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I accidentally submitted this in the LE tech support forum, but please be aware that I'm using SSE!

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I'm sure everyone has seen this at one time or another. You walk into a house and notice that an NPC inside is as pale as... well, a Nord, except for a gloriously dark-skinned face. I'm also sure we all know the usual causes of this bug. Missing facegen data, usually coming from a plugin that simply didn't properly export it. An easy fix. Usually. But I've run into a bit of an unusual form of the brown-face bug.

 

In my game, every single vampire suffers from it. This includes both vampires from the vanilla game and vampires added by mods. This was not always the case; I can't pinpoint the exact moment it happened, unfortunately, but not too long ago they were all very normal and unbugged. I must have done something or installed something that broke them, but I have no idea what.

 

I've tried the usual fixes:

 

  • Opened up the CK, loaded up all the stuff that includes vampires (The main file, all the DLCs, all the mods that alter or add vampires) and exported the facegen data for every single one of the bloodsuckers.
  • Made a new plugin in the CK, where I personally alter every single vampire and then exported the facegen data.
  • Disabled every mod which looked like it might have something to do with changing the appearance of vampires.
  • Used the console command SetNPCWeight to "reset" individual vampires in-game.

 

Only that third one worked. And it only works until I leave the cell with the vampire in it; as soon as I reload my game or enter/leave the area, their face reverts to the brown-face. At this point I'm stumped. Admittedly, this is not an enormous issue... but its frustrating and unsightly, and I would really like to fix it.

 

If anyone has any ideas for how to fix this, or how to track down the cause, I'm all ears! ❤️

 

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Posted
1 hour ago, shar181 said:

I'm sure everyone has seen this at one time or another. You walk into a house and notice that an NPC inside is as pale as... well, a Nord, except for a gloriously dark-skinned face. I'm also sure we all know the usual causes of this bug. Missing facegen data, usually coming from a plugin that simply didn't properly export it. An easy fix. Usually. But I've run into a bit of an unusual form of the brown-face bug.

 

In my game, every single vampire suffers from it. This includes both vampires from the vanilla game and vampires added by mods. This was not always the case; I can't pinpoint the exact moment it happened, unfortunately, but not too long ago they were all very normal and unbugged. I must have done something or installed something that broke them, but I have no idea what.

 

I've tried the usual fixes:

 

  • Opened up the CK, loaded up all the stuff that includes vampires (The main file, all the DLCs, all the mods that alter or add vampires) and exported the facegen data for every single one of the bloodsuckers.
  • Made a new plugin in the CK, where I personally alter every single vampire and then exported the facegen data.
  • Disabled every mod which looked like it might have something to do with changing the appearance of vampires.
  • Used the console command SetNPCWeight to "reset" individual vampires in-game.

 

Only that third one worked. And it only works until I leave the cell with the vampire in it; as soon as I reload my game or enter/leave the area, their face reverts to the brown-face. At this point I'm stumped. Admittedly, this is not an enormous issue... but its frustrating and unsightly, and I would really like to fix it.

 

If anyone has any ideas for how to fix this, or how to track down the cause, I'm all ears! ❤️

 

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It doesn't always work because it's not terribly specific but my favorite approach to this type of problem is the following:

 

Go back in-game and find a brown faced vampire and get close enough to talk to them.

Open your console and select them.

On the right hand side of the screen there should be a listing of the last mod that affects this NPC. Since it is happening to all your vampires there is a good chance that the mod identified is the one causing the problem. Simply turn it off and see if your problem is solved.

Posted
41 minutes ago, Psalam said:

It doesn't always work because it's not terribly specific but my favorite approach to this type of problem is the following:

 

Go back in-game and find a brown faced vampire and get close enough to talk to them.

Open your console and select them.

On the right hand side of the screen there should be a listing of the last mod that affects this NPC. Since it is happening to all your vampires there is a good chance that the mod identified is the one causing the problem. Simply turn it off and see if your problem is solved.

I tried this on Sybille first... then remembered that I had given her a makeover in my personal NPC improvement mod. xD

 

So I spawned in a Vampire Fledgling. As expected, she was brown-faced. Sadly, the field "Base Last Changed By" lists Dawnguard.esm... so I don't think that's the problem. x.x

Posted
3 minutes ago, shar181 said:

I tried this on Sybille first... then remembered that I had given her a makeover in my personal NPC improvement mod. xD

 

So I spawned in a Vampire Fledgling. As expected, she was brown-faced. Sadly, the field "Base Last Changed By" lists Dawnguard.esm... so I don't think that's the problem. x.x

I don't doubt you but that doesn't make any sense. Since Dawnguard is an esm EVERYTHING that changes you vampires will come after that. SOMETHING must be making those faces brown and it MUST come after Dawnguard if, as you said in your OP, you can get the faces back to normal by eliminating ALL the vampire mods.

Posted
35 minutes ago, Psalam said:

I don't doubt you but that doesn't make any sense. Since Dawnguard is an esm EVERYTHING that changes you vampires will come after that. SOMETHING must be making those faces brown and it MUST come after Dawnguard if, as you said in your OP, you can get the faces back to normal by eliminating ALL the vampire mods.

I think there's a misunderstanding. Eliminating all of my vampire-related mods did not fix the issue. If it had, I could have just re-enabled them and turned them off one-by-one until I found the one causing it. The problem does not seem to be tied to any one mod; I think it probably has something to do with the headmorphs applied to vampire characters... except that all the vampire races have their own headmorphs, and this bug is happening regardless of their race.

Posted
1 hour ago, shar181 said:

I think there's a misunderstanding. Eliminating all of my vampire-related mods did not fix the issue. If it had, I could have just re-enabled them and turned them off one-by-one until I found the one causing it. The problem does not seem to be tied to any one mod; I think it probably has something to do with the headmorphs applied to vampire characters... except that all the vampire races have their own headmorphs, and this bug is happening regardless of their race.

Your problen, probably, is related to the leveled list.

The vampires, normally, are generated dinamically from the leveled list. Each time you enter a location with vampires, bandits or forsworn the game generate diferent NPC's of diferent race, sex, type and hability.  Usually the vampires, bandits and forsworn  have a code that start by FF but other times have a fixed code, that start with 00=skyrim or 02=dawnguard, because are fixed NPC's but really come from the same leveled list that the generated.

 

Export the facegen pressing F4 in CK only can cause more problems and never can solve the problem because the definitions inside the leveled list take preference. If the NPC's is generated in a specific race and the facegen not match the race of the generated NPC the bad and incorrectly exported facegen can CAUSE the problem.

 

Take a look to this post.

https://www.loverslab.com/topic/121256-grey-face/

Posted
1 hour ago, GenioMaestro said:

Your problen, probably, is related to the leveled list.

The vampires, normally, are generated dinamically from the leveled list. Each time you enter a location with vampires, bandits or forsworn the game generate diferent NPC's of diferent race, sex, type and hability.  Usually the vampires, bandits and forsworn  have a code that start by FF but other times have a fixed code, that start with 00=skyrim or 02=dawnguard, because are fixed NPC's but really come from the same leveled list that the generated.

 

Export the facegen pressing F4 in CK only can cause more problems and never can solve the problem because the definitions inside the leveled list take preference. If the NPC's is generated in a specific race and the facegen not match the race of the generated NPC the bad and incorrectly exported facegen can CAUSE the problem.

 

Take a look to this post.

https://www.loverslab.com/topic/121256-grey-face/

Hm. Well, looking through that post didn't really give me any insight. My only take-away was that this Yatol is a bit of a git. xD

 

It sounds like my problem may be related to incorrectly exported facegen. I did attempt to fix the problem by re-exporting the facegen data for all of the game's vampires but... I didn't try that until after the bug had already appeared. And it seems odd that a bug caused by that would be affecting all the vampires added by mods, including unique vampires added by other mods (like Interesting NPCs).

 

Still, is there a way I could test this?

Posted
27 minutes ago, shar181 said:

Still, is there a way I could test this?

For know if the problems are caused by the bad facegens or by the leveled list in the mods make a test in a PURE Vanilla game whit only skyrim + dlc's + alternate start and generate vampires with the console.

If have bad face the problem come from the bad facegens.

If have good face the problem come from the leveled list in the mods.

 

Then, follow my instructions in the post.

Open your entire mod list in Ted5Edit and search the code of the base actor. Look what mods change that leveled list and start disabling mods. If the problem persist search the code of the leveled list for find the code of the actors and look what mods change that actors.

Posted
16 minutes ago, GenioMaestro said:

For know if the problems are caused by the bad facegens or by the leveled list in the mods make a test in a PURE Vanilla game whit only skyrim + dlc's + alternate start and generate vampires with the console.

If have bad face the problem come from the bad facegens.

If have good face the problem come from the leveled list in the mods.

 

Then, follow my instructions in the post.

Open your entire mod list in Ted5Edit and search the code of the base actor. Look what mods change that leveled list and start disabling mods. If the problem persist search the code of the leveled list for find the code of the actors and look what mods change that actors.

So I opened everything up in SSEEdit and found Sybille Stentor (Base ID: 000132AA). If I'm reading this right, the only things affecting her are Skyrim.esm, Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch.esp, and ImprovedNPCs.esp.

 

I'll be honest, I've never used SSEEdit before (Or TES5Edit, for that matter!) so it all looks very confusing to me. However, I did spot something that looks... maybe like it isn't quite as it should be:

 

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Well, that looks awfully suspicious. I wonder what I'll find on a different vampire like... Hert, maybe:

 

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I'm starting to see a pattern emerging. Let's check out Hert's live-in boyfriend/amateur target dummy, Hern:

 

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I guess Hern has the right head texture. But still, is it normal for Hert and Sybille to have the FemaleOrcVampire head texture? If not, maybe the problem, somehow, is the USSEP.

 

Posted
25 minutes ago, shar181 said:

So I opened everything up in SSEEdit and found Sybille Stentor (Base ID: 000132AA). If I'm reading this right, the only things affecting her are Skyrim.esm, Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch.esp, and ImprovedNPCs.esp.

If you have the problem with Sybille Stentor your problem can not have any relation to the leveled list.

Sybille Stentor is a UNIQUE actor and always is generated with the same sex, race, face and habilities.

 

Then, your problem only can be caused by a bad mod or a bad facegen.

For know it make a test in a PURE Vanilla game whitout mods.

If the problem persist is caused by a bad facegen.

If the problem disapear is a mod making bad changes.

 

 

When you see in Tes5Edit a record in GREEN the record is correct. Only the RED records can cause problems. 

In my game i see exactly the same and, of course, i not have any problem with Sybille Stentor.

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That textureset called SkinHeadFemaleOrcVampire [TXST:02006F94] is CORRECT and come from Dawnguard that give a new look to Sybille Stentor and USLEEP respect it and your mod ImprovedNPCs respect it.

You can try disable ImprovedNPCs but i doubth that can solve your problem.

Posted
8 hours ago, GenioMaestro said:

If you have the problem with Sybille Stentor your problem can not have any relation to the leveled list.

Sybille Stentor is a UNIQUE actor and always is generated with the same sex, race, face and habilities.

 

Then, your problem only can be caused by a bad mod or a bad facegen.

For know it make a test in a PURE Vanilla game whitout mods.

If the problem persist is caused by a bad facegen.

If the problem disapear is a mod making bad changes.

 

 

When you see in Tes5Edit a record in GREEN the record is correct. Only the RED records can cause problems. 

In my game i see exactly the same and, of course, i not have any problem with Sybille Stentor.

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That textureset called SkinHeadFemaleOrcVampire [TXST:02006F94] is CORRECT and come from Dawnguard that give a new look to Sybille Stentor and USLEEP respect it and your mod ImprovedNPCs respect it.

You can try disable ImprovedNPCs but i doubth that can solve your problem.

Yeah, ImprovedNPCs is just my personal mod to give makeovers to NPCs that I like, but aren't pretty enough. x3 I've tried disabling it with no effect.

 

I will have to do the test with a Pure Vanilla game at some other time. I don't want to risk accidentally destroying my current save during the process. But I'm sure I'll have the urge to start again sometime soon, and I'll test it then. In the meantime, thanks for your help! ❤️

Posted
19 minutes ago, shar181 said:

I don't want to risk accidentally destroying my current save during the process.

Your current savegame can NOT be destroyed in any way. The savegames are stored in the hard disk.

The only way for lost your current savegame is DELETE your current savegame.

 

Every time you start a new game with Alternate Start the game create NEW savegames that not have any relation with the older savegames. Start a new game NEVER can delete or break yours OLD savegames.

That only can be made manually.

 

Other diferent history is preserve your current installation with the actual mods that you have enabled today. The best way for preserve your current installation is create a NEW PROFILE in your manager.

All the mod managers, NMM, MO, Vortex..., allow you create a NEW PROFILE and give you a separate configuration for make test. I have 6 diferent profiles in Vortex, 4 in MO and 2 in NMM.

Posted
20 minutes ago, GenioMaestro said:

Your current savegame can NOT be destroyed in any way. The savegames are stored in the hard disk.

The only way for lost your current savegame is DELETE your current savegame.

I know it shouldn't be possible to destroy the save, but I've had unfortunate mishaps in the past when doing things like this. xD I've already had to start all over 4 times in the last couple weeks, so I'm just not willing to risk it until I'm ready to make a new game.

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On 11/7/2019 at 4:53 AM, GenioMaestro said:

Your current savegame can NOT be destroyed in any way. The savegames are stored in the hard disk.

The only way for lost your current savegame is DELETE your current savegame.

After seeing that even Serana was affected by this bug, I got a little bit desperate and decided to give this test a try (using Vortex's profile feature, which I've never used before).

 

I loaded the game up with no mods other than the ones I've gotten from the Creation Club, and the Alternate Start mod. I chose the Vampire start to save time, and found that with no mods active there is no brown-face. So there must be a bad mod responsible for this but... I have no idea which one it might be. I've already tried disabling every vampire-related mod with no effect, so I can only guess that it must be a seemingly unrelated mod.

 

Anyway, now that I've identified a bad mod as the problem, where do I go from here?

Posted
7 minutes ago, Grey Cloud said:

Use this.

Vampire Skin Colour Fix.

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/25382

 

@worik or @donttouchmethere put me on to it a couple of months ago.

I will give that a try, if my current experiment doesn't pan out! I think it probably won't work though... looking at the comments for the mod, it seems like a lot of the people it worked for were only getting this bug with a few vampires. Whereas I'm getting it with every single vampire, including mod-added ones or vampires with specific, individual overhauls (like Serana). ><;

 

3 minutes ago, donttouchmethere said:

Was me, but it's for LE.

We have a sneaky SE guy here again ^^

Yeah, I have a bad habit of not double-checking which tech support forum I'm in. :c

Posted

I don't do SE and don't know about vortex, my guess is it's the eyes. Dawnguard changes the meshes for female and male eyes. i would load all mods into xedit and click on skyrim or dawnguard esm and then open headparts and click on female/male vampire eyes and see if any other mod is reverting dawnguards eyes back to vanilla. 

Posted
15 minutes ago, shar181 said:

Yeah, I have a bad habit of not double-checking which tech support forum I'm in. :c

If it works for SE it a good thing tho

 

Also I don't think it's super bad to post SE issues here, because you reach more ppl.

What would help to make it more obvious it's for SE so ppl that want to help are in the right mindset.

 

best to put the vampire fix below every mod that adds any kind of vampire/modifies vampires to the game

even better: below everything that adds/changes NPCs

 

Posted
14 minutes ago, Heroine of the Night said:

I don't do SE and don't know about vortex, my guess is it's the eyes. Dawnguard changes the meshes for female and male eyes. i would load all mods into xedit and click on skyrim or dawnguard esm and then open headparts and click on female/male vampire eyes and see if any other mod is reverting dawnguards eyes back to vanilla. 

I did this, and it doesn't look like anything else is affecting the vampire eyes. Two of the entries were highlighted with green, but they were still only affected by Skyrim.esm and Dawnguard.esm.

Posted
3 minutes ago, donttouchmethere said:

If it works for SE it a good thing tho

 

Also I don't think it's super bad to post SE issues here, because you reach more ppl.

What would help to make it more obvious it's for SE so ppl that want to help are in the right mindset.

 

best to put the vampire fix below every mod that adds any kind of vampire/modifies vampires to the game

even better: below everything that adds/changes NPCs

 

I will try this next, then! I'm a bit concerned about the instructions on that mod's page, though. If I make changes to Skyrim's data folder outside of Vortex, won't that (potentially) cause issues when I re-deploy these mods?

Posted
19 minutes ago, shar181 said:

I will try this next, then! I'm a bit concerned about the instructions on that mod's page, though. If I make changes to Skyrim's data folder outside of Vortex, won't that (potentially) cause issues when I re-deploy these mods?

Well, that question is now academic. In order to use that mod I created a new zip archive and put inside an updated .esp (re-saved with the SSE Creation Kit), as well as copies of the skin textures mentioned in the mods description, then installed via Vortex. All for naught; the fix did not work. ;_;

Posted
33 minutes ago, shar181 said:

I will try this next, then! I'm a bit concerned about the instructions on that mod's page, though. If I make changes to Skyrim's data folder outside of Vortex, won't that (potentially) cause issues when I re-deploy these mods?

You install it via vortex, so if you uninstall it vortex it should revert everything back to where it was before.

Same as with any other mod too.

In this case it's a single esp (IIRC)

 

I guess you mean this?

"for this mod to work as intended, you need to do the following (Optional)"

 

Do that only if the simple install of the esp via Vortex doesn't show an effect ingame.

On my setup I didn't had to do the "optional" part for it to fix all vampires

(that does only mean it worked, doesn't mean it's possible on every LO out there ?)

Posted
1 minute ago, donttouchmethere said:

You install it via vortex, so if you uninstall it vortex it should revert everything back to where it was before.

Same as with any other mod too.

In this case it's a single esp (IIRC)

 

I guess you mean this?

"for this mod to work as intended, you need to do the following (Optional)"

 

Do that only if the simple install of the esp via Vortex doesn't show an effect ingame.

On my setup I didn't had to do the "optional" part for it to fix all vampires

I tried it both ways with no effect. I'm out of ideas again. ><; I'm going to peruse SSEEdit and see if I can find something thats affecting the vampire race geometry.

Posted

Vortex, does that have vfs like MO? 

 

all vampires are botched? male/female vanilla/custom followers? you had said something about serana, what mod do you have for serana? bijin? I was thinking maybe the various vampire races had got overwriting, head textures get applied there but if you have serana messed up she uses nord race, very stumped on this one. 

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