One mod that commonly causes the black face bug in people's mods is Hair Replacer. Ideally test on a profile that has nothing other than USLEEP active.

Whilst you can test with other mods active, you have to be really careful.

Also when testing disable all auto saves and never save manually.Īnother question regarding testing is your profile. I don't want to create a custom follower with their own set of skills, inventory, armor and whatnot, I just wish to make some modifications to an existing NPC's face. Can someone help me, step-by-step? Perhaps it will also help others who are having the same or similar troubles.Īre you testing on a clean save point (one that has never seen your mod)? If not earlier changes in the mod could get stuck in the save so the game engine doesn't know which version to be using. How do you people manage to do this?!?!? I swear I honestly admire Skyrim modders. I've been doing this since noon, and now it's.you don't wanna know what time it is. I Googled for hours, tried several different 'solutions', but the same thing happens over and over again, with varying results regarding hair and eyes sometimes I see them, sometimes I don't, but the face is always black. I fired up the game and the NPC in question had black face. esp, I hit Ctrl+F4 to export FaceGen, the works. I checked the desired NPC among the Actors, I made the changes (I cleaned his face from dirt, tweaked facial features only slightly, changed hair and eyes, and I saw all the changes I made on the preview screen. I waited and endured the gush of error screens. I checked master files and the files containing hairs and eyes which I wished to add to the NPC. So I thought, I see face mods everywhere on the continent of Skyrim SE here on Nexus, it shouldn't be too hard, right?

I don't want to create a custom NPC, I wish to modify an existing one - and only the head at that.

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