About this mod
A standalone, pluginless model of Bethesda's Vanilla Morrowind Golden Saint modelled from Bethesda's stock meshes in Better Bodies inspired meshes. It's mapped for the Vanilla Golden Saint textures by default, so you can use any Vanilla Morrowind Golden Saint textures you prefer.
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Author: tiebrakre
Pluginless Better Bodies Vanilla Morrowind Golden Saint and Staada mesh replacer.
Mods required: Vanilla Morrowind.
Mods recommended:
-- Better Bodies (Derp!)
-- Darknut's Creature Texture Replacers (I *HIGHLY* recommend *ALL* of his texture replacers!)
-- *THIS* pne, Darknut's Creature Texture Addendum, specifically!
-- BTB's Game Improvements (Ahh, Uncle BTB....)
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Why this mod? (And why I created it in 2014....yes, 2014! Apologies, I fell pregnant!):
Logitech, noted scripter/programmer of yore, whom I once saw via the BethSoft forum trying to incorporate the Vanilla meshes on Westly's BB Golden Saint, inspired me to make a BB Golden Saint who wears the Classic Stock Vanilla Armour design in BB style. She uses the Stock Vanilla Textures and UV mapping.
I created higher resolution (512 and 1024) improved textures I spruced up from the Stock Texures and increased in resolution. (Yes, I'm aware it's....been some time... since the original BethSoft forums went teats up!)
Note: If you do not like the textures I have created, I *HIGHLY* suggest Darknut's Better Creature Textures. Yes, I'm redundant! #Sorry, not sorry!
If you already have Darknut's, or any other texture replacer, installed, simply install the mod without my textures (the meshes' default texture paths are .BMP).
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What this mod does:
The is simply a pluginless replacer for the Golden Saints, with armour meshes based on the classic assymetrical Vanilla GS Armour meshes and made for BB. It also is mapped for and uses Stock Vanilla textures, so's you can use any texture replacer you like.
The GS come in three flavours: Short Original Bethesda Hair, Medium Length Hair salvaged from Better Heads and augmented by me, and a Long Hair model made from Better Heads and Elric Melnibone's Long Braid.
And!!!...A stand alone plugin for Staada, the only Golden Saint in Morrowind with a unique name - and part of a quest. So's I decided to give Staada a unique, symmetrical armour (both of her upper arms and gauntlets are armoured symmetrically) made from Stock Meshes and UV mapping, made her *much* tougher, and made two plugins for her in-game placement. She also has Long Hair from the Long Hair Model. (Yes, I know... not *QUITE* Vanilla, but you may opt for the Short Original Bethesda Hair. Simply use either .ESP then overwrite Staada.NIF with any of the other Golden Saint models. Easy Peasy!
-- Staada plugin #1 (The BTB Edit) has her Bound Spear as an Ability, along with some elements from Sheogorath's Blessing spell. The spear disappears when Staada is killed.
-- Staada plugin #2 uses the unused Long Spear mesh from the Construction Set CD for a unique enchanted spear for Staada. (Feel free to adjust prices in the CS if you think the loot is unbalanced). Also note the spear textures are placed in a discrete folder (Staada's Spear) to avoid conflicts with other texture replacers. The spear uses stock Vanillla Textures, so overwrite the texures in the folder, "Staada's Spear," to complete your texture preferences.
I also included a Staada resource, which you can rename to "Golden Saint.NIF" and then replace should you prefer that design for your pluginless Golden Saint uniformly. It's more along the design of Psymoniser's, "Westley's BB Golden Saint Replacer."
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Credits:
My Teacher Moranar, without whom I could never have done this mod.
Archimaestro Anteres for the idea of BB Golden Saint armour, and from whom I used his GS Curiass design.
Psymoniser, who made the first pluginless BB replacer, and studied his design for my own mod.
Westly, who made the first ever BB Golden Saint mod (along with those tiny stilleto heels! I never did like them!)
Darknut, who inspired me to make better textures.
Gorg, Elric Melnibone, and the Better Heads folks who made hair for Better Heads.
Bethsoft and BB for the use of their meshes.
**You may use these resources as you see fit, but **PLEASE** credit the authors for the work!!!!**
-tiebrakre