Custom vampire eyes for your player character?

[Mushashi7]

I don't know if this is the right place to post it but I take a chance.



I had a problem I just solved - somehow. I needed custom vampire eyes for my player characcter.

I just started playing as a vampire. But my character's eyes went brown. Boring brown. Yawn...!

I want to have glowing iceblue eyes, but keep the settings for every other NPC. In particularly I wanted to let Serana have her yellow original vampire eyes. I think they fit her well. As a warm brunette she needs warm glowing eyes.
A "dragonborn" should neither have boring brown eyes nor glowing eyes like Serana. A dragonborn is special. More than the average vampire.

It took me a couple of hours to solve it. Maybe others can use it as well
Maybe there is a simpler way. Maybe it can be done easier. But this is the solution that works for me at least.

I read somewhere that Serana uses the "eyevampire_01.dds" and your own player character uses the "eyevampire_02.dds".
That lead me on the trail.

1.
I installed "The Eyes Of Beauty" as my main mod a long time ago as it has a lot of cool eyes.
I use the replacer package (The Eyes Of Beauty PLAYER Unleashed-13722-8-2). I contains textures, two folders named "cubemaps" and "effects" plus an *.esp.

2.
Then I downloaded and grabbed the textures from "Underworld Dawnguard - Blue Vampire Version-22619-1-3" as it has the most smashing glowing iceblue textures I want.
I copy it and overwrote the eyevampire_02.dds with the one already in the "eyes" folder:
Skyrim\Data\Textures\actors\character\eyes\eyevampire_02.dds

I now have the iceblue glowing eye textures in place.

Then I delete the "eyevampire_01.dds" as Serana uses which is present i the same folder just above. The game will now use default textures and meshes for Serana.

3.
Now I needed some meshes for my own character eyes.
I found those in the same mod where I grabbed the textures from ("Underworld Dawnguard - Blue Vampire Version-22619-1-3").
and placed them as the mod would by install.

I only used the two mesh files from this mod: "eyesfemalevampire.nif" and "eyesmalevampire.nif", located in this folder: Data\Meshes\actors\character\character assets\

I did NOT use the "Dawnguard.esm" folder from this mod (located here: Data\meshes\actors\character\FaceGenData\FaceGeom\Dawnguard.esm).
When I did Serana gets a dark/brown skin in her face and neck.

4.
The last mod I installed was "Vampire Eyes Fix".
It is only a single *.esp file. Just place it directly in your Data folder (Vampire Eyes Fix.esp)


Load order from top:

1. The Eyes of Beauty
2. Vampire Eyes Fix


Mods I used to get this result:

1. "The Eyes Of Beauty" by Gabriel Mailhot (The Eyes Of Beauty PLAYER Unleashed-13722-8-2):
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/13722/?

2. "Underworld Dawnguard - Vampire and Werewolf Eyes" by Anardion (Underworld Dawnguard - Blue Vampire Version-22619-1-3):
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/22619/?

3. "Vampire Eyes Fix" by ZombieInc666:
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/3374/?


Here are two screenshot to illustrate.
As you can see my character has the iceblue glowing eyes and Serana still has her original yellow vampire eyes:

http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t675/mushashi_suym/Skyrim/Skyrim_2014-07-14_026_zpsed17cc4b.jpg

http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t675/mushashi_suym/Skyrim/Skyrim_2014-07-14_011_zps07dc5f0e.jpg

[dracolucis]

Uh... I know this has been a long while, but just in case you're still following this topic or others are looking for this. Very easy fix for a problem that I've been wondering about for ages. I don't know why you haven't got any replies for this but you definitely deserve praise.

 

For anybody else trying to repeat this, a few observations:

- If you use the unofficial patches, you do not need the Vampire Eye fix.

- As far as I could see from a brief visit to Volkihar Castle, this change DOES change the eye texture for NPC vampires as well. However, the glow is absent for them, so it's not too bad, they just all suddenly got a severe bout of blueeyeism. Serana is an exception, she keeps her special texture.

Edited September 6, 2016 by dracolucis