Skin in the wrong places.

[Cyvain]

I've added mods to Oblivion to get certain races (the original races do not have this problem). Well it seems that the skin isn't centered or something like... I found what looks like a nipple on my characters arm, and the nipples of the character have no color. Basically, I'm finding skin in the wrong places. Is there any way I can fix it? I can't really get a picture.

[kingtitan]

What kind of body replacer are you using? What mods/races is this happening to? Basically it can be fixed but you are going to have to be much less generic. Put up as much information as possible so we can accurately diagnose your problem.

[Cyvain]

I'm not sure of all the races it happens to. I believe it's roberts body (I can't seem to find the correct name) and slofs better bodies, and it's usually fine til I put clothing on.. then the skin does that weird thing. Before either of those two were added, it still did the same thing... I'm not sure how to explain it exactly...

[Nephenee13]

If you are using Roberts Male you will get messed up skin textures if you equip clothes intended for vanilla bodies.

[Cyvain]

Oh ok, well what body would you suggest?

[Nephenee13]

You are going at things from the wrong direction, you need the Roberts Male stock replacer

[Cyvain]

Ok

[DrakeTheDragon]

In Oblivion body meshes come from clothing items, while body textures come from the race record.

 

A body mod replaces the default "nude", or better yet "unclothed" as most body mods aren't even nude by default, body meshes which will only show when not wearing anything and the skin textures the Vanilla races use.

While the meshes get replaced once you equip some item, the textures remain untouched. This will lead to the wrong textures being used on the body meshes "underneath" the clothing, when the clothing isn't meant to be worn on the specific body.

 

That's why for every body mod there are so-called Stock Clothing and Armor Replacers available, which simply replace the body meshes inside any Vanilla clothing or armor items with ones fitting the body mod's texture layout.

 

Just imagine, in case of custom races done for a specific body mod only, you might even get "pink", "pitch black" or "invisible" bodies when wearing Vanilla items without using a proper Stock Replacer, as they don't even have the textures needed by the Vanilla meshes at all in the race records. Getting Imperial skin on actually pretty furry or scaly fellas is also a common sign of the wrong body meshes being in use. That's when the custom race modders took precautions by making the "unset" texture slots the bodies they modded the race for don't need at all remain on Vanilla Imperial skin textures to avoid the horribly obvious pink, pitch black or invisible "missing texture" error indicators.

 

The body meshes are one-for-all, one set of bodyparts for all races the same. So if you use custom races, you must also make sure they provide fitting skin textures for the body mod of your choosing. You simply can't use a custom race with high-res textures for HGEC when the body mod of your choosing is Robert's Female for example.

 

The most underestimated issues stem from not using the "mandatory" Stock Replacers for your body mods these days, with sad excuses like "it doesn't look that different anyways, and a little gap now and then won't hurt me when I'm clothed most of the time anyways". The real issues "will" come, sooner or later, even if one didn't run into them right-away! Stock Replacers are by no means "optional".