There is an obvious problem with your MOD! ! ! The appearance always disappears! !
It becomes like this at every turn! Don't you fix the MOD? ?
@four_feet_magic_monkey

Hello hello;
I'm having the same vanishing armor bug. Setting the mod near the top of the list doesn't matter: my chars complain they're running naked..
While checking your mod, I found I'm unable to open any of the DDS files. So... stupid question: are your dds supported 'fully' by Ogre or something? As i can't check their format with my current dds viewer: I'm just suggesting that maybe.. maybe.. you may try to set one diffuse to regular dx5 + mipmap just for people to test if those dds are ok or not.. or the models are too heavy.. or I don't know XD
Just an idea. Don't hit me on the head eh...

Hello, I'm uploading a patch that translates your mod for my own use, as well as promoting your mod!
Please contact me if you need anything else!

where can a guy find the elite armor blueprints

That seems like the likely culprit.

I don't really have the patience for in-depth modding, but to anyone willing to spend the time, it shouldn't be too hard as long as you already have this mod.
Take the workshop folder and move it to the Kenshi mods folder, rename accordingly, it should appear in the editor now and you should be able to finagle with its assets. You'd need to take each of the armor sets and add them into a "new mod" section for each one.

If nobody does it by like, february I'll give it a shot myself. But I can't promise it'll work or fix the issue since I have literally 0% modding experience aside from making new game starts for myself.

@Butterscotch - Unfortunately I cant seem to figure out what is wrong to fix the intermittent disappearing. On my machine it happens very occasionally, and seemingly only for this mod. Bumping it to first in the load order seems to fix it so it is super rare for me now. My best guess at this point is Ogre failing to load it due to either file size or the number of custom meshes. So most most likely its an issue with how mod data is loaded by the engine. If the mod is split into smaller mods/ one per armour set / the smaller mods may be more stable and fix the issue. I do not have time to do that. But anyone with a decent understanding of how to mod kenshi could, - If someone did this, and it works to resolve the issue - I am not opposed to them then posting it on steam as a collaboration project and linking me as a contributor (for the mesh and textures)

What you said worked and it showed up in game, Thank you! Reinstalling it and bumping it around the load order fixed the not showing up at all problem, though I am now getting exactly what Professor Kaban had where upon reloading a save it's invisible again bar the under suit. Though from the time I did have with it it looks awesome so really good work on that!

@Butterscotch - Merry Christmas to you as well, I hope it works for you, I generally make these mods for my own play through but I do like knowing others get to enjoy them as well.

I'll give a few of these ago and see what works, thank your for your help. Hope you're having a very good Christmas!

@Butterscotch - It is possible that the mod simply has too much new data to load correctly. Ogre seems to be temperamental af sometimes. If you have ruled out file compatibility issues (3), and tried 1 and 2, you can try making a custom mod using the armour you want from this one by ripping the assets needed and putting them in your new custom mod. If you did this for one armour and it worked all the time the issue would then most likely be the size of the mod causing it to fail to load correctly. - I cant really test any of this for you since I don't have any way to replicate the error

@Butterscotch - I cant seem to replicate the bug you are experiencing or find anyone else with the same issue. One thing that does come to mind;

If they are not working at all for you it might be that there was a file corruption during download.

1- try deleting the mod in your steam folder, then re download it - needs deleting or it will use this data again. Steam only updates the changes in mods, it keeps the original data in a file on your system.
2- try moving the mod to the top of the mod load order list - this seemed to improve disappearing armours for me. rarely happens now
3- try one of my other mods that uses a custom model (preferably a newer one)- if that works it rules out file compatibility issues

Happens to every character, equipping and unequipping does nothing and jumping around the map and back again to let it load does nothing either, I did just install another armour mod that is working fine with custom models and textures so it can't be that alone, but steel legion armours are still invisible, I've only unlocked the bandit and legion armours so far and both invisible, haven't tried it on a hive or shek yet. Hair disappears when it's equipped.

Same here, Invisible armour, though it is constantly invisible, literally never seen it in the game till I went to armour king and found out it was fully invisible. The only thing that isn't invisible is the under armour shirts, they have the proper textures.

It seems to affect everybody but only the armor seems to disappear. The shirt stays as normal

@Professor Kaban - I have no idea why that would be happening, Ive had it go invisible when I unequip then re-equip but equipping it then loading a save or leaving the area and reloading by coming back seems to fix it for me which doesn't match your experience at all. I can only guess its something to do with how kenshi loads the model for the armour since I havn't had that issue with custom 'shirts' that just re-texture the character model. Usually if there is something wrong with the model format it wont load at all, ever. so I'm not sure whats going on with this one. If you can make a note of which armours are affected by this and weather or not it affects all characters using that armour or just some of them. It might help me narrow down the problem. For now I'll check the modding forums to see if this is a common issue with custom armour mods.

For whatever reason, every time I load a save the armor goes invisible. Its still in my inventory, but in-game its just not there. An Import fixes this, but I need to do it every time I want to load a save.

@ Brimsaw - Fixed, ty for the heads up.

Sorry to post again in such short intervals, just came across a tiny bug with the Steel Legion Elite Plate leg Harness, it is not added to the heavy armor smith crafting list, but it's an easy fix with the editor, just wanted to give you a heads up!

Hey there! Managed to find all the blueprints! Only after checking the editor tho and I realized there were no steel legion boots yet so I had all blueprints earlier than I thought xD

Were you planning on adding some fitting boots at some point? Perhaps a retexture of the plated longboots fitting to the steel legion design? Would look dope, Im sure!

Either way, great looking armor!

Thanks for the Reply! I was at the Armor king the other day, assumed it wasnt there but I suppose I should have waited for his inventory to refresh a few times! Ill be checking by Mongrel later today as it was next on my list! Can't wait to see what it looks like on my squad!

Amour King for the Elite plate, Mongrel Armour store for rusted. Kenshi does weird rng with the vendors so sometimes they just are not in stock. IDK why

Would love to see how this armor looks on my squad, but unfortunately I can not find the blueprints anywhere. From black desert city to blackscratch, worlds end to heft, I can't find the blueprints at any vendor. Even checked the Holy nation cities, but nope nothing.

Can the Mod maker or someone who has actually found the blueprints tell me what vendor in wich city sells them? Cheers.

Might be a good idea to add this infor on the mods page too.

nice! keep it up!

cool

Also, the OP ness is probably because I set the quality to +10, - I might set it back to 0 and spread out the acid resist over the entire set in future but I plan to add a heavier version of the armour that will probably maintain those stats at +10 with some extra penalties.

@Mr.Chiweenie - Ive tested in my own game and they appear normally but this is the first time Ive set the custom icons thing. I'll turn them off in an update and set them back to auto generate. If the icons are 'old' ie they dont match the current item, you can then fix it by going into Kenshi/data/icons search steel, then delete the icons there. they will re-generate next time you play.

Oh snap! Monkey posted another mod! :)

Looks really great in game but a wee bit OP. The pictures in the inventory just show as boxed red X's which may be a mod conflict on my end.