Player character model disappears in specific areas

[Lazurak]

Hey there, I have been encountering this issue for a few days now.

 

Basically, when playing in 3rd Person, my player character model disappears (as in simply won't be rendered by the game) without the loss of any functionality. I can still fight, pick up things, and do everything else, but my character is not visible. This happens in specific areas, and when I step outside of these, my character will reappear without issue. I can also fix this problem by quicksaving and loading while invisible, which will fix the issue, but only until I run into the next area. So far, this has only happened in interior cells / dungeons.

I will always run into this issue in the embershard mine, in the area around the forge.

 

In some of the larger dungeons, I tend to run into the areas more sporadically - I can't really predict where those areas will be, but I suspect that this means, that loading the game will simply displace these areas, so it would depend on the locations where I would save and load the game.

 

This only appears to happen to female player characters. I use the 3BBB CBBE body with SMP, and at first suspected SMP as the cause, but the problem persists after deactivating the hdtSMP64.dll, and without using anything using SMP physics (meaning no SMP hair, no items, wearing vanilla CBBE fur armor)

 

Rather than saying that I am at my wits end, I simply have no idea where to start looking for the cause, due to the nature of how the problem manifests itself.

I have tried google, and managed to find some posts about this issue (like https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/7450391-character-becomes-invisible/ ) but none of those seem to provide any useful insights.

 

Edit: I have also observed, that hanging around this area will cause my character to reappear by itself (was fiddling around with ENB settings until I randomly reappeared. Tried again, and it does not depend on any settings in ENB, but will happen after some time has passed.)

[Lazurak]

I was able to resolve the issue by removing "Genesis Unleashed" from my load order - the time at which I added the mod and the fact that it only seemed to affect dungeons made this the most likely candidate.

I am still completely stumped as to what in that mod would cause my character model to disappear.

 

I still haven't done a lot of testing on this yet, but unless I run into this issue again, I will just leave this here for others who might run into the same problem.

[HowIsAnnie]

Hey, sorry to bump an old thread but do you still have this proble?

I'm currently having the same problem (character randomly invisible in 3rd person, only indoors) and it's killing me to find what may be the culprit. Appreciate your feedback.

Edited October 17, 2020 by HowIsAnnie

[standarddeviant]

I was able to resolve the issue by removing "Genesis Unleashed" from my load order - the time at which I added the mod and the fact that it only seemed to affect dungeons made this the most likely candidate.

I am still completely stumped as to what in that mod would cause my character model to disappear.

 

I still haven't done a lot of testing on this yet, but unless I run into this issue again, I will just leave this here for others who might run into the same problem.

You might be on to something. This happens to my male character, and I don't use ENB. I started encountering this issue roughly around the time I installed Genesis Unleashed, and it only happens in dungeons. It's a wild guess, but maybe it has something to do with Skyrim's engine limitations on the number of actors allowed within a cell.