Alright So after what feels like weeks trying to figure this out I feel like I've narrowed it down but I'm not quite sure what to do from here. A quick background: I installed Skyrim The Legendary edition a few weeks ago along with a lot of mods. One of them being this one: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/48470/? Everything was working fine (or so i thought... To be fair I'd only played for about 15 mins) until I tried to change a dark elf's hair in Windhelm. Not only did it not work but i slowly began to realize a bunch of NPC's faces were grey all the way down to the neck creating an incredibly visible (and ugly) neck seam where the neck meets the body. This only got worse in very sunny and bright places like Riverwood. After some research i discovered that mods that edit NPCs can cause this. So I deleted the mod from my game and computer and started a new game. Still seeing grey faces! So anyway I took a bit of a break and decided to uninstall my whole game and all mods and start from scratch. Making sure to not install ANY mods that are supposed to alter NPCs. I got everything running well and was excited to finally start my game when I enter Riften and what do I see... Grey faces... Grey faces everywhere :sad: So I'm incredibly frustrated at this point and don't really understand whats going on. Maybe it wasn't that mod after all and I just hadn't noticed because most of my 15 minutes of game time was spent at night. After some simple deduction I realized that this is ONLY affecting vanilla NPCs. Any NPCs added by 3DNPCs and Inconsequential NPCs are fine. Also this is not affecting all the vanilla NPCs. For example in Riften Balimund and Aerin have grey faces while Mjoll does not. Now I had never really used TES5Edit but it seemed like that was the next thing to look at. So i downloaded it and looked up Balimund (sorry if I'm not using the right terminology, I just started using this today) as he 100% has a grey face in my game, too see what mod could be affecting his actor (?) data. Opening up his info I see after the main Skyrim.esm he is only edited by The Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch. Scrolling down I see he the only thing that it seems to be changing is the "Tint Layers"? A screen shot of this is attached. So yeah, I'm not quite sure what to do here or even if I'm on the right track with the patch but I can't think of anything else that would be causing it. If anyone knows how to fix this, or at least some ideas on things I could try, please let me know! This has been causing me so many headaches. Also in case it may help, here is my load order: 0 0 Skyrim.esm 1 1 Update.esm 2 2 Dawnguard.esm 3 3 HearthFires.esm 4 4 Dragonborn.esm 5 5 Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch.esp 6 6 Unique Flowers & Plants.esm 7 7 ApachiiHair.esm 8 8 ApachiiHairFemales.esm 9 9 ApachiiHairMales.esm 10 a Campfire.esm 11 b ClimatesOfTamriel.esm 12 c RSkyrimChildren.esm 13 d HighResTexturePack01.esp 14 e HighResTexturePack02.esp 15 f HighResTexturePack03.esp Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp 16 10 Unofficial High Resolution Patch.esp Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.esp Unofficial Hearthfire Patch.esp Unofficial Dragonborn Patch.esp 17 11 Skyrim Particle Patch for ENB - Flame Atronach Fix.esp 18 12 Real Roads.esp 19 13 Vivid Landscapes.esp 20 14 EnhancedLightsandFX.esp 21 15 ELFX - Exteriors.esp 22 16 ClimatesOfTamriel-Dawnguard-Patch.esp 23 17 mintylightningmod.esp 24 18 SkyUI.esp 25 19 AncientTonguesGreatSword.esp 26 1a AncientTonguesSword.esp 27 1b BlackSacramentDBReplacer.esp 28 1c Blades_of_Chaos.esp 29 1d Character Creation Overhaul.esp 30 1e CCO - Diverse Races And Genders.esp 31 1f CCO - Dynamic Skill Progression.esp 32 20 Claw.esp 33 21 DeadlyDragons.esp 34 22 Crossbows_Basic_Collection_EN_LL.esp 35 23 DaggerCraft.esp 36 24 DiamondCrossbow.esp 37 25 DiamondWeaponsN.esp 38 26 Differently Ebony.esp 39 27 Dual Sheath Redux.esp 40 28 FNIS.esp 41 29 Ghosu - Weapon Pack 1.esp 42 2a KatanaCrafting.esp 43 2b KTABladeOfWoe.esp 44 2c RaceMenu.esp 45 2d RaceMenuPlugin.esp 46 2e RAS - Riverwood CharGen.esp 47 2f XPMSE.esp 48 30 AzarHairPonyTail 03 - Havok.esp 49 31 LFox Alchemists Have Ingredients Medium.esp 50 32 Predator Vision.esp 51 33 dD - Realistic Ragdoll Force - Realistic.esp 52 34 Craftable Torches.esp 53 35 female mannequins.esp 54 36 RaceMenuMorphsCBBE.esp 55 37 dD - Enhanced Blood Main.esp 56 38 dD-Dragonborn-Dawnguard-EBT Patch.esp 57 39 dD-Reduced Splatter Size.esp 58 3a dD-Reduced Wound Size.esp 59 3b PrvtI_HeavyArmory_DG_Addon.esp 60 3c StalhrimExtraCrafting.esp 61 3d OCR-Fixes.esp 62 3e TGLNordArmor.esp 63 3f ElvenScout.esp 64 40 LadyKdCirclets.esp 65 41 Guild Duelist Armor.esp 66 42 3DNPC.esp 67 43 Complete Crafting Overhaul_Remade.esp 68 44 WetandCold.esp 69 45 WetandCold - Ashes.esp 70 46 ClimatesOfTamriel-Dragonborn-Patch.esp 71 47 Book Covers Skyrim.esp SoundsofSkyrimComplete.esp 72 48 Vividian - Weather Patch CoT.esp 73 49 Vividian - Extended Weathers - CoT.esp 74 4a ClimatesOfTamriel-Nights-Level-1.esp 75 4b Vividian - Extended Weathers.esp 76 4c TrueStorms.esp 77 4d TrueStorms-ClimatesOfTamriel.esp 78 4e ELFXEnhancer.esp Skyrim Immersive Creatures.esp 79 4f Perky.esp 80 50 SkyFalls + SkyMills + DG + DB.esp SoS_CoT_Patch.esp SoS_TrueStorms_Patch.esp 81 51 Akavari Katana Re_borne.esp 82 52 ethereal_elven_overhaul.esp 83 53 OBIS.esp 84 54 RealisticNeedsandDiseases.esp 85 55 Radiant and Unique Potions Poisons and BOOZE.esp SoS_ELFX+Enhancer_Patch.esp Skyrim Immersive Creatures - DLC2.esp 86 56 SFO - Expanded Diversity.esp 87 57 AMB Glass Variants Lore.esp 88 58 Guard Dialogue Overhaul.esp 89 59 Immersive Weapons.esp 90 5a aMidianborn_Skyforge_Weapons.esp 91 5b Inconsequential NPCs.esp 92 5c Run For Your Lives.esp 93 5d Cloaks.esp 94 5e SMIM-Merged-All.esp 95 5f UFO - Ultimate Follower Overhaul.esp 96 60 fallentreebridges.esp 97 61 Random Alternate Start.esp 98 62 Improved Poisons.esp 99 63 FarmhouseChimneys.esp100 64 RealisticWaterTwo.esp101 65 Watercolor_for_ENB_RWT_RND.esp102 66 RealisticWaterTwo - Legendary.esp103 67 RealisticWaterTwo - Waves.esp104 68 CCO - Permanent Birthsigns.esp105 69 Skyrim Flora Overhaul.esp106 6a Unique Grasses.esp107 6b Bandit Patrols.esp108 6c Lore Weapon Expansion.esp109 6d PrvtI_HeavyArmory.esp110 6e TCOSS.esp111 6f isilNarsil.esp112 70 Nicoroshi Creations.esp113 71 BlackSacramentArmor.esp114 72 Dread Knight Weapon Set.esp115 73 RND_AnimalLoot.esp RND_USKP-Patch.esp116 74 UniqueWeaponsRedone.esp117 75 Unique Uniques.esp118 76 Insanity's Dragonbane.esp119 77 Lore Weapon Expansion - Daedric Crescent.esp120 78 Lore Weapon Expansion - Goldbrand.esp121 79 Lore Weapon Expansion - Relics of the Crusader.esp122 7a OBISDB.esp123 7b Third Era - Dwemer.esp124 7c viciousdawnbreaker.esp125 7d AlchemistShackMinorImprovements.esp CCO_SIC_Patch.esp126 7e better_torches_brighter_torchlight.esp127 7f LearnAlchemyFromRecipes.esp128 80 ExplosiveBoltsVisualized.esp129 81 Elemental Staves.esp130 82 Insanity's Shields.esp131 83 TrissArmorRetextured.esp132 84 Witch Of The Wild.esp133 85 Cloaks - Dawnguard.esp134 86 Faction Crossbows.esp135 87 Dr_Bandolier.esp136 88 1nivWICCloaks.esp137 89 1nivWICSkyCloaksPatch.esp138 8a KS Hairdos - HDT.esp139 8b VTF-Dawnguard.esp140 8c loners_sword.esp141 8d WeaponsOf3E - No Leveled Lists.esp142 8e WeaponsOf3E.esp143 8f Silverlight Armor.esp144 90 Apocalypse - The Spell Package.esp145 91 Ghorza's Armor.esp146 92 LustmordVampireArmor.esp147 93 PrinceandPauper.esp148 94 NonEssentialChildren.esp149 95 CalienteVanillaArmorTweaks.esp RSChildren_PatchBooksofSkyrim.esp PNP 3D and Inc NPC patch.esp150 96 Dual Sheath Redux Patch.esp151 97 RSChildren.esp152 98 RSChildren - Complete.esp153 99 Prince and Pauper RS Incon and 3Dnpcs.esp
