Start up zEdit. If you use MO2, start it through that. We're going to make a patch that alters the Night Dress to use a Raider Raider Reform School resource, so load just those two. They may pull in some other scripts as masters - that's OK.

 

 

 

Next: open the Armor section of the mod and select all the garments you want to patch. Then right click and choose "Copy into"

 

 

 

Make sure "copy as override" and "<new file>" are ticked.

 

 

It'll prompt you for the name of a new esp file. I chose "rrs_night_dress.esp"

 

 

On the left hand side of the zEdit window, click the "+" icon, and then click on "Record View"

 

 

Then, on the right hand side, click "+" and choose "Tree View"

 

 

Now open up raider_reform_school.esp on the right hand side and expand "Armor", then drag the "rrs_bikini_beeder" record onto the left hand side record view

 

 

Now change the left hand pane to the Tree View tab, and the right hand side to the Record View tab.

 

 

Expand the armor section of the patch mod you created in the previous step, and double click an outfit that needs patching. I've already done the first one here (which is why its green rather than grey, so I'm going to do the "Night Dress - Blue" variant.

 

 

Lastly, go back to the Record view in the left pane. You should now have the rss_bikini_breeder in on one side and the garment you want to patch on the other

 

 

OK. We're ready to copy the script over.

 

First thing, find the VMAD record in the to-be-patched record. If it already has scripts attached, it will have a VMAD record already. If not we'll have to add one. 

 

One important thing to note: There are two columns on the patch side, one for the original mod, and one for the patch mod. Anything you do where needs to be done on the patch mod column. Otherwise you can end up editing the original mod by mistake, and one thing we're trying to do here is leave the original unaltered.

 

So, with that in mind, put the mouse over the VMAD entry in the patch mod column. It's called "rrs_night_dress.esp" here, but when you d it it'll have the name you chose for your patch mod. Then right click and choose Add

 

 

That will get you an empty VMAD record. Expand it. If you already had a VMAD record, expand it anyway. The process is the same for both from here on forward.

 

Right-click on the Scripts record (in the rightmost column, the one for the patch mod, remember) and chose Add once again.

 

 

Expand the scripts section on the left hand side, and expand the script you just added on the right. If the record didn't have scripting it'll be the only one, otherwise find the onewhere scriptNmae is blank.

 

Then drag the script name from the left hand side over to the script name in the patch mod column

 

 

It should now look like this:

 

 

Almost forgot: Set the Version and Object Format in the new VMAD to 6 and 2 respectively. Again, you can just drag the values across

 

 

And that's pretty much done!

 

Just close the window. You'll be prompted for which records you want to change. Ideally there will only be your patch mod in the list. If there's more than one, make sure your patch mod is the only one ticked.

 

 

 

Now fire up the game and test it. I keep a pregnant raider ad a fertile one in chains, for just this contingency. I expect you can make your own arrangements.

 

 

 

 

The tat applying on top of some garments is something of a known issue, by the way. I think it's because the tats apply as effects rather than materials. if anyone knows a way to stop it happening, I'd appreciate the information.

 

Open up zEdit, set it up like before. You'll notice that the bikini record has three properties while the patched garment doesn't have any

 

 

Right click "Properties in the patch mod column, and click "Add". Don't be alarmed if you get an error.

 

 

If you got a scary-looking error popup, don't worry about it. Just go back to the tree view on the left hand side and double-click the record you're editing. That'll reload the right hand side, which will now have a property record. Expand that, as well as the properties on the bikini record

 

 

Of the three properties on the bikini script, the "names" on is probably the most useful. This points at the list of boss names in RRS. To set that up, drag the propertyName, Type and Flags values from the left hand side to the patch mod column. If you get a scary-looking error popup here, that probably means you dragged a value into the wrong column. The original mod doesn't have a VMAD record, so trying to add values to it is going to raise an error. Ignore it and drag the record to the correct column this time. (I mention this because I'm doing this as I write it up, and just made the exact same mistake. So it's easy to do.

 

If you get it right, zEdit should look like this

 

 

Now: because you set the type to Object, the value field has a "+" next to it. Expand that, and do the same on the bikini side.

 

 

As you can see, there's about three layers to be expanded. Expand all of them. After that, you just need to drag the FormID and Alias values over. Make sure you copy them from the names property and not some other one (like I just did) or it won't work

 

You get it right, it should look like this.

 

 

The other two properties are object mods that apply material swaps to the garment. Setting these up only makes sense if the garment has object mods defined. If it does, and you want them to change alongside the tats, copy over the "preggers" and  "fertile" properties.  The process is exactly the same, except you'll need to set the FormID by dragging an OMOD record from the tree view.

 

Once you're done, test it again. Luckily, I happen to have Ack-Ack and Whiplash in the pillory.

 

 

The name brands are still purely black-and-alpha, so they're a  bit tricky to see through the dress, but if you look closely there, you can just make out her name inside the RRS chain-and-book logo.