LE One glove mod

[nightinglae850]

Instead of having 2 gloves or bracers, is there a mod that lets you equip only one in your left or right hand? Maybe letting you mix 2 differnt bracers

[Strokend]

I think such a mod would work easier if it turn all the existing bracers into RIght-handed braces, leaving you to have to craft them into left handed, but perhaps that can be done at a Tanning Rack.

[FavoredSoul]

This would be easy. A few hours work tops.

 

 

Here's how:

 

Using Max/Blender, you'll need to edit the body meshes and all gauntlet/bracer meshes, and change the BSDIsmemberSkinModifier partition for hands, by splitting them into two partitions (simply remove the left or right hand from the hand partition, and put it in its own partition; about 3-5 clicks of mindless work). Currently both hands share the same slot and can never be independent of one another.

 

- For example, instead of both hands using Slot 32, make the Right Hand use slot 44, the Left Hand use slot 45)

 

Once they have their own partitions, each gauntlet and bracer mesh must then be split into two separate mesh files; one for the Left Bracer, one for the Right Bracer. Then you're good to go with only wearing one gauntler/bracer at a time, and still keep the other hand, naked and visible.

[Shavoshowman]

Please could someone upload this mod now for noobs like me?

[Shavoshowman]

Is there a mod available now?

[stavors97]

Years later and people are still looking for this "simple thing to do" mod

[cain9580]

A mod like this would be easy for anyone that wanted to have it. You will need an archive extraction tool which can easily be found online, Nifskope, and a texture modification tool like Gimp or Photoshop. You will need the appropriate DDS plugin for whichever texture editing software you have as well.

 

Extract the mesh and texture files for the gloves you want to modify and extract them to your Skyrim Data directory. Open the diffuse map texture file and select the portion that covers which ever side you want to remove. Add a new Alpha channel and fill it with white color. Then, using the selection you made fill that section of the map with black and save the file in the diffuse with Alpha format.

 

After that you need to add a NiAlphaProperty to the Nif mesh file for the gloves. You can just copy the settings from another mesh with fur or hair or google it to find the proper settings.

 

If the mesh texture only has one section devoted to the gloves then you will need to edit the UV map island that covers the hand. It may look daunting when you open the UV map in Nifskope but all you need to do it select a corner vertex, right click and select All Connected, then move the Island to a section you can fill in with black safely. For any parts you want to be transparent you can resize the UV map sections and stack them so you only need a small black area in the Alpha later.

 

Sounds like a lot but after you have done it once it is simple enough.