Overview:

A small mod to fix the female versions of the glove meshes for Leather Armour and Ranger Armour sets: the keen-eyed may have noticed that these outfits have gaps where the wrists should be. This mod merges part of the hand mesh with the errant gloves and adds a surface to the cuffs of the latter so that the missing wrists are now present.

The meshes in question are also used in several other outfits and will therefore fix similar problems seen elsewhere, e.g. Cass' "floating hands".

Because I'm not keen on overwriting existing meshes (conflicts, archive invalidation issues and what have you) I have created new filenames prefixed 'vss' which means a plugin is necessary, though this may be merged using Wrye Flash. Addendum: at aquilegia's suggestion in the comments, a non-esp version overriding the regular meshes is now included.

Instructions:

esp version:

Installation: download the vssglovefix file and extract to your FNV\Data folder and either enable the plugin "vssglovefix.esp" or better still merge it using Flash.

Uninstallation: remove the following files:

• vssglovefix.esp
• meshes\armor\leatherarmor\f\vssglovel.nif
• meshes\armor\leatherarmor\f\vssglover.nif
• meshes\armor\rangerarmor\f\vssnv_rangf_lh.nif
• meshes\armor\rangerarmor\f\vssnv_rangf_rh.nif
  

Non-esp version:

Installation: those who aren't fans of extra plugins can download the vssglovefix_no_esp file instead and extract it to your FNV\Data folder. If you use this non-esp version, ensure that you have a working archive invalidation system (either the text-file version, in which case you'll need to manually add the paths to the meshes, or ArchiveInvalidationInvalidated).

Uninstallation: remove the following files:

• meshes\armor\leatherarmor\f\glovel.nif
• meshes\armor\leatherarmor\f\glover.nif
• meshes\armor\rangerarmor\f\nv_rangf_lh.nif
• meshes\armor\rangerarmor\f\nv_rangf_rh.nif
  

Note: when using the non-esp version, take care to avoid conflicts with other mods that may use the standard pathnames, e.g. the Type 3 armour set. This applies when both installing and uninstalling.

Either download one or the other, but not both! Actually you can use both if you insist, it won't do anything bad, but it's a bit unnecessary.

Credits:

• Bethesda and Obsidian for the original meshes and Geck
• the Blender and Niftools teams for making this possible
• ElminsterAU for FNVedit.
  

Permissions:

• Feel free to use this as you please; no permissions need to be sought though it would probably be helpful to let me know if you're using it in another mod.
• If you do use it elsewhere, please ensure I am credited for my work.