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Strotis Old Mill Resource for Skyrim
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by Stroti
converted and modified by Tamira
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Modders resource
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This is the conversion of Strotis old mill resource
You can find the original files here:
http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/42879/
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There are two demo esps included for a quick overview of the two versions of the mill and the house: "aaStrotiMillDemo.esp" and "aaStrotiHouseDemo.esp". Please only activate one of them as they use the same place! Both versions can be found near Riverwood Bridge, you cannot miss them. There is also a map marker included. They are roughly navmeshed on the outside and on the lower floor to avoid some oddities when you have a follower ^^.
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Mill:
The original has fully animated mill-gears, mill-wheel and millstone. I did not manage to port over the complicated animation for the mechanism so the mill gear remains static. Maybe some day in the future ...
But I managed to animate the row boat, the toolshed door and the chimney door.
I did not include the mill wheel as there are already animated mill wheels in Skyrim, so I retextured the existing ones to match the appearance of the house and included them.
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Alternate House:
As the mill gear is not working, I decided to modify the mill to a normal house as an alternate version. I removed from the exterior and interior the parts that are used by the gear, only a small pit on the first floor and small hole in the ceiling remained. You can use the pit as a bathtub or something like that or drop a static on it to make it invisible.
I also textured it a bit more lightly than the old mill.
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Alternate no-window-light files:
For those who prefer unlighted windows, I included an extra folder "House No Window Lighting" will all interior and exterior meshes with unlighted windows.
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Besides the house and the millwheel there are included:
Tool shed with stairs and animated door
Podest with stairs
Row boat, animated and not animated
Handcart with sacks
4 different sacks
Rope with hook
Millstone
2 different ovens, one of them with 3 different textures
Weathercock
Birdcage
and a teapot
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Notes:
The mill wheels need to be scaled down in the CK, a scale of 0.7 works fine
The same applies to the chimney door, a scale of 0.5 looks good.
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Tools used:
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Blender
Nifskope
NifUtils by Skyfox
Gimp
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Permissions:
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This is a modders resource.You may use the meshes and textures for your own mods as long as you give credit and you do not charge money for it.
Do not upload to other sites.
Stroti has quit modding and will no longer be active on the forums.
I have his personal permission to convert his Oblivion resources and to upload them.
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Credits:
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Stroti for his resources and for everything he has given to the TES community!
The Niftools team for giving us Nifskope.
Skyfox from the Niftools team for his great tool NifUtils
Bethesda for the TES games.