This is a texture replacer for the dwemer armor that i call the legacy texture project. It is now a dead project since i have been able to get blender working and now i am completely replacing the models with better ones and much better textures. But this is what i imagine bethesda was shooting for when they made the design of the helmet especially, and just never did follow through on it.

I am releasing this as a stand alone pluginless mod for those that like the old armor style but want a new set of textures and dont really care for the ultraman look. Feel free to dirty them up, or even redo the unwrap and use them as the  base for the legacy armor. I have moved on to a more detailed version.

Just copy and paste the folders into your data files and allow it to overwrite. The textures wont look right on the original helmet so the new helmet mesh has to be used. I simply got rid of the eye balls.

Feel free to mess around with them, re design them, do a new unwrap of the models if you like, but this is a dead end project for me so i no longer care about these textures. They can be recolored or altered in whatever way, as long as i get credit for the texture design. I have shifted my focus from trying to salvage the original vanilla armor, to creating a total replacement of the meshes and the textures, and the project has grown from just the armor to everything including new ruin meshes, so this is a freebie just to get it out of my workflow so i dont accidentally overwrite my new models with this.