A question about FaceData...

[Sigurd44]

I decided that I want to change the faces of my hoursecarls (Iona, Jordis, Lydia, Rayya), of Serana and my housebard (Oriella) a bit.

 

I already made some changes in the past and I used the Apachii NPC overhaul .esp to save the changes. It worked great for weight and height adjustments, deleting outfits, applying skin types, eye colors, hair types and hair colors. I just had to apply the changes in the CK, export the FaceGenData, deleted the files under textures/..../Facegendata and saved the whole thing to the .esp file as active file. No dark head bugs and such.

 

Now I wanted to change nose shape, eye brow shape and lip shape types and this also worked well, but as I tried to change lip and eyebrush color it didn't for all my toons, only for some and I have no idea why...I applied a dark red eyebrush and lipstick color to Oriella, worked fine, did the same for Serana, worked fine. Tried to apply dark red to Lydia and Iona, didn't work, tried to apply dark blue to Jordis, didn't work too.

 

Another problem occured with Rayya. I wanted to get rid of her blue warpaint and set every warpaint type and dirt type and Redguard warpaint type to "color average", but the blue warpaint won't vanish.

 

I can watch those changes very well in the CK render window, but nothing happens ingame.

 

The Apachii NPC Hair Overhaul .esp I abuse to do more changes as only hairs, is my second last .esp in my load order. It's only followed by the RCRNv36 shaders and volumetric .esp, which shouldn't interfere at all with those settings. I use the CBBE face pack, but this has no .esp and as so called "lose file data" it should be changed by any different value/setting in an .esp file (or I have a totally wrong imagination of the functionality of load orders...).

 

I know that certain settings like opposite gender animations could be baked into save games and maybe never changed again after a certain point (so it happened to all of my housecarls), but lip and eyebrush color?