so im trying to edit this companion Willow to a tanned tone or dark because her pale skin tone just didnt sit well with me, but no matter what I do, changing the textures and Nifs of the Face/Head/body/Hands her freaking body WILL NOT get any darker, I've been kicking at this for 3 hours now and its getting annoying not only that but the other races are doing the same thing, African americans are staying black, Hispania wont change lighter and Asians don't get darker in the Race editing menu (normal I think) and in the NPC menu (which should change when you alter the face tone)

I use Type 3 body replacer and for my own character it works fine, the face changes the tone of the rest of the body when I change it, but I cannot for the life of me change the freaking skin tone, I switched it from raider to normal and it will not change, granted the Model changes when I make the changes but the skin tone will not :brokencomputer:


what am I doing wrong.

Is your mod an esp? You need to use FNVedit to make it an esm. That should fix this issue and make the body match the head.

To make your mod an esm, open FNVedit, click the + next to your mod, and select File Header. Then on the right side right click in the open slot next to Record Flags, and say Edit. Click OK if it asks 'Are you sure you want to edit this?!?' then check the box next to ESM. Click OK and close and save your mod. Then change the file extension to .esm.

That should fix your skin issue, however, you cannot edit an ESM file in the GECK, so make sure you dont have any other changes that need doing first.

You can, however, always change it back. Just change the extension back to esp, and uncheck the ESM box and save.

Hopefully this helps.

Alexander J. Velicky

And the implications of this mod being dependant on an ESM other than FNV as well?

had a brain fart, nvm lol. getting to work.

I've done everything but change the extension, an aspect of Win 7 I've yet to figure out >_>

well...seems that last step may not have been needed as the changes are in.

My Thanks Alexander, all is well.