Could Use Some CK Help

[kevfromhell]

Alrighty, so I've been learning to create NPCs and companions over the past couple of nights in the CK and keep running into problems that I can't find answers to, or if I can, they don't work for me, so I was hoping someone on the Nexus could help me out here.

 

The first problem is the CK itself specifically the Preview function when trying to take a look at the appearance of actors/characters in the Actor Dialogue, the preview window is always blank, nothing shows up at all no matter how many times I switch between a Full or Head view or save the character and come back in, reinstalling the CK hasn't done a single thing and its kind of annoying.

 

And my other problem is more to do with applying mods to a character made in the CK. So, I'm trying to make a character that uses one of the Tera hair pack hairstyles and it comes in a rather deep red colour thanks to the Extended Slider Colors mod, so I tick both of those off in the CK so they can be applied properly.

 

I'm also making the character's appearance by importing an already created character's appearance (Using the SPF / SavePCFace) to do so but whenever I import it the Tera hair style never applies and the hair colour is always black. So I need to manually find the right hair style and hair colour, but with the aformentioned problem I can't do that. Even then I tried to just pick a Tera hair style at random, save the .esp and then jump into the game to see which one it is, only to find it never actually applies and instead switches back to Lydia's vanilla hairstyle.

 

So, anyone able to help me out here?

 

NOTE: I should probably mention that the Extended Slider Colors mod comes with its own errors when ticked off in the CK, no idea how they affect things though.