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Character is decapitated: there's a gap instead of a severed neck


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Hello everyone, Nero here, I found a glitch and could really use a hand to fix it.

 

Basically, I was screwing around with console commands when I used TIM, which stands for ''Toggle Immortal Mode'': it kinda is like God Mode, the difference being that in Immortal your health bar can still be depleted (without dying, of course) and you can still suffer killmoves, including decapitations.

My character, Kamik, went to the Reach and found a very friendly Briarheart who was kind enough to cut his head off. That didn't stop him though: matter of fact Kamik stood back up and cut HIS head off.

That's not the problem however: I have dozens of saves and I specifically made this one to screw around, so when I get tired of playing as the Headless Knight and slaughtering every single city in Skyrim I can get back to one of my old saves.

 

The problem is another. As said in the title, instead of a severed neck there's just a gap. Booooring!

 

Let me show you what I'm talking about...

 

http://i.imgur.com/1CjlWcd.png?1

 

http://i.imgur.com/qMrYiTy.png

 

It's very strange: when Kamik was beheaded (while his head just rolled off a cliff and fell in a river) his severed neck remained there where it was supposed to for a few seconds, then it just disappeared. When it disappeared, I heard the same sound effect that plays when you remove a piece of clothing.

 

I thought this was caused by a conflict of sorts with a body replacer mod. First with SoS, then with Better Males. So I tried the vanilla body. Even with that one, when my character gets decapitated, there's the gap.

Then I remembered that I have a mod that makes all khajiit tailless. So I thought, might that be it? Disinstalled that one too. The problem still persists.

 

 

So yeah. Could somebody please tell me how to fix this? To have the bloody severed neck be there instead of some gap? Any help is greatly appreciated

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You need to duplicate the head/neck gore piece and create a new armor piece that has only the neck gore portion. Then equip that.

 

I don't know of any mods that actually do that. The mesh edit, however, can easily be done in NifSkope (did it once before when testing some headless related stuff, didn't keep it).

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You need to duplicate the head/neck gore piece and create a new armor piece that has only the neck gore portion. Then equip that.

 

I don't know of any mods that actually do that. The mesh edit, however, can easily be done in NifSkope (did it once before when testing some headless related stuff, didn't keep it).

I'm afraid I can't do that since I'm no modder. Tried the Creation Kit and NifSkope myself and failed at them both D:

 

This is so weird: it's working fine with everybody else, why am I having these problems? I really appreciate your suggestion but it's gotta be simpler than this... This glitch is only affecting my character for some reason: all NPCs do not have this problem. How weird...

Anyway, thank you nevertheless for the tip dude

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To be honest, the NPCs were not under the effect of "toggle immortal mode". I suspect that after the decap kill move, the game attempted to restore your head but since it was removed and no longer attached it could not be displayed.

 

Now since the player character is constantly persistent, I'd suspect you could go find your head somewhere and see that the gore cap for it is also missing.

 

You might be able to try force equipping the existing head & neck gore item. If you want to try, type this into the console.

 

Player.EquipItem 000db5d0

 

There are additional parameters you may wish to use. http://www.creationkit.com/EquipItem

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To be honest, the NPCs were not under the effect of "toggle immortal mode". I suspect that after the decap kill move, the game attempted to restore your head but since it was removed and no longer attached it could not be displayed.

 

Now since the player character is constantly persistent, I'd suspect you could go find your head somewhere and see that the gore cap for it is also missing.

 

You might be able to try force equipping the existing head & neck gore item. If you want to try, type this into the console.

 

Player.EquipItem 000db5d0

 

There are additional parameters you may wish to use. http://www.creationkit.com/EquipItem

 

I did as you instructed and yet, strangely, the gore cap of the head is there where it should be.

More or less. Looks normal enough to me. It's the same I get when I equip the gore with the console command you suggested.

 

http://i.imgur.com/4EOmjsp.png

 

http://i.imgur.com/gBSmrLM.png

 

The neck gore instead is missing. As usual

 

http://i.imgur.com/x6vh9gp.png

 

So I tried to equip the head and neck gore item only to have the neck gore disappear 1 or 2 seconds afterwards.

 

Another thing: when I go in first person the head just disappears. When I go back in third person I can see it again

 

 

I'm screwed aren't I? LOL

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