Ragoh Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 Heya, I've been looking all over for a fix for a not so significant but very annoying glitch I keep finding on NPCs added by mods. Their heads are usually a few shades darker/lighter or a different color altogether than the rest of their bodies. Just those NPCs though, I've never seen this happen to vanilla characters. I've tried a few fixes that didn't work and I'd love to find one that does. The female characters use CBBE V3 and the males use Better Males - Favored Soul and I also have Apachii hair installed, but not for NPCs. Be appreciated if someone can show me a mod that works, or a fix that will help or at the very least make it less noticeable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsharaMeradin Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 (edited) The quick and dirtyIn game, make a note of the NPCs nameLocate the mod(s) which provide the custom NPC(s)Load one of the mods into the Creation KitIn the Object Window go to Actors - ActorIn the right hand side, click on the column header called Name to sort the entries by nameScroll down till you find the NPC in question.Highlight their entry then press the key combo CTRL+F4A box will pop up asking if you want to export face gen data, agree to do soAnother box will pop up saying that it is done.Exit the Creation Kit without saving.Go back into the game and check out that NPCSkintone should be correct.Repeat for all other NPCs More steps for the perfectionist You'd then reopen CK and open the actor record for the NPCSwitch to the Character Gen Parts tabCheck each DDS file in the Face Tint Layers box for their RGB values in Face Tinting Colors boxAny entry that is not 255,255,255 you need to locate either from the games BSA file or from whatever face mod you may be using -- note don't do skintone.ddsThen comes the fun part -- Open a image editor that can handle DDS filesPick a layer, send white to alpha channelMake a new transparent layer and flood fill it with the corresponding RGB value from the CKMerge the color with the now black & transparent layerSend black to alpha channelso you are left with transparent and the correct color.repeat for all layersnavigate to skyrim/data/textures/actors/character/facegendata/facetint/modname.esp -- where modname is the name of the mod you extracted the face gen data from for the npc in question.open the dds file there.decide whether you will reduce or increase image sizes if any are differentthen copy/paste the various transparent color images into the skin tone dds file from the CK output.When all done, save or export it (depending upon program) and overwrite the existing dds file from the CK outputNote: the dds file used by the game can be any size but it must remain uncompressed or it won't work The quick & dirty might be sufficient for you.... perfectionists might want to go the extra mile :P Edited September 17, 2012 by IsharaMeradin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReflexShooter Posted September 18, 2012 Share Posted September 18, 2012 Found your tips while looking for something else...SO glad I did! This will be a great help in my modding attempts. Thanks for being so clear and concise!Your final note about compressed textures solved a few of my problems already! Thank you very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragoh Posted September 18, 2012 Author Share Posted September 18, 2012 Arf, I was hoping I wouldn't have to go through the CK to fix it. I don't have enough RAM to run Skyrim with the CK installed so I had to delete everything the CK placed in my installation folder. Thanks for thetip though, I'll remember it for when I make a few upgrades to the machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsharaMeradin Posted September 18, 2012 Share Posted September 18, 2012 Found your tips while looking for something else...SO glad I did! This will be a great help in my modding attempts. Thanks for being so clear and concise!Your final note about compressed textures solved a few of my problems already! Thank you very much!Not all textures are uncompressed only the face gen data generated by the CK are uncompressed that I know of. Many other textures can be compressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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