Changing the face of saved character (Crashing/freezing)

[valsta]

I recently decided I wanted to change the face of my character because I messed up a bit with the cheekbones which caused some annoying clipping with masks and some headgear.

So I looked around a bit and found "Oblivion Face Exhange Lite" which basicly lets you load, save and apply faces to save files.

 

I made a backup of my savefile and went into the game, using the command "showracemenu" this let me fix the face issues, however this also resets all the stats of the character.

So I decided to use Oblivion Face Exhange to copy the face from that savefile into a .off (Oblivion Face File)

and then load up my savefile backup (to get all the stats back) and then apply the Face File to the save.

 

In theory this should work (atleast in my head) but I still ran into a very big problem.

Whenever I load up the save (the backed up save with the new face), I can open my menus and I can see that the new face is correctly on my character, and all my stats are intact. but whenever I move the mouse, click any movement keys, camera change key or anything that does anything in the game world itself (Menu's not included), the game freezes and is not responding at all.

I have to end the process in task manager, that labels the program as "not responding".

 

NOTE: All my mods and saves worked perfectly before I copied and applied the face file to the save.

 

 

Load Order:

 

00 Oblivion.esm
01 Beautiful People 2ch-Ed.esm
02 Lovers with PK.esm
03 BreakUndies.esm
04 TamagoClub.esm
05 HiyokoClub.esm
06 LoversCreature.esm
07 x117race.esm
08 DLCShiveringIsles.esp
09 ChaseCameraMod.esp
0A DLCHorseArmor.esp
0B DLCOrrery.esp
0C DLCVileLair.esp
0D DLCMehrunesRazor.esp
0E DLCSpellTomes.esp
0F Thieves Arsenal.esp
10 DLCThievesDen.esp
11 GDS.esp
12 DLCBattlehornCastle.esp
13 DLCFrostcrag.esp
14 Knights.esp
15 CoverYourself.esp
16 TamagoBreak.esp
17 TamagoNews.esp
18 TamagoShop.esp
19 TamagoTopic.esp
1A TamagoConfide.esp
1B LoversTamagoClub.esp
1C LoversEncounter.esp
1D HiyokoGenerator.esp
1E TamagoSetBody.esp
1F LoversClubCatsSx.esp
20 LoversHooker.esp [Version 2.2]
21 LoversRaperS.esp
22 LoversImmoralGuards.esp
23 Lovers with PK.esp [Version 96]
24 LoversCreature.esp
25 LoversMB2.esp
26 LoversTrueCrimeEx.esp
27 LoversSlaveTrader.esp
28 LSTBravilUnderground.esp
29 LSTaddonInH.esp
2A RealisticForceLow.esp
2B RealisticForceMedium.esp
2C RealisticForceHigh.esp
2D Beautiful People.esp
++ Beautiful People 2ch-Ed Disable BandBlindMask.esp
** Beautiful People 2ch-Ed Sheogorath Eye.esp
++ Beautiful People 2ch-Ed Vanilla Race.esp
++ Beautiful People 2ch-Ed Merged Hair Modules.esp
++ Beautiful People 2ch-Ed Merged Eye Modules.esp
2E Beautiful People 2ch-Ed MS Elves - NoSc.esp
2F IDKRRR_C_race.esp
30 Chocolate Elves.esp
31 Apachii_Goddess_Store.esp
32 Bashed Patch, 0.esp
33 LoversIdleAnimsPriority.esp
34 LoversAnimObjectsPriority.esp

 

 

 

 

I would like to see a little more of the game than just the menu screens so any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

TL;DR: Tried to apply new face to save file, freezes if I do anything other than checking the menu's

 

[Poontank]

For the issue with the freezing up of the new save I have no clue (except maybe a suspicion about that chase camera mod?). I had used 'Face Exchange Lite' a few times before for testing purpose but never encountered such a problem.

But I'm not using any camera mods, that's what makes me think the issue might be related to that one.

 

Does the freezing also happen now with older saves? If not, use the backup of your last savegame and do the following:

 

Just access the race menu as usual with showracemenu, deactivate the console (to have a clean screen and thus a clear view on your character) and start tweaking the face/the cheekbone area. Once you're done however, press the console key again and then bring up the esc key options menu.

 

Save the game like normal (the save option is greyed out if the console isn't active) and immediately reload this save.

It's the 'official' technique to use the race menu without mucking up the stats.

 

No actual need for an external utility just to tweak one element of your character's face.

[valsta]

 

Just access the race menu as usual with showracemenu, deactivate the console (to have a clean screen and thus a clear view on your character) and start tweaking the face/the cheekbone area. Once you're done however, press the console key again and then bring up the esc key options menu.

 

Save the game like normal (the save option is greyed out if the console isn't active) and immediately reload this save.

It's the 'official' technique to use the race menu without mucking up the stats.

 

No actual need for an external utility just to tweak one element of your character's face.

 

Thank you so much, worked perfectly.

 

Im suprised it was such an easy way compared to the long time taken to find and download the programs, and searching through all the pages on google, 90% of which, saying that Im screwed.

 

But anyways, Thanks

 

[Poontank]

I'm glad the previous saves are still working. A good example for the helpfulness of backups and keeping lots of saves.

 

It's also possible to transfer face data using Wrye Bash, either from one save to another or even importing a player character's face into a mod's esp.

[valsta]

 

 

It's also possible to transfer face data using Wrye Bash, either from one save to another or even importing a player character's face into a mod's esp.

 

I did not know that, could come in handy in the future. :]