Is it possible: A less clothes - more stealth mod?

[angrytigerp]

Bear with me, here.

 

I'm trying to come up with an idea that would make it practical for a character to go clothes-less; right now, it's a pretty pointless thing to do, only worth it if you like checking out your character's body. But is it possible (or has it been done) to make it so that nudity increases the Sneak skill in some way?

 

My idea comes primarily on the heels of finding the Sneaky Feet Mod, which basically does my idea on a small scale (IE only looking at what kind of footwear your character is wearing and modifying the Sneak value, but also penalizing you for doing so [running barefoot over sharp rocks seems like it would hurt occasionally]). I'm looking for something that makes it apply to the whole body -- that is, making nudity fortify your Sneaking abilities (and maybe stuff like Acrobatics) while potentially damaging you occasionally (like the Sneaky Feet mod does) and of course removing armor points you could have.

 

So is there anything out there that could come close to what I'm thinking about?

 

EDIT: And by Nudity, I meant "Vanilla Oblivion Nudity", that is the generic underwear. I don't necessarily need a mod that strips characters naked (although if it's part of the mod, w/e.)

Edited January 20, 2011 by angrytigerp

[Harla]

I can empathise with the idea, certainly... but I also know that without proper chest suport, I would most definetly not want to be being particularly acrobatic. From an rp point of view, I'd suggest that all armour could be made to penalise your sneaking ability, the same way your footwear choice does in the vanilla game; so the less armour-class items you're wearing, or the less weight of armour you're wearing, the closer to your 'true' sneaking ability you would be.

 

I don't have a lot of time on my hands so I can't look into it myself, sorry, but here's line of thought that might be helpful: Dig out the part of the original gme that handles the boot-weight penalty for sneaking, and see if it might be feasible to extrapolate that function to all body slots, rather than just feet. In the orignal game, beyond a certain actual sneak ability, you automatically negate the boot-weight calculation, and can sneak equally well in anything; perhaps this would also need to be re-worked slightly to account.

 

If you wanted to get a little more complicated, it might prove possible to extrapolate a similar, perhaps lesser, function to clothing items that take up two slots; that would cover most robes, and account for the difficulty sneaking in a full undivided robe. Alas that might also cause penalty to apply to some outfits that -would- be good for sneaking, if you had a catsuit-like piece that covered both slots, for example... I'm not sure.

 

At any rate, it seems like ,onthe face of it, allthe functionality for creating the mod you want is ready to go inthe original game... it just needs someone with a little bit of time to crib and extrapolate it out. also, if i've gone rihgt off base, then feel free to discard all that; just my own thoughts on the matter... spurred by the wince that ensured what I thought about doing a lot of running and jumping with nothing on up top.

 

-Harla

[Deleted2461031User]

Actually, the way the original game handles sneaking is pretty much hardcoded in, like all the other formulas. You can change a lot of the variables that go into it, but no matter what, the only piece of equipment that the game takes into account when sneaking is the boots.

 

Still, I suppose you could get the effect you want by having a quest script running every few seconds that checks, for example, the combined weight of the player's armor, and lowers their sneak skill based on that. I don't think it'd be terribly difficult to do, either. I'll see if I can do it, actually, in a bit.

[chaospearl]

There might be a simpler way to do this, depending...

 

You could just create a "wearable body" that gives a sneak bonus when worn. By that I mean a piece of clothing with zero weight that when worn simply doesn't show up in-game, so you only see the character's body underneath (underwear or nude, whichever). And it has a Fortify Sneak bonus on it.

 

You can actually create "clothing" that changes your character's physique, too. I don't know how it's done in the technical sense, but it can definitely be done. Unfortunately the only example I can think of is an adult mod, Slof's Boners. NSFW! The mod basically adds equippable "tackle" for male characters. You wear the item and poof, the lower half of the character's body changes form.