Wet and Cold - Gear - Seasons of Skyrim Patch

Introduction

Wet and Cold is a staple in my load order since I can remember. I just recently came back to modding but this time built my load order around the awesome Seasons of Skyrim mod and realized that both mods are not that immersive together - for example winter gear is equipped all winter long when your Skyrim is snowy.

Since there is no patch or other mod to fix this I decided to do it myself and here we are.

Disclaimer

This mod is intended to be used with the Wet and Cold - Gear version by Oz3. This edit of Wet and Cold removes the visual effects and go home feature (wich is integrated in many follower frameworks or AI overhauls anyways) and is overall more lightweight than good old Wet and Cold. For the visual effects I highly recommend the much more modern R. A. S. S..

I also integrated in my mod a patch made by Flip777 (look in the discussion for details about it on Wet and Cold - Gear's modpage) which all in all together results in the most lightweight version of Wet and Cold you can get at the moment without a rewrite of the original mod or developing a complete new one from scratch.

This is the first version of this mod to see, if I've overlooked any bugs or larger issues. It runs quite stable on my load order with over 1500 mods with some minor hickups from time to time when heavily using coc console command (see the troubleshooting section). So please report any weird behavior you encounter!

I created two flavors of this integration patch, a lite or simple version and a more complex version.

'Lite' means in the winter months of Seasons of Skyrim everyone (minus the Nords and exceptions handled via the SPID config files of Wet and Cold - Gear like blacksmiths) will equip winter gear. For the rest of the year, rain gear and cold gear (I didn't make any changes to ash gear with the exception of the winter months) will be equipped depending if it is snowing or raining. That's it.

The more complex flavor takes seasonal transitions into consideration to show, that the temperature is gradually rising but not everyone is ditching his or her cold gear in the first month of spring - but, depending on the region the NPC is located, maybe change the cold gear for a more lightweight hood and cloak (aka the rain gear) in these transitional months.

This results into the following distribution:

Winter

• []Everyone wears winter gear.

[]In First Seed: winter gear is worn in the Freezing Region, rain ge