I love Argonians, but their vanilla peewee noodle tails were an absolute crime against nature. Bigger Argonian Tails was a fantastic substitute, but something still felt kinda off. Animations felt wonky, the tails moved like they didn't have any real weight behind them, a bit like stiff cardboard cutouts.

Physics helped a TON when it came to movement, but the Argonian tails from HDT Equippable Tails were even smaller noodles :(

Then, finally, the inspiration for this mod came out! HDT Equip - Big and Stiff Preset for Argonians was a literal godsend! Size AND physics!! Yippe!! However, something still felt not quite right because I'm an incredibly picky autistic human being and these tails didn't have enough CHONK and WEIGHT and MOVEMENT to them!

So here we are with this bad boy! This is essentially a mesh replacer for the original HDT Equippable Tails, using their original physics with my edited mesh! (though when I say edited, I really just mean changing the size and moving the bones around a bit)

Your lizards will really feel like their tails have some weight to throw around when you walk, run, turn, swim etc. Tails are BIG (2x vanilla), and LONG (just enough to not clip through the ground), and they have built in upward curves at the end so they'll always feel like they're juuuust that bit closer to dragging across the ground!! (OR, when you're standing on an object/cliff/riding a horse and your tail hits the 'fake-physics-floor-thing', it will look like your tail is instinctively curling away from the edge of the thing you're standing/sitting on! Ain't that neat?)

COMPATIBILITY

Not sure if it needs to be said, but this mod is NOT compatible with:

- Any other mods editing the [Male/Female]tailargonian.nif files
- Tail armors/accessories that rely on the VANILLA Argonian tail meshes

None of these will break your game, however they will likely just not work when they interact with your Argonian tails

However, this mod IS compatible with:

- Any Argonian retextures

- Any Argonian npc/follower mods that use the game's vanilla tail mesh (they will use this one instead! woo!)

TLDR: Use your common sense! If you have Argonian tail mods/accessories installed, use them OR this not both etc

Installing

I've hopefully successfully packed this mod into a vortex friendly folder now! Woo! (thank you theocddragon :D) So just install like any other mod!

If you still want to do it manually, then:

Just extract and pop these files into -> steamapps\common\Skyrim Special Edition\Data\Meshes\actors\character\character assets !

The file names are the same, so just replace whatever tails you've got already with these bad boys! (Maybe make a backup, in case you don't like them D:)

Thank you for taking a look at my first attempt at a mod :D

[P.S, if you're not too happy with how the tails sit on your Argonian's rump, you can still adjust their position in racemenu!]