WICO Causing Dark Face

[Thersty]

Running Vortex 0.18.12

Having problems with Skyrim SE

100+ Mods

Running on Windows 10 w/ a RTX 2080 and i7-9700k w/ 16 GB of VRAM

I have it set to the very bottom of my load order. Are any of my mods conflicting? I tried to Ctrl+F4 in the CK and that didnt seem to fix it...

My vortex looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/st2RMgj

[nemocdt]

Hi how many Blackfaces have you got? if it's 1 or 2 here and there ctrl f4 should help BUT.......... if you have lots of BF i have a 100% fix but it's not using Vortex. i have never used vortex...... i use the other mod manager.

Do not blanket bomb your facegendata with ctrl F4.

step 1. RUN Loot. this will sort your load order better than you and i can.

black face is caused by a miss match between files in the folders meshes/facegendata and textures/facegendata

eg. your assets in the meshes folder is looking for different assets in the textures. same file names but different origins.

Ctrl F4 can destroy your whole facegen data.

pm me for 100% fix.

[blitzen]

Every dark face I've encountered in both Skyrim and Skyrim SE (and have subsequently fixed) has been caused by a mismatch between the facegen data and the active NPC record definition for that NPC. If WICO is loading last and you have a black face, either there is no facegen data for that NPC, or the facegen data that is deployed for that NPC is not from WICO, so it doesn't match the plugin. If you have more than one mod with facegen data for that NPC, it should be listed as a conflict in Vortex.

 

Update: I just took a look at the WICO mod page since I've never used it. It has the facegen data packed in a bsa file, which means any loose facegen files will be loaded after it, and won't be reported as conflicts. You have to remove any loose facegen files added by other mods for any NPC's that WICO modifies. You have to use either all loose files or all .bsa files or you can run into problems like this.

Edited July 5, 2019 by blitzen