The player character will no longer make a gasping sound when emerging from a swim, if the Waterbreathing effect is active.  A previous very old mod for this was incompatible with Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition patch (it undid USLEP's similar fix for Argonian vampires; regular Argonians are already apparently covered by Waterbreathing as a general effect).


Installation and [Lack of] Requirements

Install like any other mod, whether with a mod manager or manually.  If asked to overwrite an existing "Waterbreathing Breathless Emerge.esp", do so.

This mod does not have Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch (USLEP or USLeEP) as a hard-coded master, but one would be foolish to be playing the game without it (or without Unofficial Skyrim Patch - no longer available on Nexus but findable via an Internet search - if playing a pure-vanilla game without the DLCs).


Possible To-do Item

Another improvement would be silencing this gasp sound if the player, without Waterbreathing, emerges before the breath timer enters the damage zone.  I'm not certain how to implement this; it may require changing the vanilla script to have the timer use a global version of its variable so that the value can be exported.  If anyone has any insight about this, please bring it up on the Posts page.


Permissions and Credits

I impose no restrictions of any kind on this dirt-simple patch.

This is a re-implementation of an idea first done by Alek/mitchalek in the 2012 mod "Waterbreathing Breathless Emerge".  It almost immediately became incompatible with Unofficial Skyrim Patch, and then the later/current Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch (because USkP and USLeEP as written by Arthmoor & friends didn't think to include this fix).

USkP and USLEP, however, did fix the fact that Argonians, including vampiric ones, shouldn't gasp for air when emerging, because they are natural waterbreathers.  But the Alek mod didn't have that.

So, this mod has both.

Alek's mod has the overly restrictive default permissions of Nexus. (It was probably released before a lot of those restrictions were even written.) However, the entire mod consists of the addition of a single condition, and there is only one way to code that condition.  (I.e., if 1000 modders successfully wrote a mod to do this fix, they would produce 1000 identical mods).  There is no intellectual property right to anything that simple and "no-alternative" in nature.  An idea cannot be copyrighted.

Taverner previously made a similar patch, for USkP, but it was not released as a Nexus mod and is no longer available at all.

I credit Alek.  For his insight and will to implement the idea originally, he gets 1/3 of this mod's Donation Points or Mod Rewards or whatever Nexus calls them now, and so does Taverner for trying to modernize it.  Especially since the entire USkP/USLEP team missed it.


If you want to credit Alek and Arthmoor further, endorse USLEP, and also download Alek's original WBE and wait 15 minutes or so and endorse it, too.