Neotox428 Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 Hi all...I am totally baffled! Help needed. So I created a stand alone follower some time ago. I decided I wanted to change the default outfit, I load it up in CK and made the outfit changes and when I loaded the game to see if the outfit changed her face was jacked up. I have attached a picture of before and after. The original was yesterday and the jacked up one is today after the changes. Can someone tell me what the heck caused this...really pissed me off and even copied over the ESP in the mod with the original from yesterday but it didn't work. Still a jacked up face texture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorrp10 Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 When you created a standalone follower, did you design her in Racemenu and export the head? Cause if you did, you should still have her original tint mask in SKSE/Plugins/Chargen. What happens is it looks like CK has regenned her head, and likely overwrote the tintmask under textures/actors/character/facegendata/facetint/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neotox428 Posted August 6 Author Share Posted August 6 Yes I created her in Racemenu....and yep I think i have all the files. So did it overwrite the files in the mod or somewhere in the game directory? If in the mod then if I just copy over the files with the tint masks and stuff in it then it should work right or will I have to basically redo the mod itself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neotox428 Posted August 6 Author Share Posted August 6 OOOPPS...well that didn't work...now she has no head at all! LMAO Seems I need to flipping start all over now. Reinstall the mod first I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neotox428 Posted August 6 Author Share Posted August 6 Well this is really a bummer now....I uninstalled the mod....reninstalled the mod and now she is nowhere to be found....tried a new playthrough...went to where she is suppose to be....nowhere to be found....tried like 3 new games...and nowhere. This is so jacked up. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorrp10 Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 About impossible to say anything without seeing actual files. If you want to make that mod available somewhere, I can take a look. I would need: The .esp of the mod, as well as any other files that are part of it. If you exported her head in Racemenu, you should have the .nif head mesh and .dds face texture. I.e. if you exported her under name "Neotox", you should have "Neotox.nif" and "Neotox.dds" in Data/SKSE/Plugins/CharGen. Include those as well. If you also saved her as a preset (i.e. Neotox), there should be a "Neotox.jslot" in Data/SKSE/Plugins/CharGen/Presets/ If you don't want to make the mod available publicly, you can send me a link via message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neotox428 Posted August 6 Author Share Posted August 6 Hi Scorrp10...so you were correct it was an overwrite on the tint masks. I replaced them and all was well. Think i figured out why the follower ghosted me too. Somehow CK was saving the esp but not the info in it. So in essence it was a blank esp. I am using the new CK 1.6 so don't know what was going on with that. It did however make a backup of the original esp so I was able to recover it. What was really strange is when I uninstalled the mod and reinstalled it from the original mod it still wasn't showing up in game. After I put the backup esp back in the mix and replaced the face tint files it all is working now. But while I have your attention, I think I am missing the tri files for the hair. I get a message say so and also from certain angles her hair looks kind of transparent. It's like you can see her scalp. I have to figure out where the tri files are put and link them to it I guess. All her hair files are in AAA_Hair in CK. Do the tri files go there and link to the folder or do they go somewhere else? Thanks for your interest and help in my issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorrp10 Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 I don't think that's the missing .tri causing transparent hair. Those are just morph files, governing how a given hairstyle conforms to the head. More likely, your hairdo is missing a "HairLine" extra part. For example, I went into CK, loaded 'KS Hairdos' as my active mod, opened '0Aikea' hairstyle, and created its duplicate called '0Aikea2'. This hairstyle includes 3 extra parts: scalp liner, headband, and Hairline (Aikea_HL). I deleted the Aikea_HL extra part from the 0Aikea2, and saved the plugin. Then, in game, I created a character, first using the original 0Aikea hair, and then using the altered (minus HairLine) 0Aikea2. The difference is quite obvious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neotox428 Posted August 6 Author Share Posted August 6 That makes total sense as to what is going on with the hair but I am pretty sure I have all those files included. I thought I had everything sorted out and working again but I am back to square one now. I went in and did the edit to the esp file again this afternoon and copied the tint files over the mod and bam....same thing. No head at all...and no default outfit either. She has the weapons I changed but no default outfit nor no head and nude. Here is my steps to edit the esp... 1. Load CK 2. checkbox skyrim, Ks hairdo, armor esp, and my follower esp set to active 3. open AAA_follower(my follower) 4. go to inventory tab and set Default outfit to Armormyfolloweroutfit. It shows up in the box with all the armor parts and load on her body in preview screen. 5. Save then go to facegen tab...import her npc file. Try to export it with cntl+F4 (but nothing happens) no popup. 6. Save again and close ck 7. overwrite the 2 facetint files in the mod with correct files without the goofy eye paint. Load game into save that she is working fine in and she looks great. She has the new weapons I gave her in the edit. because I am using NFF with the old version of her I have her standard outfit the same as the new default outfit. I remove the standard outfit in NFF and force her default outfit and nothing. She is nude everything else is fine. 8. I create a new game...create Test dude and go to the inn where she is and she is nude with no head at all. That is so strange. And I tried several "test dudes" lol and all the same thing...flipping soooo frustrating. What am I doing wrong? Last night it wasn't saving anything in the CK. It was in essence a blank esp and I am sure that is why the wasn't showing up at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neotox428 Posted August 7 Author Share Posted August 7 Ok...I kept trying until I finally got everything working but I had to give her a fine cloths default outfit...can't use the armor I wanted to use or it won't work. I imported her NPC file but it still had the funky eyes. Plus the hair is more translucent but didn't do anything with the hair. Also instead of almost black hair she has a dark brownish hair. But at lease it is all working in all game loads...even new game test loads. It's just not working how I want it to with the armor. All weapons are there and her coin purse as well. At lease it's progress..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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