The armor and its variants can be crafted at the forge with the Steel Smithing perk. Upgrades are performed at the workbench.


What's Been Fixed/Changed:

• Fixed weighting of hood/helmet to prevent the inner layer from clipping (see screenshots)
• Centered middle seam of pants to prevent gaps in the crotch and butt
• Removed unnecessary vertices from the armor
• Split the armor into seperate shapes (makes it easier to manage)
• Heavy and Light and light armor variants with appropriate keywords and armor/weight values
• Official recolors from 2021 made standalone (see screenshots)
• 4 extra standalone recolors of the Royal variant (see screenshots)
• Added special required item needed to make crafting recipes visible, on the road to Dawnguard castle (see screenshots)
• Standalone mask with adjusted armor values. Uses slot 55.
• Heavy and Light armor perks apply when wearing complete sets
  

What's Included:

• Bodyslide files and physics where applicable (butt). Note: XP32 (SE) and a physics framework like HDT-SMP is required for body physics
• Different plugin types for the load order connoisseur
• Optional HD normal maps to make the cloth portions look more like cloth
  

For those who want the fixes, but not "boob plate armor", I've included an additional slider to retain the original shape of the chestpiece. (see the first screenshot)

The chestpiece is pretty low poly. So if you go too big, you will get pointy bits. Nothing I can do.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Compatibility
Incompatible: LukeCypher's port of Peacekeeper
Reason: I had to make changes to accomplish the Bodyslide conversion and helmet fix. Because of this the "Royal" retexture will no longer apply to the armor or helmet. 

Suggested Workaround

• This workaround only applies to releases before v2.0. A fresh install of the mod is required for v2.0+
• If you have a game in progress with LukeCypher's port, and don't want to lose the armor you have built in-game, select the ESP option during the installation and uninstall LukeCypher's
• If you don't care about losing the armor uninstall his and install the ESL option
• If you have patches dependent on the ESP extension, uninstall his and install the ESPFE option
  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Installation
Install with Vortex or Mod Organizer 2.

Uninstallation
This mod is safe to uninstall at any time. Remove the mod from your manager and delete the archive off your disk.

Male version available here


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Credits
ousnius and Caliente - CBBE and Outfit Studio/Bodyslide (the best thing since sliced bread! it's seriously magic)
Billyro and Artsick for the original armor
kj1222b for the modified normal maps
my tester who also provided the screenshots (including v3.0)