Shadowed Synth Armor

WHAT IT DOES

Adds the existing Bethesda black synth armour texture (see the endgame legendary synths) as a synth armor material you can craft at any armour crafting station, as long as you have the Armorer perk at level 3 or above. (Or aren't afraid of the console;)) The material is called "Carbon Nanotube Material".

It is high end, but not over the top. It's not a replacement for power armour, or anywhere near, but it is marginally better than the vanilla materials for synth armour. And it acts as shadowed, which is something that wasn't in vanilla for synth armour. But you can still be killed.

The armour actually acts as shadowed armour, meaning it will actually make it harder to see you in the dark. Just like shadowed leather or metal or combat armour, really.

I chose that name because carbon nanotubes are:

A) very black B) very, very strong for its weight C) hi-tech enough to be an Institute material D) sounding like the other Institute materials Bethesda included, so it shouldn't trip lore or anything.

Made entirely with FO4Edit, if you care about that kinda thing.

HOW TO INSTALL

Preferably use NMM. Otherwise, unpack the .esp in your game's data directory, AND you will have to edit the plugin.ini file in your AppData\Local\Fallout4 folder by hand to add the mod. And set it as read-only so the game doesn't overwrite it.

HOW TO UNINSTALL

Just delete the .esp from your Data directory.

HOW TO GET IT

Ideally, you should get Armorer level 3 and craft it yourself.

Alternately, at very high levels, some pieces with this material will spawn on random synths, but it's going to be more rare than the nanofiber material.

Or, if you just want it RIGHT NAO, you can try "help nanotube 0 misc", give the boxed armour mods to yourself with player.additem, and just go to any armour workbench and install them on your synth armour. You only need perks to MANUFACTURE armour or weapon mods. You don't need any perks or materials to install a mod you had in your inventory.

COMPATIBILITY

Short version: there aren't any significant conflicts.

Longer version: It will probably conflict with anything else that changes the lists of synth armor materials, but not with simple recolours (e.g., the mods that just repaint synth armour) or stat changes. However, the only effect of a conflict is preventing such pieces from spawning on random synths in the world, since the conflicting lists are the levelled lists used for spawning such items and mods. It will not prevent you from crafting or using it, nor otherwise interfere with the normal functioning of the game.

It is compatible with mods that affect other things, such as the armor size, legend