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Includes over 120 new saddles, 11 new horse breeds, faction barding, bannered saddles, and the meaning of life.

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EQUESTRIAN
An SC - Horses Overhaul

This mod requires SC - Horses from Annie Lenine's Patreon page (it's free!). The goal of this mod was to make a little more variety appear in the game in terms of horses. This does not change the amount of horses you can purchase, but it does change the amount of horses you will see in your adventures. I also wanted to make it as customizable as possible, similar to games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and The Witcher 3. I also also wanted this to just play as an aesthetic in the background and not bother me while I was playing. That's why you need special "Saddle Tools" to craft any of the new content at the forge or tanning rack and why it is not necessary to be able to access your horse's inventory. Although, I would be remiss if I did not say accessing your horse's inventory accesses more content. I wrote "access" too much, it's lost all meaning. Access..... AK-sess... axis......... asses....

HUGE thank you to zzjay!! Without their mod Horse Overhaul, and their permission for me to use their assets, this mod would have been far more challenging to make.


IMPORTANT NOTE:
Great care was taken to ensure NO ASSETS from SC - Horses were used in the making of this mod. The textures were ripped from The Witcher 3 personally and I used GIMP in order to paint the textures that are included. If SC - Horses assets are referenced, it is all handled within the .esp file. So, ya know... the original mod is STILL a hard requirement. There were changes that I would like to have made to the horse meshes themselves for this mod but I am unable to do so. If people are interested, I can write out a tutorial on the mesh changes I've made for my personal game.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ATTENTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This mod will not work with a vanilla start. Will need an alternate start mod like Alternate Start or Skyrim Unbound.
Sorry for this. Currently working on it.

REGARDING CONVENIENT HORSES
Convenient Horses is a fantastic mod and was a staple in my load order for many years. Unfortunately it is incredibly difficult to add anything new to horses with Convenient Horses installed. I have sent DMs to mitchalek in the past about collaboration or insight into how to further expand on Convenient Horses and they have yet to respond. Possible reasons for this are they receive a lot of DMs so they have the feature switched off, numerous requests and they cannot respond to everyone, or they are just simply not interested. Any reason is perfectly fine, really. However, until I can get into contact with them about adding what this mod does to Convenient Horses, there will be no official support and all messages requesting compatibility will be ignored.
Thank you in advance for your understanding.



FEATURES
- Adds over 120 saddles to leveled lists (Isn't that a bit overboard? Well no... Not just a bit.)
- Common, Fine, Knight, Barding, Bagged, Bannered
- Highly customizable
- Choice of over 30 Common Saddles
- Choice of over 30 Fine Saddles
- Choice of 2 types of Saddle Bags in 2 colors
- "Saddle Bags" increase horse carry weight by 50, "Studded Saddle Bags" increase horse carry weight by 100
- Choice of adding Horse Plate Barding (AdvArmor crafting or lvl list 20+)
- Re-textured horses that better fit the vanilla look.
- Upgraded eye texture from 128x128  to 1024x1024.
- Original Brown
- Yellow
- Blue
- Renamed Original 5 and added 11 New Horse Breeds that will be encountered in the world.
- Black - vanilla
- Black Pinto - vanilla
- Dark Bay - vanilla
- Grey - vanilla
- Palomino - vanilla
- Bay
- Blonde Bay
- Blonde Dapple Red
- Brown Pinto - in screenshots
- Brunette Palomino
- Dapple Brown
- Dapple Grey
- Dapple Red
- Light Bay
- Light Grey
- Red
- Faction Barding
- Dawnguard (purchasable through Gunmar)
- Imperial
- Stormcloak
- Buy and sell saddles with all five stable masters
- 10 random saddles that will improve in quality as the character levels up (lvls 9,15,20)
- Unique Form List for food and saddles
- Imperial Saddle available through Katla and Stormcloak Saddle available through Ulundil.
- 2 New Keywords for form lists and mod interaction (mostly IED adjustments)
- ArmorHorseBarding
- ArmorHorseSaddle
- Fly banners from generic flags to faction flags
- All 9 Holds
- All 4 Generic Flags
- Dawnguard
- Imperial
- Summerset
- Stormcloak
- Thalmor
- Custom Banner!! (more info below)
- Horses Have Names
- Markarth: Basalta & Traver
- Riften: Caster & Smoke
- Solitude: Pelelana & Stereas
- Whiterun: Queen Alfsigr & Karinda
- Windhelm: Nurnhilde & Hjalmer
- Unique Horses & Saddles
- Frost
- Shadowmere
- Smiles (Cicero's horse)
- Astra (Karliah's horse)


FUTURE PLANS
Bug Fixes:
- Vanilla Start compatible
- Missing texture issues that are causing purple meshes
- Horse Mesh fix written tutorial
- Double check issues with Khajiit Caravans
- Test Mid Game installation
- Immersive Citizens patch
- Clipping issues with the armored saddle meshes
- Vanilla manes issues (although, most roads are leading to an Anniversary Edition bug. I also do not own AE.)
Additional Content:
- More metal tiers for armor
- More head armor models from TW3 (extracting meshes from that game is a goddamn nightmare)
- Vanilla Horses edition (this will be a separate mod)
- Possible CC Wild Horses support... we'll see... I do not currently own it.
- Blaze of Eventide support (this will come along with the Vanilla Horses version)


CRAFTING
- You will need to purchase "Saddle Tools" from one of the stable masters to craft anything (did this to unclog smithing lists)
- Some saddles or saddle pieces will have requirements in order to craft.
- Ex. Studded Saddle Bags needs steel smithing perk, Plate Barding needs adv armor smithing perk.
- BANNERS:
- Banners will use vanilla textures (Sigils of Skyrim is recommended but not required)
- Anything Banner related will be made at the Tanning Rack and require 4 Linen Wraps.
- Hold Banners will require the torso armor of a hold guard as an ingredient.
- "Leather Saddle" is required for Hold Banners, Summerset, Thalmor, Mara, and Arkay
- "Knight's Saddle" is required for Generic Banners, Thalmor Knight, Summerset Knight, and Knight of Arkay.
- Faction Banners will require that you only have the torso of the corresponding faction in your inventory.
- Ex. Hooded Thalmor for Thalmor Knight Saddle
- Banners can be deconstructed at the Tanning Rack back to the original saddle
- 4 Linen Wraps and other crafting ingredients will be lost
- All Common and Fine saddles cannot be crafted. That would be A LOT of recipes that would be annoying both for me and the player. You will have to buy them through the stable-masters or encounter them in the world.
- Tempering is unavailable. May be added later if people want it.
- Advanced saddle recipes work as leveling up your old equipment
 - Ex. "Knight's Saddle" needs a "Frayed Saddle" as an ingredient, "Traveling Knight's Saddle" needs a "Knight's Saddle", etc.



MAKING A CUSTOM BANNER (for a quick banner)
- The texture file is located at textures\SC\4_Ports\11_horses\Custom Banner
- Visit Join the Realm to create your own sigil.
- Once finished, click the "Save/Continue" button
- Click the "Download" option
- Find the .jpg file on your computer (wherever downloads go)
- Open the texture file using your favorite photo editor. My choice is GIMP, which is an open source (which means free) photo editor, with the .dds addon.
- Now open your downloaded .jpg file from Join the Realm using the same editor.
- Resize the .jpg to fit the original texture and export it as a .dds (required in order to be used in Skyrim).
- Export it to CustomSigil.dds.
- If using GIMP, you'll want to export it using Compression: BC3 / DXT5 and Mipmaps: Generate mipmaps.



COMPATIBILITY
- This mod touches almost every horse in the game. It was designed as a companion mod (as there is a patch in the optional files) to Immersive Horses but it is not required. So anything that isn't Immersive Horses will need a patch if it touches any of the vanilla assets listed below.
- Does NOT touch the horse race but SC - Horses does.
- Fully Compatible with my other mods Use Those Horses and Carry Your Carcasses.
- INCOMPATIBLE with Convenient Horses
- UNTESTED with ANY OTHER HORSE MOD.
- Anything that touches these files will need a patch:
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Armor Addon
- NakedHorseAA
- NakedHorsePalominoAA
- NakedHorseGreyAA
- NakedHorseBlackAA
- NakedHorseBlacknWhiteAA
- HorseHarnessAA
- HorseSaddleShadowmereAA

Armor
- HorseSaddleImperial
- HorseSaddle
- HorseHarness
- HorseSaddleShadowmere

Container
- MerchantRiverwoodTraderChest
- MerchantSolitudeStables
- QAClothingJewelry
- DLC1VendorChestGunmar

Faction
- WindhelmStablesFaction
- MarkarthStablesFaction
- WhiterunStablesFaction
- RiftenStablesFaction
- ServicesSolitudeStables
- SolitudeStablesFaction

Leveled NPC
- LCharHorse
- LCharHorseSaddled

Non-Player Character (Actor)
- Geimund
- Horm
- Katla
- Cedran
- EncHorseSaddledBrown
- DA08KarindaHorse
- MQ101Horse
- EncHorseSaddledBlack
- EncHorseSaddledBlackAndWhite
- EncHorseSaddledGrey
- EncHorseSaddledPalomino
- EncHorseBlack
- EncHorseBrown
- EncHorseBlackAndWhite
- EncHorseGrey
- EncHorsePalomino
- HorsesForCarriageNew
- HorsesForCarriageTemplate
- DBCiceroHorse
- MS03Horse
- DB10PenitusOculatusHorse
- MQ101CartHorse
- CWCourierHorse
- dunPOISmugglerHorse
- CaravanAHorse
- CaravanBHorse
- CaravanCHorse
- WindhelmStablesHorseUnsaddled
- SolitudeStablesHorseUnsaddled
- RiftenStablesHorseUnsaddled
- MarkarthStablesHorseUnsaddled
- WindhelmPlayerHorse
- WhiterunPlayerHorse
- SolitudePlayerHorse
- RiftenPlayerHorse
- MarkarthPlayerHorse
- WERoad12Horse
- TG05KarliahHorse
- DLC1_WESC07_EncHorseSaddledGrey

Outfit
- HorseSaddleOutfit

Worldspace
- 0000003C Tamriel
- 00000D74 Cell




INSTALLATION:
  • Go to SC - Horses download page
  • Download LE Version
  • Download SSE Overwrite
  • Install LE Version
  • Install SSE Overwrite and overwrite the files in the LE Version
  • Install Equestrian
If Using Immersive Horses
  • Download and install Immersive Horses
  • Install Equestrian - Immersive Horses patch
Load Order with Immersive Horses
- Immersive Horses.esp
- SC_HorseReplacer.esp
- Equestrian - An SC Horses Overhaul.esp
- Equestrian-Imm Horses - patch.esp




FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (MOSTLY BY MYSELF)
Q: Why didn't you start this overhaul doing vanilla horses first?
A: Because this started out as only making a few saddles and then, well... I made a few more. Also, I'm a big, dumb idiot.
Q: Can you flag this as an .esl?
A: Sure could! But I'm not sure I'm done with this mod. And since flagging as an .esl would require compacting this and that, I am going to wait until I know this is finished.
Q: I WANT THESE ARMOR NOW!!
A: Kindred spirit! I am also impatient! The console can help you with this. Everything added by this mod has the word "Saddle" in it... or "Barding". So type "help" in the console followed by one of those words.
Q: Is this compatible with Convenient Horses?
A: Nope. There is a work around pinned in the comments section but I have not tested it myself as I no longer use Convenient Horses.




SPECIAL THANKS FOR ASSETS USED
zzjay's Horse Overhaul by zzjay
Humus Cubemaps by billyro
Oblivion Horses by OlegSerih0
Convenient Horses by mitchalek
CD Projekt Red (Witcher 3 is AMAZEBALLS)



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Claim a Horse by DarkFox127 - (allows you to claim "stolen" horses.)
Sigils of Skyrim - Banners by JDAnchor
Yee Haaaa Horse Saddle Retexture by IWantATardis