[Fixed] Very weird "chest" color mismatch, unlike anything I have seen before

[Guest]

EDIT: @Potato_Skill fixed it. He manually blended the area with image editing tools and rebuilt the femalebody_1_dds file. Another workaround would be to go the the Skin texture mod you use, and take the femalebody_1_dds file and replace it on common/skyrim/data/textures/actors/character/female. 

 

 

I'm facing a problem in my skyrim I honestly think is the first time someone has encountered. I'm facing a very weird "chest" color mismatch, not neck color, not face color, not neck seam or gap, nothing like any of those. It's very hard to explain without photos so i'll include them below but let me try to explain with words first either way. So this mismatch, it has an unusual shape, it's not like a piece of textured border that is even or parallel. It's uneven and not parallel from any side of the body.  It kind of looks like some unified and glowingrash on chest, with a random border of it's own. It even shows up on bodyslide. Here's what it looks like:

 

 

 

 

and from behind :

 

 

 

 

Ingame (couldnt get a good lighting to show properly like bodyslide)

 

 

It all looking like a reverse tan now lmao. Anyways, I'm almost certain it's not a texture thing, I've setup Texblend long ago so no neck, wrist, ankle seams. I was just playing the game in evening when all bodies in my game was fine (it's supposed to be the color of the rest of the body, in that mismatched chest area) with no mismatch.I just came back at night and noticed the chest of an NPC glowing and then i checked the PC, went to bodyslide and confirmed there was a mismatch.And thats weird because Bodylide dosent usually show mismatched or "seams". Between the time of evening and night literally nothing was changed in my Skyrim and not even on my computer. So I;m completely at a loss here. If someone could help me that would be soo nice.

 

 

 

Thanks for reading.

 

[myuhinny]

Looks to me that it's suppose to be a tan line maybe from wearing a shirt.

[Grey Cloud]

31 minutes ago, myuhinny said:

Looks to me that it's suppose to be a tan line maybe from wearing a shirt.

Except that the body looks darker than the head and neck area. ?

[Guest]

Yeah man it's not supposed to look like that. Any idea for a fix? I guess i can say, literally happened "overnight" lmao

[Fotogen]

Textures for female body are named:

- femalebody_1.dds

- femalebody_1_msn.dds

- femalebody_1_s.dds

- femalebody_1_sk.dds

 

My quess is that femalebody_1.dds is cool, but one(or more) of _msn, _s or _sk is "wrong one". Its like you'd install the correct textures and that installed another mod that is "dirty", it also has some random femalebody_1_msn.dds, femalebody_1_s.dds or femalebody_1_sk.dds file.

 

The last time I had something like that was because of some custom follower mod. I don't have that mod anymore.

 

[Guest]

13 hours ago, Fotogen said:

Textures for female body are named:

- femalebody_1.dds

- femalebody_1_msn.dds

- femalebody_1_s.dds

- femalebody_1_sk.dds

 

My quess is that femalebody_1.dds is cool, but one(or more) of _msn, _s or _sk is "wrong one". Its like you'd install the correct textures and that installed another mod that is "dirty", it also has some random femalebody_1_msn.dds, femalebody_1_s.dds or femalebody_1_sk.dds file.

 

The last time I had something like that was because of some custom follower mod. I don't have that mod anymore.

 

Interesting. However, as I have mentioned, I didn't install any custom textures inbetween the time of the problem. Surely it can't be that? Should I try reblending in Texblend. Or maybe remove the random femalebody_1_msn.dds, femalebody_1_s.dds or femalebody_1_sk.dds files?

 

[Blaze69]

Looks like either a botched TexBlend job (maybe from corrupted source files?) or a TexBlend job that did work as intended but was used on a body texture too different from the reference to be blended properly.

[Guest]

Fuck me. it's showing the same symptom in Texblend too. I literally didn't even touch my computer from evening to night and how did such a mismatch happen.file corruption is a possibilty? but it was just a few hour difference, what could possibly be corrupt under 2 hours

 

 

Actually, the feet and handtoo but they are supposed to look like that, just not the chest)

[Grey Cloud]

What skin texture is it supposed to be?

[Guest]

 

38 minutes ago, Grey Cloud said:

What skin texture is it supposed to be?

CBBE v3M (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/13180/?tab=files) and Female Face Retexture-Fuller Lips(https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/5106?tab=files) is what I've been using for years without any mismatch problems. If it helps, I should also mention I used to use Daemonic and soft face retextures a year ago only for a few days but I clean uninstalled them also a year ago. 

[Grey Cloud]

CBBE v3M is a body replacer and doesn't do the skin and Female Face Retexture-Fuller Lips only does the head texture. So what are you using for the rest of the body?

[Guest]

The default CBBE actually. I'm gonna reinstall that and report back. I was looking at the files and suspiciously, the femalebody 1 dds had a size of 98mb while inside the original CBBE 3.4f, the female body 1 dds (in highest resolution) has a size of 16mb only.

[Potato_Skill]

     Hi, I tried to blend the texture manually and came up with this. It's still the image that you uploaded. If you like the way it looks, upload the .dds file here and I'll fix it for you. If you don't want to go through all the hassle, how about installing a new body texture?

Spoiler

 

 

 

[Guest]

10 minutes ago, Potato_Skill said:

     Hi, I tried to blend the texture manually and came up with this. It's still the image that you uploaded. If you like the way it looks, upload the .dds file here and I'll fix it for you. If you don't want to go through all the hassle, how about installing a new body texture?

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That's amazing mate ! If I may ask, how did you "manually" blend? I'd like to try to as I don't want to waste your time fixing my failures. 

[Potato_Skill]

    Well, I personally use both GIMP and Photoshop. By "manually", I meant that to actually blend the colors and hide the seam yourself instead of letting a program (which uses programmed algorithm to blend the colors) do that for you. It's not hard if you're familiar with any image editing program, honestly.

    There are plenty of guides on how to blend colors using such programs for you if you want to fix it yourself. I can't walk you through all the steps I'm afraid as that will probably take some time.

 

P/s: My offer still stands if you happen to change your mind later.

PP/s: How about trying out a new skin texture mod? I use Fair Skin Complexion which I absolutely love. It also supports subsurface scattering if your enb can handle it.

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, Potato_Skill said:

    Well, I personally use both GIMP and Photoshop. By "manually", I meant that to actually blend the colors and hide the seam yourself instead of letting a program (which uses programmed algorithm to blend the colors) do that for you. It's not hard if you're familiar with any image editing program, honestly.

    There are plenty of guides on how to blend colors using such programs for you if you want to fix it yourself. I can't walk you through all the steps I'm afraid as that will probably takes some time.

 

P/s: My offer still stands if you happen to change your mind later.

I see, well I have no experience with image editing so i'm gonna list the .dds file for you. If you find time, then feel free  otherwise no pressure, I'm sure I can identify the texture I probably installed manually as I saw CBBE has actually a lot more lighter and non detailed skin than the one i have. If i could freaking identify what i actually have installed it would be a cakewalk then.

 

https://mega.nz/#!3eIABYqC!eY3F677G5Bb3YxJdOQMpvydDsJUdIinUnfsaHrIInNA

https://mega.nz/#!7LxXkITS!rRQ1O4yzGhHie1-d2lQMoAau63sOAF7CtEq2H_4KBBQ

https://mega.nz/#!HLwmGIKL!ZHXWS5hKC2s79G-MyEqpiBOTssA5u56BJ_oE14vjPss

[Guest]

18 minutes ago, Potato_Skill said:

PP/s: How about trying out a new skin texture mod? I use Fair Skin Complexion which I absolutely love. It also supports subsurface scattering if your enb can handle it

I didn't really like it as it was too...let's say something that skyrim harshness couldn't maintain. But i'll keep trying to track down what my textures were. Never should've install some things manually

[Potato_Skill]

    Ah, I see, you're right, come to think of it, FSC does give the women of Skyrim the skin of fairies in legends. I got the file for you, I only need to edit 1 file. The others are just normal map and specular map which I think don't need editing, hopefully.

    About installing mods manually, I think it's fine as long as you don't go crazy w/ mods and install like 5 of them at once, keep your pace and you'll be fine.

    I haven't tested the texture yet so if you see something weird, just put a screenshot here and I'll see what I can do. Hope this will fix your problem. Cheers!

I think my tempering has caused the texture to downscale. I see the size is only about 21 mb after the editing for some reason ...

 

femalebody_1.dds

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Potato_Skill said:

    Ah, I see, you're right, come to think of it, FSC does give the woman of Skyrim the skin of fairies in legends. I got the file for you, I only need to edit 1 file. The others are just normal map and specular map which I think don't need editing, hopefully.

    About installing mods manually, I think it's fine as long as you don't go crazy w/ mods and install like 5 of them at once, keep your pace and you'll be fine.

    I haven't tested the texture yet so if you see something weird, just put a screenshot here and I'll see what I can do. Hope this will fix your problem. Cheers!

I think my tempering has caused the texture to downscale. I see the size is only about 21 mb after the editing for some reason ...

 

femalebody_1.dds 21.33 MB · 0 downloads

Good news! That completely fixed my mismatch bug. And maybe the only thing I could see weird was 2 seam lines marking the place where hip gaps usually happen. Still, not a gap or anything. Maybe a seam that was always there which I didn't notice all these years xD. I already blended the neck, wrist and ankle seams again with Texblend but Texblend dosen't have anything for that hip seam, I think. Maybe you could look into it with your tools? Again, if you have free time, no pressure. I already got what I came for. I still didn't find the mod I had for my skin, Just having access to it's femalebody 1 dds would save so much hassel : ( And about file size, 16-20mb is what's normal for that file, no idea how mine became whooping 90mb. Who knows, maybe that's why it got bloated and bugged?

 

Anyways, I can't thank enough for the work you've done m8, cheers : )

[Potato_Skill]

     The thing is, skyrim body shouldn't have hip seam as it's not seperated there (back in oblivion, hip seam was a persistent issue). Can you post a screenshot of the hip seam you're mentioning here? It's could be the way I compiled the texture that messed things up, oops.

      Btw, glad that I could help.

Edit: Actually, CBBE does seperate at the hip area. Forgive me, I only use UUNP and think all body types are the same. Hip seam issue can occur if you use incompatible clothing mods. Maybe you should start from there? 

 

[Guest]

6 hours ago, Potato_Skill said:

     The thing is, skyrim body shouldn't have hip seam as it's not seperated there (back in oblivion, hip seam was a persistent issue). Can you post a screenshot of the hip seam you're mentioning here? It's could be the way I compiled the texture that messed things up, oops.

      Btw, glad that I could help.

Edit: Actually, CBBE does seperate at the hip area. Forgive me, I only use UUNP and think all body types are the same. Hip seam issue can occur if you use incompatible clothing mods. Maybe you should start from there? 

 

It's almost invisible to the naked eye so idk if i should call it seam, it occured on the naked body too, let me get some pictures.

[Guest]

Oh yeah, i got the pictures.

With any clothing on:

 

 

and naked body:

 

 

 

 

Idk if you can see those 2 lines, I take screenshot with the geforce experiences tool, you the shadowplay thingy and in Skyrim it always comes a bit washed out

[Potato_Skill]

    Welp, this is beyond me. It has nothing to do with texture. I guess no body type exists without a flaw. Atleast it's kinda hard to see unless you actively look for it.

 

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Potato_Skill said:

    Welp, this is beyond me. It has nothing to do with texture. I guess no body type exists without a flaw. Atleast it's kinda hard to see unless you actively look for it.

 

Yep, as I said it's almost invisible so not really a problem, I never even noticed until yesterday when I started to look for flaws in the texture. My bet is it was always there, I just never saw it. Cheers mate, again

[Fotogen]

8 hours ago, Beast16 said:

Oh yeah, i got the pictures.

With any clothing on:

 

 

and naked body:

 

 

 

 

Idk if you can see those 2 lines, I take screenshot with the geforce experiences tool, you the shadowplay thingy and in Skyrim it always comes a bit washed out

 

Looks like you have wrong femalebody_1_msn.dds. Looks like you have mixed textures. CBBE, UNP, some old CBBE, etc.

 

Body textures are femalebody_1.dds, femalebody_1_msn.dds, femalebody_1_s.dds, femalebody_1_sk.dds. All 4. Its not just 1 file. Its 4 that must match.