If you want advanced physics and highly detailed body sliders, you need a modern body base.
If you want more sliders under the "Makeup," "Tattoos," or "Paint" tabs, you need overlay mods. Mods like or SlaveTat add independent layers to your character. This prevents new tattoos from overwriting your character's warpaints. How to Install and Enable More Sliders
Enhances the depth of facial movements and provides subtler slider adjustments for female characters. 4. Community Overlays and Makeup Sliders
A fantastic and simple add-on that targets a specific area often overlooked in character creation: the ears. By default, RaceMenu includes the ECE "Ear Shape" slider as a preset (like choosing a nose shape). This mod breaks that single slider into , allowing you to freely combine different ear shapes and morphs. It's a small change that adds significant customization, especially for Elven characters.
Enter , the gold standard for Skyrim character customization. Created by expired6978, this mod completely overhauls the default character creation UI. More importantly, it introduces an extensive array of advanced sliders that grant unparalleled control over your character's appearance. skyrim racemenu more sliders
Must match your specific Skyrim game version.
You can click and drag specific vertices on your character's face.
These glitches are not failures but affordances . They reveal the underlying mesh topology—the mathematical grid of the face. The seam, the clay face, the CTD are the game engine’s way of saying, “You have reached the edge of the simulacrum.”
Upon its release, Skyrim offered players a character creator with approximately 20 sliders (e.g., "Nose Height," "Jaw Width") divided by sex. While advanced for its time, this system imposed hard limits: a binary male/female skeleton, unchangeable body weight distribution, and no control over asymmetrical features or decals. Enter (by Expired6978). What began as a simple UI extension evolved into a comprehensive sculpting suite. The "More Sliders" feature—often exceeding 200 individual controls—represents a paradigm shift. This paper posits that RaceMenu’s extended sliders function as a prosthetic interface of identity , enabling a level of corporeal customization that the base game’s lore and mechanics never intended. If you want advanced physics and highly detailed
If your game crashes when switching to the tattoo or warpaint tabs, your game is running out of texture memory. Edit your RaceMenu.ini file to increase the allocated overlay limits:
To further expand the number of sliders available in RaceMenu, you can use several "addon" mods or companion tools:
You forgot to check "Build Morphs" in BodySlide, or your mod manager is overwriting your generated meshes.
Before expanding your options, you need to understand the core tool. Developed by expired6978, completely overhauls Skyrim’s default character creation menu ( showracemenu ). Core Features of Base RaceMenu This prevents new tattoos from overwriting your character's
It eliminates the classic "squashed" vanilla look, allowing for subtle, soft, or highly angular facial features. 4. High Poly Head
Essential for running the scripts that drive advanced menus. Ensure you download the version matching your specific Skyrim executable (Special Edition, Anniversary Edition, or VR).
To actually populate your RaceMenu with new sliders, you need to install specific overhaul mods, body types, and plugin extensions. Here are the definitive mods required to expand your customization tabs: Body Slide and Custom Morph Extensions
Zoom, pan, and rotate the camera freely to inspect your character from every angle.
Test how your character looks with different facial expressions directly inside the creation menu.
BodySlide is an external tool, but it integrates directly into RaceMenu via . When building a body in BodySlide, checking the "Build Morphs" box injects dozens of individual sliders directly into your in-game RaceMenu.