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[Info] Can we do it?

I've been asked what we can do with this mod.

Things that are currently possible as far as I'm aware:

- Moving/scaling/rotating facial bones
- Scaling body bones (haven't specifically tried, but I'm 95% sure this can be done because of some other testing I did)
- Moving/scaling/rotating additional bones (i.e. the FO4 skeleton, like Skyrim's, isn't a static thing: we can add more bones/nodes to it and "skin" (attach) things to them. This enables things like adding additional bones specifically for headgear, glasses, etc, which we can then place whereever we please on the head/face. Theoretically, this isn't even limited to there: we can move things around the body, too, enabling things like moving accessories to avoid clipping into clothing.)


Things that are not currently possible from the looks menu with my level of knowledge:

- Moving/scaling/rotating the head
- Moving/scaling/rotating the face as a whole
- Moving/scaling/rotating the hair

The head seems to be treated specially by the game, so applying translation/scaling/rotation to it does nothing; it's all ignored. I would guess this is due to Havok overriding changes (gotta have the head flap around when you die!), but I don't know for sure. I badly wanted hair moving/scaling in particular, but for now, I'm moving these to the back burner. Maybe expired can figure out what I'm doing wrong.

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