Meshes change size when equipped

[SturmhartEisenkeil]

Hey everyone,

 

I'm relatively new to modding and completly new to 3D-stuff so please bear with me.

 

I found a really cool armor set here on nexus but didn't like the fact that it was just one equippable item so I wanted to make a mod for myself that adds a standalone version of this armor but split the armor in three pieces. Lucky for me, the original armor model was already set up in a way that it was easy to extract three separate .nifs with outfitstudio. I now have an armor, a scarf and some pouches. I already created three separate items to use ingame and when I load all three meshes into outfitstudio, they match perfectly.

 

Now when I equip the items in game, the armor looks fine, but the scarf and addons get somehow scaled up when I equip them and float arount my character.
Can somebody tell me what may be the cause of this?

 

Additional info: The armor is not built for any specific bodytype and I am using CBBE curvy if that information is helpful in any way.

 

Thanks in advance!

Edited October 26, 2018 by SturmhartEisenkeil

[SandMouseAnarchy]

Hey mate, so it sounds like that could be a mix of two things going wrong there - first the mesh's floating around your character is probably a skinning/weighting issue (best reimport the mesh as an obj and reset scale/rotation and make sure the pivot point for each mesh is 0,0,0 :)

The second issue sounds like you'll need to go into the armor record in ck and find a tick box that says "no underarmor scaling" and see if that does the job :)

[SturmhartEisenkeil]

After I read your answer I think I know what the problem is: To make my armor, I copied the ArmorAddon record for the synth uniform (which was really dumb in retrospect but oh well fail and learn) and since it classifies as underarmor, it has a lot of bone weight data attached to it which modifies the size of other equipped pieces if I understand correctly. So my problem should be gone once I remove all the bone weights from the armor or is it better/easier to not classify the armor as underarmor by removing the biped points for underarmor?

Edited October 26, 2018 by SturmhartEisenkeil