KouLeifoh

I don't mind the overall head shape that much, but what bothers me the most is the eye shape. They look so alien compared to other medival-fantasy games. If you just want to make some minor edits, Outfit Studio has come a long way and can be used to quickly edit head .tri files. The eyes/mouth meshes do not have racial morphs. As a proof of concept, I merged the racial morphs for elves/nords (50% each) for each elven race while keeping the slim elven base head and ears (all done in 3DS Max). This is the resulting Dark Elf with some minor adjustments. The normal map is a blend of a smooth map with the vanilla map. On a side note, I managed to create functional 3D eyelashes while trying to decouple the eyelash hair cards from the eye mesh. They're not really practical for gameplay since they have nearly the same amount of vertices as the high poly head mesh. 🙃

@Raydonn I've already mentioned this elswhere, but there's no actual Male tag in the game. The Female tag exists and is used specifically for female NPCs. Males are determined by the inverse of the Female tag. This means that things like animals and creatures are considered to be Male. Using the Male keyword for BodyGen will also apply the morphs to every animal/creature. This can be easily checked in-game. One can argue that it's harmless since there is likely no associated morph for affected animals/creatures (all morph data are still saved in the skse co-save), but it's not a good programming/modding practice to modify things outside the scope of a mod. The reason I opted for manually defining morphs for each individual NPC was to follow the original SAM mod which used defined Samson/Samuel values based on class archetypes (warrior, mage, thief, etc). I created a custom xEdit script to auto generate the BodyGen entries for every male NPC in the game (over 2k). Don't use the Enable Scaling morph in BodyGen. It does nothing on its own. I use morphs to store certain values for each NPC to avoid bloating the main game save. Defining a range for a random morph value is valid, but the main reason I used rigid values was to keep them looking nice and clean when viewed in RaceMenu. There will be lots of numbers beyond 2 significant bits otherwise.

Testing Ethereal Elven Overhaul support for my high poly head mod. Despite numerous requests, I'm still not quite sold on it compared to EFM.

I've been seeing a lot of variants on Eivor lately from different folks and decided to give it a try. The high poly head mesh was reshaped in 3DS Max using Eivor's actual head mesh from ACV as reference.

This particular lighting in the vampire castle really makes my skin textures pop.

The SAM Morphs for RaceMenu mod does not include textures for the SAM Texture tab (it's literally in the description). The issue you're having is when you're trying to use textures you don't actually have (body turns purple for missing diffuse, flat for missing normal, super shiny for missing specular). Leave them all at zero and use the SAM Morphs config spell to reset all textures as a last resort. If the issue persists, then it's caused by another mod or a RaceMenu preset.

Here's a temporary Google Drive mirror of the current version (v1.5).

@vyrmina When you manually swap the head mesh back to high poly as a vampire, that seems to introduce other bugs. It's likely due to the game engine and how head mesh swapping was implemented by RaceMenu. The general solution is to close RaceMenu after head swapping and then open it again. There isn't much else I can do about it. @Kitrexx Since you're using the vanilla Nord race, there should already be a Face Part slider that goes up to value 2 (value 0/1 is the vanilla head mesh, value 2 is the vampire vanilla head mesh). My high poly head mod will add 2 more to that list (high poly versions of value 1 and 2). If the Face Part slider doesn't change from zero, then RaceMenu isn't fully working (possibly a load order or version issue).

It's Leon's hair from RE2R that I ported for personal use. I have a few other hair meshes that are in the same boat. After taking a break from Skyrim to play other games, I nearly forgot about what I was working on. Don has been waiting for the update since before the pandemic. 😄

EFM replaces the vanilla morphs. So, it's not really possible to tell by just looking at the preset in a text editor. Vortex might be looking for a specific mod structure in the .zip file. I don't personally use a mod manager, but I do test all of my mods in MO2 for any installation issues. Try changing weight/equipment to force a refresh. I don't have that issue with using the high poly head mod with HDT-SMP. The vampire fix just removes the vampire "overlay" to the head mesh on vanilla races to prevent the high poly head from changing back to the vanilla head mesh. Only vanilla races are supported by RaceMenu out of the box. If you're using a custom race, it needs some changes to make any of the extra sliders in RaceMenu to work. Only RaceMenu is supported since it allows the head mesh to be changed in-game.