I fully expected to have to wait for NVSE to do this, and figured I might have to use the hard-coded menu to offer finer facegen control if the player wants it, but not even being able to get a list of installed races/face presets is somewhat unexpected. I was hoping to completely replace the hard-coded appearance menu with an in-game selection that would be compatible for instance with Children of the Wasteland type mods (the normal one bugs out if you try to rotate it, because the height of the camera is pre-set). I take it then that Bod圜ontrol/FEM work with dummy items that specify specific models for their base? And the game manages its own race/etc lists that not even NVSE can get me access to? There doesn't even seem to be a form list of player races, face presets or hairstyles that I can find.

I 'know' mods like Body Control/FEM are able to change actor appearance entirely with scripts, but I don't see any relevant functions in either the or other than cloning facegen and race data from another NPC.

I'm working on an alternate start mod (plus housing), and can't seem to figure this out for the life of me.

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