Ashen complexion

[Martine]

I modified an existing custom follower in an attempt to give him custom hair.  I managed to do it with CK, although I have yet to get the exact hair color I would like.  However I find his complexion to be off.  I don't think it's the infamous gray face problem that has a solution (exporting the face).  This is something a bit different.  Even in CK the face seems off.

 

This is my pretty boy Thaiden, that I got off Nexus and customized to my liking.  I kept the name to honor his creator

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is what I have so far.

 

 

 

 

 

 

As you can see, the complexion is off, and the hair isn't the color I wanted.  Not sure how to add a custom tattoo.  I can live with the issues but the gray face bugs me.   Can anyone tell me how I can fix him?

 

Edit :  I made sure to export the face every time

[Veladarius]

Any changes to the face will require the FaceGen to be exported again and is likely the issue. How gray the face is can vary depending on skin tone and other things.

[Martine]

Yes I did that of course.  That's not the issue.  Well unless exporting doesn't work.  But I export it and get a confirmation message.  Beside, the color is off in CK as well.

[Veladarius]

My only other suggestion is to check the other sliders for the tint masks and such and set them to show no color, it may be using adding one or a combination of them to the face color.

[Dillpickle]

If you haven't changed his face tint colour in CK from the original, you could always pull the face tint from the facegen data of the original mod and use that - rename and overwrite your facegen tint (back up first).

[Martine]

Yes, I think that's something like that.   Not sure how to do it, but  I'll poke around some more.

[Martine]

I think I finally figured it out.  I had a flash of insight.  Could it be that it was Mod Organizer that was interfering ?  Turns out I was right.  The clue was when I read the about files that CTRL F4 is supposed to be exporting.  That should have appeared in the overwrite folder but it did not.  Only the useless TGA file showed up.   They did appear in in the data folder but I wasn't sure the changes was kept by MO.

 

So I installed the mod manually in skyrim, without using MO.  Made my changes in CK,  exported with CTRL-F4, and copied the relevant files back into the mod folder.  Deleted the mod from Skyrim proper.

 

Voila no more gray face.

 

At this point he's 99% the way I want him.   Not sure how to apply a custom tattoo, but that's pretty minor