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I could use this... Peace

Thanks Mujuro, that worked :thumbsup:

@rickerhk THAT DID IT !!! Thank you ever so much!! Color matches the rest of the body and no more gap. @Mujuro Coincidently, I created a new character to see if that would get rid of the gap, it did but when I went to recruit her as a follower she was wearing one of her alternate hair styles. Is there a way to get the hair style back to what I wanted her to have? Thanks again to both of you for all the help!! Peace

Caliente's TexBlend is a neat little program, but unfortunately it doesnt work for this problem. I tried the SetNPCWeight, which fixed the gap, but it made the color wrong. I used TexBlend, and it fixed the color but put the gap back in there. I also thought about switching to the UNP body, but one of the reasons I use the CBBE is because it seems to have more options for armor and clothes that are more to my taste. The UNP body has a lot of japanese anime clothing and armor, there's nothing wrong with that, it's just not my thing. I will do some more research and see what I come up with. If you would like me to, IF I find a solution I will come back here and post it for future reference. Anyway, thanks again for all your help, now I can play and be happy with Ceri's new look. Peace

You are awesome!! And extremely patient. :) Everything worked, I had to go back 10 levels in order to find a save that worked, but at least I dont have to start over. LOL I only have one more issue (hopefully)... While fixing the neck gap, when I use the SetNPCWeight it turns the color of her head back to it's original color, very pale. Trust me it does not look right having a tan body and a pale head. LOL Is there a way to fix this? If not, it's ok I will just deal with the gap and cover it with armor. :)

Thanks Mujuro, that fixed the forehead problem. The neck gap is still there and I cannot for life of me figure out how to fix it, I can always cover it with armor I guess. But that is not the worst of it... I AM PRETTY SURE I BROKE CERI !!!! :( :( I don't have a clue what I did, but now Ceri isn't Ceri anymore... she doesn't heal me anymore, she doesn't do the whole SMARTCast thing anymore, etc. She is at level 29 and when I look at her skills, all of her magic skills are at 15, and all of her combat skills range from the 50's to the upper 80's. Somehow she turned into a warrior that cast spells because she doesn't have any weapons. OK maybe if I explain how I "fixed" things, then you might (crosses fingers) be able to tell me were I "broke" her. OR You could ignore this post, say to yourself "This guy has no clue what he is doing. He is waaaay beyond help." Then write me off as a "crazed idiot." Sorry, just feeling a little frustrated and down, anyway... 1. To "fix" the hair not showing up in game... When I added the ApachiiHairFemales.esm (it's an ESM btw not an ESP) in Wrye Bash to the "masters" list it worked just like you said it would. I even double checked it by closing and re-opening Wrye Bash to see if the save took hold, and it did. Then I opened up the CK, loaded all the necessary ESM's and ESP's just like the directions say to do it, making sure the AppearencePatch was my "active" file. Brought up the CHAR Gen Parts tab, imported the NPC file (after making sure the load order was correct), everything looked good, as far as I could tell (I didn't see the forehead and neck gap on the really small preview screen, that thing is very difficult to manipulate by the way!!). So I saved the file and exited the CK. I re-opened the CK and loaded JUST the AppearencePatch, again making sure it was set to "active". Once it loaded up I clicked on the name to high light it and did the whole Ctrl + F4 to export the face data. Saved again and closed the CK. Loaded the game and *POOF* her original hair and her head was that ugly gray color. This is what happened for days of me attempting to make this work, VERY frustrating. The thing that I did not notice, every time I saved the file in the CK, the CK would take the CerwidenCompanion.esp off the parent masters list. Hence the reason why it kept defaulting to the original head. How did I fix this? You may ask. Well I added a few more steps to the process by re-adding it to the masters list in Wrye Bash EVERY TIME I saved the file in the CK. This worked!! YAY!! This is where I ran into the purple forehead and neck gap problem... 2. To "fix" the purple forehead and neck gap problem... I did just like you said to fix the forehead, and that went pretty smoothly, except when I saved it in the CK, I forgot to re-add the CerwidenCompanion.esp to the masters list in Wrye Bash, and when I loaded the game she had her default head again. In the process of fixing that, I noticed the "ESMify Self" choice on the context menu and thought "Hey if I do that to the CerwidenCompanion.esp file, will the CK stop erasing it when I save?" After thinking to myself "Why not, what's the worst that can happen?" I did just that and "ESMified" the file. I probably broke it right there... But it did work, the CK stopped booting it off the masters list every time I saved it. It was then that I decided to go play for awhile because I had a headache from all the hassle, and that's when I noticed that what ever I did I REALLY broke her this time. Now a couple more things you may need to know before you make your assessment. 1. During this time, while waiting for a response from you and just generally messing around, I got tired of Ceri's horse going back to where it came from every time she got off it. We would be half way to Solitude and I would have to stop to kill something or go check a new dungeon I just discovered, and as soon as she got off the horse it would take off and go back to where it came from. So, I decided to go get a horse mod that supported followers. I had used "Better Horses" before so I went and downloaded that one from Nexus. Tried it out for a little while and decided it was not "quite" what I was looking for. I went back to see if there was anything special I had to do to uninstall it and followed his instructions. I then went back to the Nexus and found "Convenient Horses" and installed it. 2. I think one or both or the installing and uninstalling of these two mods may have broke my game entirely. Now every time I go to load Skyrim, and choose the "Continue" option the game stops responding, and I have to do a Ctrl + Alt + Delete in order to get out of it and back to my desktop. I re-start the game and this time choose to "Load" a previous save, that usually works although I may have to go back a few saves before I can get the game to load at all. You may be wondering why I am telling you all of this in such great detail. Well I honestly don't know if any of this has anything to do with why the Cerwiden mod does not work any more. It probably doesn't but hey, you never know. Couple of questions before I go put a .357 Bullet through my computer... 1. Is there a way to assign the CerwidenCompanion.esp to the master list of the CerwidenAppearencePatch.esp in the CK, or do it Wrye Bash in such a way that CK doesn't delete it from the list every time I save the file? (I mean for all I know there is probably some easy as hell tutorial for this some place I have yet to troll across.) 2. Do you think that my game is even savable, or should I just delete everything and start over? I went through this same hassle when I played Morrowind, and Oblivion. When I got Skyrim I said "OK I am not going to go through that again" and started doing as much research as I could on every mod I installed or wanted to install. Then my old computer's motherboard fried, just after upgrading the video card and power supply, so now I have this brand new "monster" machine, and cant seem to keep Skyrim running on it. In my old machine I had over 150 mods for Skyrim all running at the same time and only rarely would it CTD or give me any kind of hassle. Loading times were really long, but I didn't mind so much. All things said I would completely understand if you said "I dont have time to help this guy out anymore" and left it up to me to figure things out. Anyway... Thanks again for all the help you have given me so far!! Peace

OK I got it to work (thank you for the help btw)... kinda... I mean the hair, eyes and "body" skin is perfect, but now I have a different problem. She has a purple forehead and a gap in her neck seam. I uploaded a picture of her in my game on your mod page, titled "Help" Please tell me there is a way to fix this. I really do appreciate your help in making Ceri... perfect in my eyes. :)

You're welcome. Most modders have not thought of it before. I dont know how many times I have wanted to just say thank you... I say it all the time in real life, but it just doesn't "feel" the same as saying it and having them respond. That would be AWESOME!! Apachii released a "additional" hair pack called "ApachiiSkyHairFemale_v_1_0" and I would like to change Ceri's hair to the number 2 option in that pack, and I would also like to change her eye color to Dark Blue, and change her skin color to something a little more tan. :biggrin: However, when I attempt to do that it just doesn't work. When I change master files in Wrye Bash, it lets me change it and add the new ones but something gets lost in the translation after that. And yeah it just "doesn't work right". I know you probably have a crap-load of things you are doing right now, but if you could help me out, that would be great!! That would be AWESOME to have the two of them together!!

First of all I would like to say... HAPPY BIRTHDAY CERI !!!! I use UFO with Ceri and I have no issues with her AI. As a matter of fact, there are numerous times after combat, I know she's there because she is healing me, when I look for her she comes walking out from behind a bush or rock or something. I tried giving her a weapon and letting her make her own decisions about combat, it was then that she had a tendancy to charge into toe-to-toe combat. Being a archer type character, I think I may have hit her more often than hitting my actual target. (I did not say I was a GOOD archer!! LOL) Now it's much better, she stays out of toe-to-toe combat unless she absolutly has no choice, then she just blasts them with spells. It's awesome!! Please Mujuro, dont underestimate your mod, Ceri is THE best companion mod out right now IMHO anyway. I played Oblivion with Vilja and Viconia and they were great mods, but Ceri is much better when it comes to combat AI, healing, and all around base structure of a companion mod. I think it was a good idea to "tweak" those things first, and now that they are almost complete you can concentrate on other aspects of her personality and other things. A suggestion I would really like to see in the future, I dont know if it's just me, but there have been plenty of times I found myself wanting to thank Ceri for saving my butt and have no dialog to do so. It would be great to be able to just say thank you and have her react to it. I play with "Dovakiin Relaxes Too" which gives me the option to hug my spouse, but being a role player, I think jumping into the marriage thing without getting to know someone first is a bad idea. Anyway I think it would be cool and definately unique. The ONLY issue I have with the whole Ceri concept is, for some reason, I cannot get the customization patch to work properly. I have no idea what I am doing, let alone, what I am doing wrong. I follow your step by step instructions, but for some reason it still does not work. Like I said I have no idea what I am doing, so explaining "where" things go wrong exactly is not that easy for me. But anyway, I voted for the "Backstory/quests for Ceri" because I think being able to get to know your companion would be the next most important thing on the list. Peace