Do yourself a favor and totally skip the downloading and installing and/or using the HD mods or any patch related to them. I haven't used them in years and don't miss them for it. They just make other mods run like shit and the game unstable. Dump 'em!!!!!!

@Jwarrior: Hey man, I just wiped my computer and started experiencing the gray face myself. I found a fix I tried and it worked on my computer so I reuploaded the mod and I am praying the fix went up here. If not, let me know and I will figure it out and upload it to NexusMods and you can try there.

Jwarrior: Hmm...might be worth it to go over this one again then to make sure. I did just wipe my laptop again so who knows, I might see it myself this time.

Okay so I found the mod you were talking about, and the same user has it on here as well. So I subbed it as well as using his unofficial high res patch and followed his loading instructions, and nothing...farkas still has a gray face and no one has their war paint...I guess I will just have to deal with it :(

I am enjoying this mod! It's nice to see better versions of the companions. Although in my game Farkas is grayfaced, but no one else is...now as far as I know I do not have a mod that will conflict with this one, and it is the only companions mod I have. I am also using a save from the beginning of a previous playthrough (as in just before Haadvar calls the prisoner) could that be an issue? I was also going to say something about the warpaint, but I am reading through your comments while writing this so I will have to read what you wrote, although personally I like Aela without the paint lol.

Well im not to shocked with the jump from 32 to 64 bits. This is a very huge alteration to the game and probably required the core game to be recoded a bit too.

Aww thank you very much ^_^ Uploading my mods to the new kit did NOT go as planned so I'm rebuilding them from the ground up for the Special Edition, which with a newborn baby and an8 year old hellion is very slow going. I'll get there though. I totally hear you on the stereotype though LOL. Again, thank you for the comment and the vote of confidence.

Part of the reason im a fan of your work is because you break the steriotype of "fat bald white guy with glasses at a computer coding and gaming in a parents basement." (Yeah, i actually got that from a real conversation with a poorly informed classmate.) and that in itself means something to me. I also think your work is pretty good too and thats where 75% of my vote comes from anyway. Hope to see you do more great stuff in the future!

Just a quick announcement here, once the new CK is uploaded by Bethesda, I promise I will begin converting my mods to the new game. All indicators say it'll be an easy task because most all my mods don't mess with meshes or anything like that. Bear in mind though I am 7 months pregnant and in full time college, so my time is kinda limited, but I promise this is my main goal.

@Feena: I did the exact same thing, followed everything in CK to the letter, so I really couldn't tell you why yours didn't work, unless you have a mod that conflicts with it. I will say that when it comes to facelifts, they should always be last in load order because they are the most "unstable" and I say unstable because they are the easiest to get negated by other mods. Also make sure the mod is checked in the Data Files section, cuz mods you make yourself are never auto checked.

Hello there, I have a question for you - how did you make this mod? I used CK for my facelift mod. I made and saved everything correctly and nothing changes in the game. I've googled for hours and tried many diffrent suggestions and still nothing works. I'm at my wits end.

@jared: no prob! Glad to be of help ^_^

Thank you so much mertmidnightangel!

@jared: These are what I got in mine:
boots: 02002857
chest: 02002858
gloves: 02002859
I will say I do not know if that will actually work, I've never bothered with console commands for mods LOL. But these are the codes that appear in the CK.

Do you know if you can check them for me. If not thank you any way.

@jared: There is a heavy armor version that can be made at the Sky Forge, but there's no way of getting the light version I made just for her sadly. Console commands would work of course but I haven't exactly made note of the item codes.

Is there a way for me to get Aela's armor for myself?

To everyone with the painted faces issue, I made a note here on the mod I think you should read. I may have a solution for you

@Thyso: You know, this bug has been cropping up more and more, and I haven't done a damn thing to it. Hell I've bought a new computer since then! I'm windering if you guys have a common mod or something that's causing because this is a recent issue and I haven't touched this in over a year. I do also have one that doesn't change their faces at all if you'd rather go for that one. Just look in my workshop profile.

Like heatherfertig I'm also having the issue that the warpaint of the companions doesn't show up (Aela, Skjor, Njada and Ria, Kodlak I'm not sure off, I haven't checked yet.), I'm having this issue on a new playthrough, so it isn't an old save bug or something.

Other then that, I like this mod

@thunderwolf 119: That's a new one, you're the first one to come up with that one. Sounds like a hiccup though. If you're still early in the game I would suggest you restart, cuz getting to the companions is a quick couple hours.

I love what this mod does but for whatever reason when i went to join the compainions, vilkas's face was grey like there was an error how do i fix this?

@heatherfertig: You probably never got the sword at levels 36-45 then.

That's too weird, but I believe it. I never noticed that about the bow though. And I've always been able to upgrade the sword so I either lucked out or I'm oblivious ;)

@heatherfertig: Yeah that's Bethesda for you. Usually when you use it on a save that is well past typical Companions level, that's what happens, especially if you already did it. While this issue itself is extremely rare, the reason is a ather universal one. There were so many bugs it's not funny. For example, did you know that the level 4 Nightingale sword cannot me tempered because it does not link to its temper recipe when you look at it in the CK? Also the Nightingale Bow in all forms is not Silent like every other bow in game is, which is why every time it's used it draws attention. Only way to fix this? Mods, and I made amod that addresses these very issues too.

I don't have any apearance altering mods, but I am lvl 57 so it's likely the old save issue.

@heatherfertig: That's strange. Do you have any mods that alter apearance at all? I will also admit I have 2 that do, Lucious Faces and XCE Character Enhancement, try adding those. Also, if it's an old save, it's possible it might conflict with the save data, that is another problem users have come across.

I loaded this today and it is last in the load order and no competing companion mods and... none of the characters have their warpaint or make up. all their faces are plain.

Beautiful, just what I was looking for!

@trentman272: ^_^

no thank you im good

@trentman272: That could be due ti having another companions mod. Best thing to do is have this mod as one of the last in your load order, just go to data files, highlight this mod, then click the down arrows to move it down.

ok i think i like him that way. oh and his face doesn't change

@trentman272: You really don't need to be good at coding. Console commands aren't the same thing. The Skyrim wiki lists all the console commands and how to use em, it's actually insanely simple, no programming skills required.

@DarK PAladIN: not a bad idea, I might eventually. I know it requires working with the quest itself in the creation kit and I haven't gotten quests down yet. Haven't had the drive after what happened. But I will eventually.

@mertmidnightangel have you thought of getting in contact with the guy who made the Skyrim Redone mod? He was able to make sure Farkas stays in wolf armor after ther the transformation.

... ok but im not very good at codeing stuff

@trentman272: It isn't so much a glitch as the coding of the quest itself. Every companions mod I had before making this one that changed Farkas's armor did that. But fixing it is actually really easy. Just finish the quest, then go to the command console, click Farkas, then type disable, hit enter, then enable and hit enter. It resets his armor.

hey um i found a glitch that when im doing a mission to get a fragement with farkas, after he changed to a werewolf he went back to his old default steel armor :/

Putting this out there right now, my mods will never EVER be charged for. They are and will always be free for all to use.

yeah some times you just need to prioretise some things over others.

@rshrewd5: LMAO I need to get Oblivion honestly. Just had more important things to buy, like meds for my cat and puppy and new clothes for my unborn son.

i just modded the shit out of oblivion. hooray i never have to go through that shit tutorial sequence again!

@rsheward5: Mod Manager is definitely better if you don't know where the mods are in your system, and their location can vary depending on your computer's OS. It does take a bit for such a small program, but it is WAY worth it LOL

this thing is taking forever to instal (nexus mod manager)

cool. tried downloading manualy (didnt work) perhaps should get mod manager.

@rsheward5: That works too LOL. My thought though was if the donwload mesed up, delete and redownload handles that, and it does happen. Steam can be a jerk. As for making Nexus work, create a free account and then download the Nexus Mod Manager. Then, you right click the icon, click properties, go to the compatability tab. and then check "run as administrator". Trust me, it'll bug out if you don't. After that, you can use the mod manager to download and install the mods, it's simple. And I have this one and another up there too. I'm slowly (VERY slowly) copying all my steam mods over.

will try that but id rather just disable it than uninstal it (save time). in the mean time i need to figure out how the nexus works so i can get hunterborn.

@rsheward5: I checked the no facelifts version and everything checks out. I even downloaded it from here and also downloaded my copy from Nexus. Both are identical and have the changes. Might I suggest uninstalling the mod once you are past that quest, which I am assuming you are on it right now, making a new save, then reinstalling it? That will reset all of the mod's features to their original download state. I know it sounds tedious for a simple mod, but one thing I've noticed with this game is that it is buggy to the point of wanting to punch something, which is why I got into modding in the first place. And lemme tell ya, learning CK was no walk in the park.

@rsheward5: I will take a look at that after I get home tonight. My luck, I'll have to reupload the file and I'm not sure how that'll work cuz this is a new computer.

other version works fine but farkas armor stays steel even after using console