Face Sculpting broken after update.

[Alfred Arminius]

After the update I am no longer able to sculpt my characters face.
In the character creation screen changing the face (Preset) (Extras) (Body) and (Sex) options all work. But when I go to (Face) and mouse over the character, only the eyes and hair options appear.. I can change eye shape and eye color, and hair style and color. But I can not click anywhere else on the entire head. None of the options for other parts of the head/face appear. I am unable to change anything except hair and eyes.

The Face sculpting options don't work either at new character creation, at the end of vault 111, or with the console command (Show Looks Menu).

I am not sure what happened here and have not come across anyone else with this problem. Any ideas?

[juskom95]

Any mods?

[Alfred Arminius]

The problem persists whether mods are active or all disabled. The problem didn't exist prior to the update.

[kæ]

I'm having the same issue... Did you find a fix? :/

[Alfred Arminius]

I still haven't found a fix. Character creation is still broken for me.

[Bauldric]

I have this issue to. I have tried removing my mods and reversing the game to default game and it's still broken.

[Bauldric]

So, I fixed it for me by doing two things. Even with my mods removed the specific mod I removed was http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/978/? Fallout 4 - Texture Optimization Project and then defragged my computer which fixed the issue. Maybe try defragging your computer too before trying to remove any other mods because I think that's what actually fixed it.

[Alfred Arminius]

Thanks for the tip Bauldric.

I did have the Fallout 4 - Texture Optimization Project mod installed.
I tried to uninstall it earlier when uninstalling mods for troubleshooting, but NMM failed to remove the mod and didn't tell me it failed. It just unmarked the mod.
This mod is the offender, but it's not the entire mod, it's a specific file in this mod that broke the face sculpting.

There are three solutions:
(1) Manually navigate to the mod installation and remove the mod (since NMM doesn't want to).
(2) Keep the mod but manually navigate to the offending file and delete it.
Navigate to:
\Nexus Mod Manager\Fallout4\ModsInstall\VirtualInstall\FALLOUT 4 - TEXTURE OPTIMIZATION PROJECT\textures\Actors\Character
and delete the folder named FaceCustomization.
(3) Keep the mod and download "Hotfix 7" from the mod authors page.
If hotfix 7 doesn't fix it, then doing (2) will.

[Aipaloovik]

I'm having the same issue. I've removed all mods, uninstalled the game, reinstalled the game sans mods, and even verified the game's file integrety. Still can't edit the face. Nothing will stick.

[Fourmyle]

Still having the same issue. Removed all mods, nothing works. If I remove the eye mods I was using, I get the horrifying "no eyes" effect.

[Spocks Toupee]

At least Bethesda made using the Mod interface easier with this last patch, AMIRIGHT?

[Aipaloovik]

I know what the issues was for me, and it's pretty stupid that they enabled it that way; You can't click, you must use the space bar to select. And I felt pretty dumb afterword.

[RobynsEgg]

This thread is years old now, but suddenly I find myself with the same issue. The space bar definitely isn't a fix, and I don't have that mod. Will look for more.

[Bauldric]

Did you get this fixed? I found something that has started to effect the game since this post was completed.