[NSFW] Body textures bugging out

[Hermitpriest 1]

K so I'm not entirely sure what's causing this, and I'm holding off from just reinstalling everything cause that's a tedious process. But as of more recently I've been having a problem where body textures are breaking. The first image on the left is what they keep doing, the image in the middle is what they're supposed to be, which they do revert back to if I go into race menu and swap the Body Diffuse and Body Normal sliders from 1 then back to 0. However if I save and reload, or equip and unequip an armor, they revert back to being broken.
The last image was me seeing what would happen if I went into RM, and messed with the sliders while already wearing an armor. Same issues apply, if I reload or remove armor then body textures revert back to the left.
Using SAM Light SE
High Poly convert
SAM Light texture Add-on (not shown in screenshots cause I was testing something, but even with it problems persist, only different between these screenshots and with it is the neck seam is fine in the middle, and wrong on the left)

Only mods I've installed between when I recall things breaking and when they worked were tech side bug fixes that shouldn't have any impact on body textures, so no clue what would be causing it.

Edited June 5, 2023 by Hermitpriest
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[Nathy 74]

this can happen if you change body textures of SAM in the RM instead of using the shouts that open the SAM morphs menu, you'll keep losing the texture configuration.

Are all the other npcs like this? Also you could try finding the texture that the body is using and replacing it.

[Hermitpriest 1]

I actually entirely forgot those shouts exist, so thanks for that reminder. However things still revert, so that wasn't the problem.
And it's not every NPC, anyone who's Argonian, Dark Elf, High Elf, Khajiit, or Wood Elf are unaffected
So it's only the male body being used by Imperial, Nord, Breton, Orc, and Redguard that bug out.

And if I knew how to find the texture I would, any idea where to look for it?

[Nathy 74]

those races all use the same texture, male body textures are in data > textures > actors > character > male

[Hermitpriest 1]

K so after a lot of hair ripping, and hours spent sorting through mods, toggling things on and off, making multiple MO2 profiles to test combinations, etc, I found the problem child.
It was a single face replacer for a high elf follower that was trying to override half the male body textures in the game. Nothing was giving me conflict warning so I had no idea.

[SavrenX 10,310]

On 6/7/2023 at 12:04 PM, Hermitpriest said:

K so after a lot of hair ripping, and hours spent sorting through mods, toggling things on and off, making multiple MO2 profiles to test combinations, etc, I found the problem child.
It was a single face replacer for a high elf follower that was trying to override half the male body textures in the game. Nothing was giving me conflict warning so I had no idea.

The easiest way just drag all about SAM to last load order before skeleton.