(which I guess isn't a bad thing in itself)
Yeah.
More weirdness... I can't get the issue to happen at all when I'm just using the Vilja mod and no others... That's not so weird but if I add the unofficial patch it happens again. If I enable all my mods except for the unofficial patch (and the bashed patch) it also happens. If I disable all mods except All Natural - Real Lights it also still happens. So both Real Lights and the UOP individually seem to be causing the baldness. The only thing in common I could possibly imagine between both the unofficial patch and Real Lights with Vilja is the vanilla torch which both mods
might edit, and that I assume Vilja uses. But this sounds unlikely, because it still happens even if she's said not to use a torch.
And it's not that having any mod active other than Vilja's causes the bug. I managed to have a whole bunch of mods active, even a few bigger ones, without being able to trigger the bug.
I've started a new game for every test. Vilja is set early in the load order, so the mod's load order position doesn't ever change.
Somehow you can't reproduce it. Maybe we can put this to the test?
http://rapidshare.com/files/404802299/viljatest.ess No mods active. Grab the save in the post below instead.
We could try this:
(I assume you have Shivering Isles? I do. I don't know if it'll matter)
0. Drop the vilja.ess in the My Documents\My Games\Oblivion\Saves folder.
1. Install the http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=5296 and its http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=27710
2. Disable all your mods except Vilja and the unofficial patch. Whether you load the patch before or after Vilja doesn't seem to matter. I have Vilja loaded after the Oblivion.esm and DLCShiveringIsles.esp. After Vilja I have the Unofficial Oblivion Patch.esp. I didn't bother with the Shivering Isles patch.
3. Load the game. Vilja is added, you can finish the intro, access her gear and give here all the legion armor I had in my inventory. No need to get anything else out. Then tell her to put on her armor.
4. Save and exit the Bloated Float.
5. Look at Vilja. Should be just fine.
6. Fast travel to the Arboretum District. Is she still fine? In my game she is sometimes, and sometime she's bald now.
7. Fast travel to the Arena District. At this point most of the time my game either crashes, or gives me bald Vilja.
8. If everything's still fine, try continuing fast travelling counter clockwise around the Imperial City. If the error can be reproduced on your side, it shouldn't take long.
'Hopefully' this will give you the same results as I got. That would at least be one step in understanding what's going on.
I'm quite familiar with the quirks of the Oblivion engine but I have no idea what's going on here. :brokencomputer:
Povuholo, are her Stats normal??, Fatigue in particular, I had problems with one of my CM_Partners where she had no hair when I removed her helmet.
I Rarely use Fast Travel, other than maybe to a Test Cell, or Occasional Warp(Partner's Warp Ring) I never had problems on those occasions....
Are you perchance using Mart's??
I just checked, no problems with her Stats. Not during normal gameplay with all my mods active (including Mart's), and also not when baldness occurs then, or when baldness occurs when I started a new game with only Vilja and the unofficial patch and followed the steps above.
Edit: Hmmm looks like the UOP Supplemental has had an update since I last downloaded it I think. I'd better get it and make sure I can still break stuff.
Edit 2: Yep, no difference with the new UOP version.