I’ve been taught to consider Papyrus as a very small, but very important artery to your brain… too many small errors and it clogs and you die… an analogy I’ve seen “proven” plenty since the release of WZ15. Information on how to enable and locate your Papyrus Log can be found by clicking here. Otherwise, please do the below cleaning procedure. If you can look at your Papyrus.0.log before you install WARZONES 2015 and see not one single error, then by all means, skip this step. If you are starting an entirely NEW SAVE, then there is no need to clean your save and you may proceed to INSTALLATION, otherwise it is quite likely that your savegame is polluted and requires cleaning. Once you have an optimized system and an unpolluted save, you’ll wonder why you didn’t do all this sooner. *It may work with the Ref ID, but we've always used the base.ALL OF THIS IS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, TRUST ME 😉 I hope someone else finds this as useful as we have. You can do this for any NPC who's facegen data you've exported but isn't showing up properly.

Load up your save, and voilà! No more dark face.Save and make a backup (should be automatic).In the lower right, look for the box that says 'Ref ID' underneath 'Forms' I wouldn't use an auto or quicksave, but a hard save. Load the script cleaner and select your saved game.Lydia's base ID is 000A2C8E and her RefID is 000A2C94. Do a search on the NPC's name on the wiki and it should pull up the relevant page. Tell the NPC to leave your service if they're following.If you're also having this issue and exporting the NPC facegen data doesn't work, do the following: So now whenever I give my ladies a makeover, I remove them from my game and have yet to see that ugly bug rear its head again. I was plagued by the dreaded NPC gray/black face bug with Lydia and Aela, but I found out that the save game script cleaner can remove their references from the game and force the game to reload their facial information.

Saved game cleaner