elven armor mixed up

[dragonslayer2k12]

Ok so I was looking through creation kit today for elven armor references because I noticed something odd with elven armor. The cuirass for regular and gilded are the same in my game and there is another version of female cuirass something to do with thalmor female guards but can't find the reference to that armor in ck? So I noticed that some mods I made have different settings in elven armor settings from the default game and even the default game has it wrong. The gilded armor has the pauldrons and the regular doesn't right? Also the slightly different yet better detailed female cuirass cannot be worn by the player? I know I saw a mod for that to be wearable by the player somewhere around here. Just bugs me that there is no male version with the slightly better modeled details.

 

But how did the elven stuff get mixed up in my mods that I made when I never changed those settings? Also why is it wrong in the default game?

[Georgiegril]

I think it is probably a mod. I have had textures/clothing/armor from other mods show up in the CK if they are in my data file, even though I hadn't specifically activated that mod. I don't know enough about modding to figure out why that occurs, and it does make it difficult to make sure I am not using files that are not vanilla.

[dragonslayer2k12]

I don't have any elven mods installed yet. I was just considering aMidianBorn Elven Armor today have not even installed it yet and while looking at his mod I was looking in ck and noticed the mixup. Actually his mod doesn't even have an esp file it is just straight up texture replacements. So I might just make an esp file for his mod and always load it at top of load order just so this doesn't happen again but I am worried that my mods will still cause problems so I will have to fix each of those too but that might cause confilicts with other mods?

 

Did beth change anything between old v1.5 and current for elven armor settings?

[Georgiegril]

I don't think there were changes to the Elven armor design in any of the patches. So, you are saying that hadn't downloaded aMidian, you were just looking at it online with the CK open?

 

Where you using any armor mods at all when you opened the CK? Or used any and then uninstalled them? The files had to come from somewhere, very strange.

 

You might try the verify cache files for the CK on steam, maybe that will help, it does on occasion fix the oddest problems.

[dragonslayer2k12]

I was looking at the default files in ck, had skyrim and update checked and then just browsed the elven armor settings and noticed a lot of stuff out of order. The mod I was looking at on this site and also I downloaded it but the files were never extracted to the game directories only to a folder on another drive where I always save first before doing anything else. I never just load a mod straight into the game directories, I always check it first. I think I need to verify files maybe that will do it but my pc has crashed with ck open several times before now. Thanks to bad storms and power brown outs due to summer time AC usage around here it causes a lot of problems. Maybe those files were corrupted so I will have to check.

[dragonslayer2k12]

Ok I found out where I was getting messed up. There is elven gilded armor which looks just like elven armor, and THEN there is elven light armor! The light armor is what looks different but the gilded and regular look the same. That is so dumb, they made that thalmor special for females but didn't make it for males and that could have been the regular armor so the light would look different. The light gloves, boots, and helmet look EXACTLY the same only difference is stats. That sucks there should be a physical difference for it to be lighter weight. So now I have a reason for modding elven gear now lol.