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  1. It is indeed quite weird.   Just pick some mod-added NPC, and establish what causes their black face - that is, which head part EditorID  does not match a shape in their head  .nif.    Once you can establish it for  one , it might be possible to determine while vanilla NPCs are not affected.

  2. Any mods that potentially mess with any of the head part  editor IDs?    Or with races?

    Lets do a deep dive.   Say I got this Ivy mod by LamaKreis which adds this cutie:
    image.thumb.jpeg.273408917f287295d5ccb8bb5b6560b5.jpeg

    Examined via More Informative Console, one can see that her base is defined and last changed in Ivy.esp and  so is her ref.    No overloads.    Ivy .esp is a light mod, and in my load order,   it index is FE(05B)

    So, I go into SSEEdit,  find Ivy.esp, expand her NPC (Actor) record, form Id  FE05BD64.   I see that her Race (RNAM) is Wood Elf,  and scrolling further, I see that her head parts are:
    FemaleBrowsHuman11   (000E4DA8)
    AAA_Ivy_Face (FE05B801)   
    AAA_Ivy_Hair (FE05BD6B)    
    If I look into head part section and examine AAA_Ivy_Hair, I can see that two Extra parts:
    AAA_Ivy_Hairline (FE05BD6C)
    AAA_Ivy_Hairline02 (FE05B800)

    Any part that is not listed specifically in the actor record, will be provided by the Race record.
    So I go to Skyrim.esm, Race section, WoodElfRace (00013749) and look for Head Data - Female Head Data, I can see that default head parts are (excludng those already defined in the actor record)   This is where it is a really good idea which mods are potentially overwriting the WoodElfRace record,  and what default head parts they might be listing.
    FemaleMouthHumanoidDefault (0005150F)
    FemaleEyesWoodElfBrown (00051510)

    Those editor IDs (in bold) are important.    Lets now go to SSE/Data/Meshes/actors/character/FacegenData/FaceGeom/Ivy.esp   and open 00000D64.nif in NifScope.   (Since FE05B is the plugin index, the NPC FormID within the mod is just 00000D64)
    I expand the FaceGen NiNode and look at the component mesh names:
    image.thumb.png.e353783046ac5ac5474261c30844b6ad.png

    Now, as you can see, the names of those meshes are EXACTLY  (capitalization is important) the same as the Editor IDs of the head parts listed above in bold.  Even a single letter mismatch in one of those names and you get a black face bug.

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  3. It is much easier to get black face on vanilla NPCs cause you can have multiple mods competing for them.   Mod-added NPCs should have a single head file and single esp record.

    Unless you did some shenanigans such as converting their mods to ESL or squashed mods together into a single plugin and such...

  4. You did not modify those quest forms.    You modified  TopicBranch and TopicInfo forms which have those quests as their parents.   Unfortunately,  CK does not list those forms in the Object Window.    You can open up your mod in SSEEdit, and look through the TopicInfos in your mod, and make a note of their quest  parents.

     

  5. It is just an .esp and a bunch of scripts.    Should work in SSE just fine.   If using Vortex, just click 'mod manager download' on mod's page while managing SSE.  Or do manual download and drag the .7z file into  the 'Drop Files'  box.

  6. Not that I seen that, but you generally do NOT need any 'follower framework quest'.      The game already has a 'DialogueFavorGeneric' quest (5A6DC)  which has that 'Follow me, I need your help'   Which generally requires that NPC is:
    member of  'PotentialFollowerFaction'
    has relationship rank of 1 or greater with player
    Has a voice type that is in the 'VoicesFollowerNeutal' list.

  7. It can happen because of two things: either the Bijins.esps are being  overloaded by some other .esp that points to a different nude body mesh.    Speaking of which, weird that you have both Bijio AIO.esp and the category ones - pretty sure it is an either-or proposition.

    OR, your Bijin body meshes got overwritten somehow.    Either they have reverted to original files, or something else overwrote them.

  8. You have to be more specific.     Are you talking about body physics when nude or clothed?    Bijins  generally share body mesh per category (Warmaidens/Wives/NPCs)   I.e. Aela, Ria, Njada, Beleval etc  nude torso's  all point at actors\character\Bijin Warmaidens\femalebody_1.nif, which by default is a basic CBBE or UUNP body  (chosen via FOMOD) .    If you want their nude bodies to have physics, you would have to replace these meshes with 3BA or BHUNP ones,  best done via a Bijin BodySlides add-on

    However, if you are talking about body physics while dressed, that really has noting to do with Bijins, but with clothes/armor mods.    Bijins wear vanilla armors,  nothing custom, so you need to check whichever vanilla armor replacer mod you installed last.    I see you got 'BHUNP Skyrim Vanilla Outfits.esp',  which I suppose is a replacer.    But maybe you since installed another replacer that defaults to non-physics meshes for compatibility.    All you likely need is to rebuild the physics armor meshes of your choice in BodySlide.

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  9. I am not quite sure what you mean.    Just assigning a color to mesh in the viewport just helps to distinguish it from others.    If you UV unwrap, you can assign image as texture, and then texture paint it.   Then you can save the resulting image as .png and later convert it to a .dds.  If you create a procedurally generated material (or load one from material library, you basically can add a bunch of texture image nodes and then 'bake' those textures  (diffuse, normal, specular ,roughness etc)  

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  10. I suggest taking a look at this mesh in NifScope and actually in-game.    OtfitStudio has a tendency to over-brighten.    Remember that you can always press L to toggle lighting.   Here is a piece I am presently working on.    VERY bright in OS.
    image.thumb.png.6c31a6a433f87d48de5763c3794f10f0.png

    With Lighting toggled off:
    image.thumb.png.c603f4095f2824c3cd31b9815dc1e819.png

    In NifScope:
    image.thumb.png.02a112c52b7d85dac96a49bda6ef2ca0.png

    In game:
    image.thumb.jpeg.da590dba30552a24972ba6d5c919c0df.jpeg

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  11. I could give it a spin.  And no, I do not need payment.   That said, I looked at the armor, and it is pretty badly done to begin with.    UV maps are all crooked,  normals don't really match the diffuse textures.  The skirt and belt meshes are very badly made.

    About  your notices:
    "It bakes skin into the armor" - not sure what you mean by that, ALL body armor that has exposed parts 'bakes the skin in'.   If you mean that it is a single size body with no BodySlide files, that is easily handled.

    "First Person is a bit scuffed" - yeah, cause its gauntlets don't have their own textures.    They have the boots texture assigned, which does not match them at all.       

    "Cannot be improved" - a matter of adding a few keywords, as well as construction and temper forms.    No biggie.

    "Clipping issues" - that is  the part about meshes being poorly done.    They can be bent a bit so they don't clip, but it will not be that much of an improvement.

    Goodness...    at closer inspection, they basically took meshes from one mod,  haphazardly slammed on  bastardized textures from another mod - without bothering to even try to adjust them.    Only on the boots, the textures actually match the mesh.     A hack job if I ever seen one.     Sure, it can be adapted to 3BA, and stuff,....

  12. If by 'cheat room' you mean QAsmoke, you, and you want to add your stuff to the "All Standard Armor" Dwemer Dresser:

    Start CK,  load in your mod file.

    In the 'Container'  section under 'World Objects', look for 'QAArmorContainer'   (000C2CD6)   Double-click to open it.   Move the window a bit to the side.

    Now go into 'Armor' section under Items, and locate your mod armors you want to add to that chest.    Now, you just click an armor entry line in the Object Window and drag it into Item List section of the Container window.

    If you rather want to add those armors to the 'All Dragonborn Armor' chest, you need to make sure you check Dragonborn.esm as one of masters, and in the Containers, look for 'DLC02QAArmorContainer'

     

    Now, if you would rather use your own chest:

    In the 'Containter' section under World Objects,  filter for word 'empty'.    Double click the container you would like to use, i.e. TreasBanditChestBossEmpty.   Change its ID to something else, i.e. "MyModArmorChest", and it's name to, say,  "Thomic Stridon Mod Armor", click OK, and when prompted, to Create a new form, choose yes.   Now double-click to open your just created container form, and click-drag the armors from your mod into its Item List as described above.

    Now go to Cell View window, And among Interiors, look for 'QASmoke'.   Double click it to load it into Render window.   

    Now, navigating this window can be a bit weird at first.    You use mouse wheel to zoom,    click mouse wheel and drag to pan around.    Hold Shift and just move your mouse in the render window to rotate your view.    When you find a good spot, click and drag the containter you created from Object Window directly into Render window, and to the spot where you want it.    It should align the chest to floor by default.
    To rotate:   press 'W', click the blue circle and drag your mouse cursor to rotate the chest around Z axis.

    To adjust position: press E, and click-drag the arrows to move the chest along a specific axis.    If you move it off the floor, press F to put it on floor.   

    Hold S and click-drag anywhere on the chest to adjust its sze.

    Be sure to save your plugin before exiting.
     

     

     

  13. To begin with, it narrows the range significantly.    Lets look at this example:  it shows 21 textures.   10 of them are regular (diffuse), 10 are their normal counterparts,  (with _n suffix) and one is  glow map for windows (_g suffix), so you are already down to 10 potential textures.    Next, look at texture names.   They are pretty descriptive, and can help narrow the search further.    

    If you are still unsure which texture is the one you need, I would suggest  looking up the actual model .nif.    On the house in my screenshot, checking further into the Model, shows it is Architecture\WhiteRun\WRBuildings\WRTempleofK01.nif.     If I extract that .nif from one of the Skyrim - Meshes  bsa files and open in NifScope, and click on the part that interests me, it will highlight the  corresponding BSTriShape in the list, just expand it and its BSLightingShaderProperty in order to access its BSShaderTextureSet - it will have the texture used for that part.

    image.thumb.png.e792a8414c6d4a9510f01bb1c6c7a2ea.png

    Now,  caveat - NifScope might show one texture, but in game, a different one might be applied via a texture set.    However, the name will likely be VERY similar.    
    I.e. .nif might show a texture  named 'WRWoodBranchWall01.dds',   but in the texture list seen via console, there is 'WRWoodBranchWall01Color.dds'

     

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