Creation Club - Power Armor Paints - DIY Combined All-in-One

Update 2025/11/15 - Anniversary Edition - added Dummy esl Plugins for all power armor paints. These will override the paint esl's as the AE requires them to be present. This will remove the duplicate paints in the crafting interface. Move your CC Power Armor paint files (esl's and ba. 2s) to a safe location so the ba's don't need to be loaded.

Update 2023/7/22 - No need to update if you've already installed this mod. I updated it to include a .bat file along with new installation instructions to speed up the process.

- This does not include any of the Creation Club Power Armor textures -

The textures included in this mod are all the vanilla game Power Armor textures. If you use this mod without adding your owned Creation Club paints, then all the paint jobs will be the vanilla Power Armor. 15 in total.

This is where the Do-It-Yourself portion of this mod comes in.

The whole process should only take ~10 mins to complete if you have all 15 Paints.

Instructions:

1. Download this mod and extract the archive to your C: Drive

2. Download BSA Browser and run the exe installer with default options to your C: drive

- Installing through the exe adds an option to the Right Click context menu "BSA Browser > Extract Here"

3. Download Cathedral Assets Optimizer and extract the archive to C:\CCPaints\Tools\CAO

4. Copy all of the Creation Club Power Armor Paints Textures.ba2's you want to include to C:\CCPaints\PowerArmor

5. Right Click on a textures.ba2 file and choose BSA Browser > Extract Here

6. Repeat step 5 for each owned paint color

7. Double click on the CC Power Armor Paints DIY.bat to open a command window

8. Press any key when prompted

9. Once it's finished copying files, press any key when prompted

10. Cathedral Assets Optimizer will open

11. From the profile drop down select FO4 DIY CC PAINTS - BSA

12. Click Open Directory and set the path to C:\CCPaints\PowerArmor\Combined_Files

13. Click Run

14. Go to C:\CCPaints\PowerArmor\Combined_Files

15. Move the 3 CC Power Armor Paints DIY files (the esp and both .ba2) to C:\CCPaints\PowerArmor\Combined_Files\Data

16. Right click on the Data folder and compress it into a .zip, .rar, or . 7z folder using the utility of your choice

17. Name the archive CC Power Armor Paints DIY

18. Install with your preference of Mod Manager

19. Enjoy having 1 ESL flagged ESP to manage them all

If you don't have all the paints, then you can use FO4Edit and remove the non-owned paints from the ESL.

Just make sure you delete any: Constructible Object, Object Effect, Magic Effect, Misc. Item, Material Swap, Object Modification, or Perk that applies to the pain