Collygon

Rektoes did some file digging into the nifs and textures of the Starfield files. Sad to say that it’s still using FO4’s implementation of equip slots and reference bodies. Sad times. Will explain more what this means. In Skyrim, the main cuirass (or the main part containing the body) was just the male/female body with the armor piece. The armor itself could’ve been either a simple T-Shirt or a bulky armor that also covered the legs. Boots were separate because it had its own dedicated equip slot. In fallout 4, the main cuirass ALSO included the feet. This made armors awkward in terms of modularity. Some authors had the main armor piece sometimes be just the shoes with a naked body (which is stupid because that means most of the armor defense would be here) or some authors just added the entire outfit of shoes, pants, and shirt (this decreased modularity potential with other mods). In practice, Skyrim’s way of armor modularity can still be implemented into FO4/Starfield’s version BUT this reduces the ease of having multiple body presets as you will have a HIGH likelihood of encountering clipping. Some people like to have a “natural” body preset and a “push-up” body preset for wearing clothes. Maybe it’s just me and the issue is really trivial but armor piece customization and modularity won’t have the same freedom as Skyrim did. On the bright side, texture implementation looks way more promising. Dedicated AO and roughness maps! This I look forward to.