into hmf > head > Cora > pca and replacing one of the tex_ or pca_ files which have similar names. That you're actually going into that 'texture' directory inside the 'pca' one. That's the only obvious mistake I could think of that might prevent it from working... Good luck, either way!

Too many distractions today, to be able to have uninterrupted gaming, so I made a couple new characters instead.




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