Smithing Perks Overhaul

Note 1: Compatible with pretty much every crafting mod out there. The only mods that will conflict are mods similar to HBE - Hardcore and Balanced Experience which implements their own Smithing perks tweaks. Note 2: The mod works extremely well with Complete Crafting Overhaul and Weapons and Armor Fixes. I very highly-recommend to use both of those along with Smithing Perks Overhaul for an optimal gaming experience. Using all three together means you do not need Legendary Smithing Upgrades. Note 3: Versione Italiana, da Arter. ------------------------------------------------------------------ How to Install Automatic Install (recommended) 1) Download SPO with the Nexus Mod Manager. 2) Activate the mod, and follow instructions. Manual Instructions (not recommended) Extract Data\\Smithing Perks Overhaul - Balanced Version.esp or Data\\Smithing Perks Overhaul.esp into your \\Skyrim\\Data folder. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What the mod does... For the more technically-minded, it specifically either adds (or reassigns) material keywords (e.g. ArmorMaterialImperialStudded, shortened to \"Imperial Studded\" in the above table) to appropriate perks, leading to proper behaviour for items associated to that keyword. Let\'s take a simple case of the various types of Imperial gear. Imperial Heavy Armor (marked with ArmorMaterialImperialHeavy) Imperial Light Armor (marked with ArmorMaterialImperialLight) Imperial Studded Armor (marked with ArmorMaterialImperialStudded) If you check the table for Vanilla behaviour, you see that only ArmorMaterialImperialHeavy is present. This means you can improve Imperial Heavy Armor twice as much, but not the Imperial Light Armor or Imperial Studded Armor, even if you mastered the secrets of Daedric gear. Try figuring that one out. With this mod, most of the \"Grr, why can\'t I get this Imperial Bow in line with the Hunter\'s Bow???\" type of frustration goes away. You probably thought \"Well both Bows require Steel Ingots, so both are steel, right?\" Well no, both are not steel. The Imperial Bow was marked with WeapMaterialImperial, and the Hunter\'s Bow was marked with WeapMaterialSteel. So what does Smithing Perks Overhaul do? Well it basically takes EVERY material keywords, and ties them to perks. This would fix everything... except that several weapons are missing their material keywords (e.g., Thieves Guild Armor), or have the wrong ones (e.g., Ancient Nord Armor, which is considered Daedric by Vanilla). To fix those issues get Weapons and Armor Fixes. And to make things worse, several crafting recipes are simply missing from the game for unfathomable reasons (if you wondered why you could not cr