Northbourne NPC - Compatibility Patch

Patch overview, mainly making Southpawe's various Northbourne NPC mods compatible with Preeum's VHR-Vanilla Hair Replacer. Includes additional fixes.

Patch overview, mainly making Southpawe's various Northbourne NPC mods compatible with Preeum's VHR-Vanilla Hair Replacer.

Make Mods compatible with VHR-Vanilla Hair Replacer via patch in Files section:

Nobenberg NPC in Whiterun

Forrest of Northbourne NPC

Worth noting - I didn't add VHR's hair on these NPCs because I didn't want to ruin Southpawe's intentions for their design. Instead, I edited the esps/facegen to trick the game into thinking the headsparts of the two mods match. In addition to making them VHR compatible, I've also added various fixes/consistencies to facegen meshes. They are as follows:

SUEMR - Various goggles.

ENB eyebrow repair

ENB scar repair

Also forwarded some very important USKP fixes that don't require it to be added as a master.

These additional fixes are not necessary and can provide negative results even when ENB is not used. However, if you are using the Northbourne Overhaul, you are using a high polygon mesh - which leads me to believe ENB is OK. Patching these is a lot of tedious work anyway, so I'm patching them for my own games, so if it doesn't work for your setup, don't ask me to get you a set. On the other hand, if you find any bugs with specific NPCs, please let me know as I may have missed a comb-over.

The following mod patches general consistency fixes, but not for VHR (because it doesn't need it - doesn't use vanilla fur):

Nobenberg NPC in Riverwood

Make sure to load these files after the original Northbourne mod. Obviously, you'll still need all of these tools for them to work - they're only there to fix blackface bugs and provide consistency with other recent mesh fixes.

Please send your way of acknowledging Southpawe. These NPCs are very well done. I even used some of the NPCs that Bijin replaced (not because they were high poly as I had converted them to high poly.) but because they were so good.

Again, if you encounter any problems, please let me know. I traveled to all the towns and didn't see any blackface - certainly no CTD. But something may have slipped through the cracks. Likewise, if an NPC's eyes or other objects don't look right, there's a chance you'll have a typo when you run through all of them like I did.

I think everyone is familiar enough with the blackface bug by now that I don't need to post before/after the image, so I'll just post after. I also highly recommend using the new Authentic Eyes and Northborn Scars for these meshes. This is what I use in my own setup (using some custom normals for some Northborns scars, which are a bit...deep) and I feel they give the most realistic results when paired with most ENBs.

Thanks again to Southpawe for the excellent Northbourne NPC series.

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A compendium of patches, mostly making Southpawe's various Northbourne NPC mods compatible with preeum's VHR - Vanilla Hair Replacer.

Mods made compatible with VHR - Vanilla Hair Replacer via the patches in the Files section:

Northbourne NPCs of Whiterun

Northbourne NPCs of Falkreath

It is worth noting - I did not add VHR's hair onto these NPCs, because I did not want to ruin Southpawe's intent with their design.  I have instead edited the esps / facegen to trick the game into thinking the two mods headsparts match.  In addition to making these compatible with VHR, I have also added various fixes / consistency to the facegen meshes.  They are as follows:

SUEMR -- Various eye fixes.

ENB Brow Fix

ENB Scar Fix

Also forwarded a few pretty important USKP fixes that did not require it to be added as a master.

These additional fixes are not necessary, and can even provide negative results when not using an ENB.  However, if you are using Northbourne's overhauls, you are using a high poly mesh -- which leads me to believe an ENB is in order.  Regardless, it's a terrible amount of tedium requ …