AlanXEverfrost

OK, so I get horribly Dark Faces if I use NPC Female Overhaul. If I only use Better Females by Bella several have horrible shiny hair and some of them are bald. If I try to combine that with Beautiful Female NPC's as it's suggested by the mod maker a lot of them are bald... I just can't win. I'm seriously begging you people here...how do I fix this? I've read through the mods and they state that they replace the textures, and I have found the textures names after having found a duplicate of the mod which I coppied into the directory. But doesn't that mean that I pasted it over existing files? IF that is so, then didn't I lose the original textures...so how do I get those back. IF that isn't the problem, then what is? As far as I can tell, the reason I get these screwed up characters is because some of the mods have replaced (as the descriptions stated they would) other textures. So is there some reason it wouldn't go back if I replaced them with all the original files? Because if that WOULD work, then all I would need to do is get those original textures. Which I would need to get from someone else obviously, but I would hope that some of the people sympathetic for a broken Skyrim game would offer help with that... Seriously, I cannot play my game like this. And I don't get how to fix it if not like this (and if it is by replacing the files, WHERE???)

Well, I installed the mods, started a game, made a save, turned it off, back on...still the same hair and dark faces. I did notice that one character had her normal skin color again, but another now also had shiny purple hair... Did a new game, without any of the three mods. Riverwood Trader's girl had a dark face. Thought I could deal with it. Played through to Whiterun giant slaying moment, where you meet the companions. Aela with bright purple hair...I need someway to fix this...

Do you mean that if I uninstall the mods in my Nexus Mod Manager and start a new game, it won't be affected? Or if I uninstall the mods, open a save file, save, shut down Skrim and open it again, it would be fixed?

I tried a few mods (Beautiful_Female_NPCs_1_4, Better Females by Bella and NPC Female Overhaul) and one of them (I believe it was Better Females) overwrote the original meshes and textures. However, I got the dreaded Dark Face Bug. Deciding it irritated me enough, I removed some mods...and ended up with several bald followers and marriage candidates. Try with one or another mod...bald AND dark-faced Ysolde. So how can I recover the original, Vanilla mesh and textures without having to re-install Skyrim, losing my mods and save files in the progress? I've thought of looking for a mod that actually installs the original meshes (such a simple concept HAS to have occured to someone else, right) but I couldn't find it anywhere. Is there anybody that knows how to fix this? Please keep in mind that I have very little actual knowledge on computer programing so clear instructions (or a link to such a mod) WOULD be incredibly apreciated. I didn't back up the original meshes (stupid of me, I know) and though I do have the Steam Back-up, that's just a bunch of Disks that will re-install it in it's entirety so I'm probably going to lose all my mods. I could accept losing my save files and would restart a new character if it's the only way, but I do want all the mods I have (apart from those three above mentioned ones) to stay intact.

Ok, so I've done it. I've had a few mods downloaded to improve the looks of characters and somewhere along the way I got the dreaded Dark Face Bug. I looked it up, no easy fixes, so I tried to remove the mods. They replaced some files though, so suddenly a lot of the followers and mariage candidate females were bald. That isn't any better. Returning a single mod managed to give them the improved hair back...except the Dark Faces are stil there with the horrible neck seam, and Ysolda has a bright purple hairdo. I want the old vanilla skyrim character designs back. I could try the mods individually again. Except I didn't back-up the original designs. So I can't simply re-install them while leaving the mods out. I tried googling, but I can't find such a mod anywhere, so here I'm asking if anyone has it, or could make it. It's not even a real mod, I guess. But that you could download a file that re-installs the original meshes and textures to the Skyrim characters. Basically copy it from your own game... I've used the Steam Back-up program, but that just leaves me with a lot of disks that will re-install the game, but I want to keep my save files and mods (except obviously the character mods). Is there a way to make the characters look like they were supposed to again, before modding them? Is there such a mod? Or is that impossible/illegal?