===UPDATE 06Feb2013===
Modder Yingerman has turned my splash screens into 16:9 format for widescreen monitors. Grab them here: http://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/43021/?

Name: Splash Screen Addon
Version: 2.0
Date: 3/20/2009
Category: Miscellaneous
Author: Alaisiagae
Forum Thread: http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=958320&st=0#entry13842266

Description
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Adds Bethesda-style splash screens for Tribunal and Bloodmoon. Also adds a few more Morrowind splash screens.


Details
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This mod adds several splash screens to the game, done in the style of the Bethesda Splash Screens. There are several screens each for Tribunal and Bloodmoon, as well as a few for Morrowind.

One screen for each game (MW, TB, BM) has splash screen with the game's/expansion's logo (cover art on the box) and an appropriate, brief text (taken from in-game books) in the Daedric font. I chose text that I felt encapsulated the general Main Quest in the game/expansions.

You can remove any of these that you don't want.

===Morrowind===
+ Fire Atronach
+ Frost Atronach
+ Storm Atronach
+ Guar
+ Text translation: "But it is said that Nerevar will come again and cast down the false gods" - Nerevar Moon-and-Star ( http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Nerevar_Moon-and-Star )

===Tribunal===
+ Centurion Archer
+ Durzog
+ Hulking Fabricant
+ Verminous Fabricant
+ Imperfect
+ Goblin Officer
+ Text translation: "Defy me and you will know what it is to stand against a god" - The Battle of Red Mountain ( http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:The_Battle_of_Red_Mountain )

===Bloodmoon===
+ Bears (regular, Plague, Snow)
+ Grahl
+ Horker
+ Riekling
+ Spriggan
+ Wolves (regular, Plague, Snow)
+ Text translation: "Let no man say before a witness that the Hunt has not been called" - The Posting of the Hunt ( http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:The_Posting_of_the_Hunt )


+ No .esp needed

+ Thanks to Nzdawghaus for his splash pack resource (see the Credits section of this readme), without which I wouldn't have attempted to make something like this.


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Downloading the mod
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- All downloads contain an appropriate readme

+ SSA_Bloodmoon: contains Bloodmoon-themed splash screens

+ SSA_Tribunal: contains Tribunal-themed splash screens

+ SSA_Morrowind: contains Morrowind-themed splash screens


Incompatibility
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This mod will conflict with another mod that contains a splash screen with the same exact name as any of the splashscreens in this mod. If that happens, simply rename the splash screen, there will be no negative effects from doing so.


Known Issues or Bugs
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There shouldn't be any. Splash Screens are in the correct dimensions (1024x1024) and format (targa, 24-bit). If you are looking at them with Irfan View (or any other image-preview program), they'll look kind of squished, but that's how all of Bethesda's splash screens are supposed to be. Your game will stretch it to the correct dimensions.


History
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2.000001, 2010/7/13 - fixed riekling splashscreen, it should work now.
2.0, 2009/3/20 - Updated. Removed: Bonewolf, Lich, Uderfrykte, Atronach Triad, Fabrican Duo, Goblin Triad. Added: Bears, separate fabricants (two), Imperfect, Horker, Grahl, separate Atronachs (three)
1.0, 2009/2/19 - Initial release.


Contact
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You can find me on the official Elder Scrolls forums as 'Alaisiagae'
You can find me on TESNexus as 'Alaisiagae'


Credits
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Thanks to Nzdawghaus for his Splash Resource Pack resource - http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=7240
Thanks to Szazmyrr for his/her Empty Splash Screen Background resource - http://szazmyrr.com/mods.html
Thanks to tygirwulf for finding the font Bethesda used in their splash screens: the Dali font - http://www.dafont.com/font.php?file=dali&page=1&nb_ppp_old=50&text=&nb_ppp=50&psize=m&classt=alpha
Thanks to Dongle for his Oblivion fonts - http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=3260
Thanks to Bethesda for creating Morrowind.
Thanks to TESNexus.com for the a one-stop-shop resource for authors and players.
Thanks to Planet Elder Scrolls for hosting so many magnificent mods.
Thanks to ElricM for hosting mods.
Thanks to the folks on the Bethesda forums for their support and feedback. You guys/gals are great!
Thanks to Bluehair for creating the DDS Converter (freeware).
Thanks to Adobe for creating Photoshop.
Thanks to the folks who created Irfan View (http://www.irfanview.com/).
Thanks to CGTextures for an astonishing array of marvelous free textures ( http://www.cgtextures.com/ ).
Thanks to LHammonds for the Readme Generator this file was based on.


Tools Used
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DDS Converter - http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=8698
Photoshop - http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/
Readme Generator - http://lhammonds.game-host.org/obmm/tools_readme_generator1.asp


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.