MODDING GUIDE - BODY REGIONS… WITH PICTURES!
When creating CAZ CC through the modkit, you will see that there are “regions” you can assign to your outfit. The modkit distinguishes between 3 types of regions: drawing regions, covering regions and body regions, each serving a different purpose.
- Drawing regions: these are parts of your outfit that won’t be seen and you want to be masked.
- Covering regions: these are parts of your outfit that can overlap with other pieces of clothing: for tops, it can be the waist where they can overlap with trousers, or the arms where they can overlap with jackets.
- Body regions: these are the parts of the body of your zoi that are hidden by your outfit. When you select a certain body region, this body region will dissappear. This is made like this os 1. the skin of your zoi doesn’t clip through your outfit and 2. The game doesn have to render both your outfit and that piece of skin, which is better for optimization.
I have compiled a guide with photos of what body parts is hidden by each region, so that modders can know what body regions to assign to their outfits or even take these body regions as a blueprint to make their cc.
Body Regions Tutorial MALE.pdf (12.7 MB)
Body Regions Tutorial MALE.pdf (13.4 MB)
Hope you find it useful!
Happy zoiventures everyone 
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I’d love to mod, but feel like I’d need to do a proper course before attempting it myself. I have so much respect and appreciation for modders.
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Don’t be intimidated! Trial and error is the way to learn 
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Thank you..This is so useful, I was struggling with this part. 
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Glad you found it useful! I was struggling too so I decided to just take screenshot of each part 
and ended up making the guide. I can be very confusing!
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Do you know how to make hair mod from modkit? I tried some ways, it didn’t work and didn’t show up in CAZ hair category.
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I wished I could help you! I’m trying to figure it out as well, but with no luck so far. If I manage I will tell you, please do tell me if you manage as well
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After few days finally I’m managed to do it. Only basic for now, the hair doesn’t have swatch selection yet. Need still have to learn to make it right.
I followed sample files for CAZ for reference. There’s hair file there too.
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That hair is going to look amazing! What do you mean you followed the hair samples? Can you provide screenshots or a short video? I’ve been trying hard to understand too, I know there are hair files in the data editor but I feel like I am doing it badly? Also what type of file is your mesh? I’m glad that you were finally able to do it, this is an instant download by me when you put it in curseforge 
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Bookmarking another of your creations 
Thanks so much! 
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Thank for your kindness always! I hope it will come in handy for you
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Here. It’s really simple! 
Step 1 :
Create empty project, or any new CAZ project.
Step 2 :
In Content Browser, find hairstyle sample project in (Plugins > Sample_CAZ_Content). Copy all related hair assets to your own project folder.
- Hair Materials
- Hair Mesh (optional)
- Hair Textures (optional)
Once everything added, replace/re-import your own files (fbx mesh, texture image) to these copied assets.
Step 3 :
Open Data Editor for your project. Find AppearanceHair & AppearanceHairMesh, edit them similar to garment editting from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLuduFlNp-8&t=2s
Step 4 :
The video above is missing this important part, that you need to set same custom ID the same for these 4. Otherwise it wouldn’t work. (The video skipped the 4th one)
All done!
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Thank you so so much! You are a life saviour for real
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