The Skeletal dragon and the dragon skeleton left post soul absorption (underskin) are edited to have the features of the GoT/HotD dragons for consistency when using those as replacers. This aims to lessen clipping of vanilla skeletons appearing right after the modded dragons are slayed. 


The Skeleton with horns is used as a separate mesh for the live skeletal dragon npcs found inside the Labyrinthian (COW questline) and any mods that adds those npc dragons. 

the skeleton without horns is the underskin which is the remains of the dragons after being killed (after soul absorption).


- Skeletal dragon inside Labyrinthian and modded ones using this mesh will have the GoT horns and teeth and edited skull structure to match.
- Separated the Skeletal dragon from using the underskin mesh, ESPFE
- Underskin is edited with no horns, just the skull structure and teeth, to make it versatile for the GoT Dragons, HotD Standalone, as well as my edits also (as they have different horn structure).
- Dragon bone clutter is also edited

Plug and play

- Main file - Skeletal Dragon - This mod does not include the skeleton textures, only the custom tattered wings. This is using the vanilla dragonbone textures default path (dragonskeleton.dds/dragonskeleton_n.dds) for the Skeletal dragon. This will be the same for the Optional dragon bone clutter

- Opt. file - Dragon bone clutter (base and dlc2), wall mount, trophy


Choices

- Main file - Underskin - Note that this will clip through vanilla dragons of course, mainly the chest area as vanilla dragons have smaller chest.
- A OR B
- You can choose: A.) for the mesh with the default texture path above
- or B.) mesh with separate texture path (dragonskeleton01.dds & dragonskeleton01_n)

- For B.), you'll need to rename another texture set 
- Gamwich's RUSTIC DRAGON CORPSE - Special Edition is using this format for the underskin mesh
- You can either download Rustic dragon corpse and overwrite the underskin mesh included or, if you have another preferred texture replacer, RENAME the other dragonbone textures to the ff.:
- dragonskeleton.dds > dragonskeleton01.dds
- dragonskeleton_n.dds > dragonskeleton01_n.dds
- all inside data\textures\actors\dragon
- This is required for B or you'll have a purple underskin mesh.



* textures used in the screens are slightly darkened Frankly HD Dragon Bones for Skeletal dragon/bone clutter and Crispy Dragon Bones for underskin


UPDATE:
1.1 - Underskin update
- updated for the mesh update changes of HotD Dragons Caraxes 3.0 and Meleys 2.0

2.0
- Mesh updates to all files.
- updated for the mesh update changes of HotD Dragons Arrax and Vermax 2.0
- Refined mesh - Skeletal dragon and Underskin - higher poly on parts that matter
- skull
- torso
- upper arms
- legs
- Dragon bone clutter - refined meshes


Optionals
- Standalone - Choose 'Darker' versions 4k/8k OR the main files
- Custom Darker textures for both the Skeletal dragon and the Underskin (derived from vanilla, upscaled).
- Underskin - with burnt texture made with integrating the burnt parts only of SavrenX's Crispy Dragon Bones texture into the darker textures
(credits to him for the use of his texture asset)
- Darker textured dragon bones clutter for consistency.


NEW Optional files - SoS patch (vanilla and dark texture paths)
- I've found the SoS folder 'dragonbones_snow' is the only thing missing as patch for SoS. Added the corresponding meshes in the optional files section. Mesh settings, I've checked, seems fine. Let me know if there's anything I missed.
Credits to:
Visit their respective linked pages for more of their mods! Endorse while you're at it :D
Original Author - KaienHash - HotD and GoT Dragons Standalone for the awesome dragon mesh
XilaMonstrr - HotD Dragons 8K-16K - Cleaned and Upscaled Textures (Game of Thrones) for the textures edited
SavrenX's Crispy Dragon Bones for the textures edited and integrated