So I've got a rogue-ish character going on right now, which has been pretty fun. But I'm having difficulty getting the look that I want down for it. Preferably, I want a cape, a face mask, and another custom item. Right now I've got the cape in the tail slot. In the amulet slot, I made an item that uses a modified chest armor mesh that I deleted most of in nifskope so that it just has some pretty cool arm protection layered over my actual chest armor. A patchwork way to do it, I'm sure, but I'm no professional here.

The problem comes with the mask. Now obviously the tail and amulet slots are taken, so I figured I'd move on to the ring slot for face masks. And it works great when I edit Bane's DB mask mod to take the ring slot. Shows up just fine. But it isn't the right color, and I like the shape of the ANB face cloths more. So I set those to be rings, but then they no longer show up on my character at all. I tried to get around this by leaving them as tail items and making the capes into rings, but then the capes don't show up.

Does anyone know why the DB mask appears on my character when set to the ring slot, while nothing else seems to?

check that you dont have clothing that hides rings on....

I don't, unfortunately. Already made sure to check that, and it's the same stuff I have on for the DB mask that does show up. Even if I don't have a single other item equipped, the other ring items do not appear on my character.

Could you merge the meshes for your arm protection thing and your chest armor, so they only fill the chest slot, then use the amulet and tail slots for the cape and mask, so you don't need to use a ring slot, or do you have to be able to use the armbands with any other armor?

I'm sure I technically could do that and it would work out perfectly. However, I think that may be beyond my modding capabilities, haha.