13rimstone Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Hello all... I'm looking for a point in the right direction so I can do a small mod. I'm new to Skyrim, but not to modding in general- I've worked on things from hex editing Baldur's Gate to client-side and total conversion mods for Tribes2 and some custom replacement assets for Natural Selection. To make it short, I want to make a craftable set of hide bracers that have no armor value for my mage. I hate the way the college robes look with the arm wraps- she's a mage, not a mummy ;) ... I was using hide bracers to cover up, and kinda liked the look. Now that she has the mage armor perk, I can't use them, and the gloves available ingame don't cover right. My first step was to export the bracer meshes and rename them as the farm gloves. Worked perfectly, except the image was cut off right about where the gloves would end on the wrist. I guess some kind of mask for clothing. Second attempt was to replace the DB hand wraps, but that didn't work at all. Whether I named them wrong, or because the wraps are from a craftable mod, I don't know. Then I realized I'm really being too complicated. All I *think* I really need to do is create a new blank item by renaming whatever passes for the bracer's datablock so that it calls the right image and appears in the hide crafting menu, and set the armor value to "0". I've found tuts for importing custom meshes and such, but not for something I *think* should be fairly basic. Can anyone point me to such a tut or give me the steps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topvman Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 (edited) I think the game check if he may or may not active a bonus on an armor with a system of keyword, Each item had a set of keyword, what you need to do is adding the "clothing" keyword to the bracer and that may do the trick.You can also try to clone the Bracer item, add the keyword and create a recipe for it. Edit : For easy and simple keyword ( and almost anything else ) editing, you should use SkyEdit if you don't already. Edited January 16, 2012 by Topvman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunnie Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 To change the Hide Bracers into a cloth version you need to make the following changes (Use SkyEdit, it will make this a lot easier): *For the Bracer*-In the Armors section under hands, right click on ArmorHideGauntlets and select Create a copy.-give the new record a unique name.-find your new record and open it.-Change the Name to something else (so you won't be confused between the vanilla version)-change the Rating to 0-change the Armor Type to "none"-delete the keywords "ArmorGauntlets" and "ArmorLight"-add the keywords "ArmorClothing" and "ClothingHands"-click save *For the recipe*requires 1 new recipeCraft-In the recipe section under Forge, right click on RecipeArmorHideGauntlets and select Create a copy.-give the new record a unique name.-find your new record and open it.-in the Result Item field, change it to the new bracer you created above.-click save. Save your esp and activate it, now you have a new Hide Bracer that you create at the forge that is cloth. Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
13rimstone Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 :facepalm: OMG. :blink: That was so disgustingly easy, i'm officially embarrassed to have asked. Kudos to you for pointing me in the right direction. And thank you, too. If anyone else is interested in them: http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=6379 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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