BCOM Rocky West Gash
By Publicola

Version: 1.2

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Contents
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1. Requirements
2. Description
3. Changelog
4. Permissions
5. Installation
6. Incompatibilities
7. Load Order
8. Credits


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Requirements
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Morrowind
Beautiful Cities of Morrowind


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Description
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In August 2021, malbogatra released 'Rocky West Gash', a massive and incredibly immersive overhaul of the West Gash region.
Unfortunately, it conflicted with just about everything.

Within a week, Bluttier released a 'Compatibility Version' that made RWG compatible with most Balmora overhauls, including Stonewood Pass. Unfortunately, the initial release left the most of the landscape changes and barely touched Gnisis. (More recent versions have since cut most of the landscape edits and made RWG much more compatible in general).

A day later, Damius released an 'Aggressively Compatible Version' based on Bluttier's initial patch, that stripped all of the landscape edits to the whole region, along with all of the changes south of Caldera, and made even more edits to Gnisis, making it even more compatible. Unfortunately, the result still left BCOM Gnisis borderline unplayable, due to massive rocks covering multiple doorways in the area. There were also numerous floaters, and between the BCOM expansion of the Gnisis docks and the RWG expansion to the cliffs opposite Gnisis, the River Samsi that ran south of the city was basically non-existent.

Now, a few months later, I'm releasing my own personal edit of Rocky West Gash. I took Damius's 'Aggressively Compatible patch and cut out anything that conflicted with BCOM, especially around Gnisis -- the cliffs that circle the city are now fairly bare, but all of the doorways are now accessible, and the River Samsi is once again navigable. I also cut out any floaters, edited the mucksponge pool west of the striderport, and removed as many of the buried RWG rock statics that I could find. I also removed a number of rocks around 'Moonmoth Legion Fort' for compatibility with the BCOM version of the fort, and removed some of the cliffs south of Ald Velothi, as they conflicted with the BCOM edits to the Ald Velothi dock.

In addition, I also made a number of changes around Andasreth, to make Rocky West Gash fully compatible with both the
Andasreth Stronghold overhaul as well as 'Justice for Khartag' Khartag Point overhaul.

Finally, I cleaned with tes3cmd, and then checked with Morrowind Enchanted Editor to clean any other dirty edits to other cells.


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Changelog
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1.0 - initial release
1.1 - added UV fix for one of the rock meshes, provided by PikachunoTM
1.2 - added Vanilla-Friendly Rocks (provided by 1Mac) as a recommended addon -- they slightly improve FPS, and are a much better fit for vanilla aesthetics. Also fixed two issues (buried fence post near Khuul, buried tomb entrance near Maar Gan) inherited from the original RWG mod.


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Permissions
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You may modify my mod without credits or permission. Please credit the original author (malbogatra) wherever possible.
This mod includes assets from both Rocky West Gash (by malbogatra), the 'Aggressively Compatible Version' (by Darius), and the 'Modestly Compatible' update (by 1Mac)


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Installation
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Download, extract, install with a mod manager (I use Mod Organizer 2), and enable the BCOM Rocky West Gash.esp.

This mod is a complete *replacer* for malbogatra's Rocky West Gash. You do not need either the plugin or assets from the original mod or previous compatibility versions.

This mod is packaged as a BAIN installer.
00 Core contains the main plugin.
01 Stratified Rocks contains the original meshes and textures made by malbogatra, optimized by Damius
01 Vanilla Friendly Rocks contains replacement rock meshes by 1Mac that point to rock textures present in the base game.

Only pick one of the 01 options. I recommend the Vanilla-Friendly version, which slightly improve FPS and are a much better fit for vanilla aesthetics.


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Incompatibilities
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I cannot guarantee that BCOM Rocky West Gash is compatible with any mod that affects any cell in the West Gash region, besides
the ones listed in the description: BCOM and all of the patches & replacers packaged with it, including Stonewood Pass, Caldera Mine Expanded, Foyada Mamaea, and Red Mountain Reborn; Andasreth Stronghold; Justice for Khartag).
BCOM Rocky West Gash is also compatible with any mod that edits Sheogorad, including 'Sheogorad, Groves of the North'.

If you find a mod that's incompatible, or can confirm that a West Gash mod *is* compatible, let me know in the comments!

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Load Order
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Rocky West Gash *must* load before Beautiful Cities of Morrowind.


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Credits
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Thanks to Bethesda Softworks for developing Morrowind and the Construction Set.
Thanks to malgobatra for making the original Rocky West Gash mod, to Bluttier and Darius for their compatibility patches, and to 1Mac for their vanilla-friendly rock meshes.
Thanks to Nox Plaguewind for extensive testing and double-checking of my work. This mod would not exist without their help. If I missed something, you should totally blame them.