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[EvilDeadAsh34]

Do any of you guys use mods that change the races in any way? I have a mod that changes race heights and i had to completely redo it when Dawnguard came out to fix the mismatched heads for vampires. I'd suggest looking through your mods as well to make sure you aren't using an outdated mod that changes races.

[amoebae]

Do any of you guys use mods that change the races in any way? I have a mod that changes race heights and i had to completely redo it when Dawnguard came out to fix the mismatched heads for vampires. I'd suggest looking through your mods as well to make sure you aren't using an outdated mod that changes races.

I don't. The only mods I use that alter anything about my character have been XCE, Bella's Better Females, a couple of hair and colour mods, and CBBEv3 - nothing to do with races or heights through specific mods or overhauls.

I'm tempted to do a complete reinstall of everything from scratch (it feels good to do that once in a while anyway), but I might leave it a little longer until a few more Dawnguard mods have come out, in case any one comes up with some fixes for any of these things.

In the meantime, the setrace command worked for me, I hope it works for some of you others too. I don't know if it'll change the problem with only the body colour changing if you use showracemenu in the future or not, but to just get you back to both head and body being the same colour that you were before you became a vampire, it's a quick fix.

[BeastRU]

It doesn't work for me. Besides the skin color goes back every time i change from vampire lord to normal.

I guess while most of the modmakers keep working on bouncing breasts and skimpy armor there is no hope for this bug being fixed any time soon

Edited by BeastRU, 08 November 2012 - 07:42 AM.

[Augur]

I have found after disabling and enabling mods one at a time, to my surprise the Unofficial Skyrim Patch was causing this issue for me. Once I removed it all was well, even with NPC vampires

[dragonsouce]

I have 2 100% wierd salution but I have a lot of crap going in my in my real life, Please someone run with the Idea.

 

1 method the right way but lot work and compatibility issues Create a new Vampire Disease from scratch.(not just modded, Its own ID from Scratch, Maybe call it Sanguinare instead  of  Sanguinare Vampiris )  We got the animation And such. It would be a lot of work but replace all the Npc condition disease with new one,  And either add script that just Changes the eyes and teeth and leaves the rest alone or build a new Vampire race from scratch, But this last step could recreate the issue unless you create a Vampire race for each race with its own Alternate Body texture and have it switch race instead of the blending it as it does now,thats the right way but the longest. Breton male vampire, Breton Female Vampire, Nord Male Vampire,Nord Female Vampire ect...    

 

2nd method this is easiest and would Work best. It really would. But its a bit SCREWED UP AND HUGE DISK SPACE. See the thing is the Face Gen is using the old miss matching meshes and ignoring the Plugin mod. Thats the heart of the Problem .

And its not uninstalling the old Data right. Instead its mixing it, Like painting a blue over Orange in water paints. So we get Grey. it's not using folder before BSA (not all the time)

 

It should use folder first and what ever the plugin points to and Erase the old Face Gen Data. (two separate problems)

 

In a Nice world Bethesda would get off there asses and fix it. 

 

But there busy with ESO so thats not going to happen EVER!

 

So how to Fix it?

 

 

Easy (and a bit scary) Edit out the Old Mesh so it CAN NOT GET CONFUSED! SO THERE ORIGINAL will not exist.  to get confused.  

 

 

So you create a Copy of Skyrim.esm and Edit it the Original...Or Alternatively UnPack The BSAs That have the meshes nifs dds and Replace them with Calientes Beautiful Bodies Edition -CBBE- or what ever alternate replacer you want and repack. Delete the Face gen (generated folder)

 

You need to do this with each Alternate Body texture.

 

OR Alternatively Exstract the BSA (very big) And then copy delete the originals.

 

But there is a Problem.

 

Steam will try and FIX it if we alter the vanilla ESM or BSA..

 

How to fix that?

 

Create new renamed Skyrim.esm and say called Skyrim CBBS WITH its own BSAs with there own names that would be like CBBS Meshes 

But hey I told you it would be screwed up. Now you just uncheck Skyrim...

A big down side is all your other mods will need to be written to used the renamed master. (yes this sucks) maybe a 3rd party tool could be made to do all this?

 

 

Ok there got be a better way than this but I am to tired right now to think it but I hope my ridiculous but perfectly working Idea helps someone come up with a better one.

Edited by dragonsouce, 23 April 2014 - 12:01 AM.

[CountFuzzball]

Okay, I had this same problem with my wood elf. I was using Bella's face mod, plus CBBE. I tried so many workarounds, installing various mods that said they would fix it, I did the renaming of the 2 .dds files, everything, but none of it stopped my face being really dark, and my body being lighter.

But I fixed it. This might work for you. It's very, very simple.

1) Open the console
2) Type: player.setrace woodelfrace (replacing 'woodelf' with your original race) - upon hitting enter, you should see everything change back to how you were before you became a vampire
3) Type: player.setrace woodelfracevampire (again, using your own race) - and upon hitting enter, the only change you should see is in the possible slight height difference being a vampire introduces
4) Close the console, be happy

I hope that works for others. I haven't had a chance to play for long after doing it, so I'm not sure if it'll 'stick' after lots of various vampirational behaviours but we shall see.

 

I tried this on a dark elf with a custom body mod, but used showracemenu to fiddle with the skin tone after changing to the non vampire race. When I switched back to the vampire race, the skin tones stayed the same. Seemed to work for me.

[dragonsouce]

@ CountFuzzball yes but the followers mpcs stay bugged. 

[Sonicsaurus]

I have this problem. I became a vampire and my skin was then pale, so I went into showracemenu to make my character more tanned like they had been before I turned into a vampire, but the head remained pale. =/

 

Just the other day I was a vampire with my normal skin tone and it was fine. I had to cure it in order to buy a crossbow from the dawnguard, but when I went back to becoming a vampire I somehow ran into this problem.