LancerChronics

So, I am using the mod that allows you to wear layered armor with all clothing, and I'm noticing one of the biggest culprits of (bad) clipping are the bags that are on belts of the chest armors (Leather and Combat Armor) I noticed that the Combat Armor belt is its own chunk, and was wondering if it would be possible to just delete the bags and belt around the waist. Assuming I have it right, there shouldn't need to be any texture alterations, and even all the combat armor texture mods would work with it. (Which would be great, as it lines up perfectly with my current favorite armor, the Minutemen General Coat, which has combat armor under the coat, but actual combat armor appearance overrides it flawlessly.) Thank you.. PS: Noticing some screenshots have a codpiece for people wearing combat armor. This does not appear on my character, so i assume it is related to maybe an upgraded version of the combat armor. If this could be deleted as well, it would be great, as the without the belt, I feel it would unbalance things.) PS2: My character is female, so really, thats the only gender I would need, if that matters.

So, while I attempt to suss out just what programs I need to start modding values like duration, and even maybe talent progression, I decided to try a little experiment. I wanted to see if I could mix and match the various Spiritshift abilities, as there are .unity3d files for all of them, as well as the base form. So, I took the Boar Tusks file and renamed it to the same name as the Wolf Claws. I took the Bear hide and renamed it to the regular. And I took the Cat Flurry and renamed it to the Wolf's knockdown. (Both of them). Then booted up the game, after making sure i had backups of everything. So what happened? Not a damn thing, which is a little frustrating. No alterations. No anomolies. Not even a system crash. Just... Nothing. Like I changed nothing. So what's up with that... do these files not even get used? A lot of mods on the Nexus seem to alter the files in the folder... Why would the game simply ignore altering something like that? Hell, I feel like I could take like the Transcendant suffering file, rename it to the Boar file, and turn into a Boar, and nothing might happen.... (besides turning into a completely vanilla boar, of course) Any explanations?

huh, i wonder if it defaults to enabled. My computer is self built, but i've never messed with any setting like that before. Maybe others will get lucky, and it'll just happen to be on for them.

New thing I learned today that I was ecstatic about (Windows 7): When the game updates when you don't want it too, simple turn off updates (again) and go find TESV.exe. Right-click and select "Restore Previous Version". A window will pop up, wait a minute or two, and a list of files will appear. Select the most recent one, right-click "copy", and paste into the Skyrim folder, overriding the updating. Finally, mentally flip off Bethesda and Steam in your mind, while cracking open your favorite drink!

Nobody? I think I've had this problem since day one and nobody else has it? If someone could test their game... open up character creation the automatically enter with what you got, and see if they get the same expression. Just so I can know if the issue is isolated to me?

How she actually looks: Note the furrowed eyebrows, squinting, and pouty lips. Any ideas? How do I fix? Help would be greatly appreciated.

... And how do i fix it? How she is supposed to look: And in the next post (file size limit)..... How she looks after exiting Character creation.

I guess I'm the only one experiencing this... :( I really wanna start learning to make models and stuff...but I can't without Blender.

Gah, this has me practically frothing at the mouth! Install Blender. Get Nif Scripts --- "I'm sorry, but you need to download and install Blender first". Okay...I did get the 7-zip version, lets get the exe it automatically gives me. Install. Run Nif Scripts- "I'm sorry, you need to download Python 2.6" Log on, download latest Python. (2.7) Run Nif Scripts - "I'm sorry, you need to download Python 2.6" Separate window pops up. Download a SECOND Python (2.6) Run Nif Scripts - "I'm Sorry, You need to get Pyffi 2.2." Opens Website...There is no Pyfii 2.2. Download lastest Pyffi, breathe sigh of relief when it say 2.2 in the installer. Run Nif Scripts - "I'm Sorry. You need to get Pyffi 2.2" WHAT?! Search internet, someone says restart is required. Restart computer, Run Nif Scripts - "I'm Sorry. You need to get Pyffi 2.2" Search web again, Someone says to uninstall everything and start over. I call bulls***. Log on to Nexus forums, and hope for some help. I hate Blender now, And I've never even used it yet. Help!

So I'm trying to take a piece of one model and stick it on another model... I can move it over/make it show up in nifskope. I've tried copying it directly. Copying it and adding it to the children of the main mod. Creating a duplicate and just copying the values over. But all of it ends in one of two things: 1) My game instantly crashes to desktop when the model is loaded. 2) My character becomes a massive blob of grey flat plains and vertices, all extending outward...like a sea urchin. I heard that it used to be easy to do this in Oblivion, but not in Skyrim. Any new tricks that''s help me get this working?

Ahah! Not too shabby! It's actually the other direction I had to adjust... Mine was set at 0.25....I changed it to 2. There is a slight disassociation between my character and ground shadow, but it's only a few inches...and at the right angle, my heads shadow appears on my butt cheeks, but i can work with this. If only a temporary solution. Best news is trees/rocks all seem to be okay, and their shadows apply to the character normally as well.... Also all NPCs look 100x better!. Gonna try bumping it to 3 and walk into White Run with trees everywhere, see the results.

bActorSelfShadowing=0 doesn't do jack either.

Sadly, I have found no such option yet in the ini, or in various forums... Tree shadowing and land shadowing have no effect on Self Shadowing

How do I remove shadows cast onto the body by the head, etc, but keep tree shadows and the like? I have an issue where shadows cast on the character, by the character (in sunlight) are very choppy and ugly. Also, during a Sunny Day at noon, all NPCs appear really dark. only really showing the sun's lightsource, and the rest is dark. So while the ground glows from the sunlight, their look almost black against it from most angles, cause the game doesn't account for reflected light off surfaces...so i'd like to get rid of their shadows as well. "Colorful Lights" mod fixed most of my issues indoors. But outside....

SOLUTION FOUND! REINSTALLED SKYRIM. DOWNLOADED NEWEST DRIVERS ..... IT WORKS!