Force a companion to wear armor

[NerevarineVivec]

So I have Lydia and I want her to wear this beautiful shiny new +20% stamina regen glass chestpiece I just found but she wont put the damn thing on.

 

I know that the armor you want them to wear has to be better than their regular starting armor, but glass sure as hell is better than (I'm guessing) steel. She was wearing some dwarven armor I gave her earlier just fine, and glass armor has a better armor rating than dwarven too.

 

Does Lydia just refuse to wear light armor even though its clearly better? Is there any way to make her wear it?

[Uzibeatle]

you have to remove the default gear that is not showing up in the trade window.

This can only be done via console or a mode.

 

Console is easy

two ways to do this, one brutal, one targeted and more controlled.

if you need her base code

type help lydia 0

though for this you should not need to do that.

first thing I recommend. Open normal trade and remove all you can via that means first (so as to make the next step less fuzzy)

 

open console. target her.

enter:

showinventory

 

you will see a list of gear with codes and some weird errors that skrymm seems to show that fallout and fallout NV did not show.

find the armor or whatever item you want to take from her. You might at this stage write down the item codes for future reference.

 

to remove any item

removeitem (code) 1 where code is the base ID revealed in showinventory minus the () and 1 is the number of items to remove.

 

or the brutal method that worked fine in FNV and fallot (i've not tested i in skryim yet)

removeallitems

 

now when you give her that classy fur item with lower stats she will wear it.

 

There is a possiblity at some stage her script may respawn some items. My lydia has not respawned her armor.

Some NPCS' in FNV would respawn their default gear.

 

Thats it.

 

Edit. I forgot to mention If you need to scroll up in console to see text page up and page down should work while in console

Edited November 16, 2011 by Uzibeatle

[NerevarineVivec]

I first tried the removeallitems method, which initially worked in that she only had her underwear left. But as soon as I gave her the glass chestpiece, all of her standard armor reappeared and she would still not wear it.

 

But the more targeted removeitem did it and now she is properly shiny.

 

Thanks

[babis8142]

So I have Lydia and I want her to wear this beautiful shiny new +20% stamina regen glass chestpiece I just found but she wont put the damn thing on.

 

I know that the armor you want them to wear has to be better than their regular starting armor, but glass sure as hell is better than (I'm guessing) steel. She was wearing some dwarven armor I gave her earlier just fine, and glass armor has a better armor rating than dwarven too.

 

Does Lydia just refuse to wear light armor even though its clearly better? Is there any way to make her wear it?

 

 

I think there's more than that. Glass is good armor to you. But Lydia wears heavy armor and probably her skill in light armor is not that high. So to her it's crapier. And since you're cheating why not get some heavy armor to give her through the console. I'll be she looks hot in ebony armor :thumbsup:

[NerevarineVivec]

Her skill in light armor might not be high right now, but I would imagine after wearing it a lot it will gradually increase and be acceptable. Besides glass outranks steel so much I dont think any amount of skillpoints would counterbalance it.

 

And as for the cheating part. I dont, in any way, think of this as cheating. But rather more as a failure in Bethesda for not allowing me to customize my companion as I want. I obtained that glass armor from a chest normally in the game, and it would ruin the game for me if I just created ebony armor from nowhere just because I got light armor instead of heavy armor.

[ASNZern]

I notice this problem too.

It seems to me she is always wearing her 'Steel Armor', and she doesn't wear anything else I give her except weapons and helmet.

Then I got my hands on Wolf Armor, so I gave her that.

She put it on after we changed zone. ;)

 

Unlike Sven, whose default armor is clothing, he wears every armor I give him right away.

Edited November 16, 2011 by ASNZern