Yes so it turns out in my sleep deprived state that i wasted two hours trying to export facegen data when there was a patch for one of my mods i needed.
Skyrim creation kit grey face fix mod#
If not just the characters face texture (being grey/black in this case) but their shape is not what it should be (child with an adult head), you can be certain a mod conflict is causing it. Not sure if its technically corruption, but apparently opening Skyrim in CK and exporting ALL the character facegens has worked for some people.ģ) Mod conflicts. (Then hit save) This did fix the issue with those NPCs for me.Ģ) Slightly corrupt game files. I had to open both mods in CK (with GMO being the active mod) and find the 'actor' faces affected by the black face bug, and CTRL+F4 to export them. These can be hair edits to any NPC, but most often this occurs on mods that add hair to NPCs from another mods, such as GMO (Guild Members Overhaul). They contain unneeded face gen data.Originally posted by Sabaithal:The grey/black face bug is caused by any number of things.ġ) Hair edits. alas, when I fired up Skyrim, poor Lydia still had her old hair, and WORSE.she now has a gray face and neck. Well, I am pretty certain I followed the instructions to a 't'. I was attempting to change Lydia's hair to one of the Apachii Skyhairs. Once you have finished, delete the "Actor" folders that the CK created in Data/Meshes and Data/Textures. Okay so I used the Creation Kit for the first time today. Here is what Griselda looks like in game, no dark face bug, no weird neck!Īny npc with one exception: do not use the presets, they will have the dark face bug. in the Render View window, your character will show a similar problem at the neck here too, do not panic, this is of no importance. Do not panic, this is of no importance at all, In the preview window on the right, you can see that the face looks normal but the body doesn't look normal at all. In the example below, I'm using "EncBandit04MissileNordF" as a base object for Griselda. Then I opened the mod in creation kit with SCO3DNPC as the active. Symptoms: Face is always of grey color with no make up applied. I was actually able to fix this problem by deleting the face texture and the NIF file. Consequently, you'll have to be careful about your choice, especially if your npc must use some vanilla dialogue because you won't be able to modify its voice type. Skyrim Creation Kit Neck Seam Fix - with setnpcweight and Export Facegen Data Ever had. Modifying them would create the dark face bug you are trying to avoid. Once you have picked up a base actor for your npc, all the data on the "Traits" tab of your npc form will be greyed out so that you cannot modify them. Do not edit the base actor you have chosen. in the actor form, in "Template Data", in "ActorBase" choose the model your npc will use and select "Use Traits" (leave the other data alone unless you know what you are doing). Turned the esp into an esm using TESVSnip. This seems to only work for textures, so it did not help.
Ctrl-F4 in the Creation Kit to export facegen data. create an entirely new npc from scratch, DO NOT DUPLICATE AN EXISTING NPC, I tried to make the NPC face in the Skyrim NPC Editor AND separately in the Creation Kit. This short tutorial is meant to help about that. The dark face bug is everywhere and it's a big problem when you are creating new npcs in a mod specifically made for the PS4.