I've been given permission by JZBai himself to upload this. I originally offered to put it on his own page as a direct update but he declined as the mod was very old and so there is no need to put it there and he has a lot going on in his life so he hasn't been modding a lot but it was fine for me to put it on a separate page. Refer to Practical Female Armors permissions page so that you know what you can and can't do. Wherever that mod goes, this mod will follow. If you want proof of permission then I will provide screenshots upon request. I will ask JZBai for permission to do so beforehand as I'm not the only one in that conversation, of course.
I also made sure to speak with ughitsmegan as well because she is the original creator of the CBBE BodySlide files so it'd be the right thing to go and ask her as well.
I, myself, will allow you to spread this mod wherever Practical Female Armors has been LEGITIMATELY uploaded. Make sure to give me credit for these updated BodySlide files however and ughitsmegan for the old ones.
File credits
JZBai for allowing me to update this and ughitsmegan for the original BodySlide files.
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Changelogs
Version 3.1.1
Tweaked mesh lighting on the Ancient Nord/Draugr Armor to match the rest of the pieces in the model for the sake of consistency.
Version 3.1
Hotfix: Tweaks the armlets of the Ancient Nord/Draugr armor to be part of one mesh and not split across multiple.
New Cathedral Armory version. Changes all of the cubemap paths and meshes to make it visually compatible with Cathedral Armory.
Version 3.0
Redid all of the sliders.
Fixed numerous visual bugs and vertex normal problems with the original meshes.
Removed Son Of Talos/Stormcloak Officer armor, Imperial Officer Armor, all Elven armors and Wolf Armor.
Made for CBBE 3BA - Improved Calves and Feet. If using vanilla CBBE 3BA, pretend like the Width (CalfWidth) and Depth (ButtCheekDepth) sliders don't exist.
Version 2.0
Fixes the Dragonbone belt collar thingie issue by importing the vanilla one as the faces of the Practical Female Armies belt are broken or weird and thus with the vanilla belt being double sided like it's supposed to be, it now looks pretty great.
Added further tweaks to the Overall Size Adjustment slider of various armors in order to slim them down thus making them look less massive or weighty.
Version 1.0
The initial release
Note: It is very important that you read the description for this one! What got me to make this:
Practical Female Armors is great as I have never really been a fan of the "boob plate" commonly seen in fantasy mediums and most games that include them. That's not to say that I dislike skimpy outfits, bikini armors and sexualized content as I actually like them a lot :^)
It's just the boob plate that I dislike because they break the consistency of the armor that is being worn so hard because this armor forged from heated metal that covers the entire torso of the user now just magically molds and bends itself with the females chest whenever she moves around. It looks stupid, it's mad impractical and it doesn't even look like I'm using armor made out of metal and it also makes less sense than flying dragons. With that said, I felt like the original CBBE BodySlide files could be improved upon though for reasons mentioned below. I'm not trying to discredit the original author as what they did is still really, really good.
The BodySlide Files and the new slider:
What I sought out to do is fix the angularity, even with the limited amount of polygons thus adding the illusion of smoothness. There is also a new slider that I've added for every armor called "Overall Size Adjustment -armorname-" that acts as a small little tweak that you can adjust to better fit your BodySlide preset. It used to exist for previous versions of this mod but only exists for Steel Plate Armor and Chitin Heavy Armor now.
Compatibility: This mod is incompatible with other female vanilla armor replacers, not because of any errors but because the one who overwrites the other will dictate what the end result will be. Even then, if you wanna mix and match then go ahead! So long as you know what you're doing then there shouldn't be any harm in it.
Install: Install Practical Female Armors. The original CBBE BodySlide files are not needed but the base mod is needed for it all to work.
Install BodySlide. When you open up BodySlide, to find the outfits that this mod edits, look for armors with the name "Practical" as the first word.
If you need a tutorial on using BodySlide, read through that mods page or look up tutorials on Youtube. There are some good ones out there.