Name: Pose Pack - Pose Compendium AE (Addpose Edition)
Version: 1.x
Date: 09/01/2014
Category: Animations/Miscellaneous
Requirements: OBSE, Pluggy, Oblivion Mod Manager (OBMM), ORIGINAL mod packs (see required tabs for exact specifications), above average understanding of mod installation and configuration
Author(s): andriypotapov


Description
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Pose Compendium is the express way to posing.

Fast pose change without menus. You will be able to navigate through hundreds of poses in seconds, switch between default and artistic pose in one key click, group your favorite poses the way you like it, remove poses you don't care about.


Location
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Upon installation of the mod "Pose Compendium AE" book will appear in your inventory.


Requirements
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Oblivion v1.2.416
OBSE v17 (or higher)
Pluggy 125b (or higher)


Details
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An extension of ideas from original Pose Compendium (animation navigation and selection) mod with simplified integration with animation mods in CTAddpose format.

Pose packs are great but their interface ... not so. Most of animation packs are packages in popular CTAddpose format (one item, one spell, multi-level menu to navigate). Having to click through dozens of menus to realize that pose you were looking for is not here. Pose Compendium gives you express access to HUNDREDS of poses alredy packaged in multitude of CTAddpose variants

I will eventually cover most of CTAddpose variants. It is quite easy generally BUT takes some time if authors desided to be "special" and deviate from CTAddpose template.


Usage
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Use Pose Compendium AE book once it has apper in your inventory. It work even better if you assign it to shortcut.
Explanation of menu items:
- Use it now. Start posing. Yes, that is IT.
- Save it for later. Do nothing, put book down.
- Start over. Reads groups configuration anew. Picks up changes made in configuration file.
- Get rid of it. Disables Pose Compendium quest, removes book. Dont forget to uninstall.
- Toggle Debug. Very useful when setting up your own groups, you will see id of pose currently displayed. Sometimes need to use that twice (dont ask why).

Once you start posing session you control process via KEYS only, no more menus.

Default KEY binding.
P - Previous pose in group
[ - Force currently selected pose
] - Next pose in group
; - Previous group
' - Next group
. - Reset animation (default idle)
/ - Stop posing session
Edit "PoseCompendium_AE-keys.ini" to change bindings.

Sample posing session
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Nice location, weather is amazing, I want to screenshot it.

1. Use Pose Compendium book
2. Select "Use it now"
3. Change group until you find group you are looking for. After a while you will start recongnizing first animzation of the group.
4. Change pose withing group until you find THE ONE you looking for.
5. (Optional) Adjust your shaders (OBGE, etc)
6. (Optional) Change facial expression
7. (Optional) Toggle flying camera (~tfc)
8. (Optional) Disable menu (~tm)
9. Take that screenshot
10. Reset animation
11. (Optional) Stop posing session. You dont have to stop posing session, you can get back to posing anytime without invoing menu.


Pose packs covered
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See required files for links

CTAddpose v_1 by v_1
OSR Poses by Pizz and Lera
CTAddpose_LE01 by Reso
Sexy Witch Poses by Nagothm
Simple Pose by Geechan
CTAddPose SPB 02 by A-Type2
CTAddpose_glock3 by glock3
CTAddPose Gaff by ku (2 mods)
NaRae Pose 01 by JIH
NaRae Pose 02 by JIH
Halos Poses Compilation by Halofarm (5 mods)
Goma Pose by Goma (16 mods)


Install
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Caution: Above average understanding of mod installation and configuration required.

1. Make sure you are running update Oblivion (you should be OK if you manage to run OBSE).
2. Make sure you have OBSE 17+.
3. Need to have Pluggy (OBSE Plugin). All "magic" around arrays facilitated by Pluggy.
4. Install ORIGINAL pose packs that you want to control via Pose
Compendium AE. If you miss this point you NOT going to get great results
(missing animations, not working animations, meshes, textures, etc). Usually people pretty good at installation of pose packs, everyone want nice pose in screenshot.
5. Install Pose Compendium AE with pose packs you want to control (not every pose pack supported, see list below). Technically in this step original esp files will be replaced with Pose Compendium AE variant.
6. Download archive with groups configuration (PoseCompendium_AE-config.ini).
7. Unpack content to your personal folder. You should end up with ini file
in "(user folder)\My Games\Oblivion\Pluggy\User Files\" location.
6. Tweak "PoseCompendium_AE-config.ini" to include only required groups
(you can always download fresh copy if you mess up, backup helps too).
7. Well, pose away


Uninstall
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1. Uninstall Pose Compendium AE
2. Uninstall all ORIGINAL pose packs
3. Remove config file from "(user folder)\My Games\Oblivion\Pluggy\User Files\" location


Incompatibility
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This mod does not change anything existing in game thus no major incompatibility.
Could conflict with other mods if control keys overlap. Edit "PoseCompendium_AE-keys.ini" to change bindings.


Known Issues or Bugs
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1. Q. Animations look not right
A. Animations are NOT mine I can't help how they look.

2. Q. Some textures or meshes are missing.
A. Have to have original pose pack installed.

3. Q. Got book. Got menu. But nothing happen.
A. Toggle debug on, enable console output (~tdt). Try to "Start Over" couple times. Have to say how many groups loaded.


History
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1.1 2011/09/03 - Covered more pose packs.
1.0 2011/09/02 - Reworked indexing and loading of config file. Ini file contain samples of configuration now. Covered more pose packs.
0.9 2011/09/01 - Allergies got me bad again. Desided to play Oblivion, end up modifying original Pose Compendium to include new pose packs.

Contact
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Contact me on TESNexus


Credits
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Thanks to these guys and gals for those great pose packs:

CTAddpose v_1 by v_1
EFG's Pose Mods (Japanese mod)
JOJO's Pose Mods (Japanese mod)
Pose Thumbnail Poses 1_1 by Selene310187
OSR Poses by Pizz and Lera
CTAddpose_LE01 by Reso
Sexy Witch Poses by Nagothm
GS Pose Pack resource by GS_Storm
Simple Pose by Geechan
Pose Pack 2 by Greek Storm and Pacific Morrowind
OSR Poses - Translated by barkera
CTAddPose SPB 02 by A-Type2
CTAddpose_glock3 by glock3
CTAddPose Gaff by ku
Dungeon Poses by Pollan
NaRae Pose 01 by JIH
NaRae Pose 02 by JIH
Goma Pose by Goma

Thanks to Bethesda for creating Oblivion.
Thanks to TESNexus.com for the a one-stop-shop resource for authors and players.
Thanks to timeslip for Oblivion Mod Manager that saved me hours and hours of mod management.
Thanks to LHammonds for the Readme Generator this file was based on.
Special thanks to teams behind TES4Edit and TES4Gecko.


Tools Used
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7-Zip
NIFSkope
Oblivion Mod Manager
TES4Edit
TES4Gecko
TES Construction Set
Readme Generator (LHammonds)


Licensing/Legal
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You can do whatever you want with this mod.
This mod DOES not include nor modify assets from ORIGINAL animation packs, only provides mechanism to access those.