(SOLVED) Aringoth's Dark/Black Face

[3eerKabiron]

I am far certain that I have explored much of Skyrim and haven't encountered anybody with the black/dark face problem until now.

For some reason, Aringoth has it. Which is weird to me. Apparently, I found a post that said if you changed Aringoth's race from Wood Elf to High Elf back, which is the original before USSEPP, it will fix it. It didn't. It's not a major problem, if he is the only person in the entirety of Skyrim that faces this problem, but would be nice if there is a quick fix to it.

I am concerned as this could mean two or more quest NPCs might have this problem, and mentioning this early might fix the others I have yet to encounter.

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Edited March 10, 2025 by 3eerKabiron

[traison]

This issue is as old as Skyrim, did you Google it? Thousands of pages already mention the 2 fixes you have available to you:

1. Rebuild the face in the CK.
2. Make sure the mod that's providing the face dds and nif, also provides the NPC record.

[3eerKabiron]

1 hour ago, traison said:

This issue is as old as Skyrim, did you Google it? Thousands of pages already mention the 2 fixes you have available to you:

1. Rebuild the face in the CK.
2. Make sure the mod that's providing the face dds and nif, also provides the NPC record.

I googled and most of the results are just general Dark/Black face problems, I already had problems with in the past. I got those fixed via downloading another mod that had something to do with AI Overhaul if I am not mistaken. There is a mod that I was suggested in the past which is,

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/42441

 

But from what I read, it's better to fix or find out the source of the problem instead of using this and hide it. I never thought about Creation Kit, never used it. I tried changing with SSEDIT but no luck with that in one of the posts, I already read.

I'll check with CK, thank you for putting up and going all the way to respond to this silly post. But honestly, I'll just ignore it if CK took me too long for my dumb brain to figure out. It's probably just Aringoth that has this.

[belegost]

Since he's a bosmer I'd take a wild guess that there's a conflict between AI Overhaul and bosmer horn thingy mod. I don't know how horns mod work exactly, but I do know that AI Overhaul edits NPC plugin data to insert its own packages. Look for a patch or forward necessary records in xEdit yourself.

[traison]

If you decide to rebuild the faces with the CK; a couple of things:

1. The face will look different, unless you have the exact same mods the original author had when they made the face. For faces other than vanilla, this is usually quite unlikely.
2. The way you rebuild face is as follows:
   1. Select the NPC you're having issues with.
   2. Press the hidden hotkey: Ctrl+F4
   3. Wait for popup.
   4. Move the facegen files (dds and nif) to a mod so that they can be sorted more easily, unless CK overwrote already existing files.