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Intended for use with Tropical Skyrim. Replaces all the stable horses with tropical alternatives and places wild zebras in the worldspace.
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This mod is best when used with Soolie's Tropical Skyrim Climate Overhaul (http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/33017).
UPDATES:
3/17/2013 - version 1.01 (see change log for details)
This mod replaces all of the horses in the game with appropriately tropical variants. It also places 4 herds of zebra around the tundra between Whiterun and Rorikstead.
If you just want the replace the horses without adding the wild herds, there is an optional file that does just that!
As mentioned, there are 4 herds in the worldspace. They are:
1 - Between Pelagia Farm and the Western Watchtower (where you fight Mirmulnir).
2 - A little ways south of Hamvir's Rest, off the road between Greenspring Hollow and Dustman's Cairn.
3 - On a hill above Swindler's Den, northeast-ish.
4 - On the plains near Sleeping Tree Camp.
Herds consist of a stallion, some males, females, and foals. Stallions are aggressive by nature, and males will assist while the females and foals run away.
They drop horse hides & meat, as I did not want to introduce a bunch of new ingredients. If that bothers you - don't kill them! There is an option for the stallions to be set as "protected"
so they have a better chance of protecting their herd from predators, but you (the player)
can still kill them.
All of the textures from AlienSlof are mares. Which means that even though Frost and the zebra stallions are supposed to be male, they are not anatomically correct. I did this because I did not want to add Slof's male meshes (for reasons I will explain further down).
All horses have black manes and tails.
WINDHELM: Grulla Zorse
This will also replace all the horses the carriage drivers use.
WHITERUN: Zebra
Shadowmere may also possibly resemble a zebra: I have not checked. If anyone could confirm/deny this that would be great.
RIFTEN: Greyish Grulla
MARKARTH: Brownish Grulla
The horses for Riften and Markarth may look similar, but I promise you they are different textures!
SOLITUDE: Dark Bay
Frost will also resemble a black horse. I labored over this and ultimately decided that I wanted Solitude (which looks very Spanish with Tropical Skyrim) to have black horses more than I cared about Frost.
I highly recommend downloading a SLIMMING HORSE MESH. The current Skyrim horses look odd as zebras. I am still testing to see which one I like best, when I make a decision I will link it here for you :)
* As previously stated, all horses are FEMALE. I did not want to deal with the unique meshes for the zebra stallions and Frost, because I prefer them to be slim rather than anatomically correct!
* All horses have black manes/tails. INCLUDING THE ZEBRA. Yes, I know that zebras have stripey manes/tails, but because of the way the meshes are, the hair flops down & I find that the stripes look emo rather than zebra. I erred on the side of aesthetics and went with black.
* AlienSlof's textures have HORSESHOES. There is nothing I will do about this as I will not be editing her textures. If anyone wants to retexture a new zebra without horseshoes, I will add it instead of Slof's version. I will say, however, that I did not include her normal map (I used Bethesda's) so the horseshoes are not bumped.
If there are any issues PLEASE let me know! I will be happy to fix them. I hope you enjoy this mod as much as I do :) Thank you all very much.
UPDATES:
3/17/2013 - version 1.01 (see change log for details)
- - Z E B R A S - -
This mod replaces all of the horses in the game with appropriately tropical variants. It also places 4 herds of zebra around the tundra between Whiterun and Rorikstead.
If you just want the replace the horses without adding the wild herds, there is an optional file that does just that!
- - H E R D S - -
As mentioned, there are 4 herds in the worldspace. They are:
1 - Between Pelagia Farm and the Western Watchtower (where you fight Mirmulnir).
2 - A little ways south of Hamvir's Rest, off the road between Greenspring Hollow and Dustman's Cairn.
3 - On a hill above Swindler's Den, northeast-ish.
4 - On the plains near Sleeping Tree Camp.
Herds consist of a stallion, some males, females, and foals. Stallions are aggressive by nature, and males will assist while the females and foals run away.
They drop horse hides & meat, as I did not want to introduce a bunch of new ingredients. If that bothers you - don't kill them! There is an option for the stallions to be set as "protected"
so they have a better chance of protecting their herd from predators, but you (the player)
can still kill them.
- - R E P L A C E R S - -
All of the textures from AlienSlof are mares. Which means that even though Frost and the zebra stallions are supposed to be male, they are not anatomically correct. I did this because I did not want to add Slof's male meshes (for reasons I will explain further down).
All horses have black manes and tails.
WINDHELM: Grulla Zorse
This will also replace all the horses the carriage drivers use.
WHITERUN: Zebra
Shadowmere may also possibly resemble a zebra: I have not checked. If anyone could confirm/deny this that would be great.
RIFTEN: Greyish Grulla
MARKARTH: Brownish Grulla
The horses for Riften and Markarth may look similar, but I promise you they are different textures!
SOLITUDE: Dark Bay
Frost will also resemble a black horse. I labored over this and ultimately decided that I wanted Solitude (which looks very Spanish with Tropical Skyrim) to have black horses more than I cared about Frost.
I highly recommend downloading a SLIMMING HORSE MESH. The current Skyrim horses look odd as zebras. I am still testing to see which one I like best, when I make a decision I will link it here for you :)
- - K N O W N I S S U E S - -
* As previously stated, all horses are FEMALE. I did not want to deal with the unique meshes for the zebra stallions and Frost, because I prefer them to be slim rather than anatomically correct!
* All horses have black manes/tails. INCLUDING THE ZEBRA. Yes, I know that zebras have stripey manes/tails, but because of the way the meshes are, the hair flops down & I find that the stripes look emo rather than zebra. I erred on the side of aesthetics and went with black.
* AlienSlof's textures have HORSESHOES. There is nothing I will do about this as I will not be editing her textures. If anyone wants to retexture a new zebra without horseshoes, I will add it instead of Slof's version. I will say, however, that I did not include her normal map (I used Bethesda's) so the horseshoes are not bumped.
If there are any issues PLEASE let me know! I will be happy to fix them. I hope you enjoy this mod as much as I do :) Thank you all very much.