Creation Kit Errors : custom NPCs Have dark heads !

[gentester]

dan 3345

(for some reason I couldn't quote your post)

I put on one body mod & one head mod for women and one for men and every npc in my game has the problem now of extremely obvious colour mismatches - not just a few shades but but grey/green heads - women especially look like they are the walking dead - when facing away from outdoor light sources. I'm not the only one there are several threads on it, some from people who have loaded mods and others who have vanilla games. There's a poll on it somewhere asking if its related to 64 bit usage as that seems to be the only thing we have in common. I'm both modded and vanilla as I removed the game completely from my pc installed a clean game and got the problem from character creation onwards.

I've moaned on about it in several threads but reading your post it sounds like you know something about how skyrim & computers work. Can you suggest any fixes? :)

[Lumines]

I have a feeling this is : #1 new patched mods 1.4/1.8 version not compatible with my BETA version of skyrim.

[Lumines]

I have a feeling this is :

#1 new patched mods 1.4/1.8 version not compatible with my BETA version of skyrim.

 

#2 a file is replaced and it is automatically putting a new texture to a face that is not compatible with the body, hence the reason why the face are 'greyed' out.

 

Again, I am not using CK. This is related to a mod.

[soulslayerzx]

So is there a fix for this yet?

[auraa13]

I have the exact same problem. First when I changed an npc in to a Khajiit, he was fine. He looked exactly the way he was in the creation kit. Then I turned another npc in to a khajiit, and noticed that he looked nothing like how I made him in the CK. Then my first one changed too. I'm going to try Producer X's quick fix, but I don't think I can up load these two marriageable male Khajiits now :dry:

 

Edit: Just tried the fix. It worked to a point. It corrects the skin tone, but it just makes it even, not the tone you made it in the kit, and it doesn't add certain things such as war paint, or darker noses or something.

Edited February 26, 2012 by auraa13

[losatis]

dose anyone know where and have they submitted a bug report to bethseda yet ? , if we all do it we might beable to get some offical responce to this glaring fault.

[stageNinja]

On creationkit wiki

 

http://www.creationkit.com/Talk:Character_Gen_Parts_Tab

[bman8624]

yeah i'm having the same problem with the dark heads and i've searched around the internet for a solution apparently this is a pretty widespread problem people have been having, there is only the "setnpcweight" quickfix that i know of now, maybe bethesda will fix it soon as it seems to be a problem with the CK itself it would better add to immersion and just all around better the game if they do fix it

[Venarge]

I don't know what would cause all NPC's in the game to have mismatched textures, unless you edited them each and messed something up. But if you are editing one or two NPC's in the CK then open up your mod with edited NPC and highlight them in the actor list, then press Control + F4. This will make a facegendata section in your skyrim data folder, which can be found in textures, characters, actors. Once you find it delete the whole folder. That should fix any individual NPC problems.

 

EDIT: If skyrim tells you there are errors just press ignore all, likewise if it says anything else about the textures click yes to all. But specifically for errors make sure you press ignore all.

 

thx for your help, but ive done what you said and the npc still have the dark heads. any idea ?

[Howlest]

a ok fix is to adjust the head file to match the body, going back and forth from TESV and a paint program (like paint.net) untill the head isn't green/black anymore.

 

there are some problems with that, namely, you can't change heads or bodys afterwards without darkened heads reappearing

I made my own and uploaded it, some pl liked it, some not.

 

 

 

I don't know what would cause all NPC's in the game to have mismatched textures, unless you edited them each and messed something up. But if you are editing one or two NPC's in the CK then open up your mod with edited NPC and highlight them in the actor list, then press Control + F4. This will make a facegendata section in your skyrim data folder, which can be found in textures, characters, actors. Once you find it delete the whole folder. That should fix any individual NPC problems.

 

EDIT: If skyrim tells you there are errors just press ignore all, likewise if it says anything else about the textures click yes to all. But specifically for errors make sure you press ignore all.

 

thx for your help, but ive done what you said and the npc still have the dark heads. any idea ?