Show armor slots

[Braintelligence]

Hi Odie!
It would be darned awesome if you could incorporate this: https://www.loverslab.com/files/file/1219-skyui-show-armor-slots/ into SkyUI VR 😼

[Braintelligence]

Maybe you can also use this: https://www.loverslab.com/topic/34026-skyui-show-armor-slots/?do=findComment&comment=1976731

[Odie]

Hi there,

You also mentioned this link on reddit:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17601?tab=files

Is the source for the dll available somewhere?

[Braintelligence]

Sadly not, I think. Or else I would have tried to make it work myself. The link described in my second comment works if you "click away" the error messages, but then the VR control overview in the bottom left is gone.

But wait, what dll do you mean? The one that only displays armor slots only contains a config.txt and swf files if I remember correctly.

(The feature I'm missing like hell is armor slots, anything else would just be a bonus to me :D)

[Odie]

Well, the mod on modnexus seems to include a base_armor.dll but doesn’t seem to have any links to the source. The mod also says it requires papyrus util which doesn’t yet have a very compatible version.

I’ll look into the loverslab links at some point.

Btw, why is it useful to see which slots a piece of gear occupies?

[Braintelligence]

Well, how else can you determine before smithing/buying or giving to your follower if it's an item that can be equipped without unequipping something else?
Sometimes you just can't tell if the armor you're about to loot/create/buy will overlap a slot already in use.

EDIT: You then also get the opportunity to sort your armor by armor slots. This is awesome if you only want to look at chest pieces, to compare with your current one.

This is especially true if you use mods that add equippable bags to the game or armor sets.

I had particular problems with the cbbe bikini armor set, because for some reason one specific armor type of chest pieces also preoccupied the groin slot.

I could only tell by using the mod from the second link.

Knowing what armor slots are occupied by items is an addition that would vastly improve my quality of life in Skyrim.
I think all that needs to be done is merging the config.txt and decompiling the swf to incorporate the changes that project the slot numbers into the bipedSlots column described in the config.txt

Afaik no DLLs are involved here.

I think the dll stuff is incorporated for the first mod mentioned which does a lot more than providing an armor slot column, which I personally wouldn't need. It's just the most current mod with armor slots I could find for sse.

[Braintelligence]

Hm, it looks like the updated mod from loverslab got removed... Is there some mail address I could send you the archive to? The difference between the mod from the link and the current available mod on loverslab is the update from SkyUI 5.0 to SkyUI 5.1.

You can find the former here: https://www.loverslab.com/files/file/1219-skyui-show-armor-slots/

It only contains a config.txt and

• bartermenu.swf
• containermenu.swf
• craftingmenu.swf
• giftmenu.swf
• inventorymenu.swf

No DLLs involved.

If I merge the config.txt with yours I get a column filled with dashes. I guess the compiled flash stuff can access the bipedSlots then?

[Odie]

It's totally fine to just upload the mod here by drag 'n dropping into the text box you write comments in. This way the file will always be a part of the issue history. It'll be easy to keep track of.

The new column can't be added just by changing config.txt. Some changes will be required in the code for sure.

[Braintelligence]

I'll attach the 5.0 version here and add the 5.1 version later. (I fear that the 5.1 version has some copyright violations or whatever, though.)

I'm 100% sure that I was able to add the column to SkyUI just by changing the config.txt - it just didn't display any value other than a dash -. The actual numbers seem to be accessed by the compiled flash.

SkyUI - show armor slots v5.zip

[Odie]

It looks like the slot numbers are in the range of 30 ~ 62.
Is there a particular reason why it should start at 30? Why not from 0 ~ 32?

[Braintelligence]

Well it seems that this is the way Bethesda handles those slots.
http://wiki.tesnexus.com/index.php/Skyrim_bodyparts_number

It could be interesting to allow a different visualization of this, but then how would you sort it? Maybe you could keep the numbers internally but visualize them as body parts?

[Odie]

Okay, no worries then. I'll just keep it that way.

[Odie]

Hi!

Try this out. It seems to work fine for me. Do let me know if there are any issues.

SkyUI - VR - armor slot display.zip

[Braintelligence]

Awesome! I will try it out in approximately 8-12 hours when I'm back home 🙈
Do you have some sort of donation gateway so I can tip you something for your work?

[Odie]

haha~ no worries, man~
Just enjoy the game. =)

[Braintelligence]

☹️ Let me drop some Steam goodness your way at least or something 🙈.
Without you I'd have to deal with that crappy stock UI 😭.

[Odie]

Well, if you really want to, you can find me as "SuperOdie" on Steam. =)

[Braintelligence]

Now I just need you to accept my friend request :D

[Odie]

Added! =)

[Braintelligence]

Duh, I have to wait 3 days until I can gift you something. 😹

[Braintelligence]

So the inventory menu works and shows slots accordingly. It doesn't work for crafting menus yet =(... Column is there but it only shows a dash where the value should be.

[Odie]

Yikes... It looks like there is a largely identical piece of code that governs adding data to craft menu entries. Not awesome. =(

Anyway, here's the updated version.

SkyUI - VR - armor slot display - rev 2.zip

[Braintelligence]

Sounds like refactoring is needed :p Will test when home.
If I remember correctly gifting menus and one or two more had also their own swf file.

[Odie]

Well, I try to rebuild all the swf every time, precisely because it's not entirely clear which files are included/compiled into which swf(s).

The problem here is just having to track down every location where a piece of data might need to be annotated with the bipedSlotDisplay field.

[Braintelligence]

I'll keep bugging you if I find a menu that doesn't work 🗡 😼
Enjoy your steam gift ^^

[Odie]

Thanks! Much appreciated! =)

[Mustrumion]

Just dropping to say that this variant of SkyUI still works and single-handedly saved my play through.
I was getting frustrated with the inability of grouping of modded items by slot taken.