Trying to add custom armor pieces to standard armor

[JeremeW5257]

I want to add cloaks and bandoliers to various existing NPCs in the game...bandits. Here's what I do...

 

Open CK. Click Data. Select Cloaks.esp, select bandolier.esp. Make Cloaks.esp the active file. Go to bandit outfits. Add cloaks and bandolier to all bandit outfits. Save new Cloaks.esp. Here's the problem...Only the cloaks are showing in game. When I open the CK again with the Cloaks.esp set as active, the bandoliers don't even show up as part of the new outfit.

 

Is there a way to get both of them to show up in game as part of the new bandit "outfit"?

[Shoneah0Tokala]

maybe you could try saving it as a new esp altogether (it could be that becuase you overwrite cloaks it only recognizes cloaks in game), I haven't encountered this yet so it's just a suggestion, another idea would be to open ck, load cloaks and bandoliers Esp's adn duplicate every cloak and bandolier that you wish to use then attaching the duplicates to the bandits and saving as a new esp. (I reccomend saving as a new esp because if you make a game destroying error you can just delete that esp without having to reinstall cloaks and going to get the cloak you want all over again)

[JeremeW5257]

I originally saved it as a new .ESP, but neither of the cloaks or bandoliers would show in game. Only by accidentally saving it under the cloaks.esp that the cloaks would show in game. I even added the bandoliers and saved it in the bandolier.esp file, but that didn't work either. The only thing that I can think of is that the cloaks mod has a master file, and the bandolier doesn't, so for some reason when the cloaks.esp is active, it overrides the bandolier.esp and removes them from the outfits. Makes no sense, but there's a lot of things that make no sense with the CK. I was hoping someone encountered this problem and found a way around it.