I'm trying to make a custom perk that basically retrieves the value of your gauntlet's armor rating and applies it towards your unarmed damage. The problem is, when I looked at the perk that I would base this off of (FistsofSteel), it simply has an entry for each type of heavy armor gauntlet with a manually set value. I want it instead to take into account smithing/light armor gauntlets etc.

Is there any way to make the spell effect that retrieves the gauntlet's value and applies it to unarmed damage, or am I dreaming?

in reference to the title, I also want to know if there are functions I can call that run the same variables as the CS in terms of Area/Magnitude/Duration and make them usable like enchantings Slider and effect applications.

I've seen this asked before for the exact same reason. Right now it's just a dream...thats why they had to hardcoe the values. The last person wanted to make it compatible with custom armor mods.

-MM

Actually, I wound up thinking this is a good thing. The base armor rating for Daedric is 18 as opposed to a daedric sword's 14, and you attack faster. If I counted smithing unarmed would be way OP.

GetAV("DamageResist") seems to return the current armor value. It appears that all the vanilla gauntlets have the keyword "ArmorGauntlets". So what you want to do should be possible by having a script on the player listening for OnEquip and OnUnequip events.