follower texture/mesh issue

[TheTraveler]

So, I have a lot of followers. This is about two specific ones.  Kailu 1.2 and Natalya from way back. Never had an issue with either of them until today. I installed a few more followers and loaded up my save. things were good. I inspected the new followers and all was good. Decided to conjure up Kailu and Natalya. Kailu loaded fine. Natalya, on the other hand, did not. Stretchy hair, wrong face and pulling kailus textures. I know its Kailu's textures because those have a heart on teh face and ass cheek. Changed the textures in kailus folder completely. I just threw in Real girl textures. Natalya is still pulling Kailus textures out of the ether, somehow. Is there any way for me to check and see where Natalya is pulling those textures from. Also, what can mess up the face mesh? Even putting it last on the load order still results in a messed up head mesh, even after replacing the follower entirely.

[Grey Cloud]

38 minutes ago, TheTraveler said:

Is there any way for me to check and see where Natalya is pulling those textures from.

The archive fro the mod should show you the file path.

 

TESVEdit.

 

NifSkope will show you the path to the skin textures (for the head).

[TheTraveler]

23 minutes ago, Grey Cloud said:

The archive fro the mod should show you the file path.

 

TESVEdit.

 

NifSkope will show you the path to the skin textures (for the head).

Alright, I I open nifskope and open the head nif. Looks like a default skyrim head, not the one I used to see in game.

[Grey Cloud]

This is my Kailu. The paths may be different to yours as she is in a merge.

Select Block List

(Click on the arrow heads)

0 BSFadeNode

3 NiNode

4 NiTriShape (the one which lines up with her head on the right)

9 BSLightingSahderProperty

Click on 10 BSShaderTextureSet  . . .

 

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 . . . which gets you to

 

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There's the paths for the head textures. The ringed line is the path to the facegen head nif being used.

If the paths are wrong then you can either double-click on the line and edit it manually or click on the purple cog thing and browse down to where the textures are.

If you choose the browse method then you have to remove the absolute path from the line it puts in - delete everything until it begins with 'actors' like in the above screenshot. NiSkope will warn you anyway.

[TheTraveler]

Its weird. The face geomtry for Natalya keeps getting deleted whenever I load skyrim. Only Natalya. I literally have the directry open when I  load skyrim. I alt tab out and its gone.

[Grey Cloud]

Do you have a link for Natalya? I can only find images.

 

Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling her?

[TheTraveler]

7 minutes ago, Grey Cloud said:

Do you have a link for Natalya? I can only find images.

 

Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling her?

Yea. I re-downloaded it. I should mention I'm using MO and oldrim

 

[TheTraveler]

So I decided to look into my MO log file.

 

DEBUG (18:54:50.0489): remove mod file Data\Meshes\Actors\Character\FaceGenData\FaceGeom\Natalya Follower.esp\00000D62.nif
INFO (18:54:50.0489): deleting Data\Meshes\Actors\Character\FaceGenData\FaceGeom\Natalya Follower.esp\00000D62.nif -> C:\Program Files (x86)\TSEV Skyrim LE\data\Meshes\Actors\Character\FaceGenData\FaceGeom\Natalya Follower.esp\00000D62.nif

ERROR (18:54:50.0490): failed to remove virtual file Textures\Actors\Character\FaceGenData\FaceTint\Natalya Follower.esp\00000D62.dds
DEBUG (18:54:50.0527): remove mod file Data\Textures\Actors\Character\FaceGenData\FaceTint\Natalya Follower.esp\00000D62.dds
INFO (18:54:50.0527): deleting Data\Textures\Actors\Character\FaceGenData\FaceTint\Natalya Follower.esp\00000D62.dds -> Data\Textures\Actors\Character\FaceGenData\FaceTint\Natalya Follower.esp\00000D62.dds

 

 

 

[Grey Cloud]

Sorry, I don't use MO so I've no idea what that is about.

 

I did bump into Kailu outside of Solitude though.

[TheTraveler]

S'all good. Thanks for trying to help.