Armors, Armors, who's got the armors?

[JMMcNemo]

There's a lot of armors out there that are really cool. A LOT of them. I'd like to use them... but I'm not all that wild about using a body replacer like CBBE or UNP, I'm happy with vanilla-- at least until someone comes up with a player-only replacer.

 

Is there a good reason why I couldn't install a mod for a CBBE armor and us it on a vanilla body? I don't care if it looks weird when I switch it, I just want to have my character look cool.

 

I was doing this for a while, but then I started having CTD issues, and I read that using the armors without the matching body mod can do that, and I was hoping for confirmation either way. And, if the answer is 'no I can't do that', then is there a workaround?

[reaper9111]

I personaly don't think this is directly the cause of your crash, an armor meshe (3d model) will replace the Body part that the armor is made for... No matter what Body type your using or No replacer at all) it does'nt matter..., the only issue you "might" have some times, are with the "body texture on the armor meshe" so yeah, i dont think this is your cause of crashes ! (but this is only my opinion!)

 

Best of luck... ps try looking at the latest mods you've install insted

Reaper

Edited March 2, 2012 by reaper9111

[JMMcNemo]

Near as I can tell the crashes may have been caused by a mod that extended the color sliders... Or possibly one that extended the number of eye colors. Pfft, I dunno, maybe my character ate some bad cabbage; I don't know why scavenging food from draugr-infested tombs seems like a good idea. :blink:

 

Anyway, I wasn't directly bothered about that, mainly I just wanted to hear that using a non-vanilla based armor on a vanilla body *wouldn't* be a likely cause, is all. As for textures, I'll dig up a Barbie 'No Naughty Bits' texture somewhere if I decide it's an issue.

 

As for checking the latest mods I've installed, that is exactly the sort of thing I should have done... had I done a better job of keeping track of which ones were the most recent. I suggested once that NMM include a Date Installed field for exactly this purpose, perhaps I'll do it again.