weird problem with oily faces?

[longojing]

Hey i am new to modding, i recently started trying to get my faces shiny/oiled (whatever you call it)

the body isn't that hard, because i have a separate body and separated textures for it,

let me list out what i have installed now:

 

Sensual Walks Animations Installer 7.1.omod

Sensual Walks for Female NPCs 7.15.1.omod

Unofficial Oblivion Patch 342 OMOD Installer-5296-3-4-2.omod

 

Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch v1_5_1 OMOD-10739-1-5-1.omod

Robert Male Body Replacer v52 OMOD-40532-1.omod

NoMaaM Breathing Idles V1 OMOD-40462-1-0.omod

NoMaaM BBB Animation Replacer V3_1 OMOD-35551-3-1.omod

rens beauty pack (hairs only)

Umpa sexy walk v7

I use textures from: Ozmo http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/20022

I use archive invalidation: http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/10724

OBMM

OBSE last version.

 

vannila race overhaul (amnes beautiful characters) http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/41867  (strange problem occurs only with this mod on!)

 

DMRA BBB Complete Clothing and Armor Replacer. (like several extra parst as shivering isles bonus, knights of the nine clothing replacer)

 

This is my load order:

 

Oblivion.esm

USIPS Additional Changes.esp

UOPS Additional Changes.esp

Unofficial Oblivion Patch.esp

Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch.esp

Oblivion Vwalk.esp

Knights.esp

Knights Vwalk.esp

_Ren_BeautyPack_onlyhairs.esp

DLCFrostcrag.esp

DLCFrostcrag Vwalk.esp

77_Umpa_Sexy_walk.esp

DLCThievesDen.esp

DLCThievesDen Vwalk.esp

DLCMehrunesRazor.esp

DLCMehrunesRazor Vwalk.esp

DLCOrrery.esp

DLCOrrery Vwalk.esp

DLCBattlehornCastle.esp

DLCSpellTomes.esp

DLCVileLair.esp

DLCHorseArmor.esp

DLCShiveringIsles.esp

DLCShiveringIsles Vwalk DG_DS.esp

DLCShiveringIsles Vwalk.esp

DMRA BBB Complete Clothing and Armor Replacer.esp

DMRA BBB Knights of the Nine Replacer.esp

Vanilla_Race_Overhaul.esp

UOP Vampire Aging & Face Fix.esp

Oblivion Citadel Door Fix.esp

 

I modified these nifs:

 

headhumanVRD.nif

HeadWoman.nif

HeadMan.nif

THESE FIRST 3 COME FROM AMNES'S MOD!

headhuman.nif (THIS COMES FROM THESE MOD FILES: http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/42554 )

 

 

I use glossmax http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/41213 to modify hundreds of skin nifs to create the oily effect, which works really good! though, i can't get the faces to shine constantly,

 

so this is what happens:

All my mods are on except the MaleBodyReplacerV5.esp because this is already used by amnes beautiful characters.

In DMRA BBB Complete Clothing and Armor Replacer is a body included: DMRA tuned/seamles body.

 

When i am in my character creation screen at the start of the game this suddenly happened (i found out by accident).

I had the imperial race (also worked on woodelf and high elf).

the face skin first looks like this:

 

after changing the age and complexity to the left. then change the cheek round/gaunt completely to the left. THEN change the eyes to the right from brown to blue, and then i get THIS face texture?WTF!?

 

And after a reset face, everything changed back like i didn't want it to!

Can someone help me with this particular problem? so i can also change this WITHOUT using the mod amnes beautiful characters?

 

I tried so many things, but i can't get it to work, which mesh i need to configure to get the right effect like on the second picture continuously.

 

though i don't know which textures became involved, because i have textures of amnes beautiful characters itself, as from ozmo's HGEC skin textures. I also got his face textures. i don't know which mesh was responsible for this change either!

 

I have NO IDEA what i am doing wrong anymore! if someone can help me out with this i would be very happy!

[longojing]

sorry, i had to place this in the technical corner, my apologies.

[longojing]

I have got a message from nexusmods forums, that it probably has to do with the agemaps of the textures. so i am going to delete them until the normalmaps are left. and see if the shiny effect is keeping stable.

 

http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/923652-weird-problem-with-oily-faces/

[longojing]

I have succeeded. by combining 2 dds files from two different sources i maintained a nice oily effect on all of the vanilla races! except for orc, khajiit and argonian (though even the argonian looks litle more shining!). only thing is that the man have the same oily effect on the faces aswell, though i find this not disturbing, it feels more balenced anyways! maby if i find the right textures i will be able to let the guys shine too, so that there aren't any weird differences.

 

Here is a screenshot of one of my results ^^:

 

 

maby i can create great body/skin/face mods in the future ^^, like DMRA BBB conversions maby? or any stuff like that. but i have a lot too learn.

[Poontank]

Good work solving this problem! I've read your post but couldn't think of any explanation for the weird effect you experienced.

 

Judging by your pictures you already seem to have facegen texturing deactivated in your ini? This makes the age maps display not as prominently anyway, so it's no big loss getting rid of them after all. Your character's neck seam is almost unnoticeable! That's about the best result achievable for the game, many races suffer from horrible skin colour differences there.