1. Description/Use
2. Requirements
3. Known bugs, issues, hints and tips
4. Credits and Usage
5. Installation of Sample .esp
6. File Description
7. Contact's Etc...

This is a clothing mesh resource for modder's to use to make new clothing for the HGEC body. It has been converted with permission from JClyde's/AcidRain226's dress mesh for Fantasy Figures. It's rigged and only needs you to add your textures, normal maps and set it up in the CS.

Although this is a modder's resource rather than a mod, I have included a sample .esp with 3 dresses you can buy from Divine Elegance in the Imperial City Market District.

Currently, this resource contains dress meshes for HGEC 1.1 Normal. However, future updates will include other mesh styles and some meshes for other HGEC variants.

The UV map on this dress is the same as on similar meshes for Fantasy Figures, BAB, Eshme and Nioliv's Morrowind BB dresses. Textures should be fairly easy to interchange between all of these. For texturing purposes, UV map textures are included in the file.

3. Known bugs,issues, hints and tips

Clipping issues- Hardly any clipping occurs at all with original (unmodded) character animations and the actors in charge mod. However, clipping occurs with most (but not all) custom animation mods. Sorry, but I can't do any better after 100's of hours of rigging.

The undies converted from original Exnem body will clip with the dress. Works best with either nude body or skimpier underwear such as the converted BAB string undies (BAB conversion is in progress over at the Eye Candy Forums).

Overlapping Alpha Channel Bug - When long hair overlaps the dress, it can cause the part of the dress mesh directly underneath to go invisible. This is a problem that occurs when any alpha channel enabled meshes overlap. There is a fix (for solid fabric only, don't use if your trying to make semi-transparent/see-through fabric). In Nifscope, click the little flag in your NiAlpha Property, and use the settings shown at right. Also, you will need to save your texture as a DDS DXT 1 format. These two things combined should fix the bug. Unfortunately, DDS DXT1 has the lowest resolution of the DDS formats, but this is the only thing that worked for me. Alpha Channels and Spells - When you cast spells, the parts of the dress that you removed with alpha channels will become temporarily visible again.

Body compatibility - This works with HGEC 1.1 normal only. Other HGEC variants are going to clip.

UV map stretching - occurs around the shoulder area and on some parts of the side and bust.

Poly count - Not too bad, 3358 faces for the long one and 2174 for the short one.

Setup in Construction Set - Currently, I've included the upperbody with these dress meshes but not the lower body. Therefore, when you set it up in the construction set, you just make it a shirt that takes the upperbody slot only. Your character's legs will still appear and it will allow you to equip other clothing items underneath the dresses. You can see an example of how this is done if you view my sample .esp in the construction set.

Swaping sleeves between dresses using Nifscope - It is possible to interchange the different sleeve styles between dresses if you copy and paste the mesh parts using nifscope. If Nifscope gives you an error message when you try to cut and paste the sleeves parts, try to cut and paste over the dress body part instead. One or the other will work.

4. Credits and Usage

Meshes:

Xiamara - for conversion of the Fantasy Figures dress mesh to fit the HGEC 1.1 body

JClyde and AcidRain226 - for the Fantasy Figures dress mesh (converted from Nioliv's BB dress mesh)

Nioliv - for the original Morowind BB dress mesh

RAIAR - for the HGEC body

Exnem - for the Eye Candy body

Textures:

Sample pink and blue dress textures - Xiamara

Usage:
You are free to use these meshes in your own mod and re-texture them. However, please include the above mentioned people in your mod credits.

5. Installation of the sample .esp

Copy the meshes and textures from the zipped file into the same corresponding folders in your Oblivion Data directory. That is:

C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion\Data\meshes\XiaHGECClothes1
C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion\Data\textures\XiaHGECClothes1
C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion\Data\textures\menus\icons\XiaHGECClothes1

Run Oblivion, activate the .esp file and go purchase clothes from Divine Elegance in IC Market District.

6. File Description

XiaDressLngTgtHGEC11N.nif - The tight long dress with UV map

XiaDressShrtTgtHGEC11N.nif - The tight short dress with UV map

XiaDressLngALineHGEC11N.nif - The A-line bell sleeved long dress with UV map

XiaDressShrtALineHGEC11N.nif - The A-line bell sleeved short dress with UV map

7. Contacts, etc...

I can be contacted by PM on the official Elderscrolls Forums: http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/

Requests: Sorry, but I generally don't do special requests for models anymore due to problems with my real life school, work and family schedule. Instead, please make a request thread for what you want on the ES Forums. There are many modellers available and one will most likely see your request and help.

Thanks to the Morrowind and Oblivion modding community and Thanks to Bethesda for creating such a great game.