Better Shield Armor SSE - Ancient Replacement Only

H4lf D3ad provides an excellent modification to the Dark Brotherhood Shield Armor, replacing only the Ancient Armor instead. Some changes were also made to properly display the fairings for the Argonians and Khajiit.

This mod is based on H4lf D3ad's Better Shrouded Armor and Quelidge's SSE Shrouded Armor.

I've been loving the look of this Shrouded Armor retexture. That being said, I myself have never been as disgusted by the vanilla version.

I decided to go for a happy medium by changing the esp and just using a reconstruction of the ancient shield armor. It has a grungy medieval style aesthetic, which I think is perfect for an early rendition of the Dark Brotherhood's iconic costumes.

Meshes and textures were renamed, with the former being given a new FormID to attach to the Ancient Shield armor. Removed all other records affecting other database armor sets in SSE edit.

I don't know if this is the easiest/cleanest way to achieve this, but it doesn't seem to have any detrimental effects on my game. In fact, it has the added benefit of solving the problem of not seeing the fairing mesh on Argonians or Khajiit.

I'm not the most popular tool when it comes to this kind of stuff, so it ended up making my day. I thought uploading this would save others the trouble.

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This mod is based upon H4lf D3ad's Better Shrouded Armor and Quelidge's SSE reupload of it.

I've always liked the look of this Shrouded Armor retexture. That being said, I myself have never been that averse to the vanilla version either.

I decided to shoot for a happy medium by altering the esp to only use the retexture for Ancient Shrouded Armor. It has a grungy medieval-esque aesthetic to it that I thought fits well as an early rendition of the Dark Brotherhood's signature garb.

Meshes and textures were renamed, with the former being given new FormIDs to be attached to the Ancient Shrouded Armor. All other records affecting the other DB armor sets were removed in SSE Edit.

I don't know if that was the easiest/cleanest way to go about achieving this, but it doesn't seem to have had any detrimental effects on my game. As a matter of fact, it has had the added bonus of fixing the issue where the cowl mesh wasn't visible on Argonians or Khajiit.

I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed when it comes to this kind of stuff, so this ended up taking me a good day. I figured that uploading this could save other folks the trouble.