Don't know what overlay texture I'm missing and some npcs get ourple.

[kupa11]

Hello,
I'm having weird issue. Some mod, don't know which one adds overlay, that in texture page is named [1] and it causes some npcs to get purple. Using mod to remove all overlays fixes the issue until they get same overlay. Does anyone know if it is possible to find source of this problem? Expanding on this texture shows me little to nothing.

[judge007]

1 hour ago, kupa11 said:

Hello,
I'm having weird issue. Some mod, don't know which one adds overlay, that in texture page is named [1] and it causes some npcs to get purple. Using mod to remove all overlays fixes the issue until they get same overlay. Does anyone know if it is possible to find source of this problem? Expanding on this texture shows me little to nothing.

the number 000229b6 indicates it is located in one of Skyrim's texture archives, the key being the first two zeros (the index of the plugin)

[traison]

8 hours ago, judge007 said:

the number 000229b6 indicates it is located in one of Skyrim's texture archives

 

Any mod can override that, unfortunately the file name makes no promises. That was also not OP's question.

 

9 hours ago, kupa11 said:

Does anyone know if it is possible to find source of this problem?

 

Most likely this is just a mod that's adding an override or overlay with an empty string for texture path. This is a somewhat common problem, and it's unfortunate that RM doesn't sanity check input and instead creates a rendering error like this.

 

You're basically seeing this issue on an NPC instead of on the player character. The fix is thus going to be the same, up until the jslot stuff. You'll most likely have to find the mod that's adding the invalid override, fix or remove it, then clean the NPCs overlays (overrides) with the tool you've already used.

 

So:

 

Search through all pex files in all mods for AddNodeOverrideString and AddSkinOverrideString, including in BSA archives. Notepad++ can do the search, except it won't search within packed BSA archives. I've made a tool that can do the search in its entirety. It's available upon request. Once you have the list of potential script names, query your mod manager for which mods these are coming from. With this information you can now decide what to do: remove the mod(s) or fix the script(s).

 

10 hours ago, kupa11 said:

Using mod to remove all overlays fixes the issue

 

To clarify the thing with overrides and overlays, the NiOverride API does not distinguish between these 2 when it comes to adding and removing things. A mod that removes overlays might also be removing overrides.

[kupa11]

On 5/12/2026 at 11:36 AM, traison said:

 

Any mod can override that, unfortunately the file name makes no promises. That was also not OP's question.

 

 

Most likely this is just a mod that's adding an override or overlay with an empty string for texture path. This is a somewhat common problem, and it's unfortunate that RM doesn't sanity check input and instead creates a rendering error like this.

 

You're basically seeing this issue on an NPC instead of on the player character. The fix is thus going to be the same, up until the jslot stuff. You'll most likely have to find the mod that's adding the invalid override, fix or remove it, then clean the NPCs overlays (overrides) with the tool you've already used.

 

So:

 

Search through all pex files in all mods for AddNodeOverrideString and AddSkinOverrideString, including in BSA archives. Notepad++ can do the search, except it won't search within packed BSA archives. I've made a tool that can do the search in its entirety. It's available upon request. Once you have the list of potential script names, query your mod manager for which mods these are coming from. With this information you can now decide what to do: remove the mod(s) or fix the script(s).

 

 

To clarify the thing with overrides and overlays, the NiOverride API does not distinguish between these 2 when it comes to adding and removing things. A mod that removes overlays might also be removing overrides.

Hi, sorry for late response, I had a little break from skyrim. I tried to search for these pex files, but if they are in the scripts folder, there are a lot of them and I'm not really that good with files. Thought it was overlay distribution framework, so I tried removing it,, but it didn't help. It's weird because it mostly happens on save loads, also for a second affecting PC and then dissapearing. It also affects most npcs, males, females and also child npcs.

[kupa11]

I've tried the purge option in ODF mcm and for now I don't see any purple bodies. I'll test it more.