Thanks for those tidbits! Can a new MOR be created for a companion party member using the CC in-game? (Still thinking how to work around the absence of .exe capabilities.) I tried out your idea on editing a MOR (with a text editor). The MOR was already in my override folder and I've been playing with it many hours. I could see the name of the skin within quotes and changed the end of it to the unique tint color file name (which is already working on the skin color of my main character so I know its installed correctly at this time) and saved the MOR. Some internet resources say that GFF files can be edited with text apps. The game crashed with a page read error when opening a saved game. I tried on a few others and some different tints with no improvement. <Maybe "saving" it caused a problem which I need to investigate further.> But I was optimistic there for a while!!