My redguard has a frost white looking face!

[Afroherbalist]

Sorry if this has already been posted in some form or another, but I did a search on "face, white face, pale face" etc and nothing came up.

 

I've been a vampire for SO LONG I simply cant remember what the normal skintone is supposed to look like. In terms of real-world time, my dude has been a vampire for about 2 years LOL. I got sick to death of not being able to go out in the sun without having to suck necks first, or not being able to wait, or sleep ANYWHERE without succumbing to the damn HIVampirism disiese. After finally getting all those damn soul gems, ingredients, then watching that old woman wake up, just to instantly die and say "oof" (which made me lmao), I finally became a human again, and thought "FFS, I didn't realise my guy looked like a 12 year old with an adults body!", but I didn't really care because it looks more funny than annoying. However I do have one problem with my characters revitalised normality. A Redguard is basically another name for "Black Person" right? (which is funny and strange). Well my black g- oops I mean Redguard, has a normal African skin tone on his body, but his face looks like he's been experimenting with makeup, specifically white foundation (like the stuff Geisha's and Kabuki's wear), originating from his nose, and fading back into normal skin colour towards the edges of the face.

 

 

Is this how things are supposed to look? I tried to give as visual a description as I could, so you can picture it in your heads, but if you need a screenshot, I can post one!

 

Thanks in advance

[MichikoUnknownFox]

Well actually there are dark-skinned Imperials too, though they look more like north Africans or even Persians or Indians.

 

But anyway you have a texture problem. Check your folder structure and your mods. You may have uninstalled some textures inadvertently (while keeping the mod that edits the race), or installed some incompatible facial textures.

[HelloStranger]

That also sounds kind of like on the skin tones part of character creation your paleness is cranked up really high, because the areas you described it in sound like what paleness effects. Did you try resetting yourself to default on the race menu screen? I know that sometimes if I experiment with skintones I get my head completely different than my body, and resetting fixes it. Not sure if that's what you're experiencing, but you may wanna try opening the console (by pressing ~) and typing in "showracemenu".

 

Or you may have what UNKNOWNYMOUS suggested, I know that a lot of high-res textures end up making your character super pale, and if you installed them just for the face, that can lead to the head being way different than the body. (Like when I was playing a deep-elf and installed some high-res face textures, I went in game and my face was bright white but my body remained gray.)

[MotoSxorpio]

Unofficial Oblivion Patch has vampire face fix, Wrye Bash also has a tweak for it in rebuilding the bashedpatch.

[Telyn]

If you use one of those fixes and your character still looks kind of strange, you might want to see if you like either of these mods. They both get rid of the weird green or sickly coloring the vanilla game sometimes gives Redguards even when they're not vampires. They tried but they didn't manage to get a very good usable range of skintones for Redguards.

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