So during lockdown I've decided to replay DA trilogy for first time on PC and use mods. I'm a complete novice, I've only used mods for five days (I've researched lots of youtube videos, manuals etc) but I'm in the dark about most stuff. I'm using Vortex to download and install mods, please don't judge me, I know people say it's better to use mod manager but nexus makes it really hard *not* to use Vortex (I've tried not to use Vortex, it's hard, lots of manual downloads won't work even when I uninstalled Vortex and tried mod manage, so I had to reinstall vortex).
Long story short Iwanted some pretty hair mods but couldn't get them to show up at all until I accidentally discovered chargenmorph compiler but I have not idea what I did but I got my hair mods to work so I didn't really care how. Not wanting to loose the hair mods, I created a bunch of characters at the same time, all diff origins. I started a F!Tabris playthrough with Ferelden Elves mod, but the hair colours were way too bright so I deleted some mods to do with colour. Everything was fine until Duncan showed up, I couldn't see his face well (too dark) so I tinkered with some appearance mods, adjusted gamma, went back to Tabris - who has kept her beautiful hair intact, but most of the female Elves are now missing their head and the back of their head gone, some male elves are missing hair (but not back of head) (I can see eyeballs and teeth *shudders*) and I have no idea how to fix it. Googling I realize I might have accidentally deleted a file in override folder but really I have no idea what I've done. On a side note, on a Dalish elf playthrough I created at the same time, Tamlen I can only see his head and bow. I have hair/beauty mods are installed via Vortex as well as in chargenmorph compiler, but these were installed via Vortex before the no hair issue so I'm not sure that's the issue. I also haven't ever used the Dragon Age Redesigned mod.
This is happening across the board on all my games. I'm also experiencing cloudy eyes and a lot of them seem to have shiny, glowing skin in some NPCs like Eleanor Cousland and her friend but I've never used Dragon Age Resigned or Improved Atmosphere mods which I heard are too big culprits for cloudy eye problems. It's disruppting the games to see characters eyeballs!
What am I doing wrong? How can I fix this?? I've tried disabling and enabling all kinds of mods (process of elimination) I've tried deleting and reinstalling the compiler, I've tried creating new ones with extra mods. Nothing works. weirdly the hair mods always stay for my warden. Help. Please!
My mod list (my enabled ones):
Lady Deadlock's Morrigan redefined
Alistair's revised romance
banter acceleration
CS new tints for hairs
DA chargenmorph compiler v125
Grey wardens of Fereldan
Alistair's nightmare
Extra dog slot
Lock bash
Auto loot
Elves of Fereldan
Farewell Duncan
Female elf for creator screen
JB3 textures
Morrigan restoration patch
QUDAO fix patch (Qwinn)
Retconned Cullen v 2.0 hazel eyes
Ser Gilmore NPC companion
Skip fade
Theta HD
Whispers of Labyrinth
Zevran ASAP