Black face bug

[jaxxdarkheart]

So a lot of my vampires are having the black face issue, it ranges from NPC's in harkons castle, to just random vampires. People like Harkon, Seranna, Sebillie and such are fine. But curious if there's something I'm missing here I've tried doing SSEdit. And I want to post my mod list but I forgot the website to upload it for a picture so if someone could remind me that would be great!

[Guest]

I'm not very informed on this but I think the main reason for the black face bug is when the exported FaceGen mesh found in:meshes\Actors\Character\FaceGenData\Facegeom\Dawnguard.esm doesn't match the properties of npc's inside the CK. To further clarify the black face would happen if you set a npc to use browmesh1 inside the CK but then had an exported FaceGen mesh using browmesh2. One common cause of this would be if one mod provided new FaceGen and an .esp but then another one's esp override the npc's in the CK without providing newly exported FaceGen. This would lead to you having FaceGen from mod1 and the newest esp changes from mod2.

[OrrieL]

On 11/3/2020 at 10:30 PM, jaxxdarkheart said:

So a lot of my vampires are having the black face issue, it ranges from NPC's in harkons castle, to just random vampires. People like Harkon, Seranna, Sebillie and such are fine. But curious if there's something I'm missing here I've tried doing SSEdit. And I want to post my mod list but I forgot the website to upload it for a picture so if someone could remind me that would be great!

Lesson 1: Black-face occurs when the highest priority facegen data does not match the highest priority esp data.

This quote is taken from an excelent resource named "Black-Face Patching Guide" found here https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17004?tab=files

I am sure you will be able to fix it after reading it.