Neck Seams I Just Cannot Get Rid Of

[TIME2RANCHITUP]

Like the title says, I´ve got this damn neck seam thats been driving me crazy. It only seem to happen with Orcs too. Im using the Barbarian skin with a body I made in Bodyslide (mesh seems to be fine, considering other races dont have the seam) and I´ve also tried fixing it with texture blender. Unfortunately nothing has worked. I´d be absolutely overjoyed if someone could help.

 

[m3ss3rschm1tti]

hi,

 

Mature Skin Textur or Women of Skyrim

 

install the normal maps and the skin texture

 

mfg schm!tt!

[TIME2RANCHITUP]

Ah, I realise now I should have been more clear. I dont really want to replace my current textures, since in theory, they shouldnt have seams like that. Also I´d really like to keep them since my character is supposed to be very muscular.

[Rarehunter]

Are you using better females by Bella?

 

I find that it cause neck seems with the Barbarian / Milk Drinker textures.

[TIME2RANCHITUP]

I am not, using the face textures that came with Barbarian. It didnt however come with a new normal map for orc females though however, maybe thats what causes it? Most of my suspicions have been towards the female orc maps being the culprit here.

[gvman3670]

You should be able to change the Orcs' maps.

[conglaciatus1]

This is what I've always done for neck seams:

 

1.) Go into the dds editor of your choice.

2.) Open the body normals of your choice.

3.) Open a body normal from a normals set that you have that doesn't cause neck-seams.

4.) Copy-paste the seamless normals over the seamed normals (on a second layer).

5.) Erase everything except the edge of the neck from the copy-pasted normals with a very soft-edged brush and save.

6.) Repeat for head normals.

 

If you don't have a dds editor, use paint.net, but be sure to manually open a new layer when copy-pasting, as it doesn't do that by itself for some reason

 

And if this doesn't work, I have no idea what witchcraft is occuring, sorry...

[TIME2RANCHITUP]

This is what I've always done for neck seams:

 

1.) Go into the dds editor of your choice.

2.) Open the body normals of your choice.

3.) Open a body normal from a normals set that you have that doesn't cause neck-seams.

4.) Copy-paste the seamless normals over the seamed normals (on a second layer).

5.) Erase everything except the edge of the neck from the copy-pasted normals with a very soft-edged brush and save.

6.) Repeat for head normals.

 

If you don't have a dds editor, use paint.net, but be sure to manually open a new layer when copy-pasting, as it doesn't do that by itself for some reason

 

And if this doesn't work, I have no idea what witchcraft is occuring, sorry...

 

Did some more experimenting and I think this might be the solution. I tried downloading the seamless UNP women of skyrim skin and replaced its normal maps with the barbarian maps, and the seams were GREATLY reduced but still a little bit visible. So your method will probably solve it. Ill give it a try or bother one of my friends who are actually good at image editing cause I sure as hell aint. Well see how it works out.