delgathar

You can open up tes5edit with all mods active and type  "kids:"  no quotes in the search box.  

They are from a CotS armor pack, or a CotS combo pack.  Try installing the pack again, or redownloading it.

a lot of x117 mods simply lack previews. Changing to skykids wouldn't have affected crafting previews.

neck seams can be a lot more noticeable in certain shades of light.  Try going to where you usually check the neckseam and see if it fades out. Sometimes the face will have slightly different subsurface scattering or handle shadows differently.

could I just copy and rename an armor_0.nif to armor_go.nif ?  

one basic thing is to make sure your left panel mod order is the same as your right panel order.    Also, lots of mods have several install options.  You might have installed a mod then later installed a mod that the first mod has a patch or install option for.  So sometimes installing one mod requires a re-install of another mod, even if it is up-to-date. I'm unstable a lot, and usually fixing it requires that I start from the top of my mods in the left panel and do a visit nexus for each one to make sure there aren't any mod conflicts or patches

Looks like I just got lucky.  http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/68653/? The original creator re-released

@Kendo Yes, it is the hat.  It doesn't matter what hair I use it clips except the bald and shadow head Ok,   I've tried modifying the had in Outfit Studio but it keeps telling me one of the vertices has no weight. There is also the problem that I can't seem to load a sample head to check as I modify the mesh.  I've tried loading a reference of the hair, but the hair appears maybe 8 feet above the hat, which is no good as a reference.  The studio seems totally focused on body mods, and I'm having trouble finding any documentation on exceptions for modifying hats.   So far disabling X mirror, Auto normals, and smooth seam normals first thing seems to be a good idea.  I don't know what to do with the unweighted vertices.  I've tried inverting mask but there isn't anything visible unmasked anywhere to weight.

There are no nifskope partitions, no dismemberment at all.  Unfortunately, the I haven't found a tutorial yet on ADDING this information, they are all about modifying existing partitions.   I've tried adding Body parts hair or longhair in tes5edit, and adding 31 made my hair disappear completely, longhair did nothing.

Thank you.  I guess I'll download Bodyslide, although I thought it had to have an xml to modify armors...

  Here's a pic.  The hat is already pretty big,..

I found this witch's hat I'd like to wear, but my hair goes right through it.  It doesn't matter what hair mod I use so I figure the problem is with the hat not my hair.  Is there some setting that I can modify with nifscope somewhere to prevent hair from clipping through? Thanks.

SK_COTS_TES5_Scripts.zip   OK, These are the edited tes5 scripts for COTS.  Use them as according to the OP directions, but without the manual editing part.  I tested it by installing Eyes of Aber and can now select about 600 eyes as opposed to 12.   edit- I thought 600 was a bit much.  Went back, apparently all the highelf/woodelf/etc eyes got added too for a lot of duplication.  I went back and deleted all the male eyes and the elf eyes and have a much smaller list.  But still a lot bigger than 12

    So to give the new COTS R2 version a try, I did a racemenu preset save of Iria on the LEFT, and saved her face in sculpt menu.  Both were required.  Without the face save it was still a little wonky.  RCOTS changed the facemarks to accessories, so I lose the glasses and get a standard mole.  I also replaced the skin textures with fair skin but did not change the face textures.  Skykids cots is on the right.   I'm impressed.  Now if I could find the mod the glasses come from, or find a glasses mod that fits unp....   edit - I'm not allowed to add image extention but I can attach images? Could someone explain?

What do you mean you can't get the right thing?  Are you trying to create a look you saw in someone else's screenshot?  Or do you just mean you can't get the look you are trying to create. If the first option, try posting a screenshot or asking person you got the inspiration from.   If the second, all you can do is just keep trying different things.  I'd recommend trying the texture mods separately and not all together.  One dungeon overhaul might have the best floors, while another mod has better walls.  So you'll just have to, over time, load a mod, play through, remembering or writing down the aspects you really liked.  And the ones you did not, set to mohidden in MO   If you like bleak enb you might also want to give Noir ENB fogbound a try.