I have to build a metric s**tton of people for my mod, and I really don't want to build every face by hand (nor do I really know how, they all come out looking pretty similar) and I was wondering if there is a way to just randomly generate a face for a character.

I noticed this too. There appears to be no 'randomize' button like in previous games. The key it to just move the sliders a lot and pick unique lip/nose/eye types. You can actually get them all looking fairly unique. If you have a LOT of generic people to make, just randomly throw the sliders around for each one. Bethesda has now clamped them so that you can't accidently make really whacky looking people like in Fallout, so no matter what they should all look fairly 'normal' and good.

using showracemenu is way easier than making characters in the CK, at least IMO

you can save every face you make in the race menu by using the console command:

SPF whateverCustomNPCname

then it will export the face data as a .npc file inside your skyrim root folder (not data)


you can do a whole batch of characters in one sitting. way faster and more accurate than doing it in the CK

Wow, thanks!