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[Status] Faffing about, messing with head and hair

As it turns out, one can move the Head bone in skeleton.nif to move the hair (or more accurately, the back half of the head, and the hair is sorta skinned to the Head bone as well).

Similarly, one can move (and scale) the Head bone in skeleton_female_facebones.nif to move the entire face/front of the head. Although this takes changes to the neck to look right.

While this affects NPCs as well (everyone uses a single skeleton), mild changes are fine, namely getting rid of the forefivehead that females get and reducing the giraffe neck a bit. I'll probably release a modified skeleton that affects these changes.

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