More Armor Slots Skyrim Se

The armor worn by the Imperial Legion has been a sign of prestige. And many warriors prefer to wear it proudly, though they do not belong to the Imperial Legion themselves. This mod aims to overhaul the way the Imperial armor looks by making it slicker and more impressive than in Oblivion and Skyrim. I’d say it turned out pretty well. Armor slots (this is important for the in-game organization and knowing these slots helps with creation of other mods) - Base armor value (the base or default value of the armor, not affected by skills, etc.) - Warmth (for survival mode and Frostfall) - Coverage (for Frostfall). There's 60 something armor slots you can put stuff in, and it could care less what kind of armor that is. It's the armor itself that has the slot data with it. This means you could edit a single piece of armor to go in a different slot, and then you could wear it with something of the slot it previously occupied. To stop the autochange process favorite the layer (1.); unfavorite to start (e.g. Favorite before for bathing in skyrim). Dropping the layer will reset the layer. The apparel layer will mirror weight, armor rating and enchantments of all items placed in the layer.

2Skyrim Body parts numbers
3Setting the body slot in Skyrim

Overview

This guide includes all the body slots available for armours in Skyrim and their standard usage. Some of them are already used by Bethesda. In the case of slots not used in vanilla game, this guide indicates the reference usage that has been set by consensus between modders.

Skyrim Body parts numbers

Body slots used by Bethesda

This is the list of the body parts used by Bethesda and named in the Creation Kit:

30 - head
31 - hair
32 - body (full)
33 - hands
34 - forearms
35 - amulet
36 - ring
37 - feet
38 - calves
39 - shield
40 - tail
41 - long hair
42 - circlet
43 - ears
50 - decapitated head
51 - decapitate
61 - FX01

Other body parts that exist in vanilla nif models

44 - Used in bloodied dragon heads, so it is free for NPCs
45 - Used in bloodied dragon wings, so it is free for NPCs
47 - Used in bloodied dragon tails, so it is free for NPCs
130 - Used in helmetts that conceal the whole head and neck inside
131 - Used in open faced helmetshoods (Also the nightingale hood)
141 - Disables Hair Geometry like 131 and 31
142 - Used in circlets
143 - Disabled Ear geometry to prevent clipping issues?
150 - The gore that covers a decapitated head neck
230 - Neck, where 130 and this meets is the decapitation point of the neck

Free body slots and reference usage

44 - face/mouth
45 - neck (like a cape, scarf, or shawl, neck-tie etc)
46 - chest primary or outergarment
47 - back (like a backpack/wings etc)
48 - misc/FX (use for anything that doesnt fit in the list)
49 - pelvis primary or outergarment
52 - pelvis secondary or undergarment
53 - leg primary or outergarment or right leg
54 - leg secondary or undergarment or leftt leg
55 - face alternate or jewelry
56 - chest secondary or undergarment
57 - shoulder
58 - arm secondary or undergarment or left arm
59 - arm primary or outergarment or right arm
60 - misc/FX (use for anything that doesnt fit in the list)

Setting the body slot in Skyrim

Adjusting the dismemberment data

Armour Addon properties

Armour properties

In Skyrim you need to set the body slot used by a piece or armour in two places:

In the Dismemberment data of the nif file
In the Armor addon and Armor items in the Creation Kit

IMPORTANT: The body slot you set in the nif file and in the CK must be the same, or your armour will be invisible in game.

Required tools

Nifskope: latest NifSkope version.
Creation Kit: available on Steam (Menu option View -> Tools and then select Creation Kit)

Setting the body slot in the nif file

Load the mesh into NifSkope
Select the BSDismemberSkinInstance node of one of the NiTriShape nodes of your armour as shown in picture Adjusting the dismemberment data.
In the Block details section expand the Partitions property.
Expand the second Partitions property.
1. Make sure that the Part Flag property has bloth flags selected: PF_EDITOR_VISIBLE and PF_START_NET_BONESET. If not, double click and select both flags from the drop down list.
2. The Body Part property will contain one or more of the body parts ypu've created in Blender (BP_TORSO, BP_LEFTLEG or BP_RIGHTARM). Double click on these values and change them to:
3. From BP_TORSO to 32
4. From BP_RIGHTARM to 34
5. From BP_LEFTLEG to 37
Repeat this steps for all the BSDismemberSkinInstance nodes of all the NiTriShape nodes of your armour.
Save the nif file.

Setting the body slot in the CK