Lore:
The Brotherhood Recon Uniform was designed as a lightweight all-purpose field uniform for Long Range Reconnaissance Patrols. Built from a combination of newly forged materials and old world salvage the Recon Uniform provides units with the ability to effectively blend in with local populations while providing ample protections against the many hazards of the wastes. Originally issued only to Reconnaissance units, its effectiveness quickly gained notoriety and it is now issued to more stationary units.

Details:
The Recon uniform comes in 6 optional parts including: Helmet/Gasmask/Sunshades/Overcoat/Gloves/Underarmor. Each part can be customized to a degree. See the 'unique mods' section below for a more detailed breakdown of how each part can be customized.

As an added bonus the Recon Enlistment Poster by TheKite can be earned and placed in the settlement system by doing a few basic BoS quests. In the settlement menu you can find the Poster in Decorations > Wall Decorations > Miscellaneous.

This mod was made with Vanilla male and CBBE female bodies in mind, however a there is a Vanilla female option in the files section. CBBE files are included in the main download for building your preset of choice.

While not required, I cannot suggest enough registrator2000's Crafting Highlight Fix. His F4se plugin will allow you to have color previews in the crafting menu.

Xbox1 version is available here: https://bethesda.net/en/mods/fallout4/mod-detail/4041179

Atomic Beauty Conversion by FutureTech here: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/28057?

Balance:
None of the uniform parts act as 'over armor' meaning you can still wear normal armor like combat armor with even the overcoat (some chest armor may cause clipping). Both the underarmor and overcoat have ballistic weave slots, so you can wear both with weave and replace standard armor altogether.


-The Recon uniform is added to leveled lists for Brotherhood NPCs in the world with a script, no vanilla records are edited.
-Most rank and file Brotherhood scribes and soldiers have a chance to spawn with a variety of different parts.
-You can craft the full uniform at a chemlab (or Cybernetics Lab if you use CROSS_Cybernetics).
-Console search "Brotherhood Recon" to get the loadorder unique IDs.

Lore friendly Static Locations:


Poster Unlocks:

Gasmask: Skin / Cannister / Strap
--Cannister - Disabled / Single(left) / Double / Single(right)*new with v90d*
--Strap - Enabled / Disabled

Gloves: Skin

Shades *new in v090c*: Skin / Goggles
--Goggles options switch the glasses into the combat goggles from the helmet.
--Skin option only effects this item when in goggles mode.
--Goggles can be worn over the eyes (down), or on the forehead (up).

Helmet: Skin / Goggles / Headlamp / Headset
--Goggles - Disabled / Down on face / Up above visor
--Headlamp - Enabled / Disabled (Overrides pipboy light)
--Headset - Disabled / Enabled / Enabled with mic

Overcoat: Skin / Style / Armband / Belt
--Style - Full overcoat / Long Vest / Short Coat / Short Coat
--Armband - Enabled / Disabled
--Belt - Enabled / Disabled

Underarmor: Skin / Shirt / Belts / Radio
--Shirt - T-shirt / T-shirt with physics (female) / Shirtless / Shirtless with physics (female) [physics options do not work on male and vanilla female]
--Belts - Enabled / Enabled with pockets / Disabled
--Radio - Enabled / Disabled

Skins: Standard Issue (Default) / Officer / Black / Camo / Crimson / Firefighter / Hornet / Medic / Minuteman / Wastelander/ No paint (gasmask only)
--Standard Issue (Default) - Orange and grey
--Officer - Dark Grey, with unique rank markings
--Black - Black and dark brown
--Camo - Woodland camo, with green and brown
--Crimson - Red and black
--Firefighter - Red and yellow
--Hornet - Black with yellow highlights
--Medic - White and red, with some blue
--Minuteman - Blue and grey, with re-painted Minuteman markings
--Wastelander - Brown and tan, with brotherhood markings rubbed off/painted over
--No Paint - extra option for the gasmask that sets it to a 'default' state with no added colors

--Skins provide no functionality or bonuses, they are purely cosmetic.
--Standard Issue (Default) and Officer skins are 2k resolution with the Nexus download.
--The free Skin pack from Gumroad enables full resolution for all the skins.
--Both the 2k and 4k skin packs are overwrites for the Nexus download's baseline textures, only one can be installed at a time.

This mod is feature complete from the Nexus download, it's mechanics are fully functional. However I have also made available a 'skin pack' through Gumroad for free at gumroad.com/niero

-Every part of the mod is completely free
-The Nexus download is fully functional with full resolution for the Default and Officer skins.
-The Cosmetic skins in the Nexus download have low-res placeholders to keep the file size reasonable.
-The Gumroad download is "pay what you want", with a minimum of 0.00 USD.
-Meaning that every part of this mod is still free. No charges are required anywhere, and if you do choose to pay it is still considered a donation.
-There is a second 4k texture download that ups the resolution of the two base skins.



Q: Is this paid mods?
A: No, every part of the mod is still free. The fully functional mod is free right here on the Nexus, just like mods have always been. Gumroad considers anything with a zero minimum price a donation, which means even if you choose to pay for the pack you are still just donating.

Q: What is in the download at Gumroad?
A: Texture files pre-packed into a BA2. Installing the 2k or 4k pack is as simple as overwriting the textures.ba2 from the Nexus download.

Q: Do I need a Gumroad account?
A: Nope, Gumroad remembers what you've downloaded based on your email. If you want to download something again later but don't remember the link you can make an account with the same email and it will show up at gumroad.com/library.

Q: Why do this if everything to do with the mod is free anyway?
A: Several reasons: This helps me build a following outside of the Nexus. This keeps the filesize down so people can get the mod quickly. Folks who don't care about the extra skins don't have to download an extra 400 MB, and Gumroad also offers an uncapped bandwidth limit for all users (Nexus caps at 1024 kb/s for non-premium accounts), which is ideal for large files like the 1.6 gigabyte 4k texture pack. This also streamlines donations for the folks that don't want to deal with paypal.

Q: Performance with 4k textures?
A: Outfits are good candidates for ultra high res textures because of the way they usually load while the game is paused. Even still, you may notice a performance hiccup while equipping the outfit. If you run into performance issues I would suggest keeping both the 2k and 4k downloads archived somewhere on your computer, and simply switching them in/out when you want to take screenshots.




Version notes:
v0.91b
-Fixed an issue with bone scaling on the legs

v0.91a
-Fixed an issue causing armored BoS units with the Recon uniform to spawn with standard Combat armor instead
of BoS marked Armor.
-Altered some bone data to reduce clipping on lower leg armor.

v0.90d
-Added new gasmask option
--Single(right) allows you put a single cannister on the rightside of themask.

v0.90c
-Added Goggle options to the Shades
--Shades can now be customized at an armor bench
--Goggle options (up/down) allow you to wear the goggles from the helmet without the actual helmet.

v0.90b
-Release

Manual Installation:
1. Download the Main Nexus archive
2. Unpack all files within the Nexus archive to *Steam*/Fallout4/Data
3. Download a skinpack off gumroad.
4. Place the " - Textures.ba2" file in *Steam*/Fallout4/Data
6. Activate the mod with your mod manager of choice, or use the in-game mod list