how to get rid of gap between neck and body?

[bobrodobro]

Hi!

don't know where to ask so I'll ask for help here. 

 

I have a problem with my face preset aligning to body mods. Few months ago I created face preset, then I had to delete my Skyrim setup and now on my new setup I get this terrible gap between neck from my preset and body mods.

 

I tryed to change weight, to use different body mods and setups (CBBE / UNP) but nothing helped, when I load my presets through showracemenu option I get this gap.

 

here are screenshots wich show the gap from different angles:

http://imgur.com/mly0APl

http://imgur.com/W0oIqq9

http://imgur.com/whHLuTv

http://imgur.com/Ja8ipUn

http://imgur.com/oOk2SoN

http://imgur.com/b7UWd9M

http://imgur.com/HnR40r7

 

So I search for any help. PEEEEEEEEASE help, i'm desparate

 

 

sorry for my english :3

[Cock Sucker]

that's the issue I think, if you change your weight after you created your character or an npc's weight , not sure if you did pcweight command or not, but when I changed npc's default weight to 100 from say 50 when I was using unpb the neck seem appeared and I had to manually fix all my followers one by one -.-

 

I'd try using bodyslide for the body as I went from unpb to bodyslide uunp and bang... fixed and got big boobs as a bonus

 

 

[Cloen]

Welcome to Skyrim, this is every modder problem. It means you are one of us now.

 

What you can actually do:

 

1. Have matching normal/diffuse/specular maps. There are several mods providing good seamless textures, one of the best if for unp though 

2. Get a texture blender, run it and hope it works. It never worked for me to say the truth

3. Make sure it's not a meshes problem, head and body are a different thing in this game, if they are not matching they could create a seam as big as the grand canyon. It could also be a skeleton problem

4. Get a stylish choker. That's what I do. Nothing to worry about if you can't see it, right?

5. Pray to the neck seam Goddess. She's not so merciful as you may think

6. Vampires are notorius for having the major neck seam discrepancies, so there's people with worse problems. Think about them

[bobrodobro]

Welcome to Skyrim, this is every modder problem. It means you are one of us now.

 

What you can actually do:

 

1. Have matching normal/diffuse/specular maps. There are several mods providing good seamless textures, one of the best if for unp though 

2. Get a texture blender, run it and hope it works. It never worked for me to say the truth

3. Make sure it's not a meshes problem, head and body are a different thing in this game, if they are not matching they could create a seam as big as the grand canyon. It could also be a skeleton problem

4. Get a stylish choker. That's what I do. Nothing to worry about if you can't see it, right?

5. Pray to the neck seam Goddess. She's not so merciful as you may think

6. Vampires are notorius for having the major neck seam discrepancies, so there's people with worse problems. Think about them

 

thanks for helping. can you recommend mods for your first option in the list?

[Corsayr]

CBBE comes with a texture blending tool that I have always had good success with

 

Skyrim\Data\CalienteTools\TexBlendLite should be the path to it and it is called texblendlite.exe

 

 

[Cloen]

There's are a bunch of seamless textures on the Nexus. I have tried only unp textures but I prefer having them on my npc and use a custom body for my pc. You can easily find one with a couple of clicks.

What I recommend you is to download Gimp, install a random seamless texture and modify it yourself, because I'm pretty sure you want the body of your character to be the way you want it to be.

 

So. First off there's 3 different texture in a character body: the diffuse map is the actual body color, so having non-matching textures here can result in a visible neckseam with different colors. Then there's the normal map, this is the body texture shape and it is most likely texture to give neckseam problems when non matching. The last is the specular map and it's the body glossiness (it can be used to give effects like sweat), it gives neckseams only if the head specular and body specular are totally different.

Knowing that you can start modifying the textures, all you need is to use the neck part of the seamless textures. If you want to use your custom body take the neck part of one texture and blend it with the eraser (setting the opacity manually). Try till you get something believable. 

If you still have a huge seam then it's the meshes

[RomeoZero]

That is not a texture problem,this is a skin weight issue,as above people wrote ,If its a RM preset with 100 weight and exported, your game weight need to be full weight also.The second problem might be a wrong weight paint distribution [neck area]  on the vertices in diff body types.

[bobrodobro]

Guys, I fixed that gap!

It appeared quite simple, I just deflated that part of neck using showracemenu and thats it! That required quite a few tries to get it allighned right, but I've managed it i think 

 

http://imgur.com/a/xCV6S

 

By the way, texture blender didn't helped. Weight increasing too.

Anyways thanks for help everyone! Without it I'd never found this option ))