EquestrianMidnight

For some reason, launching the game through Mod Organizer 2 makes the game windowed, but through Steam, it's in fullscreen. I currently do not have the graphics card to support my monitor's resolution, so I'm trying smaller resolutions, but none of them play in fullscreen. Am I stuck playing the game windowed?

Bumping this since this needs to become common knowledge. I haven't played the game for a few months and was close to giving up on modding it because I was so sick of troubleshooting crashing, freezing, etc not because they were happening on my setup, but because everytime I got sent out of the game, I'd have to wait 10-15 minutes just to get to the main menu. After I saw the numerous positive responses to your post, I had to give it a try.Took about 2-3 minutes for the menu to appear, same as my heavily modded SE. Thank you for sharing this. You've made Fallout 4 relevant for me again.

How is this mod going? The prologue released almost 3 years ago hasn't been updated in that amount of time, yet the mod author has turned around and released multiple other mods afterwards that seem to be going well, including yet another custom-voiced follower, another Interesting NPCs-esque mod, a mod to improve the immersion of player dialogue, and even a very interesting new questline about a plague. I can't tell if it was abandoned or intended to be this way.

Bah. I give up. Instead, I'll opt for a Drow-ish color. Hopefully in future Bethesda games, creating any skin color you want will come more easily.

Hmmm. The body mod I use, SAM, has MULTIPLE male body textures. So I'm not entirely sure which one to retexture. Maybe trying just one body texture will do it.

I've found a tutorial for making my own tattoo. See here: "Pick a UV map to work from. Basically, that means finding the skin texture from your favorite body mod. Personally, I use the UNP UV map. Copy the skin texture into an image editor that supports layers (such as Photoshop or GIMP)Select the color #444544. That color will be replaced by the user's chosen color when the tattoo is applied. All other colors will be displayed normally.On a layer above the skin texture, draw your tattoo. Leave the layer background transparent.Save just the tattoo layer (NOT the skin texture) as a DDS file with a transparent background.Create a folder called Textures\Actors\Character\slavetats\yourthing somewhere (not actually inside Skyrim's Data folder, yet. Just on the desktop is fine)Place your DDS file into Textures\Actors\Character\slavetats\yourthingCreate a text file called Textures\Actors\Character\slavetats\yourthing.json containing a tattoo registry for that DDS file (we'll cover that shortly)Add the Textures folder to a .zip or .7z file" Thing is, I don't know if this mod works for male characters, so we'll see.

I've found one user describe the process like this: "{SlaveTats loverslab}? That would let you set up, fairly trivially, a full body black tattoo for your character which you could RP as skin color fairly easily. Although, if you want it to extend to your character's head (and I assume you do) then it is going to be an Oldrim only solution, at least for now. No problem. Don't worry about the NSFW stuff, just get the base mod, create a DDS file that's 512x512 pixels of pure black, and a one entry JSON file to go with it. That way you can get your character as a matt black featureless slab apart from eyes and hair if that's what you have in mind." Thing is, I'm not experienced with this sort of thing at all, so I'm unsure how to do anything described here. Still, I'll see if I can't figure it out. Also, I don't want the skin to be so dark, you can't see his facial features. So hopefully there will be a way to lighten it up a bit.

Hm... I'm not sure if it's necessary to go into creation kit and such yet. I found that KJ's Tattoos mod has a full body option and while it doesn't really cover the whole body, I've been thinking if there's a way to edit it via some kind of DDS editor like Gimp or something to make it affect the entire body. Will begin testing tomorrow.

So I had an idea for a character that requires jet black skin, but it seems Racemenu is unable to create such a skin. Moving all sliders down to their lowest point just creates brown, weirdly enough. Could someone, with a good amount of detail, describe a way to maybe create a bodypaint that covers the entire body? That could work as a skin color. I'm concerned it might be too black, but baby steps, eh? Or any other trick (besides purposefully losing too much VRAM :P) to achieve the look? Will also try researching it myself, but hopefully someone way more knowledgable than I am can give a quick answer.

Bump. I'm actually quite curious too on a subject relatively similar to this and if anyone knowledgable enough answered your question, they may indirectly answer mine.

...I might've just solved this. My most recently installed mod was the Natasha Face Texture mod and upon disabling it, I've played for almost 2 hours in one testing session and then for about an hour and a half in a normal play session with no problems (except for some unusually long save times that occured 3 times in the play session). I never knew texture mods could cause that sort of issue, I guess it was too much for my memory to handle alongside the 4K skin mod I have installed as well. I shall keep testing, but if I do not reply here, consider this issue solved... I friggin hope after almost 4 damn days of trying.

Ah, I'll mention this, just in case. I have 273 plugins installed in total. That's 218 ESPs, 20 ESMs, and 35 ESLs. If that's unhealthy, someone do let me know. Thanks.

No, please, at this point, anything that sounds dumb could be the answer. I once had crashing issues because I had a mod that messed up the Minutemen outfits. Every time I got near Preston Garvey, of all things, I crashed. I was so confused for 2 days. :tongue: Anyway, I have done that recently, but hey, that could be it. Right now, I'm disabling every single mod in groups and testing the game just to ensure it isn't some weird mod problem. I'll be back in a couple of days with results and playing offline as you've suggested. Wish me luck.

I'll check during my next attempt, but I do doubt it. I just left the game running for about an hour and a half with no problems. Though that may not be indicitive of anything either as the game seems to mess up whenever something, anything gets loaded. It's like it just can't, so it messes up.

I did some sorting and tried again. Game crashed just over an hour in. This time, I'll try disabling every mod and then just leaving the game idle. It's crashed just from me standing around. For all I know, this isn't mod related at all. I was also given the idea to try disabling weapon debris. It's something I've never done.