Super Noob Questions About Custom NPCs

[XanatosRythe]

I went through the process of creating a custom NPC from one of my characters, and she looks great everything is fine, great personality, combat style is workable and the face is the same... except...

 

I cannot get rid of the facetint bug no matter what I try, I've been trying different bugfixes from around the internet for the past hour and a half and nothing works (CTRL + F4'd at LEAST 10 times)

 

I also cannot get them to use the custom hair even though in the CK it shows them as having it, when I log into the game they have a random vanilla hair...

 

This is my first attempt at creating my own "mod" so I would love some advice on the matter.

 

The hair is the custom Azer hair with Havok physics, if that matters, but I checked out the files in nifskope and all the file paths are leading to the right place, I'm really stumped.

 

Any help would be truely appreciated, I hate having come this far to be road blocked by this stupid bug, Thanks!

[XanatosRythe]

Update: It was the hair, vanilla hairs are working, but I'd like to use one of the azer ponytails if possible (even with out the physics) but cannot figure out how to connect it to the mod as everytime i select Azerhairs.esm it wont let me load it because "multiple master files have been selected"

 

My NPC also has a really ugly red forhead warpaint(?) I thought it was a glitch in the CK but after they started rendering correctly the warpaint(?) shows up in game. Can't figure out how to get rid of it.

[Guest airdance]

When you created your character from another character you may still have references to the original character.  In short, you create a duplicate.

   Sometimes when you use a vanilla character as your base, the new character, although you selected "unique" as your character type, is still trying to use the characteristics of the original character.   Try using a "preset" as your base character to minimize the possibility of other mods overriding your choices for your character.

[XanatosRythe]

You mean start over completely from scratch and try to use the sliders in the CK to recreate my character? o.o?

[XanatosRythe]

even starting from scratch the same red forehead mark shows up, and it seems like I'm not the only one who's gotten this.

[XanatosRythe]

Found a fix.

 

From Rhowington at the nexus:

 

Forget my earlier post there is a better simpler way. Simply temporarily remove your tintmasks folder from textures/actors/character/character assets/ tinmasks to the desktop. Open your file then save and export the facegen data. Be sure to replace the tintmasks folder afterward.

 

 

Akward but effective! Now i just have to figure out how to attach custom hairs....

[Veladarius]

For multiple masters in the CK:

 

In SkyrimEditor.ini (Skyrim folder) under [General] set bAllowMultipleMasterLoads=1

Also:

 

In SkyrimEditor.ini you have to search for:

sResourceArchiveList2

Add your DLC's at the end of it as well... it should end on Update.bsa, after it add the DLC's in release order (... Update.bsa, Dawnguard.bsa, Heartfire.bsa, Dragonborn.bsa ). There's a few more lists there about the bsa files... not sure if you need to add them there as well... I think I did add them there just to be sure

 

[XanatosRythe]

I dont see bAllowMultipleMasterLoads= I do see:

 

bAllowNonGroupedVersionControl=0

and

bAllowMultipleEditors=0

 

is it one of those or do i have to add bAllowMultipleMasterLoads=1 myself?

 

nvrmnd figured it out. thanks

[XanatosRythe]

Had to disable the Havok hair mod but she's a perfect clone now I'm super happy, she's the character I leveled to 81, did like 99% of the games(and expansions) content on and had all this lore in my head for, so it'll be great to bring her along on my adventures ^^