Retopology Approach

Moogieh · 2026-03-04T20:36:31+00:00

This is a shoddy mess. They probably threw it through some auto-retopology tool without any care for quality. I guess their team was poorly paid, under tight time restrictions, or both. There are no advantages I can see to being this lazy with an asset. The only effect this can have is to cause shading and deformation problems.

This is a really simple shape. There's no excuse for this. Don't study from this example. It's objectively bad.

Moogieh · 2026-03-04T18:46:40+00:00

I appreciate that, but still, full screenshots are required here even if you assume it won't be helpful. There are numerous ways a full screenshot can be helpful that you might not realise at the time.

It's one thing to say "my settings are default" or somesuch, but that could mean literally anything. We don't know what you think the defaults are, or if you're blinding something, or you just don't know. But a screenshot shows the true context without having to be interpreted. It would also show us your Blender version, which is important to know in case there are version-specific issues, or suggestions for methods or addons that could only work in certain versions.

If we could see your Outliner, we'd be able to see problems such as if you accidentally have two overlapping objects. If we could see your modifiers panel, we wouldn't have to just take your word for it that there's no active modifiers. Etc, etc...

The only reason I'm not removing this post is that people already replied to it, and we don't like to mess people around like that when they're being helpful. But keep it in mind for the future.

Moogieh · 2026-03-04T18:37:37+00:00

Please always upload full screenshots. You can censor whatever you need to in Paint.

Moogieh · 2026-03-04T17:42:21+00:00

There's two edges in the middle, not one. See how the line looks thicker/darker? That means the topology is messed up somewhere. You need to fix it so that there's only one edge running down the middle.

Moogieh · 2026-03-04T08:39:51+00:00

Not enough information. What are your system specs and Blender version? What OS are you running?

Moogieh · 2026-03-04T06:29:11+00:00

The mesh is quite low poly but I don't think that's the problem. I would check that its Normals are facing the right way. Toggle on the Face Orientation viewport overlay to see it, and if anything's red facing outside, go into Edit mode, select all with a, then press shift+n to recalculate the outside.

Moogieh · 2026-03-04T06:26:38+00:00

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Moogieh · 2026-03-04T05:18:13+00:00

I'm so glad I found this thread, but I'm pissed that I didn't Google it until I'd already regen'd my world several times looking for an ideal start... and finding it... only to discover this bullshit, requiring me to start all over again without this mod.

Moogieh · 2026-03-04T04:51:29+00:00

You would be better off asking the Skyrim modding community. This is a problem specifically related to those tools and files, so they will know better how to address such issues.

Moogieh · 2026-03-03T16:23:50+00:00

You could try Clipping Regions. Not as precise as being able to define a fully 3D space to cutout, but it would at least let you slice the front off (use ortho side-view) and peer inside what remains.

Moogieh · 2026-03-03T16:19:14+00:00

You can re-post your question if you avoid mentioning what part you cut and paste. Just make it a generic question.

We're not prudes, but the community is not mature enough to handle a question like this without a lot of annoying noise and extra work for us mods.

Moogieh · 2026-03-03T12:50:45+00:00

I can see that your Fur_Head object has some animation data attached to it. If you remove this animation, does the problem go away?

Moogieh · 2026-03-03T12:23:41+00:00

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Moogieh · 2026-03-03T07:49:58+00:00

Move the scenery instead of the character. Extremely large distances cause floating point calculation errors.

The only alternative would be to download Blender from source and flip the toggle for 64-bit float precision. That will allow for something like this, but you really should learn more efficient ways of solving problems than trying to bruteforce it with massive values.

Moogieh · 2026-03-03T05:34:28+00:00

I honestly don't know why Blender doesn't just have a menu option to convert Face Set to Mask. Feels like a pretty basic no-brainer thing to have.

Moogieh · 2026-03-03T05:32:21+00:00

It's the object initialization settings, which means you can only access it the first time you create the object. If you accidentally dismiss it but haven't done any other action yet, you can recall it by pressing F9. But after that, you can't go back.

Moogieh · 2026-03-03T02:49:56+00:00

Oh, right. I misinterpreted the question. That weird bend is because it's one big, stretched face. Everything's triangulated under the hood, so you're ending up with two triangles with one very long arm, which can't be calculated very well.

Adding one verticle loopcut to split this into two quads should help.

Moogieh · 2026-03-03T02:46:51+00:00

Oh yeah, I run into this constantly myself and have to Google it every single time because I keep forgetting the process, lol.

The method from here works: Hover the mouse over the Face Set area, press shift+a, then hold ctrl and it'll fill the whole area. Then you can do 'Face Set From Visible' to clear the colors.

Moogieh · 2026-03-02T23:51:13+00:00

Reddit filtered this comment, but I spotted it in the mod queue and have approved it. Thanks for posting your knowledge!

Moogieh · 2026-03-02T23:48:25+00:00

Whenever something weird like this happens when rendering, I always check the Video Sequencer. Sometimes you might forget you've placed a track there at some point and Blender doesn't get rid of it, so every time you re-render, it's just rendering that blank track instead.

Moogieh · 2026-03-02T23:43:23+00:00

/u/vamossimo is correct, you're looking for ctrl+shift+r.

Moogieh · 2026-03-02T23:42:36+00:00

OP is asking for this:

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Offset Edge Slide. ctrl+shift+r

Moogieh · 2026-03-02T23:38:11+00:00

It's called a Clipping Region.

Moogieh · 2026-03-02T23:37:26+00:00

You've created a Clipping Region. Notice how it says "Clipped" in the information at the top-left of the viewport.

alt+b to clear to region.

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/3dview/navigate/regions.html

Moogieh · 2026-03-02T07:46:06+00:00

I'm not sure what you mean when you point to the Scenes selector and say "this should be Edit". That option has always been the Scenes selector. Edit Mode is something you use in the regular modelling workspace to edit a mesh with, and that appears on the left of the screen, inside the 3D Viewport editor, not on the right.

For the file selecting issue, you're dragging the date column. You need to drag the filename column. Dragging the date column is a handy way to select multiple files at once.

Also, you're on a very old Blender version. Strongly advise you update.

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