quisp Posted June 17, 2012 Share Posted June 17, 2012 Hi. I made some nice gear for my female companion to wear, but she always defaults to her original and very tedious armor. I have removed all her clothing (a simple, early nude mod) and handed her the new stuff - all to no avail. She will accept modded weapons. I'm using a PC. Is there a trick to dressing my companion, or is this futile? Yes, this question probably tags me as a newbie, and I am. So - any tips? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevkiev Posted June 17, 2012 Share Posted June 17, 2012 Companions will always wear their default armour if its base damage is higher than the base damage of the replacement armour. (i.e. they don't sense any smithing improvements.) That scenario is also affected by the companion's skill. For example, Jordis will wear her default steel rather than scaled, even though scaled has a higher damage rating, because Jordis has a way higher heavy armour than light armour skill rating. A quick workaround to that is to raise your companions' skill via console command (e.g. click on companion while in console then type "modav lightarmor #") where # is the amount you want to bump up that skill. (That's how I got Jordis into scaled armour.) You might have known all of that already I guess, and on it's face it doesn't make sense with having removed all your companions' clothing. BUT... I noticed in my last playthrough (and this was really weird) that with some companions I had to leave at least one piece of default clothing or else they'd revert to wearing their entire default outfit if you're trying to equip something with equal or less base damage than their default. For example, I tried removing all Annekke Crag-Jumper's outfit via console in hopes of getting her into fine clothes to sandbox around Proudspire. But, unless I left her miner boots on, she'd go back to wearing her whole default outfit. So she was in fine clothes, gold and diamonds, with clunky ol' miner boots. :tongue: Dunno if other players have experienced this, 'cuz I hadn't read about it happening before but there ya go. Same thing happened with Mjoll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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