The Gislinge is a boat was found 30 years ago on the island of Sjælland in Denmark, near the village of Gislinge.
It would date from the year 1130, end of the Viking Age.

Shortly after this archaeological discovery, the Viking Ship Museum (Roskilde) made a replica of the Gislinge.
A few years ago they decided to make it an Open Source project so that everyone could build their own.
Since many people have started on this project, you can see one of these projects in this short video.





A few months ago I came across a very good 3D replica made by Opus Poly that he recreated using this open source project.
When I saw this boat I thought it would be really cool in Skyrim. So I adapted it and converted it to the best for the game. I also added a lot of color to the vertices.



It therefore replaces the Vanilla RowBoat.
I didn't keep the mast, the sail and the ropes because this mesh already has a lot of poly. Then three-quarters of Skyrim's rowboats are moored or ashore.
So by removing these parts their number is divided by almost two. (I'm currently working on an even more optimized version, which removes unnecessary little details, I'll put it in the optional files when it's done.)

Why use Base Object Swapper of PO3 if it's a mesh replacement?

Although I adapted this new mesh as much as possible to the Vanilla mesh, the Vanilla mesh has a big mistake in its design.
On the Vanilla mesh the height of the slice of the boards is unrealistic, it would represent a height of the slices of around 50cm... This design error finally represents a great advantage, it is that we can quickly place the mesh in the CK without worrying about how it is placed, nor how objects are placed inside. Basically less chance of something going through the hull.

With the new Gislinge mesh, you have a more realistic edge height, which is problematic due to the chaotic vanilla mesh placement. (I noticed that the meshes placed by mod authors have a much more correct placement.)
So some RowBoats that have a part on the ground, the so can sometimes go through the hull.
That's why I use BOS.
You would therefore have a new Mesh (The Gislinge) which replaces all the Rowboats and the Vanilla mesh (My FYXed version) which replaces some RowBoats which have a problematic placement. Give some variety.

You may be telling me that there is the [Transform] function of BOS which could replace the RowBoat correctly instead of replacing it with the Bethesda mesh.
Yes, but as I'm lazy and it must probably take a long time, I opted for the replacement. If there are people motivated to make your _SWAP.ini file with this function, go ahead. :)





Basically, this mod will be compatible with almost any other mod.

I see you coming! "Is it compatible with Realistic Boat Bobbing?" 
- Yes ! in any case of all the places that I have tested they work perfectly together. As RBB replaces a "static" version with an animate "movablestatic" version and the new Gislinge mesh also has an animate version it will be replaced by this new mesh. So in theory you won't have any problem. (I didn't check all the places because it would take too long. I'm counting on you to let me know if there's a problem.^^)


PATCH

You can find in the MAIN file a file named "ALT - RowBoat - MODS - BOS_SWAP.ini" which includes lots of patches for minor bugs of different mods.
Here is the list:


The list may seem small to you, yet I have tried a loooooot of mods, if it is not in this list it means that they are directly compatible. Proof that it is compatible with the majority of mods.
You can imagine that I can't try Skyrim's 60k mods! So if you see a bug in a mod, please tell me so that I add it to the list. Simply take a screenshot with "More Informative Console" and click on the problematic rowboat. or give me the reference of the rowboat and the name of the .esp, without this information I could not add it to the list. I also won't go looking for it myself even if you just tell me "there is a rowboat in this mod that needs to be patched".

JK's Skyrim has its own _SWAP.ini file because there is a reference based on Skyrim.esm and I don't want to impose this change on those who don't use JK's Skyrim.


Mod not supported at the moment

- DK's Realistic Nord Ships SSE of JPSteel
Reason : This mod adds its own new mesh for the RowBoat, and as this mesh does not have the same placement (it is higher in nifskope). If you try to replace it with the Gislinge you will have flying RowBoats. Maybe I'll try to adapt the Gislinge for this mod later.



- You can of course create your own _SWAP.ini patch !
- If you don't like the texture, create your own ! ;)