Assortment of high poly mesh and texture replacers for gourds using 3d-scanned real gourds. Finally a sorely-needed full overhaul of the gourd plant! Optionally put them all in your game with BOS. Includes unique changing models for Seasons of Skyrim. Patches provided for most food/cooking overhauls and survival mods. Everything is wrapped neatly into one user-friendly installer with everything you need.

REQUIREMENTS
 -Base Object Swapper
-Formlist Manipulator
-Seasons of Skyrim if you want seasonal models
If you choose simple mesh/texture replacement in the installer with NO Seasons of Skyrim, you don't need any of these.

TECHNICAL DETAILS
The mod is set up with compatibility in mind. There are four base gourd plant types. You can choose one, some, or all. Users who choose multiple variants have access to two versions, Stacking and Unique.

Unique: Gourd plants and each individual gourd in the world will be unique and they will keep their unique model once in your inventory. With the provided lightweight nonintrusive patches you can still use the new gourd types in new recipes and they will have the same stats as the base gourd.
Stacking: This version is the most compatible and needs virtually no patches. However, this is at the cost of inventory models not being unique and world models of single INDIVIDUAL gourds will not be unique either. Gourd PLANTS will still have unique models. This means your plants will be variant but when harvested will create one stack with a single model in your inventory.

Seasons of Skyrim users will see seasonal progression in their gourd plants. There are two summer gourd plants and two winter gourd plants. Depending on which variants you choose you could have gourds harvestable only in summer, only in winter, or both. Take a look at the images to get a better visual idea of the progression. If you do not use Seasons, your gourds will be harvestable year-round. All versions come with snow models to swap in snowy areas but you won't see them in-game because vanilla Skyrim does not place any gourds in snowy areas, and I could not find any popular mods that do so either. In the future if I can find any mods that do so, the update will be easy to push through because the inis are already setup for the process. Those experienced with modding will be able to add the records themselves if they find any (though do let me know)!

TOOLS USED
Photoshop CC
Substance Painter
Crazybump
Blender
Nifskope
Outfit Studio

CREDITS
Delicata Squash 3D Scan by Arkify 3D - CC Attribution
Gourds! [CC0] by Crew Froebel - CC Attribution
Butternut Squash by Akiko_NAKAMURA - CC Attribution
Elongated pumpkin by 3dhdscan - CC Attribution NonCommercial
Base image for squash flowers and leaves free for use from Pixabay
Thanks to the folks from the College of Pepe discord for enduring my crazed sleep-deprived fretting over squash pixels!

PERMISSIONS
Patches or extensions of my work are permitted as long as you do not redistribute the assets without modification. Do not upload upscales/downscales or 'optimizations' of my textures; do not use any of my assets in paywalled content; do not use my assets in projects that include AI-generated images.