--DESCRIPTION--
In vanilla Skyrim you are required to take damage in combat in order to level Heavy and Light Armor skills.
While it makes sense with the clunky vanilla combat, it becomes a problem when you start upgrading the combat to modern standards.
With Modern Combat mods, the more skilled you are the less damage you take, a skilled player can even avoid damage entirely.
But instead of being rewarded for your skills, you get punished with less levels.

This mod will fix this problem and allow skilled players to get Armor XP during battle, even if they don't take any damage.
This is my contribution to the Modern Combat community.

I would like to use this opportunity to thank all the amazing modders and contributors of the Skyrim combat community, off the top of my head :
maxsu2017 (TK dodge, BDI, SCAR, CPR, Detection Meter, IFrameGen, and so much more...)
Ershin (TDM, OAR, Precision)
dTry (Valhalla, PI, Key Utils)
BF001 (BFCO)
shikyokira (Nemesis)
center05 (Mortal Enemies)
mwilsnd (SmoothCam)
black364 (Elden Rim)
powerofthree (po3's Tweaks, Papyrus Extender, SPID)
and so many more...


--USAGE--
with this mod installed you will automatically receive Armor XP during battle, even if you don't take any damage
you are required to equip at least 2 pieces of heavy or light armor in order to receive heavy or light armor XP, respectively
so yes, if you cleverly combine 2 pieces of heavy armor and 2 pieces of light armor, you will receive both heavy and light armor XP
this mod does not interfere with the vanilla mechanics, so you will still receive regular armor XP when damaged

note that vanilla Skyrim has a bug where combat may not close properly if you (or the enemy) run away, resulting in undue XP
which is why I highly recommend maxsu2017's "Better Combat Escape" to end combat properly


--INSTALLATION--
plug and play install, just use any mod manager
tested on Skyrim SE 1.5.97, can not guarantee compatibility with any other version
this mod can be added at any time
this mod can be removed, just be sure to not uninstall in the middle of a battle
this mod does not change any vanilla asset and therefore has zero conflict, you can safely flag it as ESL
this mod is very light on scripts, only 2 very small scripts


--HISTORY--
While looking for a solution I have found a mod that levels Armor skills by... walking.
That seemed absurdly cheap and I was not satisfied with it.
Ultimately I stumbled upon Vokrii, a perk mod by EnaiSiaion
Among the hundreds stuff the mod does, it has Armor XP during combat without damage.

I have decided to extract that feature alone and make it a standalone mod.
This is not a simple copy-pasta job, it was a significant work to decompile the mod,
isolate the required scripts, analyze all the dependencies recursively.
As a result the number of scripts was reduced to only 2 from over a hundred.
Another benefit is all vanilla assets were stripped from the mod which makes it guaranteed to have no conflict.

Big thank to EnaiSiaion