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Dwemer Skyship and mobile home with working flight controls. Will transport the player and up to three followers of the player. Has everything you would expect in a well furnished home and more including the kitchen sink. Includes the Dwemer Parachute.

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UPDATE 11-14-2022
Changed vertical control to 3 speeds. Keys are momentary press instead of press and hold. Works just like forward and back. All controls are set to zero whenever the ship stops by itself with a Low Altitude message. The first time you try it you might have to hit the up key twice depending on how the ship last came to a stop.

UPDATE 11-7-2022
Thanks to some expert help from LenaWolfBravil I have some important fixes and improvements. Lena has found a work-around to stop the ship from disappearing when going through city gates. This also eliminates problems with saving your game inside the ship. With these two fixes the Unofficial Oblivion Patch is no longer needed (not for this mod anyway).

Configurable key capability has been added. Copy the ini folder into your data folder and edit DwemerHome.ini. The key codes are in the readme. If you are happy with the current default keys you don't have to bother with the ini file. You don't even have to copy it into your data folder.

The wind sound has been fixed to stop playing if you jump off the ship or go inside.

A small improvement has been added to stop the weather from randomly changing if you teleport to skyship or enter and exit the ship.

A new BSA file has been uploaded with a more reliable ghost and bug bottle in the captains cabin. If you already have the three spells from the three bottles you don't need the new BSA. If any of those bottles didn't produce an activation icon you need the new BSA. After the BSA swap the bottles won't move so put them where you want before the swap.

You shouldn't have to uninstall and reinstall, just swap the ESP and add the INI folder if you want configurable keys. For now these two downloads are in the update file section.


HISTORY
This ship was first released by Mr_siika in 2008 and the description said you could control it but in the posts Mr_siika said the controls were not working. A couple other people have since released their own version saying they had the controls working but the posts still said the controls were not working. These old versions have not worked for me either. It looks like from the description that they were supposed to work as a horse mount adaptation.  I started from scratch with just the ship model and interiors, modified the exterior a bit, and added flight controls that work different from a horse mount so you can move about on the deck and look in any direction while the ship is moving.  If you're skeptical and don't mind the spoiler, the video demonstrates the movement of the ship.



CREDIT and THANKS
LenaWolfBravil
- Major programming help including a new script that fixes two previous problems and configurable keys.
Mr_siika - A masterpiece work of 3D modeling. The concept of the Dwemer Skyship. Excellent tutorials on using Blender specifically for Oblivion.

Centurion - Interiors and CS work
stroti - Bottle resources
QQuix - Script for the parachute.
side777 - Author of "Side's Sailing Ships" - Method of how to move a ship and passengers.
Kilos - Author of "Earth the Planet of the Gods" - General help, inspiration and testing. Sound resources and Sphere Centurion resource.
MikeCobalt - Testing
Phitt - Fishtank
Hel Borne - Upper class Weapon Racks, Alchemist Sink
kalikut - Cauldron
Academician_Nwah and Daleth - Alchemy sorter
Vality - 3d Map of Vvardenfell

INSTALL
Copy DwemerHome.esp and DwemerHome.bsa into your ...\Oblivion\Data folder and check it in the Data files section of the Oblivion launcher.

DETAILS
Movement is controlled with the hotkeys U H J K. You have to be on the deck for the ship to move and you have to either go up the ladder or use the Teleport to Skyship spell to get there. While moving you can't go through the doors or use ranged weapons. There are 7 speeds forward and backward. Repeatedly hitting the O and L keys will speed  up, slow down, and stop. There is a altitude sensor and it will stop movement and display a Low Altitude warning when too close to the ground.

The three bottles in the Captains Quarters will add or remove useful spells for the operation of the Skyship. For follower information, cast the spell and then open the console to see the output.

The  Skyship has the capability to transport three followers on deck. Followers must have AI package 1 and procedure 11 to properly move with the ship while it is moving. This is normally always the case if they are following you. You should go up and down the ladder with your followers for the ship to know when they are onboard. If you are on deck and summon a companion the ship won't know they are onboard but you can go through one of the doors and come back out and the ship will know your companion is onboard.

When descending for a  landing the ship will stop at a height that is proper for the bottom rung of the ladder. If the ground is not level the ladder height may vary. It is important to take care where you park the ship. If you are directly over a house and you lower the ship all the way, when you go down the ladder you may be inside the house and have to use the "tcl" command to get out. The same thing happens with large rocks. Use your local map and watch the ground as you approach your landing zone so there will be a clear spot below the ladder. The altitude detection only measures the distance to the ground and not to structures like bridges. So, if you want to stop and deboard over a bridge you have to judge the proper height for the ladder by eye. I find this difficult but you can always use your teleport to deck spell and make adjustments.

Every  once in a great while the Skyship stops moving for no apparent reason. When this happens use the activate key on Dwemer Home to resume movement. My troubleshooting efforts indicate this is caused because the Game Mode block of the ship script stops running which isn't supposed to happen as far as I know. If anyone wants to solve it the area around the IC Bridge seems to be a touchy spot where it happens.

I hope people will report any problems so I can try and fix them. I've spent a lot of time testing but only the community can be the final Quality Control for any mod.

MY OTHER AIRSHIP
My first Airship has a new optional download. It removes the capability to move the ship up and down while not onboard. Without this new option when the two ships are within sight of each other and you move the Skyship up the Airship goes up too because they share the same hotkeys. It doesn't really hurt anything, it just looks a little funny.

ISSUES
If you have a follower who has their own follower there may be a problem going through the doors to the interior.

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
When I first started using the Skyship in my game for the final shakedown testing I thought it was maybe a little big for practical transportation use and the smaller airship was better for just getting around Cyrodiil. This was mainly because of the care you have to take when finding a parking spot. Now that I've used the Skyship exclusively for transportation while on a mission to find every single oblivion gate the landing procedure is actually straightforward and not much trouble with a little practice. It gives the player something to do, like finding a good anchorage on a real ship on the water. Also, the view forward is better on the Skyship compared to the small airship that has the swan neck directly in front. The small airship is better with the death ray spell and visibility straight down if you feel like going on a mission to teach some bandits some manners.