How to Hide an Equipped Slot?

[Aerizanthar]

So this will be a weird one. I've found alot of posts where people have accidentally done this, and didn't want to. Here I am, actually wanting to do it, and cant for the life of me figure it out.
Simply put, I have a chest armor that uses slot 32. I have a bra that uses slot 46. Both are perfect separately, but when equipped together, the physics goes haywire a bit and launches the breasts up a good 3-6 inches. The chest armor doesn't actually have physics on it (its a steel type breastplate, it wouldn't be immersive if it jiggled) but the bra does for obvious reasons.

What i'd like to do is this. I'd like to set up the equip slot flags in the nif and esp for the chest armor so that when it is equipped, it hides slot 46, but doesnt unequip the item. I don't actually know how to do this myself, but i know it has something to do with the armor entry in the ESP, the armorAA entry, and the _0 and _1 nifs for the armor. I have had no success in making it work poking at it over the last few days,

[Seijin8]

2 hours ago, Aerizanthar said:

So this will be a weird one. I've found alot of posts where people have accidentally done this, and didn't want to. Here I am, actually wanting to do it, and cant for the life of me figure it out.
Simply put, I have a chest armor that uses slot 32. I have a bra that uses slot 46. Both are perfect separately, but when equipped together, the physics goes haywire a bit and launches the breasts up a good 3-6 inches. The chest armor doesn't actually have physics on it (its a steel type breastplate, it wouldn't be immersive if it jiggled) but the bra does for obvious reasons.

What i'd like to do is this. I'd like to set up the equip slot flags in the nif and esp for the chest armor so that when it is equipped, it hides slot 46, but doesnt unequip the item. I don't actually know how to do this myself, but i know it has something to do with the armor entry in the ESP, the armorAA entry, and the _0 and _1 nifs for the armor. I have had no success in making it work poking at it over the last few days,

 

For the armor that should be seen (slot 32):  In the plugin, make sure the armor addon/armature/AA record has slot 46 selected and has a higher priority than the armor that should be hidden.  Note that there is an engine bug that may make this fail to look right if you use quicksave/quickload.  If that happens, just save normally and reload and it should be fine.  No need to mess with the nifs.

[Aerizanthar]

35 minutes ago, Seijin8 said:

 

For the armor that should be seen (slot 32):  In the plugin, make sure the armor addon/armature/AA record has slot 46 selected and has a higher priority than the armor that should be hidden.  Note that there is an engine bug that may make this fail to look right if you use quicksave/quickload.  If that happens, just save normally and reload and it should be fine.  No need to mess with the nifs.

NGL I overlooked the priority setting entirely when investigating this issue. I didn't notice it in the armor itself so I didn't even look for it in the AA record. After changing it to a larger number than my base 46 item, and setting the AA to mask 46, the problem disappeared entirely. This problem has plagued me for quite some time, and you have absolutely saved me from further time lost. Cannot thank you enough.

[Aerizanthar]

Yep fully tested, worked like a charm. My boobs are back in my armor, and my bra is still on. No more nipple chaffing!

Edited March 22, 2024 by Aerizanthar
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