Vampirism Technical Issues

[IHeaRTeVie]

I'm having some technical issues relating to vampirism, but first, a little background.

I decided that I wanted to play through the game as a vampire, so I contracted the disease and went along my merry way. After a little while, however, I noticed my character's face was covered in black stuff and looking a bit bony. I didn't particularly like that, so I set out to correct it. The solution I settled upon was to use setplayerrace to set my race back to bretonrace rather than bretonracevampire and manually adjust all my stats back to their correct values. This worked wonderfully to fix my appearance, so I figured the problem was solved. About an hour later, it was time to feed, and I discovered a problem. Apparently characters that aren't a vampire race don't have the Feed option when activating a sleeping npc. I can't simply switch my race back to vampire because that would cause my stats to reset again, requiring that I manually correct all of them every time I need to feed, so what I need is either a way to fix my appearance while keeping my race as bretonracevampire or a way to manually reset my vampirism level or force the feed interaction, possibly even add it back to my interaction options.

I've done some searching in the console and came across a couple interesting things. The first is IMAD: VampireTransformDecreaseISMD, which seems to be a function for exactly what I need, but I don't know what an IMAD is or how I would use it. The second is a variable under VampireSunISMDEffectScript found under player.showvars called VampirismLevel_var, but I have no idea how to modify this. It seems like it's probably local to the sun effect script anyway.

So, anyone have any insights here? Or any modders care to tackle the issue via other means? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

P.S. I've managed to make the game playable without feeding by removing myself from the Vampire PC Faction (000C4DE0), but this is obviously far from ideal as it removes all of the vampire gameplay elements. Also, -100% fire resistance...ouch.

 

P.P.S. HOLD THE PHONES. There's been a breakthrough. Using player.setrace rather than setplayerrace allows me to change races without affecting my stats. Now I can switch at will and even remain a vampire without black stuff on my face. I'll leave this post as a reference for anyone encountering a similar issue, however unlikely that may be.

Edited November 21, 2011 by IHeaRTeVie