The Problem: dark-blueish patchs on female cheeks. It's particularly noticable on Female Breton and Nord faces. Often combined with a two-tone face, where one part is a different color tone than the other. Sometimes looks as if part of the face is sunburned. I can post a pick if someone needs to see the problem.

Mods used: I'm currently using New Facial Textures by Enayla over the Danis13 Beautiful Faces meshes. I'm also using Beautiful People 2.7 and Better Redguards.

I've fixed this before by creating a character, transfering the face to an NPC using Wrye Bash, editing the face TES Construction Set, then replacing it on my character. Sometimes this doesn't work well, tho. So I'm wondering: is there a better fix?

Thanks for any help.

~ Dani ~

That sounds like a video drivers problem. Try updating or rolling back your card's drivers.

If you're using Enayla's face textures over Danis13's work, you're really just overwriting Danis13's works, since they are texture replacers, not mesh replacers. I suggest choosing between Danis or Enayla's, whichever you prefer, and installing those textures after installing Improved Facial Textures for its better, higher resolution age maps. The quality of your age maps affect your character's face, even at the youngest settings, and playing characters with very pale faces will reveal every flaw, often looking blueish or ashy, without higher resolution base meshes and textures.

CapsAdmin's smooth egt for vanilla races is really helpful, as is a higher resolution head mesh, like throttlekitty's head06, which is used in many popular race mods, like the Lattamer, and Moonshadow Elves.

edit: I do see that Danis13 provided new headhuman_050 meshes- so my mistake there. However, my advice hasn't changed. Install the textures you like over IFT and possibly CapsAdmin's smooth egt, and see if things don't improve.

Remember when you recommended the EGT to me a long time ago and I said I would have to redo my characters' skin tones... Well, anyway, since I have started over, I threw it in at the beginning and I cannot take it out. The textures look so much worse without it. I will have to redo my dude's partner's face, but I have to get over the few random bugs first. I have not used Head06 yet, though. My characters are all Mystic Elves, but now that they are going to start hanging out with Vilja, I am going to try to work in the Enayla's Races for Head06 resources. Man, those are cool, not to mention they are for Robert's bodies, both male and female. ^______^


Thanks again!
- Tomlong75210

Yay! I am really glad that it worked out for you. It's a great resource, and I wouldn't do without it ever again. It makes fair- skinned characters look more even,.and darker skinned characters don't have that green tint around their mouths with it installed. I love it! :celebration:

Thanks, Greenwarden, that advice improved things immensely, removing the blue-ish shadows from the cheeks.

Should someone find this thread in the future, this is what I did:

1. I installed Danis13's meshes - just the meshes - on top of the Oblivion meshes.

2. I installed Improved Facial Textures on top of the Oblivion textures.

3. I installed Enayla's New Face Textures (version 2) on top of the IFT.

The difference is remarkable.

@ Tomlong: thanks for the tip, but I recently - within the last few days - updated all my video drivers with NVIDIA's latest drivers. That, I hope, should solve those problems for a bit.

:)

~ Dani ~

I was going to ask you for a screenie to see if I was thinking of the right shadows problem, but I am glad you figured out everything. This game is lookin' awesome! I am getting down to 10 FPS in the IC Market District, and I could not care less. ^____^


Happy gaming!
- Tomlong75210

Lol! I know. When I first enter the IC Market, I drop to 7 to 9, then, as the NPCs move around, m FPS slowly crawls up to around 12 to 17. I'm at 190+ installed mods and I've not really started adding quests, houses or armor/clothing (but most of that last group can be merged).

Thanks and good luck!

~ Dani ~

Excellent, glad it worked out for you.

I am not using the FPS patches. I have not installed the PyFFI-optimized meshes for lots of things either. I did, however, just finish decompressing the Oblivion textures BSA, but a lot of that is being overwritten by loose replacement files, anyway. If I can keep it at 15+, I'm good. Actually, I'm happy with it anyway. ^____^


Happy gaming and good night!
- Tomlong75210