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So I've been fooling around with NPC Visual Transfer Tool, xEdit, and Creation Kit to learn how to change the appearances of custom followers and


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Like the title says, I've been familiarizing myself with the above tools in order to build an adventuring party that works with the theme I'm going for, but ran into a bit of a problem that I can't figure out how to fix when it comes to the facegen of custom followers.
To demonstrate, let's use Jenassa as our guinea pig, and make her look like Lamae. For reference, Lamae is supposed to look like this:
However, when I transfer her look to Jenassa, I get this:
That's...not right. That's not right at all. I mean, the body looks like it got transferred correctly, but something went very wrong with the head.
Okay, so maybe something's wrong with the tool itself. Let's try a vanilla NPC's assets and see what happens.
Hey there, Ulfric. Nice to know you can be bought so cheaply.
Okay, so the tool's working. Maybe it's custom mod textures that are the problem-
Jesus f*#@! Okay, no. Custom textures are NOT the problem.
Also, I did try to manually move all the facegen data to the appropriate VNPC folders during transfer. No dice.
All right, let's try a workaround. Like, say, loading up the "Make Babette look like Lamae" optional plugin into TES5Edit and changing it so it affects Jenassa instead...
Nope. Same problem as before, except now she sounds like Babette instead of looking like Lamae.
All right, something is screwy here. Let's load Lamae up into the Creation Kit and take a look at how she looks in the render.
Wait a minute...
That's...definitely not right. I mean, she looks fine in-game, but not in any of the modding tools.
Hey, hold on...
What's with all that default Nord crap?
Okay, let's try a different custom follower. Like, say, Recorder.
Okay, Recorder looks fine. What about her facegen parts?
Huh.
Okay, let's hop over to Lamae's modpage and see what we can find.
Huh. Well then.
Okay, so best I can figure, this problem happens when I try to work with NPC's that are Frankensteined from various character creation mod options instead of bringing their own exclusive textures. I've already tried installing all of the above mods to see if the textures would transfer over but no dice.
So basically what I'm asking is, how do I work with Frankenstein customs and move their look around without having to deal with this default Nord stuff?

 

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