Power Armor Flag Cape (Updated)

Adds several craftable flag caps to the left arm of all vanilla, DLC and next-gen updated power armor, including the recently added Hellfire and X02. All capes are manually weighted onto the power armor's animated skeleton to simulate physics so they are not stiff/static.

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Update 1.01 on August 3: The standard version and the DLC-free version (if the Nuka World DLC is not installed) are now packaged and uploaded.

After learning the recipe, this mod allows crafting a shoulder/flag cape (left arm only) at the Power Armor Station for the following models:

Raider (including Vanilla and Overboss)

T-45 type

T-51 type

T-60 type

X-01 type

X-02 type

hellfire

All capes are available to all armor, but the capes you can actually build will depend on your game progress after collecting magazines to learn the recipe. The list of possible cloaks, their statistics and required progress are as follows:

Raider - Unlocked by simply reading the magazine

Old World (USA) - Unlocked by simply reading the magazine

Militia - (if you read the magazine) Unlocked after completing the "First Step" mission and accepting Preston Garvey's offer to become General

Brotherhood of Steel Version 1 - (if you read the magazine) Unlocked after completing "Call to Arms" and joining the Brotherhood

Brotherhood of Steel Version 2 - (if you read the magazine) Unlocked after completing "Call to Arms" and joining the Brotherhood

Railroad - (if you read the magazine) Unlocked after completing "Tradecraft" and accepting Desdemona's offer to join the Railroad

Academy - (if you read the magazine) Unlocked after completing "Humanity - Redefined" and talking to Father to work on the reactor at the Institute

Enclave Version 1 - (if you read the magazine) Unlocked after completing "Speak of the Devil"

Enclave Version 2 - (if you read the magazine) Unlocked after completing "Echoes of the Past"

Enclave Version 3 - (if you read the magazine) Unlocked after completing "Echoes of the Past"

Get the recipe:

The comic book "Liberty Belle" can be found on the top shelf of a doorless locker inside South Boston High School. It's not a big building, so it shouldn't take you long to find it. South Boston High School is located in the South Boston area (near Boston's southeastern shore).

Alternatively, you can use the console command "player.additem" and enter one of the following item IDs:

0900266B - (Liberty Belle) Teaches you the Flag Cloak recipe as your character progresses, also found at South Boston High School.

090090E8 - (Flag Cloak Recipe) No quest progression is required to unlock all Flag Cloaks, this item will not otherwise be placed in the game world.

Notes:

The capes were manually weighted based on the power armor's existing animation bones to look very natural as you move. The engine doesn't allow attaching new bones to animations via craftable modifications, so just slapping some cloth physics on them isn't an option.

When in the Power Armor Crafting Station, they are attached to the left arm in the "Miscellaneous" category. My goal is to keep this lore friendly and balanced within normal game mechanics. The "Miscellaneous" category on weapons is only used for unarmed attacks on most models of power armor, making it essentially an empty slot for gun and/or melee weapon users. This at least adds something to the left arm slot, and I believe their benefits are significant enough to fill the gap in the right arm slot.

Because these capes are in the miscellaneous category, they will still work with any paint job on the left arm of the armor.

Each cloak has different benefits, and most of them grant you two perks at the cost of reducing one special stat. I hope going without the cape is still an equally viable option, so there will be some trade-offs.

There is an intentional "tear" in the front of the cape net that allows arms to pass through without getting pinched. The texture of each cape also takes this into account so th …