Many mods have put real people into games, but far fewer are literal self-inserts that place the creator directly into their favorite title. Modder, traveler, and Twitch streamer Orcpics did exactly that — using a personal 3D scan to recreate himself inside Skyrim.
Skyrim’s robust modding scene first brought this to light. In a post to the Skyrim subreddit, Orcpics explained he converted his 3D scan into an armor set for Bethesda’s RPG. The set can be equipped on NPCs or on the player’s character, dressing them up as a deliberately low-poly, almost PS1-era likeness of the modder. “I knew just the NPC for the job,” he wrote.
“I wanted a clip of me decapitating myself, and I knew the perfect NPC,” Orcpics added. That NPC was Heimskr — Whiterun’s loudmouthed Talos zealot — who, in the name of spectacle, ends up providing the perfect moment for Orcpics to behead Orcpics in plain view of the town.
Orcpics admitted the process was time-consuming but manageable. In a Reddit reply he said it was his first Skyrim mod, so he learned the pipeline from the ground up. The mod is essentially a custom helmet and torso armor; for anyone familiar with creating those assets, the workflow shouldn’t be overly difficult.
This isn’t his only creation. A short video shared on Twitter (also uploaded to YouTube) shows similar swaps in Lethal Company and Dark Souls Remastered: a crew of low-res Orcpics in one, and legions of undead replaced by the hoodied protagonist in the other.
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“How I like to show off my cameras,” Orcpics writes alongside the clip. The video begins with a quick tour of the different cameras he’s scanned in 3D — and once you have the hardware and workflow to scan objects, scanning yourself and importing that model into games feels like the natural next step.
It’s a bit like buying a panini press: once it’s on the countertop you invent reasons to use it. Sandwiches, frozen waffles, even jokingly pressing clean laundry — the novelty leads to experimentation. Scanning myself into Dark Souls is, in that sense, only one more way to put new tools to use.
Source: gamesradar.com
