Purple skin color for the Twi'lek race

I'm trying to create a Twi'lek Sith Assassin, but I'd prefer to have the character with purple skin to match it's ability and effects colors such as lighting abilities. If there is a purple skin available then I'm sorry to bother you but it's not widely known how to obtain that skin color for twi'leks, or even top rated when searching the internet for the answer. Please help me out if there is an answer available. If not, can we please make this addition to the character customization?

Purple skin for Twi'leks has been request for I don't know how long, now. The earliest instance I saw someone asking for purple skin for the Twi'lek was 6 years ago at least, so it's something that has been wanted for a long time now. Sadly, all this time the devs have not made any effort to include it as a customization option.

Because what they did do, was giving Paxton Rall - a fairly useless companion but I guess he looks cool - purple skin and yellow Sith eyes. Both of those are highly requested customization options for the Twi'leks, so it was a bit of a bold move to give those to a companion and not to the player, to put it kindly. Suffice to say, I was a bit aggravated by that decision.

Supposedly, the Twi'leks are incredibly hard to work with texture wise, because there's something difficult going on with the coding or something (the devs were a bit unclear on that issue). But I am starting to doubt whether it's actually that difficult. It's been so long since we were promised more customization options for the Twi'leks.

Try it with the red color Twi'lek skin. Not the color of ability, but the color of the lightsaber is suitable.
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Problem with that is, is that almost every other Twi'lek Sith you'll encounter is red skinned as well, while the red skin is supposed to be the rarest among the Twi'lek xD it's why it would be nice to have more variety.

I believe it when they say the code is a mess, and hard to work with, there has been so many issues in everything, all related to coding. Personally (and I could be wrong) but I think they were able to make pax the colour he is, because he's different from the normal companion, which is why I think he can't be customised with outfits.

Yeah, what you say about Pax is true, it's along the lines of how most of the new characters and companions since KotFE have been getting their own unique character model. However, it's a bit jarring that a companion gets those customization options first, instead of the player. Especially since those customization options for the Twi'lek have been request for years on end.

And I know, coding is likely the culprit here. But it's been 9 years now that we have had the Twi'lek as a playable species in this game. Surely, something could have been done in all those years. I mean, almost a decade is a really long time...

Its noticeable that Togruta have oddities with their lack of scars and lack of much in the way of corruption effects, which makes me wonder if the engine really has grave problems in handling modifications to a non-standard non-human avatar model.

there is a post somewhere, which these are brought up, but I've no ideaaa where. I can't remember, if it was just players chatting, or if we actually got a dev or cm to weigh in on it. Would be good, if we could get aa dev or community manager to post about the issue, and let us know if it's been worked on. But i doubt they will.