AFT uses basically the same method as Dawnguard it gives your turned NPC the powers and the eyes of a vampire, but does not change their actual race so the face/body problem does not occur. Will usually take a yearish off after modding extensively and playing for a while. But that's a lot of work just for making someone a vampire.Īt any rate, if you don't want to have to do the setnpcweight trick every time you load a save, you could use the turning powers from Amazing Follower Tweaks instead of the ones from Better Vampires. The problem is that Better Vampires actually changes the NPCs race to the vampire version of their race, e.g.

To advance through vampiric ranks, you can choose: 1) Normal Ranks (steeper. 2) Reverse Progression stronger when fully fed. Vampires in the game just don’t look realistic enough, and the main culprit of it has to be their fangs. However this is far from what Skyrim often reflects. Then, in game, use the console to remove the vanilla NPC and replace them with your vampire version. 1) Normal Progression (like vanilla Skyrim) stronger when starving. Well, at least, that’s what some people think. The permanent way to change a character's race without causing skin problems would be to use the CK to make a copy of the NPC you want to turn, change their race to NordRaceVampire (or whatever appropriate vampire race), export their facegen data, save this as plugin, and add the plugin to your load order.

In fact, if you look at the scripts for the Dawnguard quest 'The Gift', which allows the player to turn their spouse into a vampire, you see that they were originally going to do the same, but they commented all of the race-changing code out and put in a comment that says 'SETTING RACE CAUSED PROBLEMS, we are now only giving them red eyes.' The game engine does not support this at all. The problem is that Better Vampires actually changes the NPC's race to the vampire version of their race, e.g.

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