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GQ Research version: 2014-Nov-30 Requires Dawnguard and Dragonborn http://gq-game-mods.blogspot.com/2014/12/skyrim-mod-gq-research.html Adds an Armor item that lets you conduct research in the Magick skills. The resulting Research Papers can then be crafted into various items. The basic options are: Destroy item for [Res]earch - Opens a container. Items put in are checked against research lists. Valid items are destroyed and Research Papers given to the player. The rate is 1 paper per 10gp value rounded down. All other items are left in the container and can be retrieved at any time. Use [Alc]hemy Research for special ingredients - Trade Alchemy Research Papers for XP or to make special 1-effect ingredients. Learn or Scribe Spells - Trade Alchemy Research Papers for XP, learn new spells, or scribe Spell Tomes or Scrolls for spells that are already known. Learning and Scribing require 1 Roll of Paper, 1 Quill, and 1 Inkwell. Manipulate Soul Gems and Staves with [Ench]anting Skill Alchemical Essences "Alchemy Research" also includes an unspecified amount of reagents, which are used in various functions for Alchemy Research. Alchemy Research can be traded for Essences and Catalysts, which are ingredients that have thematic alchemical effects at 3x the magnitude of typical ingredients. Learning Spells This simulates the player researching knowledge of a spell from scratch. Spells of up to Master level can be researched but the effective cost is quite high. To learn a spell, prerequisite spells (if any) must be known. These are typically lesser versions of the spell (e.g., Ironflesh requires knowledge of Stoneflesh and Oakflesh) Craft the Spell Tome with 1 Roll of Paper, 1 Quill, and 1 Inkwell, and a number of Research Papers equal to the base magicka cost of the spell (with some exceptions). Poisoned Rune is learned through Alchemy with the Poisoner perk. Some spells can be further researched into a Lesser Power version, typically with half duration (if applicable). Manipulating Soul Gems (Enchanting Research) Soul Gem Fragments can be converted into Petty Soul Gems by first standardizing them into a single type of Soul Gem Fragment Empty soul gems can be merged into higher-level soul gems. Grand Soul Gems can be converted into Black Soul Gems if you have Malyn Varen's Grimoire. Soul gems can be filled (or re-filled, in the case of player-filled soul gems) to maximum with Conjuration Research and Conjuration spells. Except Petty Soul Gems, player must have expertise in Conjuration. Pre-filled soul gems can be emptied and the magicka contained used for Enchanting experiments and research. The player must have the Soul Squeezer Perk. Otherwise, gems can be used for research using the Destroy item for Research option. Publishing Research Accumulated Research Papers can be compiled into a book for "publication" (i.e., sale). Creating this Research Folio through one of the Research stations gives you XP toward that magic skill. Staffs Staffs can be disenchanted into Empty Staves through Enchanting Research. Transmutation Alchemy Research can be used in ALTERATION Research along with the Transmute spell and (sometimes) specific perks to transmute ordinary items into different types of ingots and weapon/armor crafting parts. [iNSTALLATION] .ESP, .BSA, and .BSL files go into the Data directory. To get the Research item, first find the ID using console command help "[Research]" 4 Use the console to add it to the player: "player.additem <id> 1" Hotkey the item and equip it that way to access the research menu. === NOTES For a Lesser Power to cost magicka, the Charge Time must be 0.0 instead of autocalculated. This is the same setting as the Casting Time under Spellmaking in the MGEF for the spell. Magicka costs for Lesser Powers are not affected by the character's skill. Normally, magicka cost decreases to slightly less than 60% normal at 100 skill. Increasing the magnitude on INGRedients relative to the default value proportionally increases magnitude in a potion. Increasing duration proportionately increases gold piece value.

BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD: If you don't have the DLC that corresponds with one of the packs, then that pack will NOT work for you. There are no textures with these downloads and if you don't have the DLC a pack is for, you won't be able to see the ingredients! Use them ONLY if you have the DLC. The vanilla version is exempt to this, as well... Those are for the Vanilla version of Skyrim. This is a modder's resource for a very nostalgic purpose. While Oaristys did a few alchemy jars that are being used all over the internet for Skyrim mods, I had noticed that she didn't have a full set. So instead of using hers, I had created my own that were less filled for immersion on how things are displayed. I had tried to get them looking more like how gravity would fall within NifSkope, however that's a feat in of itself. I will also be updating these as people report problems within the meshes themselves. There are a few things that you can add to these jars as well. One main one is IsharaMeridan's Individual Item Sorter which can be found here: Individual Item Auto Sorter. It's based on arrays and they work fantastic for those not wanting to use General Stores for alchemy storage. Personally, this was the inspiration for this resource. It was visually immersive and it had individual containers for Skyrim's ingredients. Not to mention the feel of General Stores to me, felt that everything ingredients wise was all in one container. As an herbalist myself, knowing such things can be very VERY dangerous thing to do. Mainly being that when you mix toxic and wet ingredients with dry ingredients, the toxins from the other ingredients can leech out to your non-toxics as well as if there's wet ingredients. Not to mention wet ingredients will mold dry ingredients, etc, etc. Don't get me wrong! The system is magnificent and I use it when revamping a player home to my liking, but I never used it for Alchemy ingredients. But you can use these for General Stores too! In fact, I encourage you to use these meshes as you see fit! There's also another system that IsharaMeridan has, though it's in testing. It's a multi-container auto-accessing system while crafting. Meaning that when you've followed her instructions found in the following link, you can register these containers for easily accessing before you start crafting! Though this is in a testing phase at the moment, and I will update this section when it's gone through the testing phases and I can link it as a proper player resource. [Testers needed] Multi-container auto-access when crafting: http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/1094820-testers-needed-multi-container-auto-access-when-crafting/ Incompatibilities so far are none unless you make them that way. They should work with any retexture mods as well, but I'm quite sure they'll ignore any mesh changes to the default meshes. Meaning if you have a mod that changes the way an ingredient is shaped, this will still look like the vanilla ingredients aside from retexture. There could be an incompatibility if the textures for the changed meshes are different than the basic retextures I was talking about or the vanilla textures. There's no way around that part if that does happen as I don't like uploading textures if I don't need to. Also please make sure you make the jars a different name or file path if you plan on changing the meshes Installation: Install the meshes into your Data folder. Open the Creation Kit, create new container objects or static objects (your preference), and import the meshes that way. Uninstallation: Delete references in the Creation Kit, clean the mod that was using them, and delete the Pheo3309/Alchemy/Version sub-directory folder. If no longer wish to keep any of the Alchemy Jars, then go ahead and delete the whole Pheo3309 folder. Version being Vanilla, Dawnguard, Hearthfire, or Dragonborn. You'll see exactly what I'm talking about after you unpack them. Known Issues: Since Tamira went ahead and changed all of these for us, there isn't any need for collision primitives anymore! Frequently Asked Questions: Q) What is the difference between these jars and Oaristys's Jars in her modding resource pack? A) Well, firstly you'll notice that the jars aren't as full as hers are. As an herbalist, even with dry ingredients, I chose to keep my jars under or over half full. The reason being is that if you have too full of dry herbs in a jar, the air isn't allowing the dry herb to breathe. While it's still dead and dried, sometimes it's the air used in medicinal properties. For instance Spearmint has a natrual menthol like scent. If my sinus cavities are filled up, I'll just open the jar cap, smell, and then it's better. If it was too full, it wouldn't be as potent. So for me less filled jars are more immersive. Another reason is that wet ingredients would spoil faster. This is based on my many years working with herbs and herbology in terms of medicine. Another way that they're different, some of her ingredients are upside down, while all of mine are rightside up. In fact the only similar jar mesh is the Canis Root Jar, to my knowledge. Q) Can I use this for my housing mod? A) Of course! You can use this for any mod as long as proper credit is given to me for the creation of the jars. Q) There isn't a Salmon Roe Jar mesh! What gives?! A) Due to some unfortunate circumstances with my current capabilities with Static Mashups, Salmon Roe wouldn't transfer correctly. Everything I did to try and fix this either led me into dead ends, laggy meshes, and meshes that just didn't do it justice. I prefer quality over quantity. However! You can make a static model of Salmon Roe by finding it's mesh under _byoh\clutter\ingredients in the meshes folder and phase it through an empty jar. Oaristys and Blary both have empty jars that you can do this with. Q) I don't like the way one jar looks. Can you change it? A) If there's enough demand for a change, I'll change them accordingly. However if you know how to change them you can! Just don't upload it as your own resource without permission. That's the only "ask for permission" there is. If it's for personal use though, it's totally fine and dandy! Q) These meshes don't work! A) If they don't work, try extracting the textures of the ingredients from the Textures BSA that comes with Skyrim. This is the only thing that I could think that would affect how it would work. (It should work regardless however). Q) I use modified ingredient meshes and it comes along with textures and now the meshes look terrible! A) That means that this mod is incompatible with the new meshes and textures packed with those meshes. Do let me know and I'll update the file and ReadMe to match to the according. If the mod author of these new meshes allow me, I'll try to make a compatible version. Q) Do you plan on doing the DLC ingredients? A) I actually did them all at the same time. Though instead of packing them all together, I packed them separately so that people that didn't have the DLC didn't have to gnash their teeth in frustration about why things aren't appearing correctly in the game. Q) Can I add these to my resource mods? A) As long as you've asked for my permission to do so and credit me for the meshes I've created. Thanks To: Oaristys for coming up with the idea first. Without your modder's resource package, I'd have never driven myself to do my own from scratch. Mine aren't as pretty as yours, but now we all have a full set of vanilla ingredient jars to work with. IsharaMeridan for listening to my constant psychobabble on the Nexus and putting up with my neverending questions on modding Skyrim, as well as creating the system that sparked this idea in my head indirectly. Not to mention all the other systems you've been creating, especially for crafting. Without these, I think that my Skyrim experience would be less immersive than what it is now. LisnPuppy for being not only the Goddess of the Nexus, but being the source of information and supported me with advice and criticisms when I needed it most. Even though these are uploaded only on TESAlliance, you're still one of the greatest sources of do's and don'ts on the Nexus. Bantari for Ravenloft back in Morrowind's day. I know he's no longer modding for any game to my knowledge, but without his inspirational mod for player housing, I'd have never jumped in head first into modding at all. Tamira for optimizing the collision of all of these jars along with getting them to not bounce!

BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD AND USE: This mesh requires the Dawnguard DLC to work correctly. If you don't have the DLC, the animations will not display properly therefore the DLC is required and there's no getting around this! This mesh was inspired from Blary's Alchemist's Hidden Valley. Or rather a mesh he had. I thought it was neat how he had his cauldron able to do crafting, but it was missing something. Animation. So I started looking through the Kit for animated substances and liquids, found what I was looking for, and this was the result! I also didn't want to use two different meshes (One for the model and the other for the Marker Model). Not only would that mean more meshes to download, but it's also not very simple in terms of hooking everything up. I like my resources being simple, easy to use, and something that uses the least amount of hair pulling possible. Installation: Extract the files to your data folder. Merge folders if necessary. There are two ways of making a workstation. I'll show you how to do alchemy. 1) Duplicate the CraftingCookingPotLG under furniture. 2) Rename it to something else with a Unique ID. 3) Change Model to the cauldron. 4) Under Keywords, remove CraftingCookpot. 5) Under Keywords again, right click and add the WICraftingAlchemy Keyword. 6) Make sure that the Workbench Data has Bench Type Alchemy as well as Uses Skill. 7) Hit okay, place, and test. It should work being as that's how I got it to work. A simpler way would be to duplicate CraftingAlchemyWorkbench, make a unique ID and name, and just swap out the mesh with mine though I haven't tested this way yet. Should work the same though. At least in theory. Uninstallation: If you're using any of my other resources and want to keep them and NOT the cauldron, then go into the following directory in your data folder: Meshes\Pheo3309 and delete the cauldron folder. If you want to delete all of my resources, then just delete the Pheo3309 folder. Faqs: Q) Just one color? A) For right now, yes. Others will be available in the future. Q) I have clipping issues! Fix it! A) Send me a screencap of where it's clipping. This has only been tested with male characters. If it's clipping on the floor, that's a Creation Kit issue. Q) I can run through the cauldron! Fix this! A) It is beyond NifSkope's ability to fix this. I've tried. Every way I could think of and even had some of the best NifSkope Meshing modders I know look at it. They all came to the same result. See Known Issues for creating a collision sphere. Q) Can I use this for anything other than Alchemy? A) Of course! Q) I can't see the animations! What gives? A) You don't have Dawnguard. Q) Will you make a cauldron with other textures? A) Perhaps, but they wouldn't be animated. Q) Will you make this without Dawnguard? A) Since there's no animations like this in the vanilla version of Skyrim, no. Unless I'm missing it. If by chance I am, do shoot me a PM and I will work on it ONLY if it's from the vanilla version of Skyrim. Just tell me the place or questline, and I'm sure I can find it, dissect it, and apply it ONLY if it's Vanilla. Known Issues: BrettM has been kind enough for fixing the collision with the cauldron! Future Updates: More colors if there's a demand for them! Maybe other different types of 'cauldron' like pots. Better collision for the animation and for the kettle. Special Thanks: Blary for creating the idea first. Without his inspiration, I'd have never have a drive for this. IsharaMeridan for telling me how to create new crafting stations. Before I had this as a static mesh and I'd place an invisible pot in it. Even though this worked, I felt that if I had it as all one mesh, that it'd be something that people could use as an aesthetically pleasing way to do alchemy or any other kind of crafting. BrettM for optimizing collision and creating a glowing version for us!