Lydia Replacer Not Working

[Darkening Demise]

So I made a Lydia replacer....usually it works but this time nope.avi it don't. I gave her apachiiskyhairfemale hair and some makeup changes. Saved the mod. Exported her facegen. And put the tintmask folder back into the data folder like usual to avoid the makeup red forehead issue. Sadly this doesn't work anymore and her face in game is dark face bug and the hair is not on her. She is vanilla Lydia with dark face bug. Not sure what to do. I tried changing the load order and exporting her face multiple times still not working right. I deleted her facegen data and then exported again but still not working.

[Andy14]

That's because Lydia is in savegame with "old data".

Start skyrim -> main menu -> open console> coc qasmoke
In the test cell -> open console -> help lydia (id will be displayed) -> player.placeatme id 1

Now you should see if your mod works.

 

By the way, what's the point of making makeup changes when copying old facetints?

[Lodakai]

Sometimes you can force feed the changes by changing the weight then changing it back to what it says in the data file.   then target lydia.. disable, enable and it should work.