Sometimes you can open the plugin in CK, and select them Press Ctrl+F4 for generating Facegen data to fix them. Valve Corporation. - The new CK will work like the old CK when you press , it will put the facegeom data in folders named after the original vanilla or DLC plugin. What file exactly did you use to regenerate the facegen data? If it is not there, The mesh and textures were correctly generated and can be found in my data folder (also correct filenames, they correspond to her Editor ID). Where does CreationKit export facegen data? : r/skyrimmods Select which races you want to patch. For example: Looking at tint layers, it seems pretty clear what the issue is. Any ideas why? NPC appearance overhauls that use custom sculpts and custom textures are safe to use with this mod installed, but if you have a conflict in your load order that breaks those mods, this mod will. Once you got your load order sorted, run Wrye Bash and create a "bashed patch". If nothing had changed regarding facegen, then we could use NifMerge to simply convert the old game's head nifs into head nifs for the new game, but we can't. Install hundreds of mods with the click of a button. 4. But, it does not auto-save to the folder named after the original (vanilla or DLC) plugin, where the old CK would put them when pressing . I think that this is what is happening: * Mod A adds a new face for Lydia under the Skyrim.esm folder and the ModA.esp folder, * Mod B adds a new face for Lydia under the Skyrim.esm folder and the ModB.esp folder, * The game loads the face for Lydia under ModA.esp folder + the face for Lydia under the Skyrim.esm folder added by Mod B + the face for Lydia under the ModB.esp folder. I can't seem to get the facegen data to export. First, Identify what mod you want to turn into an esl check to see if it has facegen data it will be located under "meshes\actors\character\FaceGenData\FaceGeom{Whatever the plugin name is}" as loose files or using . This tool doesn't do anything by itself. Which is a pita. My knowledge regarding NPCs largely stems from creating followers / NPCs for small quests and working with NPC overhauls. A guide about using CK to fix them: Guide: Creating FaceGen Data (from RageYT0) Sometimes you should let the mod auther to fix them. That didn't work either, even after regenerating face data again with the patch: You did a lot of work to provide us with information. After the CK has finished, all of your newly exported FaceGen data can be found in the Overwrite folder of your mod list. However, if the head nif was the result of a RaceMenu/NifMerge session and includes custom mesh paths for things like eye geometry or 3rd party hair, those geometries will be missing in game. Other than that we can only hope that someone more expreienced than me has a clue. Dark Face Issue Reporter - Nexus Mods :: Skyrim Special Edition Remarks You can use this fix as a runtime equivalent to Creation Kit's 'Ctrl+F4' to generate FaceGen. By noe, packing the facegen data under both the Skyrim.esm and the Mod.esp folders doesn't generate any problems provided that you are only using one mod that modifyes the vanilla NPCs faces. Maybe you could still try the "Load order adjustments + bashed patch" method I mentioned above. Problem is that this tintmask entry has to be adjusted manually before finishing/releasing a mod. - The new CK auto-saves facegeom data in a folder named after your plugin when you save the plugin. The NPC in question (xx04C768) has facegen data provided in the mod in question (in a BSA). Please re-enable javascript to access full functionality. Copyright 2023 Black Tree Gaming Ltd. All rights reserved. Check the last texture entry but one. When the FaceGen files are there yet the faces don't match in game, every male NPC affected by the mod has a dark face, and unless I found a way to figure out which FaceGen file belongs to who and delete them then I'd be stuck with dark faces. I also opened the face mesh in NifSkope, and it looks fine there. That may have been their intention. Put the one you want to win the conflict last. Most black face issues are simple mod conflicts. And that's what happens most of the time when people encounter black faces in their game. NPC Facegen Patcher at Skyrim Special Edition Nexus - Nexus Mods By the way I wouldn't use a 3rd party tool as a merit for something, especially if it didn't have any updates for more than a year. Just made my first weapon in Blender and want to know how to port over to Skyrim. Nnnnnope. A tint mask with "wrong" base settings should lead to a noticable difference in colour, but not to a dark brown face. So, apparantly you need to have the last mod that modifies an Actor's Race as well as the last mod that modifies that Actor itself loaded if you want to generate correct FaceGen data. Fixing the Gray Face: Skyrim Modding Tutorial - Weebly If you are using 2 character appearance mods, such as HMB II and VHR, select the .esp files provided by them and click OK. minor change: log filename change to DarkFaceIssueReporterXXXXXXXX.txt, now you can select which file you want to start from, just select the file, 'Apply Script' then click button '1. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Getting back to Skyrim NPCs: the safe thing is for every facegen mesh to be accompanied by an NPC record edit, and vice versa. So if there if a way to export FaceGen Data with xEdit I would be glad to know it. They also won't allow certain geometries the old game's head nifs would allow. A couple of other handy tricks: If you see the NPC in the game and they've got the dreaded "dark face bug" (or you just want info on them) hit the ~ key to bring up the console, then click on the NPC. if you got two mods making changes to Delphine and you want Bijin Delphine, put the Bijin esp after the other NPC replacer. I've attempted to use the Creation Kit to generate facegen data (select actors to regenerate face data for, press CTRL+F4) to no avail. Unfortunately, it's not a case of multiple mods modifying a single npc. Thank Bethesda for the shiesty BS, Soft. ! They will also be affected by appearance mods such as Expressive Facegen Morphs and High Poly Vanilla Hair, which would normally only affect the player unless explicitly regenerated in CK. After exporting facegen textures from the GECK by pressing CTRL+F4 with the NPC records highlighted ( note, you must be in the NPCs category in the Object Viewer, not in the All category, or else CTRL+F4 will not produce output ), the output files from the GECK consist of both DDS and TGA files. If it really isn't, you may have to create a conflict reoslution patch manually in SSEEdit. When it comes to black face issues, you should take a close look at NPC Replacers (e.g. In Skyrim, when you changed the face of a vanilla NPC all facegen data was generated only under the folder "Skyrim.esm" In Skyrim Special Editionm when you cange the face of a vanilla NPC the facegen data is generated under two folders: "Skyrim.esm" and "Mod.esp" (where Mod.esp is the name of the mod changing those faces. This may be an issue having to do with quads verses triangles, but I'm not sure yet. I've seen some opinion that this is the case, but I can't verify yet, because no matter where the facegeom data is saved, the heads are too black to see what the face looks like in game. Simple solution that works (well, most of the time): Make sure you got your load order sorted correctly. Is there a way to export facegen data without the creation kit? - You'll get the black head no matter which way you do it, or if you do both. In particular, to the tint assets: And I have another mod (a skyrim npc beautification mod I can't remember the name of atm) that causes this problem for non-vanilla npcs of man and mer races. When logged in, you can choose up to 12 games that will be displayed as favourites in this menu. Repeat Steps 4-6 for any other mods with broken . So I'm using xEdit to modify an NPC mod for my own use, Pandorable's Dragonborn to be more specific. Start from selected file' from the main menu, now you can choose which files or records you want to check, just select them, 'Apply Script' then click button '2. I remembered someone had an in game solution that if you change the weight of an NPC in the console commands it would temporarily restore their facegen data and solve the bug until you left the cell. Skyrim: Creation Kit Tutorial - Export FaceGen Data Zylice Liddell 1.93K subscribers Subscribe 331 Share 32K views 7 years ago In my first ever Creation Kit tutorial, I will show you how to. Find which mod alters NPC faces, and which NPCs it alters, and open it in the Creation Kit. I can think of 2 way to solve this, first is I keep the FaceGen files of the ladies and delete the ones of the men. This mod prevents the game from discarding tint data, so when errors are encountered, it will regenerate faces with correct colors. I know it works there with CTRL+F4, but the software is horribly optimized and takes like 10 minutes to load up the main game, update, and DLCs. This mod is needed to extract all unique heads to allow you customize their textures. Complementary tool for all mods that allow character races to have bodies unique to them. I ended up having to revert to release version and opt out of beta patches, in order to be able to use CK again. We ask that you please take a minute to read through the rules and check out the resources provided before creating a post, especially if you are new here. Run only for selected files or records' from the main menu, add a option for creating a plugin to collect dark face NPCs. You can do this by selecting the entry for the NPC in the Creation Kit, and pressing Ctrl + F4. Site news (important news will be issued), Comments on your files, images and videos, New images and videos added to your files. Your first sentence may be true, but the second sentence is definitely not. Sorry No worries. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. All rights reserved. Thanks for pointing that out. As you might imagine, generating FaceGen is slower than loading preprocessed FaceGen. Copyright 2023 Robin Scott. Install hundreds of mods with the click of a button. Copyright 2023 Robin Scott. If you're still looking for a solution, this is what I do: go to https://skyrimcommands.com/npcs, and enter in the last 5 digits of the 8 digit code (so, for example, if you wanted to know what NPC was 00017935.nif, type in "17935" and boom - it'll tell you "Storn Crag-Strider"). If you have multiple NPCs, you can hold down Ctrl and left click each entry so all of them can be selected. NPCs whose heads get regenerated will always be based on their face morph data from your loaded plugins. I tried to see if those numbers showed up under the NPC in xEdit and couldn't find anything, I found which FaceGen file was Storn's due to the .dds preview but the number isn't with him in xEdit, if you know what I'm saying. I opened up my entire current load order at once in SSEEdit to figure out which plugin was the last file to modify that record (note: the Race record, not the Actor record), which in my case was the USSEP plugin. - Or, it's also possible it is supposed to work exactly like the old CK and facegeom data is always supposed to be saved to the original vanilla or DLC plugin folder, meaning the auto-saving to a folder named after your own plugin is the bug. If you want all the NPCs in your load order to use the individualized face textures for each race. Press Ctrl + F4 (which will not close the window; it's the command to export facegen data) and click Yes to confirm. So what am I missing? Not Required. I then tried also regenerating facegen data with Fluffjiits, MrissisTales, and my patch loaded in the CK which also did not resolve the issue. EasyNPC is a little bit smarter than this - for example, it knows the difference between plugins that edit NPC faces and plugins that edit other aspects of an NPC - but at the present time, these build checks are not . While they're highlighted, press Ctrl + F4. - place the script 'Skyrim - NPC Facegen Patcher.pas' in the 'Edit Scripts' folder of xEdit How to use: 1. There appears to be nothing at all wrong with Padma's records. In Skyrim, if two mods changed the face of the same NPC the only problem of incompatibility between those mods was that you would only see in game the changes done by the last mod loading in your load order, as the files in the Skyrim.esm folder of the second mod overwrote the ones of the first mod. Alzheimer's Obituary Examples, Articles S
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