Armor Replacement not working

[thenemesisofendor]

Hello out there.

 

Yesterday, after watching some tutorials, I started creating my first Skyrim mod. My plan was to replace all imperial armor ingame by the Skyblivion Cyrodilic Steel Armor (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/31206 ).

 

What did I?

 

I loaded up skyrim.esm, update.esm and the skyblivion steel armor mod in the creation kit.

Then I edited the following armor sets:

 

ArmorImperialHeavyOutfit

ArmorImperialHeavySetNoHelmet

ArmorImperialLightSetNoHelmet

ArmorImperialLightSet

ArmorImperialStuddedSet

ArmorImperialStuddedSetNoHelmet

OutfitListSoldierImperial

CWSoldierImperialOfficerOutfit

How did I edit them?

I went to items → outfits and edited some imperial outfits. I replaced imperial gauntlets by skyblivion gauntlets, imperial cuirass by skyblivion cuirass and so on. Then I packed everything in an .esp file and uploaded it to nexusmods.

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/35354 (maybe it helps)

What's my problem?

The edited armor sets doesn't show up. The imperial soldiers either wear vanilla armor or are nude. I am searching for help to fix this. Could someone please help me?

[Novem99]

Changing outfits (and I literally mean the outfit records in the creation kit) is a little bit tricky in an existing save. The result is often what you described.

 

You could solve this by renaming all .nif files of the Skyblivion steel armor with the names of the imperial armor and and saving them in the exactly same folder path like the original armor (data\meshes\armor\imperial)

 

For example:

The boots of the Skyblivion steel armor for males should be named "bootsheavy_0" and "bootsheavy_1" and must be located at "data\meshes\armor\imperial\m".

[thenemesisofendor]

Ok, thank you very much!