So I have created a custom race. I wanted to create some new presets for it. I'm using this tutorial with Mod Organizer v 1.3.11, setting up the NPC according to this.
When I Control + F4 to export facegen, I get the prompt and it tells me "Done" ... but no files are actually created. They aren't in my actual Skyrim folder (I have no meshes folder at all there) and they aren't in my overwrite folder, either, where MO would normally put things.
Here's what I have tried:
1) Making sure I am NOT navigating to the NPC via "all"
2) Setting the NPC as my custom race before exporting
3) Setting the NPC as a vanilla race before exporting
4) Making sure my Skyrim/Mod Organizer folders are NOT set to read only
5) Saving, changing something about the NPC, exporting facegen
6) Saving, closing out of the CK, reloading, changing something about the NPC, exporting facegen
7) Making a copy of a vanilla preset NPC as a starting point
8) Making a new NPC that's NOT under presets in the CK but checking the "is character preset" box
I started by just coping a vanilla preset, then importing the .npc file via Character Gen Parts. I can set it up as a preset OK -- IE, it's selectable in-game -- but it doesn't have the changes I made using RaceMenu's extended sliders/sculpt feature. I know I need to use nifmerge, but I can't do that because I can't get the face gen files to be generated -- so I have nothing to merge with my RaceMenu export.
I've been at this for days and I've exhausted all my google-fu. Does ANYone have any idea what the problem might be?