Custom characters and bulging eyes

[FrenchieDwemer]

Hey everyone,

I've noticed something quite, uh, peculiar lately regarding custom characters -involving both characters from mods AND the player character. I first posted in the technical support section but I feel like this one may be more appropriate after all. Long story short, custom NPCs, that were made in the Creation Kit that is, actually look perfectly fine face to face. Thing is, starting from a couple meters away from them their eyes start popping out of their sockets -and the greater the distance, the more they bulge.

I... quite frankly don't really know how to explain that properly so there it goes :

Fig.1 : an unmodded Ulfric Stormcloak (save for his sword) :

http://i.imgur.com/vUsrC2V.jpg

Fig. 2 : Scarlet Crusaders with certain issues

http://i.imgur.com/JT5XoKc.jpg

Fig. 3 : ... Jesus Christ.

http://i.imgur.com/8w1SLM2.jpg

So there's that. As I mentioned, the farther the camera, the more it clips. Furthermore, lower than default FOV values seem to worsen the issue so I reckon there's something going on with the camera here. These pictures in particular were, in fact, taken with exaggeratedly low FOV values -around 10 or so, in order to create a clear contrast between Ulfric and the custom NPCs.

Reinstalling or checking the game's files from Steam didn't help.

On top of that : this issue affects NPCs from different mods, some of which I didn't even fiddle around with in the first place. All they have in common is that they have their own, custom Facegen Data, and, again, NPCs from the base game such as Ulfric up there do not suffer from this, uh, problem.

Last but not least, this only happens on my laptop. The very same mods, on my regular, crappier computer, work just fine. Problem is, said computer is on the other side of the country and here I am sitting in my flat staring helplessly at these monstrosities.

Oh and, it goes without saying that I tried disabling this or that mod, several at a time, all of them... nope, still happening.

I couldn't find anything much on the subject on the Internet but as far as I can tell, at the fair least, I'm not the only one to have encountered this glitch, though very few others have. So I reckon there has to be a common cause behind all this that we may be able to identify and possibly fix.

Either way, thank you for your attention everyone, and here's hoping, I guess.

Have a good one.

Edited November 5, 2016 by FrenchieDwemer

[idioticidiot]

use nifskope to open eyesmale/ eyesfemale.nif -> check BSLightingShaderProperty -> Shader Flags -> untick "SLSF1_Decal"

[FrenchieDwemer]

use nifskope to open eyesmale/ eyesfemale.nif -> check BSLightingShaderProperty -> Shader Flags -> untick "SLSF1_Decal"

 

Well, looks like we've got ourselves a saviour here. Thank you so much. This actually fixed it. Had to reexport the Facegen data after that but then it all went back to normal.