I edited Seductress Serana body to CBBE. Facial animations stopped working.

[SurpriseFatty]

And turning off the edited version and running the official version doesn't even fix it. Then again disabling both of them she's still fucked up. Idk how to undo this and start from scratch.

The issue originates from the lack of support for seductress serana past LE. She would have an unbodyslided body when naked, everything would be fine when shes wearing bodyslided clothes, no neck seams, no texture issues. I had been looking for a way to get her to use bodyslide. I found this guide:

Spoiler

 

Now I don't believe the author knows what he's doing and he hasn't claimed as much. But this solution did work. however it broke the facial animations for serana and serana only. One thing I do know is that I've tinkered with Nifskope on occasion but I also think I know enough to truly fuck something up without realizing. This guide doesn't involve Nifskope but I have on occasion tried copying bodyslide generated nifs to seductress serana to get something to work. Just doesn't work when shes naked. 

I'd really like to learned how to mod skyrim but I find a lot of guides use lingo and terminology that assumes you have experience with things like blender, nifskope, CK, SEEdit, all these lovely programs we use. I've tried following guides for making standalone followers like the awesome Skyrim SE Build a Follower guide by T.A.P. Gaming but at the end I just can't seem to get the head right. I feel there are so many gaps in the foundations of my knowledge.

Edit: I think this is femalehead.tri related. I don't know.

Edited September 17, 2023 by SurpriseFatty