Hide a clothing item while wearing certain body slots?

[idkmanyolo]

I want to hide a DD item that's using slot 54 whenever I equip a full-body item that uses slot 33. I just want it to go completely invisible and not affect the appearance of other armors while still being equipped. I'm using RC9 and the fusion girl conversion from here. RC9 came with a DD_hider_addon esp where you can add new slots to the Armor Addon of individual devices, but I'm not really sure how it works. This esp is at the bottom of my load order and doesn't seem to change anything.

 

Reddit mentions you can make armor invisible by adding a slot in the armor's nif file. I'm especially interested in this line:

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If the mod makes people to wear those items all the time, but they don't show while the armors are over them, this might mean that he added the slot 52, not to the .esp file, but to the .nif file that holds the meshes. This would allow characters to wear the undies and the armor at the same time, but the game would only render the armor mesh, until it's looted.

 

And this says how to do it, but I don't see NiTriShape or BSTriShape or BSDismemberSkinInstance anywhere when i open in it NifSkope. This advice came from a skyrim sub so I'm not sure it still applies in FO4.

 

So how would I do this? I'm on NextGen and trying to avoid anything like armorsmith extended, AWKCR or any other potentially buggy stuff like that.

[Hex Bolt]

1 hour ago, idkmanyolo said:

I want to hide a DD item that's using slot 54 whenever I equip a full-body item that uses slot 33

33 is the hands slot.  Did you mean 32?

 

1 hour ago, idkmanyolo said:

I just want it to go completely invisible and not affect the appearance of other armors while still being equipped.

You don't need to use NifSkope.  Edit the Armor Addon record (not the Armor record) for the body armor and add the slot that you want to hide (54).  Be sure that the Priority for this record is higher (a larger number) than that of the item that goes in slot 54 (lower the priority for the slot 54 item, if necessary).  Slot 54 will still be equipped, but it will be hidden white you're wearing that body armor.  I often do this to hide undergarments, like panties, that clip through some body clothing.

 

Edit:  I just noticed that you were asking for Fallout 4.  This technique works for Skyrim.  Hopefully, it works for FO4 too.

Edited March 25, 2025 by Hex Bolt

[idkmanyolo]

22 hours ago, Hex Bolt said:

33 is the hands slot.  Did you mean 32?

 

You don't need to use NifSkope.  Edit the Armor Addon record (not the Armor record) for the body armor and add the slot that you want to hide (54).  Be sure that the Priority for this record is higher (a larger number) than that of the item that goes in slot 54 (lower the priority for the slot 54 item, if necessary).  Slot 54 will still be equipped, but it will be hidden white you're wearing that body armor.  I often do this to hide undergarments, like panties, that clip through some body clothing.

 

Edit:  I just noticed that you were asking for Fallout 4.  This technique works for Skyrim.  Hopefully, it works for FO4 too.

Thanks for the suggestion. I gave it a shot, plus added and took away body slots, rearranged plugins, but it does not work for me. In this case, both the body and the item are visible. In another situation, I have a slot 33 DD item and a slot 33 body both equipped at the same time, but the DD body is visible while the other body is invisible, when I would like it to be the other way around. There are some outfits that do appear, but they include the 41 torso armor slot. The way clothes are behaving through all the iterations i make to the plugins is no longer making sense. Like the default vault suit actually did what I wanted out of the box and now apparently it doesn't. I can't even reliably equip certain 33 clothes without trying to equip other clothes directly or with scripts, first. Oh well.