Better Cosmetics Documentation

Better Cosmetics

Better Cosmetics adds a greater level of character customization to ARK: Survival Ascended! Utilize our advanced configuration UI to change your skin style, color (utilizing a color-picker capable of providing any color you desite!), birthmarks, and scars. Add certain 'parts' to your character (please note, these are currently in-development and only a small number are available) as well as 'cosmetics' such as hats, glasses, and removal of the specimen implant.

Current Version: Beta v0.4.1

INI Settings

To see all available INI options, please head over to: INI Settings

Skin Customization

• Skin Styles: Several skin styles are available, including the basic human skin and a cat-like fur skin!
• Skin Coloring: Utilizing a full color picker, you have full control over your character's skin color. Reds, greens, blues, you name it and you can make your character can have it.
• Eye Coloring: Choose custom colors for both inner and outer eye color, making use of a fully fledged color wheel!
• Markings: From stripes to scars and birthmarks, you're able to choose up to 5 skin markings to further diversify your character!

Tattoo Customization

• Tattoo Styls: Serveral tattoos are available to be used by anyone, available in the character editor.
• Custom Tattoos: Utilizes the full color spectrum and a 2048x2048 resolution for 4x base game quality.
• Upload Tattoos: Includes the ability to update the available tattoos (using a website) without updating the mod.
• Tutorial: Follow this link here! to learn how to create a tattoo for yourself.

Parts Customization

• Add various 'parts' to your character!
• Supports rotation, scaling, and repositioning of all parts!
• Please note: While Better Cosmetics is in it's Beta, only a very limited number of parts are available.

Cosmetics Customization

• Jewlery: Base-game glasses models are available for your use!
• Hats: Several base-game hats are available for you to add to your character, permanently!
• & More: Removal of the specimen implant from your arm!
• Full Customiation: Move, rotate, and rescale your cosmetics to fully suit your character!

Hair Customization

• Head & Facial Hair Styles: Select any style from base-ARK, or any mod that adds hair. Customize the length of your hair tips, from non-existent to 2x what base-ARK allows!
• Eyebrow Styles: Select any style from base-ARK, or any mod that adds eyebrow styles!
• Colorization: Utilize the full color picker wheel to color your hair and eyebrows any color of the rainbow, and more!
• Note: In order to maintain compatibility with other mods, some hair colors may show better than others.

Saving Your Customizations

• Local Saves: Save your character's skin type, color, markings, parts/cosmetics, and hair selection locally to your computer. You can load this template at any time, on any gender character, from any server.
• Save path:

  ShooterGame/Saved/SaveGames/BetterCosmetics/LocalData/

• Templates: Create an item with a custom name, description, and icon (colorization options available!). Useful for quickly switching appearances on a single server. Note: These templates are non-transferrable cross-servers.

Commissions

The following items may be commissioned by joining our Discord:

• Skin Styles
• Skin Markings (ie: birthmarks, scars)
• Parts
• Cosmetic Accessories

Roadmap

Eager to see our plans for future updates? Want to know when a feature is planned for release? Check out our Better Cosmetics Roadmap! The roadmap is NOT an exhaustive list of future changes, and a lot more features are planned that have yet to make it onto the roadmap.