Wash Your Face - Take A Bath

ABOUT THIS MOD

I had previously uploaded a mod that made the tint layers for facial dirt invisible, but soon realized that it did not affect many NPCs. I eventually created an esp to fix it, but that was causing conflicts, so after some investigation I started from scratch.

This is an esl flagged dummy esp that is only used to load the BA2 file.

This can be installed/uninstalled at any time. There are no records changed, no scripts, just textures so it won't affect your save in any way.

Why a simple dirt texture replacer didn't work

Bethesda created facegen files for many NPCs. A facegen file helps with performance because it takes all the different textures (brows, grime, damage, makeup, etc) and adds it to one texture for that particular NPC. The downside is that invisible dirt textures won't work, so an esp that removes those grime layers is needed. But this can cause conflicts with other mods that may make changes to that NPC.

How this mod is able to use textures only

I found every NPC that used a dirt tint, then looked through all the facegen files created by Bethesda. For those that had a facegen file, I recreated it with my invisible textures installed so that the dirt was removed.

This is the facegen data for Kessler (original and this mod).

NPCs affected

Any NPCs in Vanilla Fallout that had a grime tint layer and facegen data (423 total). This includes named NPCs, settlers, raiders, gunners, bos, coa, companions, etc. I believe pretty much every NPC will be affected. It will not affect any mod added/modified NPCs. There is a file under Optional Files that you can download that contains the invisible tint masks if you want to affect every NPC, including mod added/modifed NPCs.

Keep in mind, this only affects dirt. Facial paint, damage, etc will remain.

There shouldn't be any since this is texture replacer only. For example, this includes facegen data for Danse, but if you install a mod for Danse that includes grime tint layers then Danse will have dirt on his face. If you want to remove mod added tint layers, download the optional file for the invisible dirt tint masks.

NPCs from DLCs

Included in Wash Your Face - DLC under Main Files.

Take A Bath

I have uploaded an optional file (Take A Bath) that will replace the default vanilla "dirty" body textures with the clean versions, but if you are using a body texture replacer (like