Tattoo appearing/disappearing under boots/stockings (Video attached)

[valencia]

Does anybody know the cause of this? I've tried with different boots and they didn't do that. Notice how it's disappearing when I move the mouse as well. Not that it's a major inconvenience but it'd be nice to know the cause of that

[xmyyyds2021]

I'm no pro in this part of game, but I've been doing some research myself. So the thing is, this is like a engine problem (which means basically no solution, at least in my knowledge and search). The cause of this problem is when u use tats with transparent cloth or the part of body is under water etc.  If that really concerns you, I suggest u try the dumbest idea, merge the tat u want with your body texture, so it's not a tat but a original body texture, then it wont disappear (99% I think).

[Andy14]

This is because of the alpha setting of the tattoos and the boots/stockings - alpha blending.
You can go to nioverride.ini (Data\SKSE\Plugins).
Set iAlphaFlags to 4844 and at
Set iAlphaThreshold to 128.
But depending on the tattoo, it doesn't necessarily look good.

[bnub345]

Skyrim has an engine problem with rendering certain things through transparent layers. You can fix it with a plugin from HDT (LE only) or by setting the under layer as a decal. Racemenu has an optional download for overlay meshes that will do this.