This has always and will ever be related to load order and install order of your mods. Make sure that Simple Children is installed last and FaceGenForKids.esp is loaded low in your load order. If some other mod edits the kids in any way, they will overwrite the faces provided in this mod, causing dark faces.
I will reiterate that there are many patches located in the Optional section of the Downloads, and off-page patches are listed in the Mod Specific Compatibility section of the Description.
I've tried to make the description as concise and straightforward as possible, so please read through it carefully.
Patches Included In The AIO Installer
Adopt Aventus Aretino Beyond Reach Beyond Skyrim: Bruma Blackthorn - A Buildable Town In The Rift Books Of Skyrim Cutting Room Floor Dragons Keep SSE Expanded Towns and Cities Complete Expanded Towns and Cities - Modular Falskaar The Forgotten City Gavrostead SE Greater Skaal Village Helgen Reborn Immersive World Encounters Immersive Weapon Integration Inconsequential NPCs Interesting NPCs Keld-Nar Legacy Of The Dragonborn Moon And Star Outlaws and Revolutionaries Prince and The Pauper Qaxe's Questorium Rigmor of Bruma Rigmor of Cyrodiil Settlements Expanded Solitude Expansion The People of Skyrim Complete Wyrmstooth *Skaal Coat Addon - Let's kids wear the Skaal coat. Affects Aeta and mod-added kids who wear the Skaal clothing for kids. Not needed if you use "Armor and Clothing Extension" (does the same thing).
Do not install the mesh patch for Child NPC Mods in the installer. I believe that was meant for RS Children only. With simple children the mesh is broken and causes issues, the most noticeable being child's with bald heads, the worst (I've seen) being exploded polygons or broken mesh glitch.
Without the mesh patch installed Simple Children and Wet and Cold work perfectly fine.
If you happen to have an infinite looping loading screen while using the Simple Children mod this may help you with that as well! The mod author of the Infinite Loop fix did notfinally include Simple Children in the required mods section, so unfortunately it will notnow be easily found as a fix.
i'm not gonna pretend i understand it or claim to know why or if this is a me-specific issue, but in over 900 mods, this mod and this mod alone causes my main menu to never load and keeps a copy of the game open in the background after i close it.
I've pre-prepared the STEP Modifications patch to save people trouble and time. The short version is, this mod was written for an old version of USSEP, and has an "Error: could not be resolved" problem in it that causes crashes. Only takes a moment to fix it in xEdit, but not everyone is comfortable doing that, so I've zipped up the patched version of FacegenForKids.esp for you here:
Making my first comment just to say thank you, man. Even after going into xedit and following directions to fix stuff myself, my game STILL hit an infinite load, until I used both the patches you posted. Works like a dream now. Thanks for helping newbies like me! We're hopeless XD
After so many months of trying and failing and giving up on this mod, I read through the comments once more and finally got this working in AE! I know it's a dead mod, but I finally was able to figure it out! Thank you so much for your patch! Now my children are beautiful and diverse, not potato heads or creepy cartoons! :D
Just to keep the comment train rolling for reinstallers/newcomers, Darklocq's fix indeed works.
It's too bad this can't become an official file and/or a stickied post but definitely install Darkloq's patch if you want to use Simple Children!
Another (hopefully) helpful patch for Simple Children is here (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/39517?tab=files). If you happen to have an infinite looping loading screen while using the Simple Children mod this may help you with that as well! The mod author of the Infinite Loop fix did not include Simple Children in the required mods section, so unfortunately it will not be easily found a s a fix.
Happy modding to all! May the ground you walk quake as you pass!
This. This is why I love the nexus modding community so much. Someone is always just coming in and picking up where the last person left off to make things work. Thanks, human.
"Why is this not pinned yet?" - I think the original developer has wandered off to other pastures. What really needs to happen is for the fix I made to just be integrated into the original mod so that it's suitable for 2020s use instead of 2010s use. In the interim, my patch should continue working, as long as people find it. The best way for that to happen is for people to periodically post to this thread to bump it back up near the top.
Hi, this has been ported to XB. Excited I did a clean up, hard reset and put this mod on the absolute bottom, started a new playthrough and I cant get it to work. Any ideas appreciated as I really-really wanna make it work. I don't get any dark faces or anything, it's just not coming through.
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Link to Simple Children LE
*PSA*
Regarding Dark Faces:This has always and will ever be related to load order and install order of your mods. Make sure that Simple Children is installed last and FaceGenForKids.esp is loaded low in your load order. If some other mod edits the kids in any way, they will overwrite the faces provided in this mod, causing dark faces.
I will reiterate that there are many patches located in the Optional section of the Downloads, and off-page patches are listed in the Mod Specific Compatibility section of the Description.
I've tried to make the description as concise and straightforward as possible, so please read through it carefully.
Patches Included In The AIO Installer
Adopt Aventus AretinoBeyond Reach
Beyond Skyrim: Bruma
Blackthorn - A Buildable Town In The Rift
Books Of Skyrim
Cutting Room Floor
Dragons Keep SSE
Expanded Towns and Cities Complete
Expanded Towns and Cities - Modular
Falskaar
The Forgotten City
Gavrostead SE
Greater Skaal Village
Helgen Reborn
Immersive World Encounters
Immersive Weapon Integration
Inconsequential NPCs
Interesting NPCs
Keld-Nar
Legacy Of The Dragonborn
Moon And Star
Outlaws and Revolutionaries
Prince and The Pauper
Qaxe's Questorium
Rigmor of Bruma
Rigmor of Cyrodiil
Settlements Expanded
Solitude Expansion
The People of Skyrim Complete
Wyrmstooth
*Skaal Coat Addon - Let's kids wear the Skaal coat. Affects Aeta and mod-added kids who wear the Skaal clothing for kids. Not needed if you use "Armor and Clothing Extension" (does the same thing).
Do not install the mesh patch for Child NPC Mods in the installer. I believe that was meant for RS Children only. With simple children the mesh is broken and causes issues, the most noticeable being child's with bald heads, the worst (I've seen) being exploded polygons or broken mesh glitch.
Without the mesh patch installed Simple Children and Wet and Cold work perfectly fine.
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/39517?tab=files
https://mega.nz/file/4Ew0GSrK#gDPtOGrWjiXGi801WfDtj-nDuTqp98JbLmdHvNelnOQ
Includes a ReadMe (summary: install the original mod first, then replace the original FacegenForKids.esp with mine).
Hopefully the mod author will just update the original mod to include this so my patch can go away.
If you also use "Beyond Skyrim: Bruma", see my updated Simple Children patch for that, too (here, in a reply to a post by KotoriKaji).
Thanks
I know it's a dead mod, but I finally was able to figure it out! Thank you so much for your patch!
Now my children are beautiful and diverse, not potato heads or creepy cartoons! :D
Maltebyte2: Simple Children is not TK Children. Those are competing mods to do essentially the same thing. You can't run them with each other.
thanks for the fix!
It's too bad this can't become an official file and/or a stickied post but definitely install Darkloq's patch if you want to use Simple Children!
Another (hopefully) helpful patch for Simple Children is here (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/39517?tab=files). If you happen to have an infinite looping loading screen while using the Simple Children mod this may help you with that as well! The mod author of the Infinite Loop fix did not include Simple Children in the required mods section, so unfortunately it will not be easily found a s a fix.
Happy modding to all! May the ground you walk quake as you pass!
Anything would be better than their original potato faces, but this mod is just perfect.