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Slof's Epona by AlienSlof
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INDEX:

*Requirements
*About this mod
*Installation
*Known Bugs & Issues
*Incompatibilities & Save game warnings
*Credits & Usage
*Special Notes

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REQUIREMENTS:
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Oblivion (of course!) v1.2

I've been asked a few times to make the faithful steed from Legend of Zelda, so here she is. I've only actually seen her in action once, and the rest I've used reference pics for her colouring. Saddle and bridle are a combination of Zira's and my own designs - I wanted something significantly different.

As well as being a fully playable mod, this is a preview of my upcoming heavy horses, still very much works in progress at the time of writing this. As such there may be oddities such as clipping here and there; the horse is a different shape than the usual ones, with a much heavier build. She is also a mare.

When you load the game after installing this mod, you'll gain the lesser power "Command Epona"
Command Epona Menu:
Summon - Summons her
Follow - Make her follow you (she seems to be a bit willful here and sometimes stops)
Stay - Stop her following you
Saddlebags - Use her saddlebags
Charge - When activated if you run while riding Epona, she will rout your opponent
Stop Charge - Deactives the charge
Waterwalking - Makes Epona able to walk on water
Stop Waterwalking - Deactives Waterwalking
Unsummon - Unsummons Epona


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COMPATIBILITY:
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Epona uses all her own meshes and textures, and shouldn't conflict with any of my horse mods, nor require them.

However, she likely will conflict with the Summonable Zebra by Skingrad24: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=17074 - reason for this is that I've used his mod as the base and just changed the horse and command messages. I know nothing much about scripting, so most of it is still intact, including object names.


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INSTALLATION:
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This mod should consist of:
Meshes folder
Textures folder
Slof's Epona.esp

Just drag all these (minus the readme) onto the data folder in your Oblivion directory and they will go where they are meant to.

For those new to installing mods, I recommend reading this: http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=550589 - It will save me having to answer the same questions over and over again. It's not difficult, just takes a little practice!


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KNOWN ISSUES OR BUGS:
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This is a work in progress mesh, and there may be odd bits of clipping here and there. I will be fixing these as I continue work on my heavy horses project. She is normal-sized when you summon her in, but like all horses, she will grow or shrink to fit the player.

Suggestions and improvements welcome.

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CREDITS & PERMISSIONS:
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All credits to Skingrad24 for the scripts and base mod - most of the work is most definitely his.

Meshes and textures by AlienSlof
Some bridle pieces by Zira

I would like to thank the following people for their wonderful Blender tutorials which have helped me out enormously:

SickleYield
Kikaimegami
Jclyde

Also the clever folks who created Blender and Nifskope.

These meshes are not to be re-used under any circumstances, nor converted for females. Permission will be denied. This file is not to be redistributed to other sites. This is an adult mod and I'm not prepared to take any crap about it.

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SPECIAL NOTES:
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I can be found on TES Nexus.