For some reason, my character's lips turn white in random places. I think it has to do with the lighting of certain areas maybe. Does anyone know what causes this and if there is a way to fix it?



For some reason, my character's lips turn white in random places. I think it has to do with the lighting of certain areas maybe. Does anyone know what causes this and if there is a way to fix it?



Yeah, it's caused by "lip shine," and it does look ridiculous. When you first create your character, one of the customizations is lip shine (I think it's under the makeup section), it defaults around the middle of the slider. You want to turn that all the way down, to zero. If you don't, your character might get a bad case of the blazing lips. When it's at zero, that never happens.
would agree with the above. The game is way over on the shiny. I have never encountered that glitch, but I have never made a character with the lip shine setting above zero either.
The only time I've encountered that in-game was on Fiona. My Dalish considered herself forewarned that this was not a wholesome woman..
They really need to add a character editor then. I am not going back and recreating another character. I've already done it a few times due to other characteristics that looked different after character creation. I don't even remember seeing this in the options. I didn't go to the makeup section at all, seeing as how common sense would tell you that it would be left off as default if you didn't want your character wearing any makeup. Why the hell would anyone want something like a lip shiner anyway? So frustrating.
Thanks for the info. Hopefully they add a character editor asap.
That happens if the lip shine is too high. My female Inquisitor had glowing lips in some lighting lol. I turned it all the way down on my male and his lips look fine in all lighting.
Your Inquisitor has rabies. Better decapitate him to be sure.
J/k. This has actually never happened to me.
lol yeah thats awful.
Why the hell would anyone want something like a lip shiner anyway?
No clue, but put those lips away bro you're blinding everyone. That's rude.
Shine on brother.
The Bee Gees meet Dragon Age...
Yeah, "lip shine". Let's go with that.
The times when you lips go white, also the metal bits on your armor go white too. SOmething with the lightning i guess but at many place colors looks weird.
Even if you put lip shine all the way down to zero in the prologue it still feels like the character is wearing lip gloss. I wonder if the problem lies in the skin texture rather than lip shine itself.
Funnily my female characters look fine with lip shine on zero, but when i created a male character he had the same problem of overly glossy lips. I didnt get past the prologue for this reason, it was too distracting.
Complexion plays a role as well. If you pick one of the younger/fairer skin-types, the lips go glossy.
One more reason why we need to have some sort of character edit thingamaton (like the mirror in DA2) so we can edit out these weird little things. I had this gloss thing happen with my male inquisitor, and one instance it looked like he had some sort of eye shadow thing going on.
Lip shine = just ate powdered donuts.