BodySlide 10: Let’s Build a Body

New to BodySlide? Don’t let that stop you! Grab some coffee and a snack, and let’s get down to business. In this video, we’re going to build ourselves a new female body for Skyrim! (Note that the workings of BodySlide and Outfit Studio are pretty much the same for FO4, but you will only have one set of sliders since that game only uses one size NIF instead of _0 and _1 files.)

This is a beginner tutorial, so I’ll be going slow and explaining in detail. Please see the timestamps below if you want to skip to a particular part.

As a bonus, I’ve included a quick overview of how to give the new body you built to a standalone follower. The caveat is that you MUST read the mod page for your particular follower to make sure there are no additional/specific instructions.

*TIMESTAMPS*
00:00 BodySlide 10: Let’s Build a Body
00:56 Before we get started…
02:22 Pick body you want to build
03:55 Pick shape you want body to have
04:25 Preview both size 0 and size 1
04:55 What are "Outfit" shapes?
05:26 Build Morphs
05:49 Build or Batch Build
06:42 Build matching body parts
07:26 Choose folder where NIFs will go
08:10 Error when building Hands or Feet
09:20 Test new body in game
09:42 Outfit doesn't match body!
10:02 Everyone looks the same!
10:33 Make shapes that don't weight slide
11:03 Build with zeroed sliders
11:37 Replace follower body with new one
13:06 Wrap up

*RESOURCES:*

*CREDITS:*
Ousnius and Caliente - for the amazing tools BodySlide and Outfit Studio & continual support on Nexus forums/Discord
Hana, Jeir, Dragoon23 and others - for invaluable advice & endless patience on Nexus forums & Ousnius Modding Discord
Bethesda - for the wonderful world of Skyrim & background music in the video
Mod Authors - for their tireless efforts creating awesome enhancements for our games
Created with BodySlide and Outfit Studio (v5.6.3), NifSkope (v2.0 Dev7), OBS (v30.1.2), Audacity (v3.4.2), WavePad (v10.42+), and Wondershare FilmoraScrn (v2.0.1.0)

[davidludwig]

These videos have been super helpful. I'm glad I found this channel. Good stuff.

[coryhermus]

These videos have been an incredible help! Thank you so much!

[LadyAster]

Great tutorial, I’ve struggled using this utility in the past. Thanks!

[JonathanFarmer]

Thank you so much for these videos! I couldn't believe how simple you explained this program which intimidated me XD

[Pituki]

Thank you! I was having a headache trying to make my custon npc's work with oBody.

[gar]

A little fast but real good. Still a few more questions drive me crazy, like how to change a Vanilla Outfit to custom Mod outfit if the Mod outfit is all in little pieces of clothing.

[Bob_Oh]

I have a question if I may ask. Got the following issue - some of my outfits (for example vanilla ones) have a certain body shape I created for them at the start through BodySlide and the others (for example The zero Samus suite) that I added after and adjusted for my current body (as I thought) have a different shape (seems like it a shape from another preset or somth), but it is not a vanilla body shape tho. Meanwhile when undress my character it gets some kind of a vanilla body and a ''nevernude'' option. So my question is how can I fully delete all this mess, like tear it all out of the game (without deleting the game itself), and start from a scratch?
Thank you in advance. Much love from Russia❤

[neonx]

What's the folder on top left? 1:52 for example

[goodboi]

Can I get some help? I'm currently on 7:41, and when I build (ctrl + build), it shows this:
The following sets failed
CBBE 3BBB Hands (1st person): Unable to create destination directory: G:\Games\Skyrim SE - Modding\MO2 Instances\mods\BodySlide Output assets

[neonx]

Any male equivalent of CBBE for editing the male NPCs?

[tomascornejo]

I have struggled so much in the oast that now I feel overwhelmed with just looking at the interface... it isn't that complicated now that I actually document myself in how to use it, but I still hate it

[gathel]

i tried but still not working so i give up. this is hard liike blender