Oh, my bad. Carry on

Is there any word on a "real" fix on Bethesda′s part yet ? I know that they are looking into it...any word when we might receive that update ?

Annoying bug, can't believe it still exists!

Man, I was looking around the forums collecting ideas because I wanted to add a female sword and board redguard as a follower for my argonian (long story).

I think I'll just wait for now instead of hitting my head over it.

Woot. I found a solution for my issue I was experiencing with certain NPC's getting a seam between the hair and face on the export method. Navigate to the facegen folder in textures and delete the data. what you need to keep is the mesh not the texture.

Ok Just tested it again and it does work for existing characters. This was a problem with lydia for me. When ever I changed her appearence in the CK I would either get the face tone mismatch to the body (without exporting facegendata) or if I did export I would gain this annoying seam between the hair line mesh and the hair itself regardless if hair was custom or vanilla. Removing the texture data from the export process in the textures/actors/facegendata/skyrim.esm folder removed the seam and maintaned the correct skin town for both.

This I believe will not work for new NPC's but I haven't tried it yet.

I've been having the same problem. I was trying to edit Ysolda in the CK to make her look like my character and was quite sucessful at doing so but her head and neck skin color is darker than her body.

That's something I like hearing. I've been finding this issue to be pretty annoying myself.

Glad i found this thread, i was going crazy not being able to figure out why all of my newly created Orcs had green bodies and dark grey faces!

Hahah yeah, that's how I noticed the bug as well.

No your issue i believe is when you copy an existing race you have to also set the Copy Data- Morph Race and Armor Race to the correct race you copy, then you will be able to preview them and see them in game.


Yea the BGS guy in this thread that said they know and are looking into it .

I was wondering what was going on, all of my created npcs had grey faces, regardless of what I put in the CK.

This is a bug of the game. Creation Kit is working properly. Need to wait for a patch for the game.
The game does not load from "...\Data\Meshes\actors\character\facegendata\facegeom\plugin name\..."
Same with the NPC created in other applications even before Creation Kit.
NPC from Skyrim.esm edited and exported (KTRL + F4) fine.

I don't understand. It's not possible to create new NPCs with face textures that are correct? How did Bethesda make the ones that are already in the game? The creation kit was supposedly hyped as the same creation tools they use.

edit: sorry, I just figured out what Shoo is saying. You've got to be kidding me. How did the CS get released with no one noticing it couldn't load data from the override folders?

Because Beth's NPC are all in Skyrim.esm. If you edit a vanilla NPC (either in the CK or the NPC editor) it creates a mesh file in \Data\Meshes\actors\character\facegendata\facegeom\skyrim.esm. If you create a new NPC, it puts the mesh file in it's own folder.

I also found that when you modify an existing NPC, the mesh file name that it creates matches its ID. I'm trying to create an NPC and in the CK, the ID is 010006d2, in the game the ID is 6700006d2 and the mesh file that is created is 0000006d2. All different.

I take it there hasn't been any further word on fixing this issue since Joel posted over a week ago?

I guess I could always edit one of the left over test NPCs that came with the creation kit. I believe I can change his name and everything else... just not his ID.

Very happy I found this thread. I'm adding a questline and have made about 20 NPCs so far before realzing that I was having this issue. Looking forward to a fix, Beth!

tks hardworking man and woman of bethesda i just created my new follower n it looks just like a follower to my like i was dissapointed that in game i couldnt get her warpaint n face cosmetics into the game she look pale a redguard with skin of an elf lol n i have spend all day looking for a solution till now ill be waiting for ya guys hope we get the patch soon tks for being aware of us the fans..

Why can't we just move the files created in the \Data\Meshes\actors\character\facegendata\facegeom\plugin name\ to the skrim.esm folder? I mean I tested it and it didn't work, but why doesn't it if that's the problem?

for newly created NPCs the only workaround to get the face to match the body is to set the skintone slider to 0

What's the status on fixing this?

I have tried this and I was able to get a matching head/neck/skin texture in-game on my companion.

However, the hair color and other aesthetic customization done in the .esp before converting it to a .esm doesnt save in the .esm. It auto reset to some default setting (HoneyBlond hair color, etc.)

So, I am able to get the matching skin in-game but I am unable to customize the appearance at all. I tried using a .esp that only changed the hairstyle/facial hair/hair color/etc and it work but i'm back with a grey face.

Am I missing something?

EDIT: Got it to work somehow. Trying to figure out how to use warpaint now. =)

• Create NPCs in esp
  
• Convert esp to esm
  
• Load esm as active file
  
• Open actor window for one of the actors and click Okay (no need to make changes)
  
• Save. It is now a master file.
  
• Select the actors you want to export facegendata for
  
• Ctrl+F4 and click Okay
  
• Close and don't save
  
• Test in game

Blah, you figured it out while I was typing.

+1 for making it clear as water

I'm happy that I found this thread! waiting for official fix now...

And how i Convert then because i try Wrye Bash - Skyrim and it convert them as ESM MASTER File