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LUSH & GAUDY TROPICAL FRIPPERY 1.0
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Welcome to the millionth installment of all things lush and obscenely gaudy.


This is a texture replacement for trees, shrubs, long grasses, rocks, and ground covers.


As usual, there are three resolutions to choose from. High (2048x2048), Medium (1024x1024), and Low (512x512 - comparable to Vanilla Oblivion for retarded computers.)


Compared to its cousin, Floriana Australis (which I largely used as a base), this one is sickeningly colourful. One trip around Cyrodiil and you'll be throwing up palm trees for a week. Everywhere has been decked out in decidedly gaudy tropical style, including the Jerall Mountains.


Like FA, to accommodate some of the drastic changes to the Jerall Mountains (going from snow to a desert) I've included an optional tweak to get rid of the falling snow for those who don't want to blow their immersion to pieces.


The main Lush & Gaudy Tropical Frippery.esp file MUST be activated for this mod to work properly. It won't clash with any other mods you might be running and unlike the nightmare esp files of Floriana Gloria, this one is small and simple, but still makes a few vital changes. (All of which are explained further down if you really want to get picky.)

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The Palms esp is technically optional, but I personally consider it to be stylistically vital. It adds somewhere around 10,000 palm trees to a majority of the regions in the game. Without it, you're not looking quite so tropical, are you?


Hopefully a few of you will enjoy having a stroll through this tropical nightmare.


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TO INSTALL
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1:) Clean up some shit. If you plan to use the Lush and Gaudy Palms.esp and you're using a previous version of my Lush and Gaudy Palms mod, delete the Oblivion\Data\Textures\Momo folder before continuing. (This will wipe out some normal maps which would wreak havoc with the new palms.)


2:) Copy the Data folder to your Oblivion directory. If asked to over-write any existing files, say yes.


3:) Activate the Lush & Gaudy Tropical Frippery.esp file. (If you're planning to use the Lush and Gaudy Palms.esp file, activate that too at this point.)


4:) Choose (or ignore) the optional snow removal tweak. Copy the Data folder found in the Get Rid of That Bloody Snow folder to your Oblivion directory. If asked to over-write any existing files, say yes.


5:) Do a BSA Redirection with a tool like OBMM if you're feeling sanitary. Skip it if you're not.


6:) Play.


7:) Multiple choices from here on:

A: Tell mod author how mod should have been done.
B: Tell mod author mod was lovely.
C: Do neither of the above.
D: Fuck up your installation and demand help from mod author.
E: Decide it's utterly repulsive and too gaudy and un-install it without a word.
F: Decide it's dandy and keep it installed without a word.
G: Decide it's Elysium and worship mod author.
H: Wonder if there's any possibility that choice G will ever be chosen.
I: Stop Reading.
J: Re-read choice I and get lost.


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GLITCHES / FLAWS / ALL THAT GHASTLY SHIT
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Major flaw: The trees have no collision. I can't fix it, so don't complain. Or better yet, fix it yourself.


Major flaw: There's only one tree type. I couldn't find any others that suited this look, so stiff titty. Wear it.


Minor flaw: Some of the tree leaves drape low to the ground in places and poke into the odd hill.


Minor flaw: My normal maps stink. Nothing new there.


Major flaw: My distant landscape is revolting, vile, terrible, awful, hideous, sickening, disturbing, tacky, shocking, shitty. Also nothing new.



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NO MORE TREE TRUNKS POKING OUT OF HILLS
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I knew Floriana Australis had to be good for something...


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WHAT DOES THAT QUESTIONABLE ESP FILE DO?
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The Lush & Gaudy Tropical Frippery.esp file does the following:


It controls (and changes from Vanilla) which long grasses are associated with which ground textures for varying regions. Without this, I wouldn't have the right grasses in the right areas in many cases. It also adds a lot more grasses to the Jerall Mountains, which were far too bare for a tropical look.


It re-scales the distant trees so that they match the tree model I used. Without this, you'd have distant trees that were either too big or too small compared to the close-range ones.


It swaps a few ground textures around to achieve the right balance for certain areas. Without this, it'd simply look like shit.


It also makes life that little bit more painful.



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FUCKING SNOW
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As explained above, the Get Rid of That Bloody Snow tweak simply removes the snow particles so you don't get falling snow when you're trotting about the newly arid / Tropical Jerall Mountains.


I wouldn't play without this tweak, since I think snow in a desert is simply unsanitary and far too pedestrian for any self-respecting lunatic. But - unlike the main esp - it's not vital depending on how awful your taste is.



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COMPATIBILITY
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Here comes the usual line: This should work splendidly in combination with Qarl's textures or any other texture replacement (well...ones that don't concentrate on the same shit mine does.) Just be sure to install this monster LAST / over the top.


If you want the superior fungus found in Improved Trees and Flora by Mikal33, then install that BEFORE you install L&G TF.


This mod also has built-in compatibility with AliveWaters by Windsurfer and Harvest Flora mod by Quarn and Dejunai.


Unlike L&G FG, this one should actually look pretty nice with the Unique Landscapes. Since all the regions are uniform, the mish-mash of flora and fauna found in the UL's ought to work fairly well.



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IS IT MEANT TO BE REALISTIC?
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Fuck off. I hate realism.


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BULRUSHES?
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Bah!


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CREDITS
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Momo's Palm Resource.
http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/33175

I'd be lost without it. My eternal thanks, Momo!


New Plants 1_1 by Tamira
http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/43157

Again, absolutely essential. Thank you ever so much, Tamira!


Me. (Damn you.)


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MAY I?
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Please eviscerate this at your leisure. Take any part you please and do whatever you like with it. Put it in other games. Put it on any website you want. Mangle it. Improve it (that wouldn't be hard). Masturbate over it.

You name it.


The only comment I will make about what I'd like to see done with it is that it ought to remain FREE.


Credit is awfully fetching but completely unnecessary.


Enjoy.


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SCARPER
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: Bugger off!