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Darkens all interior cells and increases radius of all light sources. Light and shadows become more dynamic, locations that had very little light are a lot darker now, and places where there are no light sources at all are now truly dark! There is also sunlight though (some) windows.
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- Changelogs
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU SHOULD CONSIDER VERSION 1.1 OBSOLETE (See HERE for Mudcrab Island Edit).
THIS HAS BEEN CLEANED BY Necrolesian AND YOU SHOULD START WITH HIS VERSION.
Necro's version is here: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/47133
I have added a tweaked version of Necro's "Lights Only / Original Colors" ESP to the downloads.
No longer requires Atmospheric Sound Effects Expanded, swing sound for swinging lanterns is now included.
Call it version 1.5.
TLAD Necro Logical Flicker Edit AND SOME TWEAKS (v1.5)
Contains only the lights from True Lights and Darkness...
1. Flicker effect is applied in a more consistent manner (Necro)
2. Retains TLAD's original colours (EDITED A LITTLE SEE #4)
3. Radius Tweaks inspired by Glowing Flames (600 Radius for High Quality)
4. Some similar colour tweaks to a few lights inspired by Glowing Flames
5. Much Longer Lasting Torches and Lanterns (up to a point)
6. Swing Sound from ASEE/Expanded Sounds
7. Lanterns in CharGen boat fixed script
8. No Swingrope sound for CharGen boat lamps (v1.3)
9. Includes Necro's separate Daylights/No-Vivec-Plaza adjusted for BCOM (v1.4)
A. No longer requires ASEE, the sound and soundfile are included
Torch 400 radius 10800 (3h)
Torch High Quality 600 radius 21600 (6h)
Torch Poor 300 radius 3600 (1h)
Travel Lantern 350 radius 43200 (12h)
Travel Lantern Bullseye 600 radius 86400 (24h)
Travel Lanter Poor 256 radius 21600 (6h)
Changes ->
First off a big Thank You to Necrolesian for removing all the junk from the ESP. Back when I edited this (10 years ago?) I did not have the tools we have today, I could not see all the position edits etc that creeped in. If you'd rather not play with the Byblos300 colors then use Necro's version of TLAD, it's the best one out there. And do like I do, use "Let There Be Darkness" to apply the AMBI settings to interiors, so you use the ESP for just the lights and the Better Sorting Names...
For myself, since I may play this a second time, I made some changes to Necro's Edit...
First off is a bigger radius for high-quality Torches and Lanterns - I tried the Glowing Flames radius changes to (all) Torches and Lanterns but interior places where these were used were indeed Glowing Hot. So I decided to increase radius only for the high-quality ones. With all these new "Darker Nights" mods we now have, this will come in handy. I'd like to increase that to 700 (like Glowing Flames, useful when we carry) but I'm afraid some places using HQ lights will just glow like the sun. There are 2 lights in the game with 750 radius and pretty much unlimited time, Pilgrim's Lantern and The Watchman. One of the Pilgrim's is in the Ebonheart underground caves, the other in West Gash (outside). The Watchman is in Skaal Village (outside).
Next, I listened to Poodle Sandwich (Glowing Flames) and fixed those too-garish colors that he tweaked, basically Saphire candles and lanterns, and pure purple light_de_lamp_05 ones. I applied a similar color as Glowing Flames but I did all the "Saphire" ones the same, and I changed all of the light_de_lamp_05 rather than just 2 of them. There's plenty more "crazy" colors, but I just went with Poodle Sandwich's edits...
If you came here looking for the Mudcrab Island patch, I have released it separately.
The old ReadMe ->
True Lights and Darkness 1.1
Released 2011-07 by B00ze, [email protected].
This is a mod for Morrowind + Expansions (Bloodmoon and Tribunal). It is the "completion" of a project by Cool Demon that unfortunately he could not finish.
The goal of the mod is better explained by the original author:
ORIGINAL True Light and Darkness README
True Lights and Darkness 0.5
By Cool Demon (:[email protected])
Resurrected courtesy of BungaDunga
“In the original Morrowind package, light didn't play any large role. Almost every internal location was lighted, even if there were no lights nearby. The lights that existed had very little effect on the environment and their range was very limited. Abilities like Kajiit night vision, light spells and moveable lights had very little impact in game play (you could basically do without them through the entire game).
The True Lights and Darkness mod changes all of that! Light will become much more dynamic, locations that had very little lights are a lot darker now, and places where there are no light sources at all are now truly dark! There will not only be more darkness, there will be also more light effects like Daylight shining though windows. All together you have a more atmospheric light experience. Next time you go investigate some dark caverns or tombs, you are advised to have lights available."
And since I've included Byblos' colored candles, here's his readme:
ORIGINAL Lights 300 by Byblos README
What It does:
Reworks all lights in the game to be more colorfull, dynamic, magical and realistic.
Colorfull, Dynamic, and Magical:
Red Candlesticks now have red flames and light, and are called Ruby Candles, Green have Green flames and light, and are called Emerald, same with all other colors. Plus there are now a few new types of candles, Black candles with red flames are Called Daedric Candles, White Candles with white flames are Aedric Candles. To see a difference, go to Riv-var in Balmora, All of his Purple (Amythist) Candles will now give his shop a magical feel instead of their old orange glow.
SUMMARY OF WHAT IT DOES
1) All interior locations have been darkened; sunlight is now mininal; caves have zero light.
2) The radius of most light sources you can see (e.g. candles) has been increased by a large factor.
3) Sunlight has been added to some windows (a version without these sunlights is included).
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1
My apologies I forgot to "dontsaveobject" all those daylights - now fixed; your savegame size will not increase with TLAD anymore. This obviously affected only the version WITH the daylights.
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.0
The main point of the new version of the mod is that it now applies to Morrowind and both expansions. It is now an Ambiance and Light enhancement mod only; all objects related to sneak-bonuses have been removed (there was nothing active anyway; it was incomplete) and it has been cleaned with TESTool.
Also, scripted sunlights (so very few) have a new script that no longer interferes with ASE and gives less sunlight in cloudy to rainy conditions. I made a version without the sunlights too, in case you're using another mod that does the same thing. I've also included the excellent color enhancements of the Byblos Lights 300 mod into TLAD.
Finally, I've toned-down the light radius changes that were in version 0.5. The light radius "boost" the mod gives to all lights now takes into account the original Morrowind radius, instead of being based solely on the type of light (e.g. tripple candles all with same radius in TLAD v0.5). The result is better shadows, more realistic, softer and subtler lights; it looks more natural.
To benefit from this mod you must be using quadratic light attenuation. It is HIGHLY recommended that you use Jeoshua's solution (see Readme inside archive for more information and for the settings).
It is also recommended you use the Morrowind Code Patch and enable the Lighting Fixes Group, so that the light held by your PC is not doubled (causing everyone to glow when you approach them).
Details:
- Removed any reference to sneak bonus/penalties; now all it does is lights and ambiance.
- Incorporated Byblos Lights300's color and name changes (nothing else; use Light300 itself to pickup Firepits etc).
- Changed names so that all candles etc group together in your inventory (e.g. Silver Candle -> Candle Silver).
- Applied darkening to all BM/TB expansion interior cells (but kept original "tint" of light so mood is not lost).
- Tweaked radius of all light sources; more than plain morrowind, but less and more subtle than original TLAD v0.5.
- Increased time for candles, torches and lanterns (so there is no need to carry a 6 pack of torches around).
- Fixed all scripted sunlight(s) so they take weather into account (no longer interferes with ASE lightning effects).
There are 3 types of torches and 3 types of travel lanterns:
Torch 400 radius 1800s
Torch High Quality 500 radius 3600s
Torch Poor 300 radius 900s
Travel Lantern 350 radius 5400s
Travel Lantern Bullseye 500 radius 14400s
Travel Lanter Poor 256 radius 3600s
BONUS MATERIAL: MUDCRAB ISLAND TLAD ESP
As a bonus, I am including a "TLAD" version of the amazing Mudcrab Island (v1.02) mod's ESP, by Phaedrus.
I've darkened the rooms, added some lights and fixed/tweaked a few things.
To use it, you will need to get the full Mudcrab Island mod, and instead of using the mod's original esp, use TLAD's.
THIS HAS BEEN CLEANED BY Necrolesian AND YOU SHOULD START WITH HIS VERSION.
Necro's version is here: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/47133
I have added a tweaked version of Necro's "Lights Only / Original Colors" ESP to the downloads.
No longer requires Atmospheric Sound Effects Expanded, swing sound for swinging lanterns is now included.
Call it version 1.5.
TLAD Necro Logical Flicker Edit AND SOME TWEAKS (v1.5)
Contains only the lights from True Lights and Darkness...
1. Flicker effect is applied in a more consistent manner (Necro)
2. Retains TLAD's original colours (EDITED A LITTLE SEE #4)
3. Radius Tweaks inspired by Glowing Flames (600 Radius for High Quality)
4. Some similar colour tweaks to a few lights inspired by Glowing Flames
5. Much Longer Lasting Torches and Lanterns (up to a point)
6. Swing Sound from ASEE/Expanded Sounds
7. Lanterns in CharGen boat fixed script
8. No Swingrope sound for CharGen boat lamps (v1.3)
9. Includes Necro's separate Daylights/No-Vivec-Plaza adjusted for BCOM (v1.4)
A. No longer requires ASEE, the sound and soundfile are included
Torch 400 radius 10800 (3h)
Torch High Quality 600 radius 21600 (6h)
Torch Poor 300 radius 3600 (1h)
Travel Lantern 350 radius 43200 (12h)
Travel Lantern Bullseye 600 radius 86400 (24h)
Travel Lanter Poor 256 radius 21600 (6h)
Changes ->
First off a big Thank You to Necrolesian for removing all the junk from the ESP. Back when I edited this (10 years ago?) I did not have the tools we have today, I could not see all the position edits etc that creeped in. If you'd rather not play with the Byblos300 colors then use Necro's version of TLAD, it's the best one out there. And do like I do, use "Let There Be Darkness" to apply the AMBI settings to interiors, so you use the ESP for just the lights and the Better Sorting Names...
For myself, since I may play this a second time, I made some changes to Necro's Edit...
First off is a bigger radius for high-quality Torches and Lanterns - I tried the Glowing Flames radius changes to (all) Torches and Lanterns but interior places where these were used were indeed Glowing Hot. So I decided to increase radius only for the high-quality ones. With all these new "Darker Nights" mods we now have, this will come in handy. I'd like to increase that to 700 (like Glowing Flames, useful when we carry) but I'm afraid some places using HQ lights will just glow like the sun. There are 2 lights in the game with 750 radius and pretty much unlimited time, Pilgrim's Lantern and The Watchman. One of the Pilgrim's is in the Ebonheart underground caves, the other in West Gash (outside). The Watchman is in Skaal Village (outside).
Next, I listened to Poodle Sandwich (Glowing Flames) and fixed those too-garish colors that he tweaked, basically Saphire candles and lanterns, and pure purple light_de_lamp_05 ones. I applied a similar color as Glowing Flames but I did all the "Saphire" ones the same, and I changed all of the light_de_lamp_05 rather than just 2 of them. There's plenty more "crazy" colors, but I just went with Poodle Sandwich's edits...
If you came here looking for the Mudcrab Island patch, I have released it separately.
The old ReadMe ->
True Lights and Darkness 1.1
Released 2011-07 by B00ze, [email protected].
This is a mod for Morrowind + Expansions (Bloodmoon and Tribunal). It is the "completion" of a project by Cool Demon that unfortunately he could not finish.
The goal of the mod is better explained by the original author:
ORIGINAL True Light and Darkness README
True Lights and Darkness 0.5
By Cool Demon (:[email protected])
Resurrected courtesy of BungaDunga
“In the original Morrowind package, light didn't play any large role. Almost every internal location was lighted, even if there were no lights nearby. The lights that existed had very little effect on the environment and their range was very limited. Abilities like Kajiit night vision, light spells and moveable lights had very little impact in game play (you could basically do without them through the entire game).
The True Lights and Darkness mod changes all of that! Light will become much more dynamic, locations that had very little lights are a lot darker now, and places where there are no light sources at all are now truly dark! There will not only be more darkness, there will be also more light effects like Daylight shining though windows. All together you have a more atmospheric light experience. Next time you go investigate some dark caverns or tombs, you are advised to have lights available."
And since I've included Byblos' colored candles, here's his readme:
ORIGINAL Lights 300 by Byblos README
What It does:
Reworks all lights in the game to be more colorfull, dynamic, magical and realistic.
Colorfull, Dynamic, and Magical:
Red Candlesticks now have red flames and light, and are called Ruby Candles, Green have Green flames and light, and are called Emerald, same with all other colors. Plus there are now a few new types of candles, Black candles with red flames are Called Daedric Candles, White Candles with white flames are Aedric Candles. To see a difference, go to Riv-var in Balmora, All of his Purple (Amythist) Candles will now give his shop a magical feel instead of their old orange glow.
SUMMARY OF WHAT IT DOES
1) All interior locations have been darkened; sunlight is now mininal; caves have zero light.
2) The radius of most light sources you can see (e.g. candles) has been increased by a large factor.
3) Sunlight has been added to some windows (a version without these sunlights is included).
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1
My apologies I forgot to "dontsaveobject" all those daylights - now fixed; your savegame size will not increase with TLAD anymore. This obviously affected only the version WITH the daylights.
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.0
The main point of the new version of the mod is that it now applies to Morrowind and both expansions. It is now an Ambiance and Light enhancement mod only; all objects related to sneak-bonuses have been removed (there was nothing active anyway; it was incomplete) and it has been cleaned with TESTool.
Also, scripted sunlights (so very few) have a new script that no longer interferes with ASE and gives less sunlight in cloudy to rainy conditions. I made a version without the sunlights too, in case you're using another mod that does the same thing. I've also included the excellent color enhancements of the Byblos Lights 300 mod into TLAD.
Finally, I've toned-down the light radius changes that were in version 0.5. The light radius "boost" the mod gives to all lights now takes into account the original Morrowind radius, instead of being based solely on the type of light (e.g. tripple candles all with same radius in TLAD v0.5). The result is better shadows, more realistic, softer and subtler lights; it looks more natural.
To benefit from this mod you must be using quadratic light attenuation. It is HIGHLY recommended that you use Jeoshua's solution (see Readme inside archive for more information and for the settings).
It is also recommended you use the Morrowind Code Patch and enable the Lighting Fixes Group, so that the light held by your PC is not doubled (causing everyone to glow when you approach them).
Details:
- Removed any reference to sneak bonus/penalties; now all it does is lights and ambiance.
- Incorporated Byblos Lights300's color and name changes (nothing else; use Light300 itself to pickup Firepits etc).
- Changed names so that all candles etc group together in your inventory (e.g. Silver Candle -> Candle Silver).
- Applied darkening to all BM/TB expansion interior cells (but kept original "tint" of light so mood is not lost).
- Tweaked radius of all light sources; more than plain morrowind, but less and more subtle than original TLAD v0.5.
- Increased time for candles, torches and lanterns (so there is no need to carry a 6 pack of torches around).
- Fixed all scripted sunlight(s) so they take weather into account (no longer interferes with ASE lightning effects).
There are 3 types of torches and 3 types of travel lanterns:
Torch 400 radius 1800s
Torch High Quality 500 radius 3600s
Torch Poor 300 radius 900s
Travel Lantern 350 radius 5400s
Travel Lantern Bullseye 500 radius 14400s
Travel Lanter Poor 256 radius 3600s
BONUS MATERIAL: MUDCRAB ISLAND TLAD ESP
As a bonus, I am including a "TLAD" version of the amazing Mudcrab Island (v1.02) mod's ESP, by Phaedrus.
I've darkened the rooms, added some lights and fixed/tweaked a few things.
To use it, you will need to get the full Mudcrab Island mod, and instead of using the mod's original esp, use TLAD's.