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fixed.... kind of. I had to make a diferent .esp JUST for the COBJ for it to work. I would still like some sort of theory of why this happened, I don't like having 2 .esp in one mod

Hi, I just made a mod for a PA, but something odd is happening: Whenever I link the COBJ to the ARMO records, the pieces won't show up in the station, however if I link the COBJ to the OMOD (I know that's not how it works, but) the armor pieces DO show up in the station, but they are not repairable. Any one had any problem like this? or even better, know a fix? My mod (incase you want to check the .esp) is this one

THANKS! After sometime off for chrismas, I came back to the mod and used your mod as a reference, it was enought for me to reverse-engineer the .nif files allowing me to understand them (ok, just kind of understand them), however it did the trick and the model is finally showing in game! So thanks again for the help, really appreciated :laugh:

Alright, I'll give this a try. Once I'm done I'll post my luck (let's hope it's good)

Alright, I'll give it a try with him, thanks for the reference :thumbsup: Ok, that’s what I thought. I’ll explain it like this. Think of the PA frame existing in one of two states. It is either a furniture or a race. Furniture is promoted to a race when a character (PC or NPC) uses the armor. It is returned to furniture when they exit. There is only a single piece to the frame, and that is the frame itself. As for the pieces, when dealing with the PC, NPC human, NPC ghoul, and synth races, there are two types of clothing they can wear: underarmor and armor. These items are attached to locations defined in the game. Similarly, the PA race and PA furniture are capable of containing only pieces of armor. They cannot use underarmor (I’ve tried with no success). There is quite a bit involved with making your mod. In addition to the meshes, you will need a material for every different skin you wish to apply to each mesh. Each skin will be stored in a .bgsm file that contains references to your main texture, the normal map, and the specular map. There are other textures (such as the glow map) that may be applied as well. A reference to your default .bgsm will be stored in the .nif file for your mesh. Once you have all your .nif’s and .bgsm’s, you will need to create an armor addon (ARMA) reference to your character models and an armor (ARMO) reference to your world object models. This will allow the meshes to be seen in game using their defaults. The ARMO will contain a reference to the ARMA. You will need to create a material swap (MSWP) for each of the materials you want to be applied to your meshes. A Miscellaneous Item (MISC) record should be created for each of your pieces and each of your materials. The MISC, ARMO, and ARMA can contain direct references to your MSWP, or you can defer that to the object modification (OMOD) you need to create for each of your pieces and materials. If you want your pieces to be craftable, you will also need to create constructable objects (COBJ) for your pieces and materials. You can also make use of instance naming rules and keywords if you wish to enable dynamic naming of your pieces. You can look at either of my mods for examples of how to do anything I’ve mentioned here. I have the .bsgm files all set, and I followed a tutorial to make the ARMA, COBJ, ARMO, MISC, etc. so all of that is included in the .esp already. The only thing that keeps evading me its the set up for the .Nif file as when i start up the game it keeps on showing the base mesh rather than the one i created (and by "base" i mean the armor piece I use as reference when creating the .Nif file). I don't suppose you know a good link for a tutorial for creating/editing .Nif files, right? Btw, thanks for the answers so far :smile:

Hi, by "PA frame pieces" I mean the parts of the PA that you put in the frame (the torso, arms, legs, helmet) as I don't understand how to give it a new mesh that the frame uses. What i intend to do with my mod is just a remesh (tho not a replacer, it would be like "copy" an existing power armor to give it a new mesh and then make it standalone),so it's not something that (I think) needs coding. I've been playing around with the FO4Edit, but still no luck there either, although it did look more simplified than the Creation Kit, so maybe that is a good start

I've been lately trying to make a mod, but I'm a bit stuck atm and the deal is this: I understand where the creation kit gets the .nif for the world model for the PA piece no questions asked there, but I don't understand from where it gets the piece for the PA frame, I've been trying to google it but have failed in getting anything of use (probably overlooked something as I'm very distracted in that sense). Can anyone bail me out with a quick lesson on how to set the .nif file to the PA frame pieces? or maybe a link with a useful tutorial that covers some PA modding? Thanks in advance.

have they? would you mind posting a link? cuz i didnt find anyting... or was it taken down? so many questions

This is a mod i been wanting for sometime, yet never really thought on posting the idea here. It would be cool to have an armor of this style, even when it wouldt fit at all in the wasteland, still think a grunt armor can be a really good addition to the power armor arsenal, What do you think? PD: Idk if I made myself clear with what was the grunt armor? so i uploaded a picture with the one I'm refering to.