Generic faces on NPC females after changing cell

[MoreForMe]

I never had 'grey face' problems etc until recently - all of the sudden on both my profiles female NPCs have generic faces, with textures that won't fit the bodies, plus the 'red' foreheads. This problem doesn't occur immediately after loading the game - NPCs are looking normal until I change the cell or spawn them. The problem is present on both my profiles (both using different mod suite), and also after starting a new game so it's not a broken savegame, also it's not a problem with tint masks because immediately after loading the game everything looks fine...

Also there are no problems with the player character at all.

 

Do you guys have any idea what's going on?

 

PS.: I removed the apachii hair for female as it was frequently mentioned as causing the grey face problem, but it didn't changed anything...

[nazghool]

EDIT: Found the cause it was an older slave tats 1.3.0 beta ( didnt notice the newer 1.3.0beta2)  hope that helps!

[Andy14]

Red forehead is the lipstick.

 

Skyrim and CK do not support facetints with high resolution (1024 and higher).

 

Check if RaceMenu / Nio is installed correctly.

If necessary, a look into the Ini of Nio can not hurt.

 

The generated faces (meshes and textures) of the NPC should also be checked - possibly overridden by other mod or not present (then Skyrim Vanilla BSA)

[MoreForMe]

EDIT: Found the cause it was an older slave tats 1.3.0 beta ( didnt notice the newer 1.3.0beta2)  hope that helps!

 

Wow, just wow! That was it. I can't believe I missed it. I was fighting this issue for two months now. I remember I first noticed it when I played around with new slavetats packs - since then I removed most of them, but I didn't do anything with the slavetats itself - In fact I didn't remembered installing the 1.3.0 beta, but I obviously did installed it.

 

Thanks! You just save me a lot of time and a lot of stress. I can play Skyrim again.