Problems with an armor mod

[Hellas]

i have two versions of an armor mod. lets call them A and B. A is the original. B is the modified version. (this is an actual problem that i'm having right now btw.) I was unable to obtain version A so i resorted to using version B. version B looked nicer. however i was not able to see my hands in the first person view when using the armor's gauntlets. eventually i got version A of the armor. with a clean save etc. I installed version A and the problem with my hands in the first person view was solved. however when i saved and exit to desktop and then started the game again and loaded that save, my character would have black armor textures and purple skin textures (skin textures on her cleavage). re-equipping the armor fixes it. 

 

Now the black armor textures were occurring for version A, the original. however for version B, this never happened. so i did some digging and I saw that version B had smaller texture files. So i copied those smaller texture files and tried to use them in version A. upon loading, i still got the black textures. =\. I had used version B for a long period of time and i never got black textures. even my followers have this armor on as well (3 followers) and it never happened. somehow i feel the problem is the .esp file. if i take the .esp from version A and copy it into version B and use that mixture, i'll get black textures. the damned thing is version B's .esp file is also messed up because i cant see my hands in the first person view. (while I can see them fine when using version A.) I tried comparing the .esp files in the CK but everything looks the same. What i would prefer is help on fixing the .esp file for version B so that I can see my hands in the first person view but any help is appreciated. (I know the black armor texture thing was resolved here as a memory problem. I read that thread already. There is no fix for that rather than uninstalling some plugins which I dont want to. Especially when I know a different version of the .esp file for the same armor does not cause black textures.)

 

this is not the first time that an armor from this same mod author has done this. Out of respect I have not mentioned the name of the armor or mod author. 

[Hellas]

Hmm have you tried installing version A first and then overwriting it with version B? Sometimes you need files from both the original and the modified version to get the desired look... 

Well, in the manner as you suggested, I havent done that because the files were not meant for that. version A and B are independent of each other. the original armor (A) was modified by someone else, not the original author. I have tried to overwrite the meshes and/or textures of A with those of B which would mean i installed the .esp from version A and that still led to the black textures on loading the game which are fixed when re-equipping. Then i tried the opposite which would mean that I was using the .esp from version B and that led to normal textures on loading the game but missing hand and gauntlet meshes when in the first person view (in third person i can see them)