Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch

Previously, the Forsworn Briar Heart body mesh had a really badly colored body texture, and it also had some issues with the removed-briarheart mesh. USKP fixed both of them, though the latter bug seems to still be around.

WHen I recently hacked up a Briarheart real good, seeing him laying there covered in sword strike blood decals, I pulled the briar heart from him as a prize, and as usual, the body swap occurred. I then noticed that there was still blood all over the hands but it abruptly ended right at the otherwise invisible seam between the hands and main body.

When I was poking the Briar heart meshes once before, I recalled that the briar heart and the stick cage thingy were actually separate NiTriShapes. I got to thinking... it might be possible to make an entirely new body swap setup, leaving the main body alone and just swapping out the briarheart and sticks.

The end result is a mesh that handily disposes of the missing body morph flag that seems to be persistent for some people, since the body mesh is an entirely new ARMO/ARMA set. The original heart/no-heart meshes are now assigned to the Amulet slot and contain just the briar heart and the stick cage (or just the broken stick cage for the heart-removed mesh). Beyond those two alterations, only the OTFT forms that they end up in were altered to include the new body ARMO/ARMA. The scripted MGEF that handled the swap was untouched, and none of the actual NPC/LVLC forms were altered. No more whole body swapping, no more morph flag issues (hopefully), no more blood decal clearing.

If you wish to test yourself, be advised that any Forsworn Briarhearts already loaded will end up naked; you will need to do a ResetInventory (if they're live) or Resurrect (if they're dead so you can do a heart-rip test) on them.

Fix file and demo images will be in the comments.