Name: Half Vampire Race V1.0
Author: stainedofmind

1:Description
2:Installation
3:Uninstallation
4:Version History / Bug Fixes
5:Incompatibilities
6:Legal
7:Other Stuff


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1: Description
Adds a half vampire race to the game that, for the moment anyway, is based upon the vanilla vampires in the game. There are main differences from the full vampire race though. The first is that the feeding/waiting system is reversed, in that when you feed, you gain power, and every 24 hours (or so) the blood you drank burns out and you drop down a level in power. The second is that the majority of the half vampire's abilities are toggled abilities with a per second magicka upkeep.

Though I haven't tested it with other vampire mods, it SHOULD be compatible with them as the half vampire script is separate from the main vampire script. The only thing the half vampire script does that even references the main vampire script is to set the PCVampire variable to -1 so that they can't become full vampires themselves.

Racial stats and bonuses for the moment are the same as the Imperials, though I'll likely change that at a later date along with adding extra features and the like. The half vampire doesn't have any extra advantages over the other races without activating any of the toggled powers, which have the following effects:

Bare Fangs: A toggled skill that, as the name says, lets you bare your fangs. This gives you resistance to paralysis and disease, as well as weakness to fire and sunlight damage, all which changes depending on your feed level. This is also the skill you need to activate in order to feed.

Feral Eye: A toggled Night Eye power that drains 1 magicka per second while activated. This along with the other toggled powers with an upkeep will deactivate when your magicka hits zero.

Blood Seeker: A toggled Detect Life @ 150 feet that drains 1 magicka per second while activated.

Dreadful Terror: A toggled skill which unleashes the characters vampiric powers at a cost of 3 magicka per second. This skill becomes more powerful with higher feeding levels, but also reduces you personality stat greatly.

Hypnotic Gaze: Causes charm @ 25 points for 20 seconds on touch. For now, it costs nothing to use since I haven't thought of a decent way to make it work like the other skills. This is gained at feed level 2.

Dominate Will: Causes silence and demoralize @ 25 points for 60 seconds on touch. Like Hypnotic Gaze, this costs nothing to use, but is slightly more balanced since normally it would be used in battle. This is gained at feed level 3.

Shadow Form: A toggled Chameleon @ 100 points that burns 5 points of magicka per second. This is gained at feed level 4.

That's about all there is to it for now. No requirements at the moment as it uses all original oblivion stuff. There's just an eye texture included right now for the blind eye that was in the bsa's that was apparently never used. Feed back and bug reports will definitely be appreciated. I haven't tested the race at higher levels yet to see if the magicka drains on the skills are balanced enough, so feed back on that would be nice too, as would any other suggestions for the future of the mod. Enjoy.

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2: Installation

Unzip to the main oblivion folder, activate the esp file, start a new game, and enjoy.

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3: Uninstallation

1. Delete the eye texture and folder @ data/textures/characters/eyes/dw

2. Delete the esp file

3. Obviously any save files with characters using the race will be useless then as well, unless you change the race to some other one before you delete the esp.

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4: Version History / Bug Fixes

Version 1.0:
-Initial release.


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5: Incompatibilities

Haven't really used any other vampire mods, but to the best of my knowledge, it SHOULD work with them. If you find something it doesn't work with, please do tell me.

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6: Legal

This mod was created entirely by myself, stainedofmind, so I suppose if you want to use it or any part of it for your own mods, credit would be nice, as would a lil email or whatever informing me of your mod cause I'd be curious as to what you'd want to do with it.

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7: Other Stuff

Thanks to Ranokoa for the Readme templates.