While I'm on a roll, let me tell you my thoughts on fancy rendered shizzlewizzle.
Here's the thing about the MMPS armor's rendering, or at least my thoughts on it. I've heard a lot of people say stuff against it's addition, for example it looks ugly, more so than it's normally rendered predecessor and it just doesn't fit the minecraft look what with the default rendering's curvature and all that stuff. In fact the alternate render design fit the minecraft bill a lot better, however still looked kind of weird and I agree, it did. It looked bulky, even for Minecraft and in contrast to the body wearing it there was a jarring difference between the user and their armor, but that shouldn't be the nail in the coffin for rendering. If Thaumcraft's Fortress armor proved anything it's that fancy rendered armor can look really cool (even if it doesn't fit the mod and was just added because ooh shiny) The beauty of this mod's purpose is to provide people with the ability to add their own modules with it's open sourcedness and if possible they can make their own renders which fits their aesthetic choice without that choice being forced upon them, which was an issue that MMPS unfortunately had as it straight up removed the usual textures with no option to bring them back and for lesser computers that's a bad thing which is why as I mentioned, the user should have the option.
Simply put, if you don't want to do your own rendering, that's fine! Hell, I'm no coder but I can only imagine the stress involved in making a properly rendered suit that looks good, however give others the option to render for themselves in an addon. Give them the option and you won't need to render. Hell, you may even find someone who wants to do the rendering for you that you can pull into the mod natively.
BTW, I'd love to see a high-tech fortress armor. Even that would fit better than hurr Thurmcrerft.
