Companion Face Discolour Bug

[CrisG9]

I got hit by the face discolour bug and dont know how to fix it...i changed my companion Lydia to a blond and changed her hair..with the NPC editor but then her face now is shiney and discoloured...

and I dont know how to fix it.

I saw a post a while ago that said to remove the texture that is created when you change a face for an NPC with the CK but this was with the NPC Editor....

i tried removing the texture but the face stayed shiny

here is a pic..

the rest of her body texture is fine.

anyone know how to fix this?

[Tamira]

I am not at my own PC now. But you could try this:

mark the NPC in the CK Object list, then press Strg+F4. Then something like "export face textures" will appear, say yes and have a look at her again. Worked for me with custom made NPC.

[CrisG9]

HI Tamira, thanks,

what keys did you mean?

Strg+F4

Shift plus F4?

[Tamira]

HI Tamira, thanks,

what keys did you mean?

Strg+F4

Shift plus F4?

Sorry, I forgot that I use a German keyboard.

It is Ctrl + F4 of course

And the message is:

"Export face data for all selected NPCs?"

[Arthmoor]

This is actually something Bethesda fixed along the way, perhaps with the last CK update. It didn't used to work before, and was something they had us test for during the CK beta. Oddly, it never showed up in changelogs, but thankfully it does work. No more grey-face NPCs!

[CrisG9]

Do we have to move the textures manually or will the CK put them where they are supposed to be? thanks for this inf a lot.

UPDATE: i searched and there are two new texture files in the Texture Folder of the data folder so i think it did work. i will test shortly. If this does actually work a lot of people will be happy as i have found others trying to solve the same problem.

Edited April 13, 2012 by CrisG9

[CrisG9]

That worked..i also found that i had a mod active that causes the same problem,

Female Face Skin v 1_8_rev1-6554-1-8

i recomend not using it until it is fixed, i will contact the author to discuss things..

Lydia is back to her old self..

Female Face Skin v 1_8_rev1-6554-1-8

Edited April 13, 2012 by CrisG9

[Arthmoor]

You can delete the .tga files the process creates. The game only uses the .dds file. Either way, it's definitely good they fixed it. One less roadblock to village mods and their NPCs etc.

[vometia]

I am not at my own PC now. But you could try this:

mark the NPC in the CK Object list, then press Strg+F4. Then something like "export face textures" will appear, say yes and have a look at her again. Worked for me with custom made NPC.

Oh, thanks for that: I wondered why the odd change to NPC faces wasn't showing up in-game! I thought it was a lost cause until I read that. Eventually found the resulting NIFs hiding in meshes/actors/character/FaceGenData/FaceGeom/Skyrim.esm; I wonder why it does that? I guess the previous versions must be embedded in one of the masters or BSAs and not done on the fly as with Oblivion.

[WillieSea]

It seems to be broken.

The only way I can get it to create the face textures now is to convert the plugin to an ESM, load that up, make a change to the face, then CTRL + F4. And even that is sort of flunky if you have other faces already in there.

[Tamira]

Meanwhile I looked it up.

Make sure that „IsCharGenFacePreset“ is not checked, then it should work.

[Arthmoor]

It seems to be broken.

The only way I can get it to create the face textures now is to convert the plugin to an ESM, load that up, make a change to the face, then CTRL + F4. And even that is sort of flunky if you have other faces already in there.

That's what used to be the case when we brought the issue to Bethesda's attention during the CK beta. The problem was fixed since then in CK 1.5.24.

[WillieSea]

What fixed it was unchecking the box like Tamira said above.

[Arthmoor]

Good to know, none of my NPCs have that checked, which is probably why fixing them in CK 1.5.24 produced a working result. That was definitely not working prior to that update though.

[Tamira]

Good to know, none of my NPCs have that checked, which is probably why fixing them in CK 1.5.24 produced a working result. That was definitely not working prior to that update though.

I did not update since February 29th, my Creation Kit shows the version 1.4.23.0 and the NPC face bug Fix works for me, so obviously it was fixed then already

Edited June 1, 2012 by Tamira

[WillieSea]

I have version 1.6.89 of the CK.

I created a new NPC, made sure the IsCharGenFacePreset is not checked.

Pressing CTRL + F4 does nothing.

Has the facegen been broken in the last update?

The only checkbox I have checked is Unique.

[Tamira]

As far as I remember, what I read about this was: Create your NPC, save and close the CK. Then open CK again and do the face export. Works not in the same session.

[WillieSea]

Yeah, I tried saving, closing down, reloading, cannot make facegen.

I then made a few more 'changes' to the NPC and still could not make the facegen.

There is no template data being used either.

[Witty]

Try this, it worked for me

[WillieSea]

is it just me, or is the picture 'not found'?

Edited August 27, 2012 by WillieSea

[Tamira]

@ Willie, I updated my game and CK some days ago and I have version 1.6.89 too of the CK meanwhile.

I just tried it out myself, created a new NPC, but did not try to use the ctrl + F4 first. Saved, shut CK. Then started the CK again, picked the new NPC, used ctrl + F4 as usual and saved. Full success here and the mesh and textures in the FaceGenData are there too.

[WillieSea]

After it was pointed out to me that I need to select the NPC from the Object Window, and not the Render Window, I can also create face gen data for my new NPC!

Thanks!