Oblivion

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Unique Lore-friendly Ayleid tileset to build new structures, partly based on Angawey. INTERIOR version only.

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First release of ABS, a modders' resource to build brand new, beautiful, even unique Ayleid structures. This package contains everything to a nice build, but interiors only. Exterior parts will be available in another version. I had a few feedbacks about Angawey, and after I learned anough what was good, or what's not, I decided to rework the complete vanilla Ayleid tileset from scratch... piece by piece.
NOTE! Since I aimed at "New" buildings, there is no parts regarding to a "ruined" state. Therefore I skipped the rumbled, damaged pieces, and traps. They're not need for a new building.

Features:
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- It looks great, just as an Ayleid building must have to look:)
- Original Bethesda tileset for Ayleid interior structures completely reworked.
- Partly factory, partly handcrafted textures in maximum of 1024x768 resolution.
- Most of objects UV mapped again by hand, even smaller and simpler ones.
- Every pieces has new texture, hopefully nicer than original.
- I kept the original naming, with a prefixing e.g. "ARRmLedge.nif became "ABSARRmLedge.nif", this makes extremely easy to replace old pieces, or identify them.
- Every object mapped to its own resources, so there is NO any dependencies from any other mods, or resource packs.
- A small plugin, "container.esm" included. This contains all pieces of ABS, if you want to try it out the statics, just load it up. (NOTE: You may create your own non-static objects, like doors, containers - they are only in Static in the esm for trying purposes - DO NOT LOAD IT IN GAME)
- There is a few other objects cutted from complex factory meshes, but can be useful for builds. They have a "ABSARTG11" prefix.
- There is a few prefixes, I used to distinguish similar pieces: If a given piece also made out White Marble, it have "WM" tag. If a given piece also made out from rougher stone, it has a "Q7" tag. For example: "ABSARBlock", "ABSARBlockWM", "ABSARBlockQ7".

Problems.
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A very few objects has a catastrophic UV mapping by factory, especially the ARPitxx series. In some places, you may notice a few tiny texture seams - Not really noticeable, but they're are. I don't wanted to waste weeks to redraw the whole texture set for a little brick, so I worked out the I was able.

Installing.
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All of my mods uses the "Adabala" directories for their resources.
Since ABS is the successor of Angawey, it contains a few items which will be overwritten, but only the improved files: In this case, a few textures were replaced, while new meshes are in different directory within "Adabala" folder. For any overwriting prompts, just say Yes.
If you have no Angawey installed, you know the drill: copy the Data folder to the proper place.
You don't need invalidation, nor any magics.

Uninstall.
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There is no need to remove them if don't want to use, since it's not a mod.
But if you vant to do so, just remove the Adabala directories, and that's all.
If you have installed Angawey, you can remove the resources, but you need to reinstall Angawey's original resources after deletion of ABS' files.

Credits
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Thanks to css0101 for Ancient Elven Resource resources.
Thanks to Ceano, and AXLRocks for textures, and the Dark Ayleid tileset.
Thanks to Bethesda for creating Oblivion, and its Construction Set.
Thanks for AXLRocks for his help on texturing problems.
Thanks to TESNexus.com for the a one-stop-shop resource for authors and players.
Thanks to the OBSE team for OBSE.

Tools Used
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Gmax - http://www.turbosquid.com/gmax
DDS Converter - http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=8698
GIMP - http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=14920
NIFSkope - http://niftools.sourceforge.net/wiki/NifSkope
Oblivion Mod Manager - http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2097
Oblivion Script Extender (OBSE) - http://obse.silverlock.org/
TES4Files - http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=8489
TES Construction Set - http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=11367