Looks Menu NPC hair problem

[Ripper1302]

I have Looks Menu and its required files installed using the correct versions of each. It works fine when I am using one of the in-game doctors to change my character's appearance including hairs from various hair mods I have installed.

 

My problem is with the hair for NPCs. I select the NPC, start the looks menu and I can change NPC facial features. However, I can not change the NPC's hair.

 

The only hair option I have is HAIR (all caps) which is found at the very bottom of the "Face" section. When I click on HAIR, the NPC's hair shimers green and a "hair" tool bar appears in the lower middle of the screen with 3 options. These options are: E) style; C) color; Esc) back.

 

When I select "E" I see the various hairs from the installed hair mods but choosing a new style from the list does not change the hair on the NPC. The new style is marked with correctly if I reopen hair but the NPC hair style did not actually change.

 

FYI, my Looks Menu toolbar looks like this:

R) PRESETS A) FACE 01 D) there is no text here F) FACE E) EXTRAs B) BODY Enter) DONE

 

I can use presets (jsod files) on an NPC without any problems.

 

Can anyone provide some ideas about what might be causing these NPC Looks Menu hair problems? Is my Looks Menu toolbar displaying correctly?

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

[JoeAngel00069]

Same problem, sad thing is Im not sure what was installed either because some of my settlers hair changed all of a sudden, I didnt have those hairstyles. Some of them changed and I cant seem to change any of them back to how they were or how I want their hair to be not sure what hapopened. Cant fix it can change face but not hair. No fixes anywhere.

[Methos319]

Similar issue as well. But I have dollars signs "$" in front of a few of my options that are unique to LooksMenu.

[godisturbed]

I have this issue too. Anyone found a fix for it?

[AbsolutGrndZer0]

Hmm, any of you use a mod like Better Settlers or such? I ask because I am having this issue and I actually thought that it was caused by a conflict between that and Looks Menu... so reading others are having this issue too, makes me wonder if that's possibly a common denominator?

[ThatNakedSnake]

@AbsolutGrndZer0

I've also recently ran into this issue, but I don't have Better Settlers. I'm not sure what kind of mods would be similar to Better Settlers, but from a quick search of it I don't think I have any mods like it.

 

From the hour long search I've done, this issue seems to be reported only a few times prior to 2020 (this chat is the exception in my search so far), but even with it being reported two years ago on at least 2 other pages, I have yet to find anyone report a fix.

 

From several different reports on several different pages, the only constant I've found so far is that using LooksMenu, users are unable to change Female NPCs' hair and hair color, but are able to do so to male NPCs and Female Player Characters.

 

Me personally, I'm not sure what is doing this, as two hours ago in my game I was able to, then all of a sudden in the same game session I couldn't. I decided to save then close; came back, still didn't work. Tried an older save; still didn't work. Tried a completely different save file; still didn't work.

 

Considering I was able to use it, then in the same session it broke without me downloading any new mods (or removing), I'm not entirely convinced this issue is even from any mod conflicts; this might just be something caused by LooksMenu by itself.

[vixied]

I have this issue too. Anyone found a fix for it?

me have same problem i cant change my settler appereance but can change my companion without problem, i think it's because better settler or beautiful female settler mod. i cant change their hair and body but i still can give them tattoo .

[RuiFan6]

Exactly the same problem here.

 

To find the cause I did these tests:

 

All mods on and change Nora's hair at Lexington---------------------not working (Nora is created by mod "Nora spouse companion")

All mods on and change Piper's hair at Sanctuary Hill---------------working

All mods off and change Nora's hair at Lexington---------------------not working

All mods off and change Piper's hair at Sanctuary Hill---------------working

 

It appears this error is either caused by the location of using looksmenu or whether the target NPC is vanilla or not. I think it is more likely to be the former. And I agree with @TheNakedSnake, it shouldn't be mod conflicts that cause the problem.

[dougvan]

Anyone found a fix to this issue? Having the exact same problem.

[AbsolutGrndZer0]

I think actually the problem is that certain NPCs including settlers can't be changed as they revert back to their baseID. The same problem happens with some companions like Curie. You can't just willy nilly change Synth Curie's appearance like you would others (though honestly her case is much weirder) but like Piper for example has a setting called FaceMorph which is set to 1. This basically hard locks their hair (and even body/face sometimes.) The only way to fix it is to use a mod that changes Piper on her BaseID and changes the FaceMorph setting to 0. Settlers have the same thing except for a few that are "unique" that you can change. What I've found since is Spawnable Unique Settlers that lets you spawn in settlers and then customize them (there's 100's of settlers in the mod, since each settler must be unique, unless you want clones) and then I use a Name changing mod to change their names. Yu just spawn them in the settlement you want them to be in, customize their appearance (they do spawn naked, so you'll have to give them clothes unless you want a nudist colony, and hey if you do, you do you) and weapons) then assign them to the settlement using the workshop menu. Their name will be like Unique Settler Boston F and the mod doesn't include the ability to change it, but you can use the mod "Rename Anything" to change their name. :)