Okay, I am not an experienced modder or anything so if someone answers, please do so simply.

I have a mod that alters the meshes and textures for the stock armor in Oblivion. Such as, the Daedric Cuirass or the Glass Greaves. Activating these causes all of the stock armor to be changed for all NPCs, which is what it was originally supposed to do. Is it possible to make it so that NPCs access the regular meshes and textures for stock armor when they wear it but I as the player access a different set of meshes and textures when I equip it?

I dont think that changing the mesh path in-game is possible. Though Maybe you could make new sets for the new meshes and then use scripts to replace the entire objects with the new set when you pick them up.

I had considered the same possibility. So, here's an example of what I think you mean: I kill an enemy and they have a Fur Cuirass on their corpse. I pick up the Cuirass and it changes into the new Fur Cuirass model and texture that I have created. Is that what you mean?

Yes. I think it should be possible with scripts ...

possible....yes.....

easy.....no, would be a fairly complex script.

It wouldn't be possible to use a script similar to this one?

http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Scripting_Tutorial:_Modify_Weapon_On_Equip

You can alter the mesh path for an item on-the-fly while ingame, but to make the changes show you'll have to unequip and reequip it currently. Plus these script functions only work for "base" items, so you either change it for all instances of an item at once or none at all.
That's why I had to implement an array-and-cloneform-based approach to create new base forms (cloneform), modify the NIF files they're using, and insert these into an array to keep track of "already adapted" items, so it won't create a new item record for the same appearance over and over until there's no free formid left (highly unlikely case but still theoretically possible). There's no way I know of either to remove such cloneformed item records from your game.

Both my Scripted Argonian Feet and my Anthro-Dragon Race are using this approach, if anyone's tempted to take a look.

Drake's the guy who would know this stuff. His Antrho-Dragon race is especially amazing, and that's just based on screenshots.

Hmm...now may be a good time to download it

EDIT: oh yeah, now I remember why I haven't yet: still in beta. It's gonna be so awesome when it's released!

Scruggs talked about deleting object, the problem was that all instances of the item have to be gone, cause if a referenceh as a base object that no longer exsists.....CTD. Drakes way is the only one so far......however it does slowly still cause save bloat cause you are making new objects.

It would probably be much simpler if I made a script that would remove the item on pickup and replace it with a different one. I'm guessing it would be much more stable as well. This will actually be one of the first scripts I've ever written, so I've been scouring the CS Wiki site to understand how this could work.

Any more advice that anybody could offer on how to accomplish this goal would be greatly appreciated.

So, I'm attempting to get this working by using the replace-when-added-to-inventory method. But it keeps on crashing whenever I try it. I'm using something really simple, which is probably why it isn't working.

scn (Name)Begin OnAdd Player	If Player.getitemcount (Armor ID) >= 1	player.additem (Second Armor ID) 1	Player.removeitem (Armor ID) 1	endifEnd

This script worked the first time I tried it, but hasn't since. It's is a dumb script, but I don't know any better yet. Help would be appreciated.

I'm just guessing here, but a script running on an object in the inventory telling to remove exactly this object while the script is still running... well... this is just asking for trouble... like crashes.
I would use "RemoveMe" instead, as it will end the script execution and remove the item the script is running on. Safe and sound.

Thank you for your kind help and cunning sarcasm. I'll give it a try.

I tried doing what Drake said, and it worked to an extent. The only problem with that was that I got the infinite loop issue described on wiki. I read the article, but don't understand how to write it in relation to what I'm trying to do.

I also took Drake's advice on removing an item just picked up in script by making two scripts. One that would be placed on the original item to add a new item and one placed on the new item to remove the original item. This worked wonderfully, but I'm not sure if this method can be considered more robust or just a waste of script.

I would appreciate help once again.