RaceMenu: Missing face overlays

[Ilja]

Best to bring this up, because peoples are asking.

As you may have noticed, face overlays are currently disabled in RaceMenu. NiOverride has a problem causing game to crash during decapitations, if you have face overlays active.

For most part RaceMenu overlays are targeted to player. If you have disabled killmoves targeted to player (from mod like VioLens), then it should be safe to turn active. However, if you do experience crashes from NPC decapitations, then change value back to 0 and live without face overlays, until problem is fixed.

You can change this setting from nioverride.ini:
bEnableFaceOverlays=1

Those who have absolutely no idea if this touches them are probably untouched by it. :)

Edit: Explanation in #2, seeing that it was needed.

[wepfhwepfhp]

Originally posted by Ilja:

Those who have absolutely no idea if this touches them are probably untouched by it. :)

I have no idea what a Face Overlay is, so I'm safe. Good :)

[Ilja]

Originally posted by Jacy the (not so) brave Khajiit:

Originally posted by Ilja:

Those who have absolutely no idea if this touches them are probably untouched by it. :)

I have no idea what a Face Overlay is, so I'm safe. Good :)

We can't allow that, now can we? XD

RaceMenu has an option to add different overlays over the character body. These can be marks, scars, beauty marks, tattoos, war paint etc. NiO works well for this, except that it now has a problem with decapitations. Overlays on face (for example added tattoos) can crash the game to desktop. It seems that overlays are not cleared properly during the decapitation and game closes from the error.

I tested this with VioLens and got my game to crash to desktop several times. However, after disabling killmoves targeted to player (recommended), I didn't encounter any crashes. Thus, problems affects most to those using NiO to add face overlays to NPCs, or mods using the feature to add face overlays to NPCs.

My own solution was to disable player targeted killmoves and set all my mods using NiO not to provide any face overlays to NPCs. So far I haven't encountered problems with face overlays active.

And peoples thought I was finally playing the game, when they saw I was running it. Perish the thought: I doubt I will ever have time to actually play it again. :p

[wepfhwepfhp]

Well, good to know :)
I remember having a tatoo mod, which apparently was a face overlay. The more you know.

[Clever Monkey]

if you not actually playing keeps benefiting the rest of us than I agree you should never actually play again. good choice.

[Falro the Great]

Thanks for this! I was wondering why I couldn't add any face overlays. Thanks again!

[Aryel_Emrys]

Awesome, I'm struggling for hours trying to find my missing Facepaint tab I like my tatoos glowing!
Thanks a lot Ilja

[Desdemona]

Originally posted by Ilja:

Those who have absolutely no idea if this touches them are probably untouched by it. :)

Well I have no idea if this touches me, But I don's use NiOverride so.. I guess that should be safe enough?

[Ilja]

Originally posted by Desdemona:

Originally posted by Ilja:

Those who have absolutely no idea if this touches them are probably untouched by it. :)

Well I have no idea if this touches me, But I don's use NiOverride so.. I guess that should be safe enough?

NiO is fully included to RaceMenu. If you use RM, then this does touch your game.

[Fibrizo]

only just recently got a some tat mods and was wondering where the racemenu ini file was and this was the first link google showed me
edit: nvm found it but just to make sure this will only crash my game if my character gets their head chopped off right?

[Falro the Great]

Originally posted by Fibrizo:

only just recently got a some tat mods and was wondering where the racemenu ini file was and this was the first link google showed me
edit: nvm found it but just to make sure this will only crash my game if my character gets their head chopped off right?

Unless an NPC has a face overlay, then it would happen when they get decapitated. I don't know any mods that add that, though.

Personally, I can't stand not having face overlays, so I've had them enable since they made this change. Haven't experienced a single crash from this yet.

[Ilja]

Using VioLens clears the problem in any case.

Disabling those player targeted killmoves is a good idea anyway, seeing that they are buggy. Well, not exactly "bugged", but game calculates estimate of player health, so they can get killed, while they would have actually survived from the blow.

There are some mods that include NPC overlays. Those are usually adult mods, like SlaveTats.

[Fibrizo]

eh the way i have it modded i never can die i only get captured or something else

[Katsudon96]

just turned them on... i now can apply Face Textures... that fill the whole face into one colour with no patterns at all. anyway to fix this issue?