I have spent quite a number of hours putting together some armor and learning from a number of tutorials and other's similar questions that had good answers. I hate to ask for other's time, but I know there are key elements that I am still missing here, and if I knew how to do them once I could do them fine from then on out. With that said, my .nif (http://www.mediafire.com/?ailtz4efl1dwn8f) won't load on the CK. Again, I think I am a few steps from that being possible, but I have looked and looked, and read everything I could find. I could use a heads up from some helpful people in this community! Thanks so much! One thing I see as a potential problem is that I have NiNodes who have NiTriStrips as children. I can't seem to find this precedent in any other mods I've used as reference points, but I don't know how to change that without my rigging falling apart from removing NiNodes.