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I don't think I noticed this right when it happened, but I have an idea. I was in Blackreach and decided to take a nap, prompting the Dark Brotherhood to abduct me and ask me to kill one of three people (in which I killed the person who captured me). I freed all of them and then realized something was weird in the shack, as I didn't figure there should be a lot of smoke.

Lo and behold, I hit the third person button and this is what I see.

http://i.imgur.com/rh7CQ.jpg

I have restarted my game and it has not fixed it. I'm not quite sure what to do.

That cant be real hahahaha, type "sixchange" in the console twice, that might fix it. Otherwise check active effects might be somthing you need to remove.

Oh yes it can be...you heard about he stuck arrows and iceshards yet? or the one with mooses coming out of him?

I've seen arrows get stuck in me for an extended period of time, but that passed after some time. Never seen someone with a moose in them, I'd like to see that

I definitely checked my active effects; nothing there that is any different than before.

Hey man check out my bug! It's the same as yours...well almost , yours is cooler xD


http://i42.tinypic.com/eajytw.jpg

http://i39.tinypic.com/20zo000.jpg

Anyway mine is causing really dramatic frameratedrops, and just like you tried everything without succes.

Well I just figured out that doing a console "sixchange" fixes it if I'm in third person, until I go back into first person, then it just comes back, as either "gender".

I think that we are the very few ! who gets this bug, and can't get rid of it

OMG thank you! I tried in 1st person, and it works!! ...until i change the camera to 3rd person, but this made my day! ( been very upset lately, bothering me for 3 days now)

Hope the next patch will fix this!

When I switch sixes in first person, mine doesn't fix :'(

The best way to deal with these sorts of bugs is to save often with named or new saves and if you pick up a bug, just go back to the last save before you got it. I lost several hours of play to get rid of the glowing eye bug and now I both check for bugs and update my bug free progress regularly so that if I pick up another I can go back without losing much progress.

Your character must be related to my avatar.
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complete shot in the dark, but try this:
1. remove all items from your character including equipped items (this is important)
2. open console and type player.removeallitems

Out of curiosity do any of you have vsync turned off? I am just curious because having Vsync turned off causes allot of issues, especially with the physics engine. This could be related.

I'll give it a try.

Yeah, didn't help me. It would seem this is like a "state" bug that should have ended, but instead stuck with me somehow. I think after the Dark Brotherhood snatched me, it began and messed something up.

Is there a portion of the game where you shoot smoke out like that for any reason, or know of something that does or resembles it?

yeah.. really didn't think it would work for this.

I do not have VSync turned off.

Well I tried already removing all items, didn't help.
I don't have Vsync disabled.

This smoke shouldn't come out of you...instead : http://i39.tinypic.com/2whjlv5.jpg LOL

As for me, some stupid spell effect didn't trigger to stop, and it's stuck.

Oh wow, that's the exact animation I have, as the construct. I am surprised I didn't catch that seeing that I've fought nearly a dozen of them.

I've got this one as well, in the smoke from the feet format (rather than the full Dwarven Centurion "smoke from everywhere" or the frost from feet variants). sixchange from the console fixed it for the 3rd person viewmode, but not 1st person (which is how I play). Driving me bonkers. Tried the "player.addspell 00030fbe" solution from http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim_talk:Glitches#Smoke_Glitch too, but no dice. Anyone had any luck getting rid of this?

hooolyshiet that's a dwarven steam centurion! XD

It's an iceshard that doesn't disappear, much like the arrows did. It appears to have "faded" but in reality it's still there.

Go get yourself shot up by bandits and eventually an arrow will replace the shard.

Hopefully the arrow will fade out.

I don't have the exact version of the bug that you have, but I have basically the same thing. I guess that I was attacked by a Spriggan (walking tree monsters) at some point, and their swirling-green-leaves attack that they do has stuck to my character. Now everywhere I go, I have a swarm of leaves coming out of my character which, as you can imagine, is PRETTY ANNOYING.

I've tried everything (removing things, getting a cleansing at the healer, taking various potions, fighting more spriggans, etc) but nothing has worked.

HA! Got it; checked it on a few different variations of this glitch, and it seems to work every time. Works on every variant of it so far; frost feet, steaming feet, spriggan swarm, whatever. Should remove any creature's visual effects that somehow get stuck to your character.

The only proviso is: you need to be able to work out which creature's effects you're stuck with. Common ones so far are the Dwarven Centurion (obvious, huge smoke flying out in six or so directions), Frost Atronach (blue smoke from feet), Spriggan (leaves flying around) and the one that got me, the Dwarven Spider's steam. There may be others though; I wouldn't be surprised if every creature with a visual effect can glitch like this. If you can figure out what kind of enemy's effect you've got, then you can fix it. Here's the method:

• Figure out what kind of enemy FX you've got spewing out of you. For the sake of argument, I'm going with the Spriggan here.
  
• Open the console. Type, (leaving out the < >) . This will bring up a list of all the miscellaneous variables associated with the Spriggan. For a creature with a multi-word name, you'll need to use quotes (e.g. ).
  
• Using Page Up and Page Down on your keyboard, navigate up this list until you find the variables staring with SPEL: . The ones that cause the glitch seem to be called either abilities or FX. So in this example, we see there's one saying "SPEL: (0009AA38) 'Spriggan Abilities' ".
  
• We're going to add this ability to our character, and then remove it. (The adding may not actually be necessary, but I'm including it just in case). In the console, type . A message will pop up on screen saying something like "Spriggan Abilities added". If you look in your active effects in the magic menu at this point, you'll see a spell of that name.
  
• Now to remove the effect. In the console, type . Again, a message will appear on screen confirming this if it's worked.
  
• Exit the console and check your character. If you got the correct enemy FX, you should have successfully fixed the glitch. If it hasn't worked, you've probably got the wrong one; try a different one. For example, if the Dwarven centurion code doesn't work, try the one for the Dwarven spider. Also, some creatures have multiple visual FX; if you've got one of these, add and remove them one by one until you get the right one.

As I said, you'll need to change the above example depending on the exact version of the glitch you've got. Here are some of the spell IDs I've discovered for the more common variants of the glitch:

Dwarven Spider: 0004EFC1
Dwarven Centurion: 00030FBE
Frost Atronach: 000104D4B (maybe; the Frost Atronach has a couple of effects. If one doesn't work, try the others).
Spriggan: 0009AA38 (as the above example)

Hope this helps some of you guys. If you've fix of these glitches that isn't listed here, it might be helpful for others to give the Spell ID you used.

I have a similar problem. I tried the player.removespell codes above and searched for the affect below.

https://skydrive.live.com/#!/?cid=ad3033fb765759b7&sc=photos&uc=1&id=AD3033FB765759B7%21412!cid=AD3033FB765759B7&id=AD3033FB765759B7%21414&sc=photos

If anyone has an idea on what this is please respond.