My FUCs are Resisting Helmets

[Jeffglobal]

I'm making Feline Urban Commandos, maybe into a companion, depending on how things go. 

 

I got a simple tube around the cat and it stays put like any armor should.  Today I tried to add the dog helmet to the cat because it was suggested and it should be simpler to accomplish than making the geometry myself.

 

After being scratched for a while, I spawned 14 cats and saw varying levels of armor drift...

 

 

Now I'm thinking it can be a few things:

 

Cat skeleton isn't boned enough to take armor mods...?

Dog helmet, even though copied bone weights off cat body reference still needs some type of manipulation in Nifskope like a bounding sphere or something...?

Cat animation is buggy and it's unsolvable.

 

Idk

[bc733]

No clue what the problem is, but great idea. Those lil pussies could use some armor.

[Outlawer]

looks like a great idea! armored kitty

 

why dont you test with 3ds max? import armor mesh and kitty also kitty bone

move a bone check da armor follow the cat body 

 

i'll upload a fo4 cat skeleton for ya

 

cheers bruh

 

 

skeleton.nif

[SlapMeSilly]

A trick to try. It's what I do with helmets.

 

Assuming you're using the vanilla cat as a model reference, and Outfit Studio to weight paint. On the helmet remove all bone weights, then paint it only to the head bone. Make that helmet solid red. I don't bother using any other weights because, best case it'll just stretch the helmet oddly. Worst case it will do what your images show.

 

*edit: I suppose you might get clipping from the ears if they're animated and move enough. I rarely see any cats in game so I dunno.