skin texture Skyrim SE skin texture discoloration help.

[Vytenis]

Hello, I tried my best to solve this issue myself, but I can't seem find a fix. I'm hoping that someone here has had similar issues and can give some advice.

For some reason my character's skin textures become discolored upon putting on armor or staying in first person for too long. As long as I stay in third person the textures do not seem to shift, but as soon as I put on different equipment or switch my pov, the textures become ruined. None of the npc's have this issue, it is only my character.

Only the body itself seems to be effected, the arms, legs and face textures remain fine.

Reloading and entering racemenu helps, but simply changing my gear or my pov and the body textures become weird again until a reset.

 

I'm using the BnP female skin textures, I have no lighting mods installed.

I tried reinstalling multiple times, but to no avail.

 

If anyone has encountered a similar problem and can help me out I'd appreciate it.

 

 

 

Edited December 29, 2024 by Vytenis
Accidentally uploaded too many pictures.

[traison]

This has been posted several times before:

 

https://www.loverslab.com/topic/198332-skin-texture-bug/
https://www.loverslab.com/topic/211324-skyrim-seae-eggfactory-skin-texture-problem/
https://www.loverslab.com/topic/209709-cleantool-in-beta-viral-save-corruption-by-pregnancynormalmapswapper/
https://www.loverslab.com/topic/209432-incorrect-body-texture/

 

The TL;DR is:

 

You have a mod which is changing the normal map to one that is either flat or entirely missing.

1. Save a RaceMenu preset when your character's texture is wrong.
2. Open the resulting jslot file in Notepad.
3. Go through the overrides array and look for invalid entries - missing files and such.

[Vytenis]

Well then, you sir have sent me down a rabbit hole here, been reading for about an hour or so of these threads. You are right, it's something do with the normal maps. Thanks for the help, I realized that skin overlay bug was infecting my other saves and sorta... corrupted them. 

It seems that I'll be starting a new playthrough after all, just have to be careful with which presets I use and which overlays I apply.

Thank you this was helpful!

[traison]

1 hour ago, Vytenis said:

Thanks for the help, I realized that skin overlay bug was infecting my other saves and sorta... corrupted them.

 

All you need to do is identify the mod that adds the override, then either fix the override or remove the mod. If you remove the mod, fixing already "corrupted" saves is as simple as saving a RM preset of your current character and modifying the overrides array of that preset. Load the modified preset again and your problem is gone.

 

Edit: and by "fix the override" I don't mean remove the override entry from the jslot file, as the mod that added it will just put it back most likely. I mean either replace the original file with one from another mod (like base CBBE), or if its missing entirely then, well the solution is the same: get a normal map from somewhere, preferably one that conveys the message that the broken msn was intended to do.

Edited December 30, 2024 by traison

[UnknownUnknowns]

On 12/29/2024 at 7:17 PM, traison said:

This has been posted several times before:

 

https://www.loverslab.com/topic/198332-skin-texture-bug/
https://www.loverslab.com/topic/211324-skyrim-seae-eggfactory-skin-texture-problem/
https://www.loverslab.com/topic/209709-cleantool-in-beta-viral-save-corruption-by-pregnancynormalmapswapper/
https://www.loverslab.com/topic/209432-incorrect-body-texture/

 

The TL;DR is:

 

You have a mod which is changing the normal map to one that is either flat or entirely missing.

1. Save a RaceMenu preset when your character's texture is wrong.
2. Open the resulting jslot file in Notepad.
3. Go through the overrides array and look for invalid entries - missing files and such.

So I've been trying to deduce this and bouncing through the files you linked. 

 

Missing files in the Jslot would be outlined how? What should I be looking for?

 

   "skinOverrides" : [
      {
         "firstPerson" : false,
         "slotMask" : 4,
         "values" : [
            {
               "data" : "",
               "index" : 1,
               "key" : 9,
               "type" : 2
            }
         ]

 

Something like this, where data is listed as ""? I've attached the jslot file, but mostly looking for some direction to figure it out myself.

 

So far I've tried of fixes listed:

The skee.ini file tweaks(only skee64.ini exists) 'fixes' it, but also disables all other body overlays.

 

I can't really downgrade RaceMenu without MO2 bitching at me about DLLs?

 

I'm not using the Pregnancy Normal Map swapper, unless this without the swapper is known to cause issues.

 

Taryn2.txt

[traison]

2 hours ago, UnknownUnknowns said:

Something like this, where data is listed as ""?

 

The answer is in one of the threads I linked earlier:

https://www.loverslab.com/topic/209432-incorrect-body-texture/page/2/#findComment-4068734

 

2 hours ago, UnknownUnknowns said:

The skee.ini file tweaks(only skee64.ini exists) 'fixes' it, but also disables all other body overlays.

 

That was before we discovered what's actually causing it, this can also be found in the linked threads:

https://www.loverslab.com/topic/209432-incorrect-body-texture/page/2/#findComment-4067218

 

2 hours ago, UnknownUnknowns said:

I can't really downgrade RaceMenu without MO2 bitching at me about DLLs?

 

Most likely.

 

2 hours ago, UnknownUnknowns said:

I'm not using the Pregnancy Normal Map swapper, unless this without the swapper is known to cause issues.

 

Irrelevant, as hinted at or stated here:

https://www.loverslab.com/topic/209709-cleantool-in-beta-viral-save-corruption-by-pregnancynormalmapswapper/page/2/#findComment-4264756

https://www.loverslab.com/topic/211324-skyrim-seae-eggfactory-skin-texture-problem/#findComment-4078209

 

On 12/30/2024 at 2:56 PM, traison said:

All you need to do is identify the mod that adds the override, then either fix the override or remove the mod. If you remove the mod, fixing already "corrupted" saves is as simple as saving a RM preset of your current character and modifying the overrides array of that preset. Load the modified preset again and your problem is gone.

 

Edit: When you've removed or otherwise fixed the mod that adds the invalid override, here's the fixed preset that you can apply to your character to finalize it:

 

Taryn2.txt

Edited July 3, 2025 by traison

[anjenthedog]

I know I'm probably harping but try using the mod NIOverrideClean. It completely resolved a long-standing(~5+ years)  problem I had of body textures going wonky.

If you do pursue it, make sure to read the instructions for use.

Edited July 3, 2025 by anjenthedog

[UnknownUnknowns]

All right, guess my next agenda is going to be seeing what mods use AddSkinOverride and figure it out from there. I guess it's opening stuff in Creation Club and looking for that, unless there's a quicker way to search for what uses that function?

 

EggFactory is on the list currently, but my modlist is a heavily modified Masterstroke list, and no one complains of this issue in the Masterstroke discord. My current top suspect is SlaveTatsNG, and digging through that thread prob going to take a bit. I'm not sure what else I've added that would do such a thing - I don't think Winterweight touches skin stuff, and is just morph based, and I think I've still encountered the issue even when I've tried to run without it.

 

Thanks for the help even it feels like I can't seem to read the existing posts right. 

 

2 hours ago, anjenthedog said:

I know I'm probably harping but try using the mod NIOverrideClean. It completely resolved a long-standing(~5+ years)  problem I had of body textures going wonky.

If you do pursue it, make sure to read the instructions for use.

 

I'll give this a shot too, but I imagine finding out the real culprit is better for save file longterm health. Thanks. 

Edited July 3, 2025 by UnknownUnknowns

[traison]

4 minutes ago, UnknownUnknowns said:

I guess it's opening stuff in Creation Club and looking for that, unless there's a quicker way to search for what uses that function?

 

Notepad++, or any other utility that can search for strings within binary files.