AlanXEverfrost Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 I tried a few mods (Beautiful_Female_NPCs_1_4, Better Females by Bella and NPC Female Overhaul) and one of them (I believe it was Better Females) overwrote the original meshes and textures. However, I got the dreaded Dark Face Bug. Deciding it irritated me enough, I removed some mods...and ended up with several bald followers and marriage candidates. Try with one or another mod...bald AND dark-faced Ysolde. So how can I recover the original, Vanilla mesh and textures without having to re-install Skyrim, losing my mods and save files in the progress? I've thought of looking for a mod that actually installs the original meshes (such a simple concept HAS to have occured to someone else, right) but I couldn't find it anywhere. Is there anybody that knows how to fix this? Please keep in mind that I have very little actual knowledge on computer programing so clear instructions (or a link to such a mod) WOULD be incredibly apreciated. I didn't back up the original meshes (stupid of me, I know) and though I do have the Steam Back-up, that's just a bunch of Disks that will re-install it in it's entirety so I'm probably going to lose all my mods. I could accept losing my save files and would restart a new character if it's the only way, but I do want all the mods I have (apart from those three above mentioned ones) to stay intact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fms1 Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 AFAIK installing those mods wouldn't overwrite your original meshes (unless you unpacked the .bsa and then deleted the .bsa), so removing the meshes, textures, and plugins (.esp's) from the mod should fix it game wise. Your problem most likely is to do with the save files made after running those mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanXEverfrost Posted February 2, 2013 Author Share Posted February 2, 2013 AFAIK installing those mods wouldn't overwrite your original meshes (unless you unpacked the .bsa and then deleted the .bsa), so removing the meshes, textures, and plugins (.esp's) from the mod should fix it game wise. Your problem most likely is to do with the save files made after running those mods. Do you mean that if I uninstall the mods in my Nexus Mod Manager and start a new game, it won't be affected? Or if I uninstall the mods, open a save file, save, shut down Skrim and open it again, it would be fixed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fms1 Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 Making a clean save may work and is worth a try, it might not work also, if not backup or move your saves and try a new game or a save from before those mods were installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanXEverfrost Posted February 2, 2013 Author Share Posted February 2, 2013 (edited) Making a clean save may work and is worth a try, it might not work also, if not backup or move your saves and try a new game or a save from before those mods were installed. Well, I installed the mods, started a game, made a save, turned it off, back on...still the same hair and dark faces. I did notice that one character had her normal skin color again, but another now also had shiny purple hair... Did a new game, without any of the three mods. Riverwood Trader's girl had a dark face. Thought I could deal with it. Played through to Whiterun giant slaying moment, where you meet the companions. Aela with bright purple hair...I need someway to fix this... Edited February 3, 2013 by AlanXEverfrost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanXEverfrost Posted February 3, 2013 Author Share Posted February 3, 2013 (edited) OK, so I get horribly Dark Faces if I use NPC Female Overhaul. If I only use Better Females by Bella several have horrible shiny hair and some of them are bald. If I try to combine that with Beautiful Female NPC's as it's suggested by the mod maker a lot of them are bald... I just can't win. I'm seriously begging you people here...how do I fix this? I've read through the mods and they state that they replace the textures, and I have found the textures names after having found a duplicate of the mod which I coppied into the directory. But doesn't that mean that I pasted it over existing files? IF that is so, then didn't I lose the original textures...so how do I get those back. IF that isn't the problem, then what is? As far as I can tell, the reason I get these screwed up characters is because some of the mods have replaced (as the descriptions stated they would) other textures. So is there some reason it wouldn't go back if I replaced them with all the original files? Because if that WOULD work, then all I would need to do is get those original textures. Which I would need to get from someone else obviously, but I would hope that some of the people sympathetic for a broken Skyrim game would offer help with that... Seriously, I cannot play my game like this. And I don't get how to fix it if not like this (and if it is by replacing the files, WHERE???) Edited February 3, 2013 by AlanXEverfrost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripple Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 (edited) Original game resources are compressed into the default game BSA's. As others have mentioned, texture or mesh replacer mods will -not- 'overwrite' those files even if you install using a traditional mod manager like NMM which installs mod contents directly into the game data folder (they'll 'override' default game resources when you load the game but not 'overwrite'). On the other hand, if you install multiple custom body meshes/textures, they will 'overwrite' each other, and this is likely what is causing your 'black face' issue. The 'Overhauling NPC looks' type mods are another matter. Many of them are done by people who actually don't have a clue what they are doing, use outdated shortcut utilities like 'NPC Editor' that generates all sorts of problems with the game, rather than doing things properly by using the CK to export facegen files in order to mitigate the skin discolouration problem. At this point, I recommend you uninstall all of your mods and do a fresh install of Skyrim/verify game files with Steam. You should then get your original game textures and meshes back. Then come back here with a tiny list of cosmetic mods you would like to install, and ask other users if they are compatible with each other and a step by step guide on their order of installation (if you are using NMM). Otherwise, you can use the 'Mod Organizer' to install mods, and then you don't have to worry about not being able to uninstall mods properly (MO does not install mod contents directly into the game data folder, but keeps them isolated from each other, thereby negating the 'uninstalled mods leave junk in the game data folder' problem associated with traditional mod installation methods). Edited February 3, 2013 by ripple Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minecrafter2235 Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 I need help. I don't have any female textures or meshes in E:\Steam\steamapps\common\skyrim\data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDoctor1200 Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 (edited) Does anyone know how to restore the default character Skyrim .dds files? I accidentally deleted them for good :-(Now they have a missing body texture :-( Edited July 30, 2019 by TheDoctor1200 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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