VLSIMU: Vanilla-Like Schlong Interactive Male Underwear 0.31

This is a very crude mash-up style loincloth (male underwear) mod, mainly developed for the use together with SoS: Schlongs of Skyrim.

[UPDATED]: Uploaded SAM (only) supported version on vectorplexus.com: https://vectorplexus.com/files/file/123-vlsimu-vanilla-like-schlong-interactive-male-underwear-for-sam/

Features:

• Almost vanilla-looking (loincloth-style) underwear for male actors, with flexible front side 'apron' that can move in accordance with the movement of the wearer's schlong. That is to say, no more his schlong sticking directly out from the cloth.
• Compatible with BOTH SoS: Schlongs of Skyrim - Full (v 3.0.4) AND SoS - Light (v 1.0.4). Sorry, so far not the body-builder mesh support (Normal body only). WIP Sundracon SoS mesh (you can find somewhere in LL) and its variant, SMSOSL: Sundracon Male Schlongs of Skyrim - Light can be also supported (use the alternative meshes in [optional] folder in the sub-folder of the mesh (Boo's Sundracon SoS) / separate optional download package (SMSOSL).
• Use equipment slot 56 (instead of slot 52, unlike other male underwear mod), so it does not hide your PC's manly bit entirely while he put it on.
• No Script, very light-weight (i.e. low poly mesh/low-res texture...)
• Constructable with one roll of linen wrap and two leather strips, at the tanning rack. No smithing skill/perk required.
• Supposed to be hidden under (almost) all vanilla armors or clothes.
• Male only. If female can try put it on, the underwear will just not show up on their body (i,e. she will remain nude).
• Its assets also should work well with the other (female-only) underwear mod, Vanilla Underwear for all (One piece version) by Andrelo (http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/69490/). For more detail, check the article below.
• The mod itself does not distribute the underwear to other NPCs in the game. Although I personally cannot recommend, if you REALLY wish to achieve such a thing, check the relevant article below.
• v. 0.2(+): added crafting only (i.e. not distributed to NPCs) three variants of the underwears. Red (linen: additionally requiring five pieces of Red Mountain Flowers as dye when crafted), Green (linen: additionally requiring five pieces of Lavenders as dye), and soft touch leather one (requiring one piece of Leather instead of Linen Wrap).

Requirements:

• DLC Dawnguard/ Dragonborn
• SoS: Schlongs of Skyrim (Full/ Light, both are OK) (http://www.loverslab.com/files/file/498-sos-schlongs-of-skyrim/)
• Compatible Skeleton with SoS like XPMSE (http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/68000/)
• SKSE (http://skse.silverlock.org/) as their prerequisite.

: they are indispensable for the flexible movement of the front side 'apron' of the underwear. Besides, who would like to try this WIP 'interactive/ responsive' underwear without SoS installed?

Known Incompatibilities/ Problems:

• Any other armor/ cloth mod that occupies the equipment slot 56. I assume that, however, few male armor mods use this slot, and even if female actor tries to put it on, other equipments (using the same slot) should be prioritized in the game.
• non-vanilla armors/ clothes will not hide the underwear unless the patch is not made (how to make it compatible with TESVEdit, check SS below).
• http://imgur.com/GTmOVO5
• Some clippings especially while sneaking/ running.
• Due to its nature of tweaking armor add-ons of all the vanilla armors and clothes to hide the slot 56, I assume that I carry forwards almost all the 'fixes' of armor add-ons done by USLEEP (and CRF as well) that can be done without any dependency also into this mod's .esp. Fixes of the other overhaul mods like CCF are currently not supported, however.

How to install/uninstall and get the underwear

• Just install and activate the (main) .esp file by NMM or Mod organizer. vanilla_male_NPC_outfitlist_vlsimu.esp is (UNRECOMMENDED) OPTIONAL. Unless you really wish to try the feature of distributing the underwear to male NPCs, just ignore it and don't download.
• Recommended Load order: definitely after the massive equipment/ armors/ clothes overhaul mods like USLEEP/ WAF/ CCF/ CCOR. Otherwise, it matters little.
• The underwear will not be added in your inventory just by installing. You have to craft it at the tanning rack (recipe: one roll of linen wrap and two leather strips).
• Alternatively, you can resort to console or Additemmenu(http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/64905/)
• Probably Safe to uninstall unless you put the underwear on or have it inventory (if so, just discard it into some barrels around before un-install).
• v. 0.2(+): It must be safe to update just by overwriting the existing assets as well as .esp. Also the latest underwear's .esp is compatible with the 0.1(a)'s optional .esp for the underwear distribution to NPCs (It means that you don't have to update the latter if you don't mind four missing entries of the male underwear in some NPC's inventory).

How its assets can be integrated with Andrelo's Vanilla Underwear for all:

• Install both mods (the order should be irrelevant). meshes/ textures from both mods are to be found in the sub-folder named 'VanillaUnderwear', under meshes (textures)>clothes
• DISABLE (DELETE) THIS MOD's .esp/ back up both mods' .esp somewhere.
• Open VanillaUnderwear.esp, with TESVEdit, and edit some entries in her/his original .esp as shown below in the album.
• http://imgur.com/a/Wo0x4

How to distribute the underwear to other NPCs in the game? (though I strongly wish to dissuade you to try)
#Except for the option A, you will definitely need some basic knowledge on TESVedit/ CK.

• Option A: Use Underpants (http://www.loverslab.com/files/file/1878-underpants/)
• Option B: Integrate this mod's asset with Andrelo's Vanilla Underwear for ALL, and rely on her/ his other mods, Outfit filter and updater (http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/71342/) and Undergarment distribution (http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/71308/).
• Option ? If you achieve it by non-scripting ways, you can make use of my optional .esp, titled as vanilla_male_npc_outfitlist_vlsimu.esp, as instructed below.

1. Put vanilla_male_npc_outfitlist_vlsimu.esp below in your load order (preferably just above your bashed/merged patch).
2. Open this .esp and your other mods together with TESVEdit.
3. Carry forward all the conflicting record into NPC's outfit entry of this .esp (see SS).
4. http://imgur.com/5fSa1L1

1. NB: You have to make a patch by yourself by tweaking the outfit list of other additional mods.
2. NB2: If you install vanilla_male_npc_outfitlist_vlsimu.esp in course of your play through (i.e. not from the new game), the actors those who had already appeared in the game would be not affected by this outfit change. So, it's best to install vanilla_male_npc_outfitlist_vlsimu.esp from the new game. Sorry for your inconvenience.

Recommended Mods:

• RUSTIC CLOTHING (http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/69784/? copy its maleunderwear.dds and maleunderwear_n.dds from the original location (textures>actors>character>male) to this mod's textures folder (textures>clothes>VanillaUnderwear). It will improve the aesthetic quality of your PC's loincloth drastically.

FAQ:

• 'It's so ugly. Even uglier than the vanilla!': Sorry, I definitely lack the very basic skill of mesh-handling software like blender. Besides, the vanilla male underwear texture does not have the high-res variant in official texture pack (that I originally intended to use for improving the quality of texture).
• 'Why the loincloth? I prefer more sophisticated one!': Check RUMP: Rydin Underwear for Men Pack (http://www.loverslab.com/files/file/2662-rydin-underwear-for-men-pack/)
• 'I wanted to distribute the underwear to male NPC only, but found that some female NPCs actually not only had, but also put it on. Are they perverts? Or, does your outfit-list.esp have some problems?': Well, without relying on the script, it is sometimes impossible to distinguish between male and female NPCs, especially when they are generated from the same, mix-gendered leveled list. So, as a fail safe, I made the female world model of this loin-cloth as nude (as if she wears nothing). I know they try to put any item (including this underwear) on, but so, it will not cause any (visual) harm on female.....
• 'Futa support?': Currently No. I don't know about the game mechanics, but I assume that it is usually difficult to distinguish between the futa and other female actors, and to apply the (visible) vlsimu underwear to the non-schlongified female actor would cause visual glitch (please see my SS album post in the support thread).

Permission for Re-Use:

• Just credit the original mod author of SOS - Male Skimpy Crouch underwear for SOS, DarkSchneiderBS, who implemented the interactivity to the mesh, would be enough.
• What I did is basically to mess up the awful mash-up job and to tweak .esp a bit only.

What should be done in the future:

• Find the possible remaining bugs/ missing entries in the entry of Armor Add-on or NPCs' outfit list (optional .esp).
• Improve the asset of the ground object (especially for the additional, colored one)
• Female/ SAM support (not so soon, definitely not before September, I afraid ......)

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Credits:

• SOS - Male Skimpy Crouch underwear for SOS by DarkSchneiderBS (http://www.loverslab.com/files/file/1016-sos-male-skimpy-crouch-underwear-for-sos/) for the flexible mesh/ weighting of the front side 'apron'. It was her/him who invented the interactive mesh, and I just adapted it to the vanilla-style underwear.
• v. 0.2(+): HD Sacks Retexture by Mazarin (http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/2836/) for the re-texture base (cloth/ soft-leather). Compared with other candidate material (some of them were clearly high-resolution like 1K/ even 2K), only 512x512 resolution pieces of her/his sack looked really good so that I decided to re-texture of the loincloth based on them.
• Other meshes and textures come from vanilla assets.