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About this mod
Want different horses but you're attached to that "vanilla" touch? This mod is for you!
I remade all the vanilla horses to make them look better. Enjoy!
- Requirements
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- Changelogs
DESCRIPTION
The title already says it all, this is basically a "vanilla horses enhanced" mod.
No more sharing textures between 5 or more horses 'cause 70 new textures have been made
hence every horse will now have a unique look and marks!
All horse models have been entirely changed or slightly tweaked as I wasn't completely satisfied with vanilla ones.
All this was done keeping the original "vanilla" touch as much as possible.
Why is Stay Vanilla better?
Not only this mod enhances vanilla horses with new coats and models but it also adds a couple of cool things.
1. Eyes
In fact, Stay Vanilla adds new eye colors. You read it correctly, ADDS.
There will still be those brown and blue eyed horses, but keep an eye on those nags for different colored eyes!
2. Draft Horses' voices
I also modified all draft horses voices to make them sound much deeper (like the Ardennes does)
as I thought a big beast like a Shire or a Belgian should sound more, uhm, intimidating.
3. Coat Names
Some horse coat names have been changed too, maily to make them more accurate: for example, in the vanilla version, we have a Grullo Dun mustang (Grullo IS a dun variation, so saying Grullo Dun is redundant) which became simply "Grullo" with Stay Vanilla.
Feel free to correct me if there's something wrong with the names or,
if more coat names need changing, leave a comment and I will fix it in the next update!
I admit I'm not a very expert horse person, but I informed myself enough to know all the names I changed are pretty accurate.
4. Horse Statistics
Last but not least, horse statistics have been tweaked as I wanted every breed to be more unique, even in statistics
(stats have been mainly modified following real horse characteristics, such as speed for the american paint,
some others following my own personal taste).
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HOW TO USE
To make this mod work, you simply need to download three things:
Script Hook
Lenny's Mod Loader (LML)
Asi Loader
After you have successfully downloaded them, extract them (if you don't have any app to extract them, be sure to download WinRAR or another similar application that can open .rar files) and then open ScriptHook folder: place ScriptHook.dll in your RDR2 directory*;
Open LML folder and place everything you find inside the ModLoader folder into your RDR2 directory;
As for Asi loader, just place version.dll into your directory.
After you're done with all the installation process, you can download the mod file,
open its folder, and simply place both the subfolders inside the "lml" folder.
*(If you're playing RDR2 via Steam, your directory should be somewhere around here = This Pc/Local Disc (C:)/Programs (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Red Dead Redemption 2)
(PS: This mod strictly needs version.dll to work as intended, so don't ask me "can this work with OCU?", just use version.dll)
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CONFLICTS
This mod uses and modifies non-texture files such as pedattributes.ymt to change horse statistics, metapeds.ymt to modify draft horses' voices and assets_albedo.ymt to add new eye textures without overwriting the existing ones.
Therefore, this mod is incompatible with pretty much every other mod that uses and modifies these files.
If you attempt to use JUST the stream folder, without the linked assets, some of the horses will have missing eyes and mouth.
To avoid this, you must, at least, use assets_albedo.ymt.
You can put both pedattributes.ymt and metapeds.ymt apart if you don't care about stats/horse voices if
another mod you want to keep already modifies those files.
I'll list some of the mods that would conflict with mine**:
WhyEm's DLC
EEE
Better Horses
All horses are perfect
Cowgirls Revisioned
Ambient Gang
Red = highly incompatible: uses assets_albedo.ymt
Orange = uses metapeds.ymt and/or pedattributes.ymt
A Why'Em/EEE/Cowgirls Revisioned compatible version is downloadable in Optional Files.
This version only has Brown and Blue eyes and there aren't any changes in the horses' voices.
Apart from that, all the coats textures, names and statistics of the horses are modded. This version is based on patch 1.0.1***
If you want all the features of Stay Vanilla, you still have to give up on using those incompatible mods I listed.
**Feel free to write down a comment listing more incompatible mods and I will add those to the list too.
***this version still uses pedattributes so it's not compatible with those mods using it such as All Horses Are Perfect.
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AUTHOR'S COMMENTS
I've been working on this mod for more than 2 months so I'm very happy I can finally share this with y'all. This is the biggest mod I've ever made that took me more than 150 hours to complete! Am I a masochist? Maybe.
Why did I decide to make this? To be honest, the idea of remaking all vanilla horses popped in my mind one day and I said "Yeah, why not?"
I definitely wasn't expecting it to be so difficult to make but 70 textures don't make themselves in a couple of days.
Horses shown here in the pictures are absolutely nothing compared to what I didn't spoil. Some of these coats took more than 10 hours to make so, trust me, there are a lot of *chef kisses* in this mod.
Why didn't I spoil more? I mean, if I showed everything you won't be curious, right?
PS: Please, for the love of god, don't ask me which horse uses this texture cause you want to remove it or to upload horses separately.
If you like some of these but you're not gonna use all of them, you can use OpenIV to figure out which textures belong to a certain horse and, therefore, remove it. I would like you to use this mod as it was intended, as an overhaul.
If you want to download single horses, you should check my main mod.
I won't answer to these comments anymore.
(I'll put a FAQ here if necessary)
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CONTACT ME
For issues, bugs etc, I kindly ask you to write a report in the bugs section and to not contact me privately, so people with your same issue can confront with others and solve it quickly.
I'll leave my support mail here anyway, as someone might need personal assistance:
[email protected]
If you want to have a chat with me and my little lovely community, you should definitely join my DC server:
Discord Server
I'll leave my Instagram too, I usually am very fast at answering to DMs and I also post nice pics:
My Instagram
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DONATIONS
As I already stated before, It took a lot of time to make this mod, therefore, if you like it enough to make a donation,
I would be the happiest person on Earth.
My PayPal
And with that being said, thank you for reading!
