[SSE] More reflective armors

[Ormorm]

I'm loving "Shiny Reflective Steel Armor Set" by masterz117. Maybe it depends on your ENBs and lighting setups, but in my game the humble steel armor looks miles better than most fancier armor sets, even when they have HD modded textures. I'm having a hard time putting Lydia in anything besides steel, because other armors look like they're made of styrofoam in comparison to the realistic metallic shine the steel stuff has. I'm finding very few mods even attempting the same thing for other armors, and most that do are for Legendary edition, or require files that are no longer available. Would anyone have a go at recreating the reflective effect for a few more armors, even just base game ones? Having used masterz117's mod, it's the most obvious thing missing that would greatly enhance the look of the game.

 

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/41398

[scorrp10]

I looked at the mod... the ONLY difference from vanilla steel armor meshes is that 'Specular Strength' in the Shader section is increased from 0.8 to 3.0.

A lot of people would likely not want this, since combined with ENB, it can really blow out. Specular Strength is kinda supposed to be between 0 and 1...

 

If that floats your boat that much, I suggest, in case you don't have those yet:

For ladies: CBBE (Warning - explicit!!!)

For gentlemen: HIMBO

And of course, BodySlide/Outfit Studio

 

The big thing about the first two is that they come with ready-to build BodySlide projects for all vanilla armor.

Work flow: Launch Outfit Studio, Load Project, choose HIMBO - Vanilla Refits. Select HIMBO-Vanilla-Body-Steel Heavy

 

In list of meshes, double-click the one that's the armor (in this case, SteelArmorHeavyFur), and in the properties, change Specular Strength to 3.0

 

 

Ta-da! Instant shinyfication.

 

Once you save the project, you still need to open this outfit in BodySlide and build it to your preset of choice in order in order for it to take effect in game.

 

 

 

One caveat: BodySlide projects are generally not created for items like helmets. But it is really easy to make one from a vanilla mesh. (So you can shinyfy those too)