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This is a good video which helped me understand how to use Bodyslider 2 and Outfit Studio: Here is SkyrimCaliente's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/SkyrimCaliente The readme excerpt below has some good step by step instructions. As a total Noobosaurus Rex, here is what I learned. 1. Choose the armor outfit you want to convert in the Outfit/Body dropdown menu in the upper left corner of Bodyslider 2. 2. Choose the body shape template (CBBE, CBBE Slim, CBBE Vanilla, etc. you will have choices from what you've installed) you want the outfit to fit. Choose this from the Preset dropdown menu under the Outfit/Body dropdown. 3. Open the Small Preview window AND the Large Preview window to make sure the outfit fits both bodies. These are the body weight meshes. The small preview body is body weight 0 mesh and the large preview body is the body weight 1 mesh. If your character's body weight is set between these in game, the mesh will be an average of these two values. If you don't check them both, you'll get a LOT of clipping. 4. Adjust the body sliders until you have a result you like in both previews. Click Save Preset in the top middle of the interface. Give it a name you'll recognize and check the outfit boxes you want your new body preset to affect. a. If the outfit is poorly fitting, open Outfit Studio with the button in the lower right. I've only worked with it once, but it's pretty easy. Use the video tutorial in the beginning of this post. That's how I learned to make one outfit work out. I don't remember offhand how to do it, and I'd have to go back and watch the video again. ==> The important thing to remember (sorry if you already know all this but I'm speaking from a completely noobylonian perspective) is that your character has a nude body (generally with underwear stuck to it) and each outfit your character wears has its OWN body. When your character equips an outfit, he is replacing his body and its attached underwear with the outfit's body plus its attached clothes. What you are doing in Bodyslider is telling the outfit to use a body which matches the shape you just made with the sliders. What you are doing in Outfit Studio is adjusting the outfit clothing 3D meshes to match the body mesh you just made with the sliders. Bodyslider adjusts the outfits body, Outfit Studio adjusts the clothing meshes which come with the outfit's body. 5. Back in Bodyslider (bear with me here), make SURE you click the Race Menu Morphs box underneath the Build button in the center bottom of the screen. This is what converts the outfit be adjustable in the ShowRaceMenu customization interface in game. If you don't do this, the outfit/body will not be adjustable with the Race Menu sliders in game. 6. Click the Build button. Check the outfit you want to adjust. This replaces the outfits default body with the body you just created with the sliders. This will OVERWRITE whatever the outfit came with. If you make a mistake, you'll have to reinstall the mod or file. When you're ready, click OK. Check out these instructions and the linked video before following my instructions, which are from memory right now. P.S., I'm using Mod Organizer, and I'm having trouble getting my new outfits to show up in game. This method worked in Nexus Mod Manager, and it worked in Mod Organizer to create the character's nude/underwear body. I don't know why it's not working with outfits. If anyone has some advice, I would appreciate it. I think the Bodyslider process is working, but that Mod Organizer is not loading those files. I have the same problem with the Bodyslide data for the Immersive Armors v7 mod I installed in Mod Organizer very carefully according to the instructions. This is from Caliente's readme from the Caliente Vanilla Armor Combined Pack v2-1 mod: Anyway, this is what I learned.