[LE] Help changing NPCs look

[Ravener01]

Greetings,

I'm fairly new to modding. The only reason I'm trying to mod at the moment is because I think Skjor looks lame in vanilla and deserves some love, and I can't find any mod that gives him justice.

 

Basically, I've been following this post here : http://oneneatcat.tumblr.com/post/53692040731/how-to-change-an-npcs-face-in-skyrim

And also helped myself with this post here : https://levelskip.com/rpgs/Hot-to-Turn-Your-Skyrim-Character-into-a-Follower

 

I keep searching everywhere but beside the first link I've shown you, I haven't found any tutorial on how to modify an existing NPC.

 

• First, I went in my game and created a look I found okay through the racemenu (goddammit, why is it that none of these hair mod show GREY hair, why are they always blonde. Also, so hard to make a guy look old X__X ), as shown in thefirst attached picture.
• Now, when I open the CK, I make sure to select KS Hairdo.esp (since I need an haircut from this mod) along with Skyrim.esm and Update.esm .
• I'm locating Skjor in the actor's list then double-click on it.
• I then click on "IMPORT", then PREVIEW and then.... Not quite what I expected. The facial build looks good, problem comes from the haircut and the warpaints.I gives him a generic haircut instead of the one I chose, and there's nor warpaints, nor makeup.
• I change to the correct hair, but nothing to do with the warpaints and makeup.
• Then, I press OK, do the CTRL + F4, save and exit.

 

I go ingame aaaand. Back to the false haircut, no warpaints, no makeup (as shown in the second picture)

 

What's wrong? Is it something I'm not doing correctly?

 

I've also tried with Skyrim NPC Editor (I found a copy still available on Curse). I just tried it ingame and now, I got the haircut I wanted but still no warpaints. I do have a warpaint replacer (Battle Hardened Warpaints by Diethardt and netherwalk) but I'm pretty sure it's no the issue here (I have found post around internet about people complaining the warpaints don't show up).

 

 

My plan is to create a full esp/bsa and to port it to my SSE afterwards for personal use

(I don't plan to upload it on the nexus unless I'm 100% satisfied with it and get all the permissions to do so)