Mod articles
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For the record, a short list of different bugs related to NPC faces in Skyrim, their causes and fixes.
Grey face bug
Symptoms: Face is always of grey color with no make up applied. Changing npc weight with 'setnpcweight' command will temporarily make the face use proper colors. This reverts itself when changing cells and should not be used as a fix.
Cause:
1. There is no facegen (fecegeom i.e. mesh of the head and facetint i.e. texture for head skin color and make up) generated or the path is not right. The mod author either did not generate them or the name of the mod was changed and the path doesn't match the file location. If a plugin is called test.esp and the npc has form id, say 14004085, then the paths for the head data should look l...