New Beast Bodies

3.3

This plug-in replaces the segmented bodies of the Argonians and Khajiit with new smooth deforming ones with seamless textures. It works with my Unique
Shadow Pack which gives the beast races distinct shadows.

Check for new versions at www.liztail.com.

The clothing fixing functionality of this mod has been made a part of Better Clothes 1.0, which is now fully compatible with all my bodies. You can get better clothes from Psychodog Studios at www.psychodogstudios.com

Table of Contents

Requirements
To Install
To Uninstall
What’s New
Known Issues
Plug-In Files
Troubleshooting
Permission

Requirements

My Unique Shadow Pack mod must be installed in order to keep the new racially unique shadows from conflicting with the game’s default beast shadow.

To Install

Copy the contents of this ZIP file to your Morrowind folder. This is usually:

C:Program FilesBethesda SoftworksMorrowind

There is a Data Files folder in the archive, so make sure you don’t end up with a Data Files folder inside your Data Files folder.

To Uninstall

Simply disable the plug-ins. If desired, you can remove the new_beast folders from the Meshes and Textures folders and delete the plug-in files.

What’s New

3.3

• Fixed a bug where parts of the Khajiit's body would disappear under water.

3.2

• Fixed a bug where the female Khajiit's left arm was split in the wrong place so it left gaps between it and clothing.


• Made some small changes to the female Khajiit texture so it would work better with the Children of Morrowind mod.

3.1

• Various fixes for problems that existed in the 3.0 version of the mod.


• The Argonian male head fix is now incorporated into the Argonian ESP. A separate ESP is no longer necessary.

3.0

• Like the Khajiit, Argonians will now be compatible with most BB clothes.


• Male and female Argonians no longer use the same mesh, so they have different figures.


• Khajiit are more compatible with BB clothes than they were (their wrists were fixed).


• The body textures for both races were increased to 1024x1024.


• The Argonian texture was worked over with extra detail, particularly in the belly area and the smaller orange scales. They're still supposed to look like the same animal so I tried to only make them more sharp and detailed, adding shadowing around the scales and such, without changing the overall look of them.


• Baked ambient occlusion shadowing into the vertex colors so crevices in the model are darker.

2.0

• Added a new body and new shadow for the female Khajiit. Now both genders of all beast races are replaced!

1.7

• Added a new body for the the male Khajiit. A new body for the female is in the works.


• There are now separate clean and mature versions of the mod which are distributed as separate downloads.


• Split base shadow functionality off into separate Unique Shadow Pack mod. That mod is now a required perquisite of this one, but can be used independently as well.


• Slightly improved triangle count of Argonian shadow by merging head and body into one shadow mesh.


• All mod files are now stored in “new_beast” folders rather than being directly in the Meshes and Textures folder.


• Added descriptive text to the plug-in files so you can tell what they are in the Morrowind Data Files selection window.

Known Issues

• In some cases, polygons from the bodies of the beasts will show through user created clothing. Unfortunately there is not much I can do about this since this clothing was not made with beast races in mind and was not tested with the beast race animations, or was made skin-tight to the better bodies models and is not compatible with even the slightest modification to the meshes. I've tried my best to reduce this as much as possible, but the only way to fix it completely would be to modify the clothes.

Plug-In Files

The Argonians and Khajiit are spilt into two plug-in files so you may choose to use my bodies for one race, and someone else’s for another. The list below lists all the plug-ins from both versions of the mod. You will only have ones that match the version you downloaded, unless you downloaded both versions.

Clean:

New Argonian Bodies - Clean.esp

This plug-in file replaces the bodies of all Argonians in the game with new ones that have no graphic nudity. They have no underwear because they were naked in the original game, but there is no graphic anatomical detail.

New Khajiit Bodies - Clean.esp

This plug-in file replaces the bodies of all Khajiit in the game with new ones that have no graphic nudity. They have no underwear because they were naked in the original game, but there is no graphic anatomical detail.

Mature:

New Argonian Bodies - Mature.esp

This plug-in file replaces the bodies of all Argonians in the game with new ones that are anatomically correct in a reptilian way. Not particularly graphic, but not really clean either.

New Khajiit Bodies - Mature.esp

This plug-in file replaces the bodies of all Khajiit in the game with new ones that depict graphic human-like nudity.

Troubleshooting

What happened to the Better Heads Male Argonian Neck Fix.esp file?

The functionality of this file has been added into the main Argonian ESP. If you still have it from a pervious version you should delete it.

The male Argonian neck has disappeared.

You probably accidentally enabled the Better Heads Argonian Male Neck Fix.esp plug-in file that used to come with this mod. If you still have it on your system you should delete it.

The shadows look weird, like two different bodies are overlapping.

You need to install my Unique Shadow Pack mod to disable the game's default shadow and add the new shadow to the stock bodies, Slof's Better Beasts, and the Mog*Mod.

I want nudity!

You must have downloaded the clean version of the mod by mistake. If you want to see nudity, download the mature version instead.

I don't want nudity!

You must have downloaded the mature version of the mod by mistake. If you don’t want to see nudity, download the clean version instead.

I have the ‘mature’ version, but I don’t see any nudity on these Argonians…

The mature version of the Argonians depicts external reptilian reproductive anatomy which you may not recognize as nudity in a human sense. Also, since the underside of the tail is out of view most of the time during normal game play, you’d probably have to be watching out for it to notice it. I have no plans to release a version which depicts mammalian reproductive parts on Argonians.

Only one race seems to have changed

Make sure you have the Plug-in ESP file for both races enabled.

Permission

You do not need to ask permission to use any part of this mod for any reason =) All of the following is fine:

• Reshape the meshs or retexture the bodies to make a new race.


• Retexture the bodies to create your own vision of the Argonians or Khajiit.


• Apply the shadows to your own mod.


• Use the mesh for something other than Morrowind.

Note that some parts of the mod may be copyrighted by Bethesda or PsychoDog Studios, and you may need to get permission from them for some uses of their IP.