BattleArmor-4K_By_Ruddy88

This is a TEST ESP, I am uploading it so that my testers can have a look at its progress. I do encourage everyone to have a go at it though, the armor works and is all as stable as any other armor mod, so take a look and leave me some feedback, just be aware it is still in development, some textures need work as does some meshes, as well as some much needed balancing to its entries to tune it and make it balanced.

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So what is it? This mod adds a custom armor to the game. It is made up of a combination of modified vanilla meshes with completely new, 4K textures (diffuse, speculars and normals). But it goes a few steps further. Instead of the usual lite, sturdy and heavy variations, this mod aims to create a much more in depth level of progression. The player will chance upon a lost prototype armor very early in the game. It will be beat up, rusted, scratched and missing many of its pieces, but it has potential. As you wander the wasteland, and gain levels and ranks, you will reach certain points that will allow you to upgrade your armor.  Upgrading the armor will add new parts to your armor, over 7 "ranks", starting from a flimsy little chest plate to a full suit of well made armor. But it wont end there, I am also in the process of creating several variations of the textures. As you start to excel in your armorer perks youll soon find that rust can be cleaned with a bit of steel wool (steel), dirt can be cleaned with a bit of cloth and some water, scratches can be filled in with a compound of adhesive and god-knows-what, Abraxo cleaner can make for an excellent polish to bring that steel shine back to its former glory, so on and so forth. Doing so will be done in the form of the upgrades, so not only will meshes be expanded upon, but your armor will gradually get cleaner as you go along, bringing you a clean, well-maintained armor that is fitting for a rank 4 armorer, and it all fits within the scope of fallout 4 reality.

So thats the basic concept, at the moment it is simply the base "clean" textures and the 7 stages of meshes. There are no requirements as of yet for the meshes, and the armor ratings are all the same, so dont expect to put on the Mk VII battlearmor and go take on a squad of deathclaws, you probably wont survive. But these are all things that will be coming by the final version.

Known Issues There are no known incompatibilities with any mods as this mod uses purely unique fo4edit entries, including the upgrade systems keywords and such. Given that it uses its own keywords, it probably wont benefit from things such as armorsmith as of yet. It also wont work with any sorting mods as it uses its own INNR, but I have set it to work in the sam