Will the physics of a clothing item go bonkers if I change it to a heavy armor piece? (a robe-> heavy cuirass)

[saufall]

In oblivion there is this famous glitch with paintbrush and how havoc system handles items with certain weights and their models.

Does that happen at all in Skyrim? Are heavy armor status irrelevant to its behaviour in the physics engine?

[traison]

CBPC reacts to armor type, if you have it configured to do so.

[anjenthedog]

Generally speaking, outside the case @traison suggested, where you've purposely configured CBPC to be armor specifically reactive, and while I can't speak as an authority on the code, nor, if there have been changes in AE vs SE that might have included some new response along those lines by default,  but experientially, as a 1.5.97 player, no armors I've converted have gone bonkers from class conversion, whether from heavy to light or heavy to clothes, or any other possible class conversions. All I change (used to be lazy tools, now using proteus) is their armor type, not their weight, so, at least for me, in my game, in my experience playing, the weight would be the only consideration, although  tbh, I've never noticed a difference in how an armor bounces as it's weight is increased (makes sense just haven't noticed it). The main thing that makes a difference for me is the controller response values (firm, floppy, etc) that I've configured in CBPC's addon Sinful CBP, or via direct edits of the various .txt config files it uses.

 

Edited October 16, 2023 by anjenthedog
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[saufall]

thank you all