0xFailsafe Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 On 12/7/2014 at 11:08 PM, stigma311 said: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 100% working Dawnguard patch -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------you may have seen something like this on many mods that make you think that simple change of female human heads to vampire heads will fix this but does not really work the reason is that Dawnguard.bsa forces the heads back to the unly ducken head and color. what you may need to do is make a patch or a mod that will replace the dawnguard head with Custom body head Like cbbe Unpb,Unp or any custom body. this is a very techi like how to fix this but it long and hard. but may it into easy steps . with paths to follow. . oh should note that you USKP patches for the dawnguard and other dlc must be remove for this two work . . not my english is not good sorry in advanced ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alright let get start ---------------------------------------------------update and fix--------------------------------------------------- Step one . Find a custom body like CBBE V3 Or UNPB tbbp body ...............any custom body will work long as it has custom head. Once install your custom body. move on two step two of this how to Step two ready or not. once you have the body installed you need to go into folder and find the heads you need to delete/rename/replace. you be looking for this path Data\textures\actors\character\female delete the following files if you found them- femaleheadvampire.dds- femaleheadvampire_msn.dds then 'copy' the following files from the same folder- femalehead.dds- femalehead_msn.dds then paste it on your desktop or a folder where you it is then rename them from:- femalehead.dds -> femaleheadvampire.dds- femalehead_msn.dds -> femaleheadvampire_msn.dds place them back into your custom body folder Calientes Beautiful Bodies Edition -CBBE-\textures\actors\character or data\textures\actors\character\female Step 3 this is the hard part of this how to fix thingy. about to get techi...... Let talk little about the following BSA. Dawnguard.bsa Has a folder with vampire heads . bsa is telling the game to force load the face gen from dawnguard.bsa giving youthe head with ugly duckly and the npc around you . there is a way around to fix this... what you need to do is unpack the Dawnguard.bsa with an tool like BSAopt . once it download open the file. from there you need to find the bsa in your data folder of skyrim Data\Dawnguard.bsa Now unpack the bsa make sure you unpack in a other folder where you can find. will take little bit of time to unpack Dawnguard. bsa Dawnguard\Data\Textures\actors\character\female Detete these- femaleheadvampire.dds- femaleheadvampire_msn.dds Replace these with from your custom body path Dawnguard\Data\Textures\actors\character\female - femaleheadvampire.dds- femaleheadvampire_msn.dds (make sure you say Yes to so will be overwriten) Step four! almost done. you could detele other folders other then the ones you wanted to have . that way you could make a Dawnguard Patch out of the custom body heads. oh make sure you name like Unpb Dawnguard patch or CBBE Dawnguard patch Dawnguard\Data\Textures\actors\character\female--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Step five! patch time! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------once you have your new custom dawnguard patch folder you just made . you need to used program like winrar or Zip 7. to zip or packed back into a file you can use. now you need mod manger like NMM or Mod Organizer or wirebash to install the new dawnguard patched . move the patch under Dawnguard.bsa the Load order should be something like this Dragonborn.bsaDawnguard.bsaHeartfire.bsaCalientes Beautiful Bodies Edition -CBBE- or any custom body modCBBE- Dawnguard patched Lauch the game!!---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------you are now done! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Step 6 optional not lored friendly--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------if you really want to make your npc and player look very sexy. you need few things to make them look better fisrt up you need VTF- Vampire Texture Framework . so you wont be getting neck seem. next up is Porcelain Pale Vampire Skin For Females and Males -Most Body Types Supported- make sure you get the body type texture you need Now Installed VTF- Vampire Texture Framework. once your done with that you need to find the folder patch for VTF- Vampire Texture Framework VTF- Vampire Texture Framework\data\textures\VTF\ then copy the Porcelain Pale Vampire Skin For Females and Males from \Porcelain Skin- CBBE Basic\data\textures\actors\character\character assets\tintmasks\\Porcelain Skin- CBBE Basic\data\textures\actors\character\female\ then paste the teztures into ( make sure you say Yes to so will be overwriten ) VTF- Vampire Texture Framework\data\textures\VTF\ after your done the folder path should look like this VTF- Vampire Texture Framework\textures\actors\character\character assetsVTF- Vampire Texture Framework\textures\actors\character\female ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the mods you need for step 6 is VTF- Vampire Texture Framework Porcelain Pale Vampire Skin For Females and Males ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------If you want to you can also install Foxy Skyrim. an mod that overhauls all npc's in the game to look better. also use this with VTF- Vampire Texture Framework and Porcelain Skin mod. Foxy Skyrim make sure you say Yes to everything Once more your done One Note on this fix these do not work with Unofficial Skyrim Patch, Unofficial Dragonborn Patch, Unofficial Dawnguard Patch and Unofficial Hearthfires Patch. reason is they have the female vampire head. these also force Dawnguard.bsa to load the vampire face on all npc's and player________________________________ credits for these mods Caliente's Beautiful Bodies Edition -CBBE- by CalienteBSAopt - Bethesda Archive Management and Optimization by EthatronVTF- Vampire Texture Framework by SableDrakePorcelain Pale Vampire Skin For Females and Males -Most Body Types Supported- by MissShaziraFoxy Skyrim - A vanilla npc overhaul by LogicFoxX This works, but it's not necessary to unpack your BSA file, just create new folders into your Data directory: Dawnguard\Data\Textures\actors\character\female and paste here your dds files. (I include femaleheadvampire.dds, femaleheadvampire_msn.dds and femaleheadvampire_sk.dds) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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