Vincent Valentine
11-23-2011, 12:36 AM
Found this on Bethesda's forum site and credits go to Belazor
I found a way to work around this issue, but it is a bit of a pain... I'll post the steps here for anyone who is interested (feel free to re-post these steps to the gaming site / forum of your choice, no attribution necessary but it would be appreciated
I do not know if this will disable Steam achievements! I have not had a chance to test it, so don't flame me if it does (if anyone wants to test it with a save they have right before they got an achievement, that'd be cool).
Make a new save in a separate slot
Write down how many points you put into Magicka, Health, Stamina
Write down the skill points you have in all your skills (even the ones you haven't even touched)
Change back to your original race via player.SetRace
Enter ShowRaceMenu to get to the race menu
Pick your new race and the looks as needed, name your character, hit OK
Overwrite the duplicate save you created before doing this
Quit to main menu
Load the save you just overwrote
Walk / sprint and stop again and you'll see your arms are no longer crossed
If you want to avoid "cheating":
Find a perk you own and want to temporarily remove by doing help "perkname" 4 and write down the hex code it finds (calling it perkhex)
player.removeperk perkhex
Spend your "free point" back into that perk
player.setlevel X where X is the level you were before you started doing this
Commands assume X is the number of points you increased skills by (1 time levelled = 10 points):
player.modav magicka X
player.modav health X
player.modav stamina X
Commands assume X is the value you wrote down for your skill levels
player.setav skill alchemy X
player.setav skill alteration X
player.setav skill marksman X
player.setav skill block X
player.setav skill conjuration X
player.setav skill destruction X
player.setav skill enchanting X
player.setav skill heavyarmor X
player.setav skill illusion X
player.setav skill lightarmor X
player.setav skill lockpicking X
player.setav skill onehanded X
player.setav skill pickpocket X
player.setav skill restoration X
player.setav skill smithing X
player.setav skill sneak X
player.setav skill speechcraft X
player.setav skill twohanded X
And there you have it. I have confirmed that closing the game or just quitting to the main menu will preserve your head mesh. I suspect you can now also use ShowRaceMenu to change everything except Race / Sex / Preset if you want to customise your new race further.
I found a way to work around this issue, but it is a bit of a pain... I'll post the steps here for anyone who is interested (feel free to re-post these steps to the gaming site / forum of your choice, no attribution necessary but it would be appreciated
I do not know if this will disable Steam achievements! I have not had a chance to test it, so don't flame me if it does (if anyone wants to test it with a save they have right before they got an achievement, that'd be cool).
Make a new save in a separate slot
Write down how many points you put into Magicka, Health, Stamina
Write down the skill points you have in all your skills (even the ones you haven't even touched)
Change back to your original race via player.SetRace
Enter ShowRaceMenu to get to the race menu
Pick your new race and the looks as needed, name your character, hit OK
Overwrite the duplicate save you created before doing this
Quit to main menu
Load the save you just overwrote
Walk / sprint and stop again and you'll see your arms are no longer crossed
If you want to avoid "cheating":
Find a perk you own and want to temporarily remove by doing help "perkname" 4 and write down the hex code it finds (calling it perkhex)
player.removeperk perkhex
Spend your "free point" back into that perk
player.setlevel X where X is the level you were before you started doing this
Commands assume X is the number of points you increased skills by (1 time levelled = 10 points):
player.modav magicka X
player.modav health X
player.modav stamina X
Commands assume X is the value you wrote down for your skill levels
player.setav skill alchemy X
player.setav skill alteration X
player.setav skill marksman X
player.setav skill block X
player.setav skill conjuration X
player.setav skill destruction X
player.setav skill enchanting X
player.setav skill heavyarmor X
player.setav skill illusion X
player.setav skill lightarmor X
player.setav skill lockpicking X
player.setav skill onehanded X
player.setav skill pickpocket X
player.setav skill restoration X
player.setav skill smithing X
player.setav skill sneak X
player.setav skill speechcraft X
player.setav skill twohanded X
And there you have it. I have confirmed that closing the game or just quitting to the main menu will preserve your head mesh. I suspect you can now also use ShowRaceMenu to change everything except Race / Sex / Preset if you want to customise your new race further.