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About this mod
An .esp plugin replacer that rebalances, redistributes, and renames Nivea's Spice of Life armors for a more vanilla feel. Removes a lot of armors that expose neck seams or don't feel vanilla. Uses a script-based approach to avoid conflicts with other mods.
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An .esp plugin replacer that rebalances, redistributes, and renames Nivea's Spice of Life armors for a more vanilla feel. Removes a lot of armors that expose neck seams or don't feel vanilla. Uses a script-based approach to avoid conflicts with other mods.
Comes with support for B42 Descriptions.
Have questions? Read the FAQ (coming: never) when I get around to writing it!
Changes from Nivea's original Spice of Life plugin
Slice of Life (SoL) is a popular mod that includes many great assets meant to spice up the Wasteland in terms of armors. Unfortunately it was released in an era before modern body meshes and is only officially compatible with custom older body types. Using Slice of Life armors, even with Type 4 bodies or Seamless Vanilla Male Body will result in the neck seam bug coming back in to the game.
The original purpose of this .esp plugin replacer was to remove the armors so that only ones that didn't have neck seams were in the game, but I noticed a lot of other things that I could "fix" (read: waste time on). Note that I made a lot of these changes due to personal preference, so feel free to make suggestions that I may or may not implement.
What did you add, and what did you remove?
Check the .txt files included with the mod. You can compare them to find what KARPSOL item corresponds to what Nivea's SOL item.
In short, I removed a lot, and added the features above.
Installation
Comes with support for B42 Descriptions.
Have questions? Read the FAQ (coming: never) when I get around to writing it!
Changes from Nivea's original Spice of Life plugin
Slice of Life (SoL) is a popular mod that includes many great assets meant to spice up the Wasteland in terms of armors. Unfortunately it was released in an era before modern body meshes and is only officially compatible with custom older body types. Using Slice of Life armors, even with Type 4 bodies or Seamless Vanilla Male Body will result in the neck seam bug coming back in to the game.
The original purpose of this .esp plugin replacer was to remove the armors so that only ones that didn't have neck seams were in the game, but I noticed a lot of other things that I could "fix" (read: waste time on). Note that I made a lot of these changes due to personal preference, so feel free to make suggestions that I may or may not implement.
- Does everything that modifies vanilla records by script. No more conflicts with vanilla records, so no more conflicts with YUP, patches, etc.
- Rebalances armors, mostly decreasing stats and values to fit the vanilla game so they don't stick out compared to vanilla items. Renames them for the same reason.
- Distribute a subset of armors and accessories from SoL to the NPCs and containers of New Vegas via leveled list, entirely by script. Gives NPCs armors, clothing, and accessories in a way that makes sense (e.g. Boomers get Aviation Caps, Raiders get Gas Masks, Raiders get gas masks, and more).
- Adds everything to their correct Repair lists, so that vanilla items can also be repaired by SoL items
- Armors/clothing that already have analogues in the main game are added to the same leveled lists. For example, NPCs that are meant to get other varieties of Cowboy Hats will get SoL's Rancher Cowboy Hat.
- Includes the beautiful icons by ItsMeJesusHChrist thanks to its open permissions.
- Add armors to form lists that Nivea missed. This change mostly fixes small details. Now Rex will be mad if you're wearing a SoL hat, just like he gets mad when you wear vanilla hats.
- Replace the armor world models that don't fit in to the game with matching vanilla ones. A screenshot explaining this is in the gallery.
- Rename items and balance stats to be consistent with vanilla.
- Creates and assigns repair lists to the armors to be consistent with vanilla, and also adds the armor to vanilla repair lists. For example, the vanilla Motorcycle Helmet and its SoL variants can repair each other.
- Cuts out a lot of armors that don't make sense and would be hard to distribute. For example, a lot of vanilla armors already include gloves, so the Nivea armors that are just sets of gloves don't really fit in to the game. Also, cuts out all the armors with unusable weapons as part of the armor mesh.
- Cuts out any armors that expose neck seams.
What did you add, and what did you remove?
Check the .txt files included with the mod. You can compare them to find what KARPSOL item corresponds to what Nivea's SOL item.
In short, I removed a lot, and added the features above.
Installation
- Install Spice of Life.
- Make sure you have all prerequisites, including JIP LN NVSE and JohnnyGuitar NVSE. If you have Improved Console, make sure it is updated to the latest version.
- DISABLE OR DELETE the ORIGINAL 1nivVSLArmors.esp file.
- Install this mod, and ENABLE its 1nivVSLArmors.esp.
- You're done! Take a look at config folder for customization options.