Bikini Armor flavour mod idea that I might start working with as a newbie modder

[ASDASDASD_Smasher]

So, here's the deal. I've been playing modded Skyrim for years now and while there are enormous amounts absolutely awesome mods, my all time favourite has be the Nisetanaka's bikini armor mod. The quality and modularity of these armors is just incredible. I just can't play Skyrim without them. However, there is still one thing that has always bothered me with bikini armors, why would anyone actually use them if proper armor exists? Now lately there has been some great mod support that somewhat alleviate this problem, such as the Licenses - Player Oppression mod, which helps with immersion. Still, even with this mod I've personally felt there is something missing. Partly this is because how I like to roleplay my character. I don't like to think my PC is a huge pervert and exhibionist right at the beginning of game that just enjoys going around almost naked. Instead I imagine she is just trying to survive in the very misogynistic world of modded Skyrim and here the bikini armor is the much cheaper and the more accessible option. Yet I have felt that this is not enough. The bikini armors themselves have a big variety in them how revealing they are: some of them are pretty ridiculous in their skimpiness while some of them are not even that slutty. Flavour wise this leaves me with question that if my character is not a huge exhibionist, why would she use the sluttier armors when other options exist. Also, I find myself thinking who is ever dictating what counts as bikini armor?

 

So, here is my sort of add-on idea for the license mod. This mod would replace the purchase of the bikini license per se. Instead, when buying the bikini license from the guard, the character would purchase armor set and license together. These armor sets would be predefined. The initial armor sets would be more slutty but there would be option by pay more money or perform certain favours for sets with less revealing options. The lore behind would be that the armor design is described in the license and guard would inform player not to change the outfit from the initial set. In practice, this would not be enforced with any script checks because this would be too much hassle. Instead, the checks provided by the bikini license mod would be enough. The idea would be that the bikini armors are not really obtainable freely in the world so player would have to make do with the set they received from the guards.

 

Of course by leveling up player would be given options to upgrade her bikini licence by paying extra money and in exchange receive new armour sets with higher quality. Personally, I would find this kind of approach useful also because I find hunting for the individual bikini parts to be bit of hassle. I'm also imaging a lot of lore beyond the whole bikini armor set business and I have some further ideas to implement additional bikini flavour in the world, such as some bikini aware npc dialogue. I'm also thinking of some integration with other mods such as having the the bikini licence to mark pc as a prostitute for Simple Prostitution approach etc. I have already other ideas also.

 

What I'm asking is that as a person who has no real modding experience, how difficult would be for a newbie modder undertake this kind of project. I would try to keep the base mod as simple as possible. I'm pretty excited about this mod idea so if it's not super difficult, I might be ready to give it a try. Another option would be to have a have more experienced modder do the basic implementation while I would provide all the dialogue etc. Anyways, I'd like to hear what people think about this kind of mod idea? Where should I start as a new modder that has experience playing and screwing around with mods but no actual mod making experience?

 

Sorry for my bad English and incoherent rambling.

 

[wareware]

Have you used the bikini armor feature of sexlab survival?

[gghhjj666]

On 5/9/2025 at 12:19 AM, wareware said:

Have you used the bikini armor feature of sexlab survival?

Really liked that mod but it would give me tons of script lag. Something I thought about for some time is to introduce the bikini curse in a way that for example you can get it applied to you at a % chance when opening a chest simillar to the cursed loot mod and then have you try to rid yourself of the curse by some mean like certain materials

[danna233]

Of course, my game doesn't have any really lewd outfits, I removed them because they didn't fit the game's atmosphere. But before removing them, I simply gave some NPCs more revealing outfits so that my character wouldn't stand out too much. Now, when the character is dressed decently, some NPCs still remain in their revealing outfits . This adds variety, it's like in reality, some are modest, and some want to be bright.

Edited May 10, 2025 by danna233

[Aldid]

The endless trouble of wanting to use revealing armour sets without compromising characterization...

 

The latest version of devious followers has a pretty good version of that, an armour deal with user-defined armour sets that get progressively more revealing as you take on more deals. It's also a bit buggy and in the process of being adopted by another mod author though, so use at your own risk.

Edited May 13, 2025 by Aldid