Truly light Glass Armor - Replacer
A GlassArmor a thieves, scout, and assassins could actually wear proudly. Female only.
Lore friendly, somehow sexy.
Textures are linked with the vanilla version (i.e. if you use a texture replacer it will affect also this armor),
while the under-armor leather suit has its own textures.
 

What is it? ______________________________________________________________
A replacer for the female vanilla glass armor.
Textures of the leather suit are especially made for this armor by OperatorCactus (the  seams are 100% original).

Armors of the same series:
Truly Light Elven armor (male)
Truly Light Elven Armor (female)


Why are you claiming this is truly light? _______________________________________
A light armor should be planned to be silent, light, and avoid to prevent movements; no matter if
some parts of the body are poorly covered. That is: rigid plates should not cover mobile parts
(prevents movements), no jingling parts like chain mail or glass skirt (noisy), caution with mobile
joints (could be noisy and/or prevents movements).

A heavy armor is planned to cover the body completely as it is needed for a field battle; no matter
if it is bulky, heavy, noisy, and prevents some movements. I's only goal is to bring you home alive.
Therefore, vanilla Glass Armor looks actually as a heavy armor while it should be light.


About the material ________________________________________________________
Gathering the information about the Glass, and considering the shape the Glass armor took in the Elder Scrolls, it seems a very light, shatterproof and hard material. It is very hard to model, expecially in large pieces, so Glass is often covered by metal keeping the smaller pieces toghether that, anyway, make the most of the material of the armor. The ability of making large Glass pieces is higher in Cirodiil than Skyrim and in Morrowind it is much lower. The sound of the large Glass-metal pieces could be quite dull.


Ported versions__________________________________________________________________
Xbox One - Truly Light Glass Armor for Seraphim
Xbox One - UNP - Truly Light Glass Armor (Pauldrons, Standalone) by KnownN16htmare (Fury)
Xbox One - UNP - Truly Light Glass Armor (Pauldronless, Standalone) by KnownN16htmare (Fury)
SSE version - Truly Light Glass Armor - Replacer



Textures__________________________________________________________________________________
The mod includes the textures of the leather suit only (by OperatorCactus), while points to the vanilla
textures for all the rest of the armor. Therefore, if you are using a mod replacing the glass armor textures
it will affect this mod too. Many of the pictures above are using different retextures mods.
In my personal opinion the Retexture [aMidianBorn Glass Armor (by Modd3r and CaBaL), Thalmor variant] is fully
within the spirit of this armor for scaut-rangers-assassins. 



Related Mods_________________________________________________________________________
aMidianBorn BookOfSilence - Truly Light Glass (F) by jinncrazey  improved features for the standalone version of this armor
Nexus Skyrim Overhaul by Kelsenellenelvian
Medium Armors - Total Equipment Overhaul by DanielUA
Vanilla Outfits BodySlided (with HDT-PE) for CBBE by Gosthy - RenaPG - Vitala



Versions_______________________________________________________________
v 1.1 - REPLACER - Chest armor (bone-weighing paludrons free from arm movements), helmet, boots and gountlets, 1st-person without paludrons
v 1.1sa - STANDALONE version of v1.1
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OPTIONAL FILES 
v 1.1np - Chest armor without paludrons for REPLACER
      v 1.1unpb - UNPB version for REPLACER
      v 1.1np.unpb - Chest armor without paludrons, UNPB like body type, for REPLACER
      v 1.1sa-np - OPTIONAL FILE - without paludrons version for STANDALONE
v 1.1sa.unpb - OPTIONAL FILE - UNPB version for STANDALONE
      v 1.1sa.np.unpb - Chest armor without paludrons, UNPB like body type, for STANDALONE
UUNP-bodyslide conversion by Diablio main REPLACER is needed (this one, and an adult one, are available outside
the Nexus) 
UUNP-bodyslide conversion of the NoPauldrones (body piece only) by HeavyDude main REPLACER is needed 
        UUNP install instructions by MystoganV for Bodyslide v3.6
          (if YOU know it works with higher versions, please Post it on this page. If it don't and you know how to make it work, please Post that procedure.)
          1. Install TL-Glass from the main files section.
          2. Install the UUNP bodyslide file from the miscellaneous section. Select "merge files," not "Replace".
          3. Activate the file in left pane of MO.
          4. Open Bodyslide through MO.
          5. Verify the body (UNP/UNPNevernude/UNP Special) you prefer is selected in the top left tab of Bodyslide window.
          6. Make sure you have the Bodyslide preset (UNP, Sevenbase, Seraphim, etc) you desire is properly selected in the second from
              the top left-hand tab in Bodyslide window.
          7. Then go into the 'group filter' tab (Middle tab on very top of Bodyslide window)
          8. Scroll down to 'WTF Truly Light Glass Armor.' Make sure it is checked.
          9. Click Batch Build in the lower left corner of Bodyslide window. (Make sure you have 'racemenu morphs' checked if you are using
              them in conjunction with racemenu).
              When you click "batch build," you can hold down the 'shift' key while batch building and you can direct the new
              meshes to go to your MO Overwrite folder. That way you can make it "its own mod,' so to speak. Makes it easier if you
              want to change up presets later.



Questions and answers_____________________________________________________
Are you going to produce a male version? 
Well, this is not scheduled yet. If you will produce the mail version from this armor you are welcome 
(please cite this page, and for the leather textures ask permission to OperatorCactus).  

Conversions to other body types? 
- The armor is independent from the body type (only armor with visible skin are linked to UNP-type or CBBE-type).
- look at "related mods" Vanilla Outfits BodySlided (with HDT-PE) for CBBE


Preset of the wonderful green face lady
The wonderful lady with green stripes on the face was uploaded by snelss0, a preset is available here:
Celena Preset by snelss0

How about the scarf?
The pics of the scarf (and a Bodyslide conversion) are by OperatorCactus (my coauthor, the texturer), about the scarf he said:
The scarf is of Skyrim Scarves and Mufflers with my own personal tweaks to the colors. If that mod does not exist anymore, Keeping Warm uses the same models so making a red scarf in photoshop or gimp is easy peasy.
The red cape is from HDT capes and is easily found on the nexus.
Hope I've helped. 

Retextures
The glass armor parts use vanilla texture paths so any retexture will also affect this armor.


For Modders_____________________________________________________________
I need someone able to build a simple quest for the "Dibella Relic Armor". The armor is nearly ready
(I'm at half work with the male version). A lore friendly story is ready (but negotiable), I can help as Papyrus
scripter. The idea to publish armor and quest nearly the same day with a link among them in the respective
Nexus pages. If you are a bit interested PM me, and I will send you the story.
 
 
Tools___________________________________________________________________

• Blender 2.49b
• Nif-Scope
• Nif-Tools
• Python
• BSA browser
• Bone weight copy (Blender Script)
• Mesh X Mirror for Modders (Blender Script)
• Mesh_0 Generator (Blender Script)
• Mesh_1 toMesh_0 (Blender Script)
  

 

Credits_________________________________________________________________

• OperatorCactus    for the LEATHER TEXTURES especially made for this armor (the seam in the maps is 100% original)
• OperatorCactus    for leather UV editing
• OperatorCactus    for support and suggestions
• Snelss0                for his wonderful pictures
• Eiries       for his wonderful pictures
• Diablio                 for his UUNP-bodyslide conversion
• HeavyDude          for his  UUNP-bodyslide - NoPauldrone conversion
• Demon99             for UNP body
• Petrovich             for Dream Girl body
• Bethesda             for Skyrim
• The Nexus           for being there (thanks to the Divines!)
  

  
 
To get the armor and check it immediately ____________________________________
Type in the console:      player.additem CODE 1
where the glass armor CODEs are:
Boots              00013938
Armor             00013939
Gauntlets        0001393A
Helmet           0001393B

Permissions
See permission table.