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A mod that changes the look of the vessels used by the Travel Services. Additional vessels added in certain areas. Mod has 2 esps, one for Morrowind only and one for Bloodmoon that changes the vessels at Fort Frostmoth and Raven Rock.

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Ship-Boat Retrofit v1

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I really noticed how old, worn and grungy the vessels were after applying
Connary's hull textures and decided that no respectable shipmaster would
allow his or her vessel to fall into such a state of disrepair. I mean,
pirates and scalawags take better care of their ships then these
people do!

So with that in mind, I first learned the types of woods common to the
old sailing ships and other sea craft of those days. Then began a long
and tedious search for the right textures, meaning free and of good
quality. Since most woods were oak (white or red), teak, and pine, I
settled on the light brown, reddish brown, blond or honey colored woods
that you see used in this mod. One deviation to that idea is the
multi-colored wood for the cabin and railings. I chose this wood because
I felt that the cabin looks as though it is carved out of a massive tree
trunk and any wood taken from that trunk would be used elsewhere on
the ship.

I would like to have made this a pluginless mod, but I did not want to
change the look of the shipwrecks and some of the other longboats. Also
many of the rowboats are found in caves or near caves being used by
smugglers and bandits, and why would they need a nice looking rowboat?
These boats and ships are for people who operate within the law, so the
one ship I did not retrofit was the Grytewake that is owned by Velfred
the Outlaw. An exception is Galyn Arvel in Ald Velothi, who purchased
one of the retrofitted ships. Seems either abolitionist work, possible
ties to the Arvel Planation family or possibly smuggling has netted
Galyn a tidy profit.

I also retrofitted the gondolas at each of the cantons. I felt that to
keep peace as much as possible with the Dunmers, the Imperial
shipwrights were asked to build new gondolas to be sold at a fair price
to the gondoliers.

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Installation:
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Unzip the contents of the file to a temp directory then just copy/paste
the contents of the Data Files folder to the Morrowind/Data Files
directory. All meshes are orginal Betheads meshes and have been renamed,
all textures are new and begin with tx_ship_(...).dds, so you should not
get any overwrite messages the first time this is loaded.

There are 2 esp files, so choose either Ship-Boat Retrofit.esp if you
use Morrowind only or Ship-Boat Retrofit BM if you use the Bloodmoon
expansion and want to change the look of the ships and boats in
Bloodmoon.

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Options:
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If you have a texture of your own and would like to use it instead of
the textures I supplied, simply rename your texture to match the name
of the texture being replaced then copy your new texture into the
Textures directory and answer Yes to the overwrite.
Ex: If you are replacing the texture for the deck of the ships, name
your texture tx_ship_deckplanks.dds and copy to the Textures dir.

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Conflicts:
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Should be none, since it is basically just a unique retexture mod, but
will conflict with any mod that changes the ships or boats, though I
couldn't find any.
Any mods that adds more ships, such as Imperial Navy, will not be
affected by this mod as it is unique to specific vessels already in
the game.

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Credits:
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Deviantarts.com for most of the wood textures
VectorGraphics.com for other wood textures
Bethesda for the meshes
Myself for the mod and the love of a beautiful sailing ship.

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Version:
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1.0 - No updates, unless people feel I should add more boats/ships.
Will not add Tamriel Rebuilt ships, so don't ask.

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Rights and priviledges:
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You have my okay to upload to another site, but do not take credit
for the work. I can't keep track of any uploads off this site, so
if updates are done, it will be the uploader's responsibility to
update the file. If you do upload and wish to let me know where it
can be found, drop me an email: see Contact Info below.

All meshes are Bethesda originals, use them as Bethesda directs.
All textures were free jpg images and modified slightly by me.
You are free to use any textures from this mod.

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Contact Info:
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Email: [email protected]

or leave me a comment here at the PES site
PES username: ddfields