so I'm retexturing the dark brotherhood cloth hood. It looks pretty good and I'm happy with it so far. Problem is, when I equip the item in game, my face disappears. The hood is there but not head underneath.

So I double check the ArmorAddons that the DB hood uses and I match them up. I go under the armor item and do the same thing making sure everything is identical to the DB hood.

Then I go into Nyfskope (as some have said online) and look at the BSDismemberSkinInstance and some online said it should be 31 (for hair). Well its set as 2 (NPC Head) , when I change to 31 or 131, the hood crashes my game to desktop. I'm at a loss. All my other gear works just fine in 3rd and 1st person. I don't know why this hood is being such a pain.

When I change the AA to head instead of hair the whole hood doesn't show up and I'm headless.

well i feel dumb.. once again missed the obvious. the armor item still had "head" selected even though the AA did not. How did i miss that?