Cosmetic Chainmail Underlayer Where/How?

[FunkyTwo]

I'm looking for something similar to - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/12444 Rath's Chainmail but flipped.  He made his chainmail the armor (Slot32?), and the armor the cosmetic overlay (Slot 57?)  I'm looking for a mod that makes a chainmail catsuit like that a cosmetic underlay so I can Put whatever armor I want over it  i.e. the brown Ranger set from https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/16950 over a green chain suit or the Emfy Cleric suit over a White or Golden chain suit, and so on. 

 

There's a script - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/16011 - to run on other armor, but if feels faster and easier to just change the the chainmail (especially because he's UMP Based and I'm CBBE based and can use bodyslide for clip and fit) rather than run this script on everything under the sun.   I've never made a mod before  and if what I'm looking for exists I haven't found it.  I could use some help on where to start/find this. 

[Erebea]

This could be close to what you are looking for, you can apply overlays via racemenu, the mod has a couple of chainmail overlays. You can also use racemenu to adjust it's colour to anything you like:

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/20445

[FunkyTwo]

I don't think that's follower or Flowergirl friendly?

 

I actually was able to take an already CBBE spicechain nif, and somehow convert it to slot 57 for Nordic Carved and it works.  I just don't know how I did it. I tried it again for Orcish and Borgakh and it won't work.   But I did get Lydia looking the way I wanted.   Used the Complete Crafting Overhaul for the circlet, the Real High Heels for the boots, a Capes and Cloaks white fur cape, the Rath Chain underlay, and a CBBE SpiceGear Nordic cuirass SOMEHOW turned into slot 57 over the top like actual plate in the platemail.

Somehow trying to do it for Orcish doesn't work and it clips as bad as the original.  I wish I knew how I did it.  I must be Exporting the Nif wrong.  I've tried in the Mod manager folder, I've tried in the Game/Data/Meshes/Armor/Rathchain location where Vortex loads the meshes and it never changes looks. 

 

The simplest solution would be to change the Chainmail underlay into an Underwear slot like Equipable Underwear For Everyone, then all the CBBE (outfit) bodyslides would work over it.  The mod author has a script to convert other people's armor to his slot 57, but it breaks the standalones I like to use for my group  - I like to run around with Lydia, Annekke (in Ranger Armor), Celestine (In Emfy Armor - or Snow Elf if I can figure out how to do this nif replacement) (Custom AI healer follower), and eventually Serana (in Shanoa Armor) with Lydia converted into a 2Her for my tank PC  then I have Tank, Melee DPS, Archer, Heals, and Magic DPS

 

 

[FunkyTwo]

Ugh, having done more gameplay, I tried it with Iona, another Nord Housecarl, and it doesn't work for her.... I'm wondering if one of my mods gives Lydia a different Femalebody nif such that this works on her.

 

It seems to me the theory of how to do this shouldn't be that hard - start with a CBBE post bodyslide nif (from somewhere? Shape Data?  Data/Meshes/etc/etc?), load it in outfit studio, change the slot(s)/partition(s) to 57 to match the original mod requirements, and then export the nif to.. somewhere? the mod staging folder for his mod? Game/Data/Meshes/Armor/<mod>/etc etc?  Thus overwriting his nif with the post bodyslide mesh designed as an Curvy (outfit) to go over his Curvy body shaped chainmail.

[FunkyTwo]

I think I have Iona figured out, I think she (and Bogakh, and Annekke) is a lightweight, and used 0_nif's - I still don't know for sure how I did it, but I replicated the Carved Nordic fix on the 0_nif and used the inflate tool to fix some clipping on the bra for both, and it looks better.  But I still can't replicated it on the Orcish.