Photograph to an editable RaceMenu starting preset.
Windows tool that measures a face locally and writes a RaceMenu pack you finish in-game.
It is not a Skyrim plugin, not an SKSE DLL, and must not be installed into Skyrim Data, Vortex, or Mod Organizer 2.
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QA render from the 0.24.3 tree, using the bundled synthetic portrait. Not a claim about every photograph.
Latest release: v0.24.3 (FaceForge-0.24.3-STANDALONE.zip).
- Unzip anywhere on the PC (Desktop, Documents, a tools folder).
- Double-click
FaceForge-0.24.3-STANDALONE.exe. - Do not drop the EXE into
Skyrim Special Edition\Data. - Do not add this zip as a Vortex or MO2 mod for Skyrim.
No separate .NET install. Needs Windows 10/11 and Microsoft Edge WebView2 (usually already installed).
FaceForge only reads your game / Vortex / CharGen folders. It does not change your load order.
Running the EXE under Mod Organizer 2 / USVFS is not supported. FaceForge detects that injection and explains it instead of a bare WebView2 failure. Run it directly; it still reads the same mods.
- Run the EXE. Let it find Skyrim and index your setup (read-only).
- Add a clear front photo (or multi-view / slow turn video).
- Analyze → pick race/sex → pick installed head parts (hair, eyes, and so on).
- Export a RaceMenu preset pack.
- In Skyrim: open RaceMenu → load the preset → sculpt if you want → use Export Head (not “slider-only / no sculpt”) if you will build a follower next.
- Optional: open FollowerForge and build the NPC plugin from that baked head.
Pair: FaceForge (face preset) → RaceMenu bake → FollowerForge (NPC plugin).
Hard
- Windows 10/11 + WebView2
- Skyrim Special Edition or Anniversary Edition
- RaceMenu (to load and export the preset in-game)
Optional
- High Poly Head and any head-part mods you already use
- Expressive Facegen Morphs — FaceForge writes only the
EFM_family. Without EFM active, RaceMenu silently ignores those values and the character loads as the race default, identical whatever photo was used - OpenRouter, or a provider CLI, only if you press vision refine (photos stay local unless you do)
- FollowerForge after Export Head
| It is | It is not |
|---|---|
| An out-of-game Windows utility | A downloadable follower character |
| A photo → RaceMenu preset helper | Something you enable in your load order |
| Safe to keep outside the game folder | A replacement for RaceMenu or Creation Kit |
Verified in this tree:
FaceForge 0.24.3/is the ship snapshot (CURRENT.txt)- 100 frontend tests and 96 native assertions
- TypeScript clean, .NET Release clean, 0 warnings
- Packaged
FaceForge-0.24.3-STANDALONE.exe(FileVersion 0.24.3.0) - Rendered-layout check at 1092×614 and 1280×720
Not claimed:
- In-game likeness on an arbitrary photograph
- That the OpenRouter routing fix was re-confirmed against a live key in this environment
- Photograph guidance (still unwritten)
- A closed explanation for one report of a generic in-game result with EFM present
v0.24.2 is withdrawn. Its small-screen CSS change broke panel layout at every window size. 0.24.3 keeps 0.24.2’s other fixes and restores the 0.24.1 shell height. The measurement pipeline is untouched: a 0.24.3 preset is the same as 0.24.1.
Ship tree: FaceForge 0.24.3\. Needs Node.js 20+ (pnpm via Corepack is fine) and the .NET 8 SDK.
cd "FaceForge 0.24.3"
.\build.ps1
.\package.ps1Local face landmarks use MediaPipe Tasks Vision (Apache 2.0). WebView2, React, Vite, and TypeScript are third-party; see FaceForge 0.24.3/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.
Skyrim, RaceMenu, and related names belong to their owners. This project is unofficial.
Carried from withdrawn 0.24.2:
- OpenRouter 404 on every model — three provider-routing clauses intersected to an empty pool. Only
data_collection: "deny"is kept - MO2 / USVFS detection instead of a bare WebView2 crash
- “loaded 4/4” and “missing” at once now reads “present, source mod not identified”
- Warning when Expressive Facegen Morphs is absent
Zip: 119,141,039 bytes. SHA-256: 4B3B01A0D4868D92897E22EABB0057958F1F30D071ADD03A92CFF57D84596F05.