Name: Growlfs Animated Hair

Version: 2.0
Date: 03/10/2009
Category: Hair and Face Models
Requirements: Oblivion Patch 1.2.0.214
Author(s): Growlf
Source: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=27485
Forum: http://www.mypandur.de/spieleabend/Modforum/index.php?topic=3994.0
Homepage: http://www.mypandur.de/spieleabend/Modforum/index.php

Description
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A couple of fully animated wigs, buyable at "Divine Elegance" and Jewelry in Imperial City, Market District.

Location
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The wigs are sold by Palonirya at "Divine Elegance" and Hamlof Redtooth in Jewelry of Imperial City, Market District.

Details
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This mod adds some known hair styles from Ren and 2ch as buyable wigs.
It also contains the Worlds longest braid and LongHair created by me. :-))

This mod will be continued, that's why I create no OMOD at the moment.

Install
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1. Extract the files to a temporary location.
2. Copy the included "data" folder files to (install folder)\Oblivion\, overwriting the existing data folder.
3. Start Oblivion Launcher, click 'Data Files', place a checkmark beside the "Growlfs Animated Hair.esp" file.

Uninstall
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1. Start Oblivion Launcher, click Data Files, uncheck the "Growlfs Animated Hair.esp" file.
2. Delete the files/folders associated with the mod.

Known Issues or Bugs
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In some surface light directions especially the wigs with Ren textures will get moth damage- like mistakes.
This belongs to the Oblivion rendering engine: the engine renders only the superiorest of some transparent meshes.
Original hair contains a _hl.dds to oppress that problem, but in rigged hair the _hl.dds is not usable.
That's why I used the following method to trick this:
> the Flags of NiAlphaProperty were set in NIFskope to
>> ENABLE TESTING > GREATER
>> ALPHA TEST THRESHOLD 60 - 100
>> in Curly Ren Hair 16F I had to disable "ENABLE BLENDING" to oppress the moth damage effects.
It isn't optimally but the best we can get without a _hl.dds .

In version 2.0 I had to completely remove or rebuild all wigs based on Ren's waveless hair textures because they look like straw. Most of them got a curly hair texture for better alpha blending.

Because I'm using the German version of game the shops will get German names. This shouldn't be a problem because I get English shop names every time I use English mods. :-))

History
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2.0, 2009/10/03 - All wigs completely reworked to curly hair textures, some rebuild, some new wigs added.

1.0, 2008/05/02 - Initial release.

Contact
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You can find me on TESNexus as 'Growlf'.


Credits
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Thanks to Ren and 2ch for their innovative hair meshes,
to Bethesda for creating Oblivion,
to TESNexus.com for the a one-stop-shop resource for authors and players,
to LHammonds for the Readme Generator this file was based on :-)) ,
to God for creating us all.



Tools Used
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Blender - http://www.blender.org
GIMP - http://www.gimp.org/
NIFSkope - http://www.niftools.org/
TES Construction Set - http://www.elderscrolls.com/downloads/updates_utilities.htm
Readme Generator - http://lhammonds.game-host.org/obmm/tools_readme_generator1.asp
Wrye Bash - http://wrye.ufrealms.net/Wrye%20Bash.html

Licensing/Legal
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You can do whatever you want with this mod but all I ask in return is that
you give me credit if you distribute any part of this mod.