AznarsVampireShortCraving.esp
AznarsVampireLongCraving.esp
AznarsLifeDetection.esp

Version 1.5
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Information
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This is a balanced Vampire mod with the goal of creating a more realistic Vampire experience. I have used kiyoshi and ParasiteX's mod as a base because I liked their mod alot. I rebalanced the orriginal mod to make vampires more inline with the game and more playable as a whole. I tried to change all of the timings for cravings and damage from sunlight to fall more naturally over time as you haven't fed. As time goes on I am hoping to continue balancing this mod to keep it stable and make the experience of playing a vampire more enjoyable.

This also includes a modified life shader which gives creatrures a red glow and outline. Its blended with a low alpha making it very transparent to be more natural.

This includes a short craving version and a long craving.
The shortcraving.esp makes you crave blood roughly once a day (depending on age)
The longcraving.esp makes you crave blood everyone couple days (depding on age)

ONLY ACTIVATE ONE OF THE ESP (AznarsVampiresShortCraving.esp OR AznarsVampiresLongCraving.esp) along with the AznarsLifeDetection.esp

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Key Features
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Vampire Age levels: As you play a vampire longer you will age, gaining more powers and higher stat bonuses.

Vampire Powers: As you age and drink more blood you gain powers allowing you to turn invisible, offer sugestions, and other abilites.

Vampire Cravings: As you neglect to feed you will have cravings onset which add noticable effects to push you to feed.

Sunlight resiliance: So long as you are feeding regularly (once a day or more depending on age) you will be able to walk in the sun without worry of its effects.


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Fixes:
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I went ahead and fixed the health/fatigue/magika regeneration issue.
Stats are on their own disease effect (to be compatible with stat management mods).
Regeneration and shielding effects are on their own ability effect to perform correctly.
Fatigue drain on starvation removed, they are simply too buggy, I suspect if I migrated them to their own effect and tweaked with it I could get it to work... but 30 fatigue reduction doesn't realy matter that much.


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Rebalance:
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I love what this mod supports but I rebalanced alot of things to play more how I like vampires:

Cravings:
Cravings at all ages now occur MUCH more often. The youngest vampire will change cravings more than twice a day, while the oldest vampire craves once a day. I did this because the effect of being forced into life decection and nightvision realy helps drive the effec that you are a vampire with needs.

Sun Burns:
Because the cravings occur more often I balanced how long a vampire could be out in the sun. When a vampires first or second cravings hit the vampire will become susceptable to sunlight. I like this effect because you can stay outside as long as you've fed recently, and if you avoid feeding it hits you... yet another imersing effect that you must seek out blood.

Stat Rebalance:
I lowered all bounces due to vampirism. With the sun balance change I felt this was a needed trade off. Additionally the extreme stat bonus at late ages combined with the crazy damage negation was just too much. I lowered stats to be +5 for each new age level, sheilding to be +1, and resistance to weapons to be +2. At the last age this gives you +25 stats, +5% sheilding, and +10 resistance to weapons.

I also rebuilt the included shader (which was a great add to the package). It includes a more natural effect which is less pronounced in order to prevent the x-ray vision and make it a more natural transition (since you're spending alot of time with it on).


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Big Thanks
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Big thanks to Kiyoshi and ParasiteX for being such a good mod base to work with. ParasiteX is still working on his base and has some interesting changes planned.


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Input
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If you have any input or bugs please tell me. If you would like to use my mod or build upon it feal free.


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Known Bugs
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When you load your character the face is the default face (which looks bad). To fix this simply load another save first, then load your vampire save. This is a problem with Oblivion itself, hopefully I can find a work around sometime.


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Installation IMPORTANT READ THIS!
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This includes a short craving version and a long craving.
The shortcraving.esp makes you crave blood roughly once a day (depending on age)
The longcraving.esp makes you crave blood everyone couple days (depding on age)

Unzip the .esp files into your "Oblivion\Data" Directory

ONLY ACTIVATE ONE OF THE ESP (AznarsVampiresShortCraving.esp OR AznarsVampiresLongCraving.esp) along with the AznarsLifeDetection.esp

If you are upgrading from an old vampire mod. Please remove the old vampire mod first. Open your saved game and save it (with no vampire mods on). After turn on AznarsVampiresShort/LongCraving.esp. This should prevent any major complications


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Uninstallation VERY IMPORTANT YOU READ THIS!!
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To remove this mod you should:

A) Do not do the vampire cure quest (it may lock you into being a vampire permenently).
B) type "set Vampire.bUninstallMod to 1" in console. A message should eventually pop up letting you know mod has been uninstalled. It also resets you back to a original Oblivion Vamp if you are a vamp currently.
C) Once you have typed the uninstall command in game then its safe to remove the mod.

If you reinstall the mod again at a later date then you may have to type "set Vampire.bUninstallMod to 0" (you may not have to do this, but its not a bad idea.