*It may work with the Ref ID, but we've always used the base. I hope someone else finds this as useful as we have. You can do this for any NPC who's facegen data you've exported but isn't showing up properly. Load up your save, and voilà! No more dark face.Save and make a backup (should be automatic).In the lower right, look for the box that says 'Ref ID' underneath 'Forms'

Sign Up for free (or Log In if you already have an account) to be able to ask and answer questions. 2) Install TES4Edit (great tool for cleaning dirty mods if you will have some, you can watch this video to.

And as you can tell by the post times two load and two saves takes a while. Go to My Documents/My Games/Oblivion you should find it there. Sinitar Gaming - making games great again. I wouldn't use an auto or quicksave, but a hard save. But if pre-3.4.1 versions of EE has been in use, clean-saving without EE as scruggsywuggsy suggests, is the way to get rid of the garbage in the save. Load the script cleaner and select your saved game.Lydia's base ID is 000A2C8E and her RefID is 000A2C94. Do a search on the NPC's name on the wiki and it should pull up the relevant page. Tell the NPC to leave your service if they're following.If you're also having this issue and exporting the NPC facegen data doesn't work, do the following: So now whenever I give my ladies a makeover, I remove them from my game and have yet to see that ugly bug rear its head again.

I was plagued by the dreaded NPC gray/black face bug with Lydia and Aela, but I found out that the save game script cleaner can remove their references from the game and force the game to reload their facial information.

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