asianboy345 Posted February 11, 2012 Posted February 11, 2012 When I edit an NPC in the CK, their skin and head color looks fine and matched up. However, when I go into the game, every single NPC that I've touched in the CK will have a very dark brown head color but their body will be normal. For example, if I edit Aela the Huntress and makes her skin the whitest possible and fixes up her faces a little, her body skin will be fine but her face skin will be dark brown. Anyone else encountered this issue? It must be noted that I do have quite a bit of custom body and face texture if that could be a problem. But honestly, if that is the case, then this is pretty weird for the CK to not support custom textures on NPC's head.
Eiries Posted February 11, 2012 Posted February 11, 2012 Aww yea.... edit your character, then, in the object window, highlight all the NPCs you edited (Ctrl+click,) then Ctrl+F4. You'll get a prompt to export the characters' facegens. That's freaking right, the game has special files for each NPC. Anyway, once you do that it'll be all set.
Dakdream Posted April 30, 2012 Posted April 30, 2012 when i click ctrl+F4 nothing happen. help? Make sure you are in the Actors tab if you are on "all" tab it wont work, double click and make sure "Is CharGen Preset" is off (unchecked) then click ok, select your npc and hit ctrl+F4, then you can go to \Data\textures\actors\character\FaceGenData\FaceTint\(yourmodname) and you can find the textures there, go ingame and test.
foreveraloneguy Posted May 6, 2012 Posted May 6, 2012 Anyone have a fix for this? I've done a complete reinstall with no mods, but I'm still seeing this same thing. Even exporting the chargen data from ck doesn't correct the issue. Even going back to much earlier saves doesn't seem to be correcting the problem. So if someone has an idea, please let me know.
Dakdream Posted May 6, 2012 Posted May 6, 2012 Anyone have a fix for this? I've done a complete reinstall with no mods' date=' but I'm still seeing this same thing. Even exporting the chargen data from ck doesn't correct the issue. Even going back to much earlier saves doesn't seem to be correcting the problem. So if someone has an idea, please let me know. [/quote'] Its CK problem, this was already reported to Bethesda but it seems not to care right now . The only fix so far i found was exporting the textures as i explain in the last post.
Dovah Posted May 16, 2012 Posted May 16, 2012 Sorry but where's the ''is CharGen preset'' button? It's the only thing I don't find. I want to make a custom character but when I test it in game, half of her head from her nose to her hair is gray. I have fixed only the half of her head aparently lol
Riberbero Posted May 16, 2012 Posted May 16, 2012 Converting the esp file to an esm should fix it. You can use TESVSnip to do so.
Galacticat42 Posted February 1, 2013 Posted February 1, 2013 I know this is an old thread, but better here than making a new one: Hrm, looks like .esm-ification may be the only way to go for me - been putting together a follower mod and the Ctrl+f4 doesn't give results. So I unchecked the preset CharGen, in the actor tab I did Ctrl+f4 which gave me the popup window, but when I navigated to the folder where it should be, nothing from my mod is there.
Relevant Halo Posted February 2, 2013 Posted February 2, 2013 ctrl F4 used to always work, but after updating to 1.8, the dark face bug still persists.
ratrace Posted February 2, 2013 Posted February 2, 2013 Concerning the DARK FACE BUG: The Ctrl-F4 alone doesn't do anything to fix that. This was originally meant to fix NPC discolorations, but the dark face bug seems to have some more or other causes. Will Bethesda ever get the NPC creation runing flawlessly? Good grief, we're at the eleventh (!) update and still these basics are glitched. I have found the following: http://www.creationk...m/Dark_Face_Bug In a nutshell you have to esm-ify the esp in question before the Ctrl-F4-method and re-esp-ify afterwards. It's a known bug in the Creation Kit and somehow appeared out of thin air after the **** 1.8-patch. BETHESDA, PLEASE FIX THAT CRAP! Sorry for my rude language, but this bug makes it impossible for me and many othger modders to go go on modding and creating races, and I'm on the brink of ditching Skyrim modding (and playing). Each new update makes things worse and spawns new bugs, really. How can you edit body and face textures if you don't know if they will match? I've tested the above mentioned method, but not on NPCs yet. I'm doing an orc child mod, and all I can say is that the player character still has face tinting problems. I've not yet tested the method on the NPCs in my mod because I started a new game.
xCrimsonSky Posted August 22, 2013 Posted August 22, 2013 Okay well I'm having the same issue, only thing is I did something really really stupid! I deleted the file on the mod I was doing (changing Ysolda's hair) because I was getting the dark face thing too. I thought if i delted the file everything would be okay. I was really wrong. Should've done more research on how to use CK. So I'm not for sure what to do now. If anyone could help that would be great.
ftlum Posted August 29, 2013 Posted August 29, 2013 I think I'm having the same bug. Every face-changing mod I've tried so far (beautiful followers pack, beautiful follower- only Serana, What Mjoll) has resulted in the vanilla faces not changing aside from becoming dark-- the actual mod does not appear in the game. The mods are put at the bottom of the load order and I've tried disabling Amazing Followers Tweaks. All the body mods work fine. The hair mod on my main character works too. I don't know why so many people are able to run all their face changing mods without problems-- there must be something that is either conflicting or something that's happened to my game installation along the way, since more than 1 mod is affected. I tried the F4 trick (not sure if I did it right), but it didn't work. I'm not sure how to do the "esm-ifying" that was mentioned a couple posts above. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Tyber Zann Posted January 21, 2014 Posted January 21, 2014 Having a similar problem, hope it helps. Basically, same issue with skin tone, a bland, uniform light Brown colour on NPC faces which I have edited. The thing is, this is with the NPC editor, not the CK. And it only does it with certain NPC's, mainly Dunmer (dark elves). Details: Iv made Muiri my wife and Brilyna Marion my steward. I made a mod for each using the NPC editor, giving them better hair and facepaint/makeup. Muiri looks great, Brilyna looks like she getting a mud facial. The odd part is that individual elements of the mod still applied. Her hair stow changed, but not the colour. The scars I added applied, but skin tone did not. And needless to say theres a distinct seam around the neck. Bluish grey body, mud Brown face. I'm also using Calient body mod/bodyslide, and on muiri it all blended perfectly. Body looks great, head looks great, seamless. No so with brylina. Any suggestions? I'm going to try the CK soon if i cant work this out with NPC editor.
Tyber Zann Posted January 21, 2014 Posted January 21, 2014 Also, in response to ftlum above, if ur having issues using multiple mods, or even if ur not, i highly suggest using the Nexus Mod Manager if u dont already. it may seem like an unnecessary luxury, but it will save u countless hours of frustration and allow u to easily disable/remove mods to test their effects with each other, rather than manually moving/copying/deleting individual files and possibly having to re install skyrim several times over. In fact, NMM is what allowed me to properly use Calient body mod in the first place.
AmusedBeyondWords Posted September 13, 2014 Posted September 13, 2014 Solution in Creation Kit Open the NPC, open the 'Actor' Go to Character Gen Parts Interpolation Value is interesting here... Click 'reset' button Click 'set' button Save Might have to repeat after every future change.
Solozogy Posted December 9, 2014 Posted December 9, 2014 AmusedBeyondWords posted solution works! Finally a solution that works!
razzor69 Posted March 14, 2016 Posted March 14, 2016 I still got the grayed face, using TES5edit, NPC editor, CK, still the NPC that i edited didnt work out so please tell me what to do, i wanna change the ugly NPC so bad
Gillabyte Posted March 16, 2017 Posted March 16, 2017 So, I successfully got rid of Gray/Brown face. However, I went to change the armor, and it was back. (Doing this in SSE creation kit, dunno if that changes anything)
terrorofmorrowind Posted November 2, 2017 Posted November 2, 2017 If someone is still having the discoloratuon bug when applying make up and other stuff, there should be a slider in the chracter edit menu called "interpolation value". Set this slider to 0 to get rid of the discoloration. The make up should still work in the game itself.
Overcast451 Posted February 10, 2018 Posted February 10, 2018 I just ran into this as well. In my case.. I found that if I set the Interpolation Value to zero, I wouldn't see my changes.. oddly. I tried CTRL + F4 and at first, it didn't seem to work. Then I realized after reading this ( https://www.creationkit.com/index.php?title=Dark_Face_Bug - thanks for the link ratrace!) that I had to make sure I did the CTRL + F4 export *after* I made all of the changes and re-saved the ESP file. After that, I could make change after change and it kept working just fine. Worked for me at least, made a few tweaks to Jenassa.
terrorofmorrowind Posted March 16, 2018 Posted March 16, 2018 On 10/02/2018 at 5:49 PM, Overcast451 said: I just ran into this as well. In my case.. I found that if I set the Interpolation Value to zero, I wouldn't see my changes.. oddly. I tried CTRL + F4 and at first, it didn't seem to work. Then I realized after reading this ( https://www.creationkit.com/index.php?title=Dark_Face_Bug - thanks for the link ratrace!) that I had to make sure I did the CTRL + F4 export *after* I made all of the changes and re-saved the ESP file. After that, I could make change after change and it kept working just fine. Worked for me at least, made a few tweaks to Jenassa. Crap, now i have the slightly lighter face bug with a striped face. I have no idea what do now especially since this is something i made and it worked a long time ago. You can even find it here on loverslab. It's called Abunchofnpc's. Yeah, Original i know. I do remember that i literally took the eyes of beauty mod and started adding npc's in it. I only renamed the .esp (with the blessing of the Original author mind you) but i didn't upload any of the other assets that came with the mod. You still need the original eyes of beauty mod for that.
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