|HELP NEEDED| Player and NPCs Appearing Bald or Missing/Bugged Headwear (Hats)

[Spadek]

Copy and pasted from Reddit as I'm looking to expand my search for this issue.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FalloutMods/comments/169km86/fo4_help_needed_player_and_npcs_appearing_bald_or/

I'm having this issue in the game that's causing the vanilla headwear to either cause me or NPCs to go bald, be invisible, or be bugged in my chest (at least from what I've seen with the bowler hat). Very few have hair clipping, but that's mainly with the modded headwear which seems unaffected. I've tried disabling and re-enabling mods on my list with little to no effect. Yes, I did configure the ini's as the mods have instructed me to, and yes, I did try to set them to "just read", didn't work. I'm honestly not too sure what could be causing this as I've never had this kind of bug before other than in Skyrim (I remember it when I've modded Skyrim before but don't really remember the cause). If anyone could possibly help me or knows what the cause of it might be, please let me know. Any help is appreciated.

A heads up; this is a long mod list as this was something I was building in my own spare time, so I will understand if there are those of you that may be a bit resentful to that fact. I'm a bit of a mod fanatic, and I do apologize for that unfortunate trait of mine. I am done modding the game though, just trying to clean up anything that's not working for me (like the issue here).

I'll provide a Google Doc link for the list and images (bottom of doc) to get a better idea of what I'm dealing with here. [docs.google.com]
Commenting is enabled in the doc if anyone wants to highlight a certain part of it.

[Zekiran]

Remove all mods that affect your clothing or npc clothing, and re-add them one by one.

One of them is probably broken. Not gonna really bother reading a long list of stuff that I personally have no experience with, but ...if it is affecting vanilla pieces, it probably broke a model or scaler / slider somewhere, and needs to be reinstalled, whichever "it" is I cannot possibly tell you.

[Spadek]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Not gonna really bother reading a long list of stuff that I personally have no experience with, but ...if it is affecting vanilla pieces, it probably broke a model or scaler / slider somewhere, and needs to be reinstalled, whichever "it" is I cannot possibly tell you.

That's fair.
I'll try that, though I'm wondering if the skeleton mod I have may also be causing vanilla headwear to break. Though I'm not sure why it's not affecting modded headwear as well. Guess it's still trial and error before I can get it right.

[Zekiran]

Yes, it is probably affecting it, it *affects the character or npcs*.

[Khaylain]

Just a tip for figuring out which mods are the problem; you can enable half of the mods and if you still have a problem you know it's within that half (assuming that it's 1 mod that's the problem), and then you can disable half of those mods and check. If the problem persists you now know the problem mod was in the half (quarter) that you still have enabled, otherwise it's in the other half you recently disabled.

This is a lot faster for searching for which mod is a problem. Instead of having to go through every single mod you get to remove half of the mods from consideration with each iteration. If you want more information about the type of search you can look up "binary search"