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update again.. Just did a clean install of skyrim. No mods, put in only the loose mesh + texture, no good. So I figured maybe it's the INI. Deleted and regenerated the INIs, still no good... I noticed that all other replacement meshes load just fine, body, hair, weapon armor, all except femalehead.nif. Honestly can't figure out what's so special about my computer lol. Can anyone help? I even unpacked skyrim - meshes.bsa, replaced the mesh and repacked.... There should be no vanilla mesh left on my hard drive, but the game STILL somehow manages to load vanilla mesh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

UPDATE! I replaced the custom head mesh with feet mesh (No you dont have feet on your face, you simply have no face. Not as funny as I expected) and confirmed that before using setrace, vanilla NPCs keep using vanilla head mesh! Any idea on how to make them use custom mesh?

This guy has had the eyelid bug, and fixed it by using head mesh from ECE: http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/1964049-unsolvable-mod-issue-eyeliners-and-racemenu/ My problem is kinda different. I have the custom mesh, but for some reason some NPCs are not using it. All vanilla and DLC NPCs have bugged eyelids, but mod-added NPCs (for example added by requiem, vanilla races) are fine. Custom race characters are fine. PC is fine, even if PC is vanilla race. Also, if I use setrace command to change the race of a vanilla NPC, the NPC will get a dark face, but the eyelid problem will be solved. I think the shape of the head is different after using setrace. I could be wrong, need some notably different-looking head mesh to know for sure. The only difference I find between vanilla and DLC NPCs and other characters is that, vanilla and DLC NPCs have their mesh data stored in bsa files. Therefore, I suspect that the cause to this is that somehow the game keeps loading the vanilla head mesh (or chargen data) in the bsa files. FYI, I am using custom chargen data for vanilla NPCs, and I can see that they look different (so vanilla chargen data is overrided?). For most of the NPCs, with or without the chargen data, the bug is still there. However, if the chargen data is done wrong and the NPC gets the dark face, the eyelid problem is gone. wtflol. So, is there any way to confirm this? Any way to make NPCs use the custom mesh? Thanks in advance

I am also having this problem :( So can you please tell me in detail how to fix it? You are basically the only person on the internet to deal with this glitch OvO. Just wanted to know the directory of the nif file. I dont think meshes\character\characterassets and meshes\characterassets are correct, because I do not have any of the two folders here, and it should at least be "character assets" o.o

I did a little something with my load order today, and when I played, torches stopped working. I can see my character raise his arm like holding a torch, but there's nothing in his hand. No torch, no light. However when I equip a torch and then throw all the torches away, I can see them on the ground, lit. With this I belive there's nothing wrong with the meshes/textures. I didn't do anything to modify these things anyway. So what could have gone wrong? I'll get a screenshot later if anyone finds my description confusing.

you dont get it... it's my second playthrough so i know how to do it, except i don't get the mysterious note this time...... I get a letter from a friend as in the location of a word wall

Well the thing is, I killed the woman and finished the quest Innocence lost, waited plenty of hours and traveled to another hold. Then a courier appeared and handed me a LETTER FROM A FRIEND........... I kept waiting and travelling but after like a week in game I still havent got the mysterious note........ So... How can i go down the dark brotherhood quest line? Do i need to clear the letter from a friend location first for the courier to spawn again?