This mod was never slated for release and in the end of my Oblivion love, my HD died and I lost everything, including this. However, thanks to jesuslizard69 asking for it after all this time, I decided to try and find it to finally toss it up. Thanks to Griffinrider, I managed to get my hands on the omod again (bless you) so here it is. Please note, this race is prolly buggy as heck and mostly only good for looks. Still, here it is, after years and years. Enjoy it.

And as much as I wanted to, this is the original file, NOT the one that had my zebra skins in there. I'm so sorry, but when I said I lost everything, I meant everything.

My hooves mod MIGHT be required for this race to work properly. I'm not sure. http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/38090/?

BlockHead ver. done by roblesstevena: http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/48015/?



Name: Tal'Ratha
Version: 1
Date: 7/25/2011
Category: Races, Classes and Birthsigns
Requirements: Coronerras Maximum Compatibility Skeleton
https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/27945



Description
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Add's the Tal'Ratha (and their corrupted brethren, the Tal'Rathaka) to the game as a playable race.

Currently the female hooves are LL HGEC and thus ONLY WORK WITH HGEC NORMAL TOPS (and apparently Selobl body top). Please don't make a comment that it doesn't work with DMRA top or Manga top or something, for I will ridicule you for not reading this. Male hooves are based on the standard Robert male size. I don't know how well they'll work with bigger or smaller tops. Yes, male hooves come with tackle, if you don't like it, remove it.

This race was never intended to be released to the general public. A lot of people wanted it, however, so I finally broke down and said okay, and made a lot of tweaks to make it an actual race. However, it's what I like (as it was meant to be a private race), so it's not 100% perfect and there are a lot of things I could work on, but I simply don't have the time at the moment (real life issues, so please don't get on my back about it).

In the future, I would like to release addons, such as hooves for different body types, plus things like horn jewelry and what have you.

There are no plans to make a UFF/whatever version, I don't use the body and never will, so don't ask me.

There is an optional Ren Head mesh and Ren head textures, but I'm not guaranteeing they'll look proper.

Yes, I know men have limited hair options. I also know that one of the men hairs don't change colours. Sorry. It's one of the things I'd like to fix in later versions of the mods.

Hooves automatically get dropped into your inventory on the start of your game. I know this is annoying if you're not playing a Tal'Ratha, as it will drop them into your inventory anyways, but I'm not a script wizard and I don't know how to make it so it only drops into your inventory if your race is currently Tal'Ratha or Tal'Rathaka. If you want another pair, you can find a set in TestingHall (open console and type coc testinghall to get there. To leave, simply exit to hawkhaven and fast travel to anywhere).

OBMM Install
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1. Copy OMOD file to (install folder)\Oblivion\obmm\omod\
2. Start Oblivion Mod Manager.
3. Double-click the name of the mod in the right-hand side of the OBMM screen. (icon should turn blue)
-Optional to install the Ren Head in place of one of the other heads-
1) Rename the Ren_Head001.tri, Ren_Head001.egm, Ren_Head001.egt, and Ren_Head001.nif to either FemaleHead if you wish to replace the Tal'Rathaka, or Head06 if you wish to replace the Tal'Ratha and move them to the appropriate folders.
2) Copy the renhead.dds to a different folder and rename it H6face.dds, copy it into the texture folder, overwrite.
3) Copy the renhead_black.dds to a different folder and rename it to H6faceblack.dds, copy it into the texture folder, overwrite.
4) Copy the renhead_n.dds to a different folder and rename it to either H6face_n.dds or H6faceblack_n.dds. Copy it into the texture folder, overwrite.
Or simply change the path in Construction Set. :D


Uninstall
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1. Start Oblivion Mod Manager.
2. Double-click the name of the mod in the right-hand side of the OBMM screen, click Yes. (icon should turn green)


Known Issues or Bugs
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Seaming around the neck, but it's not something I'm going to fight with.
Seaming issues around the legs a bit where the hooves connected. Again, I'm not going to fight with it.


History
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1.0, 2011/07/25 - Initial release.


Contact
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You can find me on TESNexus as 'Geechan'
You can find me on TESAdventures as 'Geechan'


Credit
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Thanks to my beta testers, who helped point out things that could be tweaked.
Gizmodian for working with me on the Tal'Ratha eyes.
Bella for allowing me to use her custom head for the Tal'Rathaka females.
Anto for all coolsims hair styles.
Lucha for converting them.
RAIAR and Madcat221 for HGEC body.
dustinflan for the male texture resource.
Kris†a for the high res face and skin textures.
A big thank you to Griffinrider, for helping me refind this lost mod.

Licensing/Legal
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Do NOT redistribute any part of this mod in your own mod. Textures stay here, meshes stay here.
Do NOT redistribute this mod anywhere else. I will put it where I want it, thank you very much.