Having trouble deciding whether to use good-looking or strong armor? No problem. This is a port of Cosmetic Override with permission of the original author.
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Actually, all the permission requests should go to Caagr98. But he's not very active here anymore.
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All the credit goes to Caagr98, the creator of this useful little mod.
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Changelogs
Version 1.4.2
Fixes some scenarios where cosmetic helmets overlap with equipped helmets. Probably affected other parts of the body.
Version 1.4.1
Some black magic, Everything should work as expected now.
Version 1.4.0
Huge code refactor
Cosmetic overlays should be working now
First person view should be fixed now (for real)
Version 1.3.3
Fixed first person invisibility bug and some minor optimizations.
Version 1.3.2
Add CosmeticOverrideSpell as a workaround for Skyrim Souls users.
Version 1.3.1
Add MagicDisallowEnchanting to [Cosmetic Override]
Version 1.3
Migrated to skse64
This mod is not maintained anymore.
I suggest using Skyrim Outfit System SE Revived. I haven't tried it but it does seem to support custom outfits for NPCs, location based armor swaps, etc.
I hope you enjoyed this one while it lasted! Will keep the mod page up if for some bizarre reason you prefer it over the alternatives.
I'm aware that the latest version doesn't work on AE. Sadly I lost the source code so that version can't come back. But I built an old version that works with AE, the first one, and published it under Misc files. Please keep in mind that's a very old version without any of the bugfixes or additions I made over time. It works (well the initial upload didn't, but I updated it). That version is completely unsupported so I wont be fixing bugs or making improvements. Use at your own risk.
This is a port of Cosmetic Override with permission of the original author. Link to the original mod.
To use it just run 'help cosmetic' and then 'player.additem xx000D62 1'.
An item called [Cosmetic Override] will appear in your armor inventory. Equip or un-equip it to make a container appear, then move there the items you want to equip cosmetically. You can change them or retrieve them at any time.
All the stats, enchantments and enabled perks from the armor you have equipped in your inventory will remain active. The stats coming from the cosmetic items will be ignored.
I don't recommend uninstalling the mod if you value the cosmetic items and you haven't removed them from the container.
Todo:
Add a console command to toggle cosmetic armor visibility even if you have [Cosmetic Override] equipped
Add a console command to open the cosmetic container
Try to find a good non-hacky fix for SkyrimSouls compatibility. It kind of works now, but you have to close the equipment menu very fast for the container to appear.
Description of the original mod:
There are a lot of nice-looking armors and clothes around, both on Nexus and other sites. However, due to their stats, a lot of them can't really be used for normal play. I've seen a few mods that attempt to rectify this, using many different approaches; the most useful being Transmogrification/CopyArmor. However, that one is very limited (only supports helmets, cuirasses, gloves, boots, and shields), buggy (it works by changing the stats on armors, so other NPCs wearing that armor gets the same boosts) and very clunky - equip nice armor, click around in MCM, equip strong armor, click around some more, re-equip nice armor.
Cosmetic Override is different. It's much easier to use - player.additem xx000D62 1 (sorry!), equip it, put some armor in the newly opened inventory, and you're good to go. No limitations - you can't wear more than 32 cosmetics at once, but that's not a major limitation, and it's impossible to fix. The only known bug is that weird things can happen if you equip two cosmetics in the same slot (like two pairs of gloves), but let's call that a feature.
...I'm no good at writing descriptions. And I have no idea how to showcase this mod with screenshots.
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