What about a invisible armor mod?

[Murielkai]

I use Concealed Armors with the DLC patches and it seems to work great but people are reporting various problems because it isn't being updated regularly or anymore at all. I made a new version of "Hide Helmets" which uses a no-graphic nif to simply hide the helmet, allowing you to have the armor and mod it but it is completely unseen.

 

Why wouldn't such a mod be a much better idea ffor having invisible armor than one that adds a "conceal" option to everything piece of gear in the game but requires regular updating/maintenance to keep working?

[turtlep]

I would guess a concealing mod has a lot more versatility since that would allow you to mix and match both concealed armor and non-concealed armor.

There is also the fact that a no-graphic nif would also hide armor on npcs as well.

Concealed Armors also lets you downgrade the looks of armor to one of the lighter variants.

To achieve this with a simple no-nif version would require alot of extra effort from the end-user.

[Murielkai]

"There is also the fact that a no-graphic nif would also hide armor on npcs as well."

 

Well, the armor would be standalone and use seperate item codes than the vanilla armor on the leveled lists. So that wouldn't be a problem.

 

"Concealed Armors also lets you downgrade the looks of armor to one of the lighter variants."

 

I wonder how many people actually downgrade to light variants? I use the Conceal Armors mod to completely hide the armor. If you really think about it... a simple standalone mod that adds different sets of invisible armor to the game would be a far "lighter" and less invasive solution to hiding armor. You simply craft the set of armor you want (synth, etc) to get the stats you desire. And if you want NPC's to wear it you give it to them. I don't know, maybe this is too simple for most people who like to needlessly craft and tweak everything at the armor bench.

[turtlep]

"Well, the armor would be standalone and use seperate item codes than the vanilla armor on the leveled lists. So that wouldn't be a problem."

 

While that's a fix for the npc problem, it does mean that the armor won't be found in the normal level-lists in game, thus requiring crafting or console commands. Also, as standalone armor, what reason other than balancing is there to make invisible armor for anything but the best armorset ingame? Otherwise it seems to be an alright fix if you need invisible armor.

 

"I wonder how many people actually downgrade to light variants? I use the Conceal Armors mod to completely hide the armor."

 

That’s just like, your opinion, man. But in all seriousness, there are plenty of people, me included, who like and use the lighter armor variants for there visuals. Some people like to mix and match lighter sets and invisible armor together for various reasons, like a piece of cloths clips with some armor, but would like to benefit from the armor values of the heavier sets.

 

In the end though, if all people needed was a simple invisible armor mod, then a simple standalone version makes sense. I doesn't help though that Concealed Armors, while outdated, was very popular and did more, which allows it to get a larger audience.

[Murielkai]

Eh, I don't really feel like making an invisible armor mod right now anyway. But with Concealed Armors not getting updates it just seemed like it might be a viable option.

[Linmor]

Other than that concealed armor mod, the only one that i know of that lets you hide the armor is Custom Combat and Synth Armor by Endormoon

It only conceals combat armor, but seems to work quite well.

 

It also allows a large amount of different customization options to the combat and synth armor.

[damanding]

The one I use is Invisible Armor Addon which was updated in July to include Far Harbor and Automatron. Upside, it works straight out of the box without all the bugs the other mods have. Downside it makes ALL armor throughout the game invisible. http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/5245/?