CAS: Vanilla Armour Expanded

This mod combines the functionality of Camouflage and Stealth with the fantastic armor designs of Vanilla Armour Expanded. Credit to the creators of both of those mods for their fantastic work, I’m just the guy bringing them together. Obviously both CAS and VAE are required for this mod to function.

This mod provides new FUNCTIONAL camo patterns for several armor sets from Vanilla Armour Expanded:

SIX camos in unique patterns for each armor set in Arctic, Desert, Jungle, Stone, Urban, and Woodland patterns/palettes. I tried to pick camo patterns that matched the tech levels of these armors to reflect their futuristic, sleek designs. Each armor set got its own patterns, so the ‘woodland’ Trooper is different from the ‘woodland’ Siegebreaker, etc.

Three camo patterns in stone, urban, and woodland. This set got fewer patterns because these are clearly themed around police-style or paramilitary armor; Police generally don’t have much need for actual camouflage, but there’s real-world precident for it and they looked neat so I went for it. These camo patterns are very ‘contemporary’ to match the style of the armor.

The existing VAE Ghillie Suit has been patched to provide camouflage functionality for ‘woodland’ environments. Five new ghillie suits have been added to compliment the existing VAE ghillie for the remaining biome palettes of arctic, desert, jungle, stone, and urban. I really really wanted to use things like bin bags or metal slag chunks for the urban set and stone chunks for the stone set, but the effort to create the custom graphics was already pretty high and I didn’t want to add tons of extra work for myself so they’re just color changes of the other ghillie suits.

I would recommend starting a new game with CAS as opposed to adding it to a save game, and with mods that add content associated with it. To remove the mod I would expect initial errors on subsequent loads that will subside.

CE / CE:FT been informed that CE uses it’s own line of sight and detection mechanics when shooting etc. So this mod will be incompatible with CE as a result.

If you like birds check out my other mod More Birds – Conures for colorful, feathered friends!

A huge shout out to Pelador for making the original CAS mods;
Mlie for keeping the CAS mods updated and alive;
Oskar Potocki and all the Vanilla Expanded folks for their awesome content!