Deleted21550714User Posted November 6, 2015 Posted November 6, 2015 I recently ran into a problem that i think was caused from having too many follower mods. I would like further conformation from some experienced modders. I had 28(ouch) follower mods,a few of them with multiple followers,along with a collection of various npc overhaul mods (bijin wives,npcs,sbf,and a few out of warmadians and GCE. My char,heroine honeycrotch,and become unbalanced. Face/body not matching correctly. I unchecked all follower mods and things seem to be back in good order. Can someone with the know further confirm that too many follower mods can be problematic.
ElstarTomas Posted November 6, 2015 Posted November 6, 2015 (edited) If you by face body not matching means that they have different colors, it may be that one of you overhauls changes the body texture but not the corresponding head texture while at the same time being incompatible with vanilla. If you don't want to look inside the mod's you can just add them one after an other until you find the culprit and the remove it. Generally as long as the followers mods are compatible you can have as many as you like, but do you really need too. Do you use 28 followers at once? Edited November 6, 2015 by ElstarTomas
Deleted21550714User Posted November 7, 2015 Author Posted November 7, 2015 No i dont use 28 at once. Thats hardcore. I just have them in the skyrim world. I like to collect them at my castle. I mean, I am Dragonborn. I was having a problem with my character. Cutting back the follower installs/activated seems to have fixed it. All of the followe mods i use are high class broads and i have a mid-level rig.
saurusmaximus Posted November 7, 2015 Posted November 7, 2015 As stated above, one possible problem is that you don't have the corresponding body textures for the head textures you are using, are all vanilla npc's that way, or is it just for certain followers? Another (albeit less likely) issue you may be having is if you have all of them in one room, your video card may be struggling to render all of them correctly, resulting in wonky shading effects on some of your ladies. But, as far as the number of follower mods you have installed, it doesn't matter so long as they are all installed correctly.
Moksha8088 Posted November 7, 2015 Posted November 7, 2015 The head and body being different is a complaint sometimes heard from those without any follower mods. I saw a good tutorial Youtube video about a remedy. Just google it. A possibly unidentified problem involves naming your character, "heroine honeycrotch".
jones177 Posted November 7, 2015 Posted November 7, 2015 Some follower/replacer mods write to vanilla folders. These cause the game to use loose files instead of BSA files. The 2 folders that these type of mods write to that can cause head discoloration are: Data\meshes\actors\character\facegendata\facegeom\skyrim.esmData\textures\actors\character\FaceGenData\FaceTint\Skyrim.esm I recommend that you manually download & open your follower mods starting with the replacers. Look at the file structure to see if they write to any vanilla folders. Also manually download your body replacer & body texture replacer to know their locations as well. After identifying the mods that write to these folders uncheck or uninstall them one at a time & test. If you are able to identify the mod causing the problem the next step is to identify the file causing the problem & remove it. Now your character will look fine but one or more of the followers will have discolored heads. You will need to replace the textures these followers use with the textures you use for you character or ones that closely match. The last time I had this issue Bijin Warmadians caused it. I ended up having to replace Lydia's textures. She looks better than ever now. Some older custom race mods use vanilla files in the BSA & do not expect loose files replacing them. These are a little harder to fix since they my use a different body than you have set for the vanilla races. Most followers mods have really nice code & cause zero problems, but some have issues that can cause problems with multiple follower mods & give some NPCs "brown head". I had one that caused Hert at Half-Moon mill to have a brown head. Also in my game Ysolda got trashed by a follower mod but I use a replacer on her so she's fixed. Later
Deleted21550714User Posted November 7, 2015 Author Posted November 7, 2015 Great answers patrons. Saurusmaximus, it appears you opinion/knowledge suggest that 2mil kb of follower mods plus a skyrim Hd, jk cities (lite) bijin overhauls and maybe a few other hightexure addons cannot confuse MO into to doing strange things? It was mainly my char that was effected. Note i did one start up (alternate begining) that started in cell and then in skyrim fine, only to save and load and find char mixmatched? Moksha, would heroine sugarsnatch be better? Jones117,great answer, look foward to digging into some that, appretiate it. Today tomorrow i will enable disabled follower mods 1 at time and see it bears fruit. Right now with only 6-7 follower mods plus all other texture heavy mods things are in good order. I want to think i over textured my medium rig, but its probaly something else i did cause im tinkering within mods and im a dork. THANKS
Deleted21550714User Posted November 7, 2015 Author Posted November 7, 2015 (edited) The head and body being different is a complaint sometimes heard from those without any follower mods. I saw a good tutorial Youtube video about a remedy. Just google it. A possibly unidentified problem involves naming your character, "heroine honeycrotch". Will check video,wont change name, thanks. I didnt want you thinking i was being jerk with my long follow up to "yous guys" replies. And Saurusmaximus, im not suggesting that your wrong, i just hope i become into the right, i did read once/somewhere that dumping alot of texture mods could cause strange things when launching skyrim. Edited November 7, 2015 by Guest
Eyam3 Posted November 7, 2015 Posted November 7, 2015 "Neckseams" is I think what you might want to look into. Not bothered to read all the way through the posts sorry. In my game, Interesting NPCs, Inconsequential NPCs & Immersive Wenches all adding npcs I find virtually all the npcs are perfectly fine - apart from a very few with young looking pinkish bodies & a darker toned older head texture. I can't be bothered to fix those few myself.
saurusmaximus Posted November 13, 2015 Posted November 13, 2015 And Saurusmaximus, im not suggesting that your wrong, i just hope i become into the right, i did read once/somewhere that dumping a lot of texture mods could cause strange things when launching skyrim. Don't worry about it, as I (kind of) said, what I suggested was a much less common problem; I just thought I would mention it. If there is one thing I've learned with modding, if something can happen, it will.
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