fierymarigold

Adds mares and foals to farms and a few remote areas of Skyrim
Credits
Textures by Alien Slof
 
You may not upload this to the Nexus.  

Featuring asymmetrical and symmetrical textures by Slof
Adds six new stables to Skyrim
Each stable has at least 5 different horses to choose from
Horses are 1.5x faster than vanilla and marked essential.  They also run from danger not towards it.  Most predators will ignore them.  (I know the last is not realistic, but I like a peaceful ride.   )
Cleaned with XEdit, meshes optimized with SE Nif opt
Load order: -- Load this after all horse related mods.
If you have Honeystrand Meadery -- Load that after this mod.
Details
Adds new stables to Skyrim – Falkreath opposite the Dark Brotherhood sanctuary, outer Rorikstead (just down the road from Rorikstead going towards Whiterun), outer Dragon Bridge (down the road from Dragon Bridge towards Whiterun), Shor’s Stone, Kynesgrove, Markarth (up the hill from the farm fast travel marker is enabled from the start), Ivarstead (on the way to Riften near Imperial Camp)
This is fully compatible with More Stables, Lesser Hold Stables and Convenient Horses.   Not compatible with Immersive Horses, needs a patch for that, something I don’t have the time to make.  If someone wants to make a patch, feel free.  Just let me know so I can link it here.
No uploads to other sites without express permission.  You may not upload this mod to the Nexus so please don’t bother to ask. 
There is an xbox version on Bethesda.net, and the Oldrim or Classic Skyrim version on Steam.
 
Credits:
Thanks to all the wonderful modders who provide resources and tutorials
Slof for the beautiful new horse textures (Slofslair)
Rebel O'conner for remapping the vanilla mesh
Hanaisse (Tes Alliance) for the 'Creating Armor in Skyrim' tutorial and Roadsigns.
Dark Rider (Tes Alliance) for the 'My First Stable' tutorial
Tamara for the Stroti rescources
Runspect for the Resources for Modders
Meo for the tents
Blary for the Open Books
BrettM for FPI Experiment pack 1
Oaristys and Tony67 Modder's Resource pack
Insanitysorrow for the Readme generator the Readme is based on
Jokerine for the blank inn sign
KoscheiTheDruidBoy -- Saddle mash up includes  (mistickhybrid -- Horse Armors for Skyrim-part of mesh  Zira's Skyrim Horse base textures)
 
And thanks to the people who make the software
Bethesda for creating Skyrim and the Creation Kit.
Blender, Paint.net, Nifscope and GIMP developers for providing free software.

6 lightbreed horse models (3 mares and 3 stallions) and 4 Gypsy Vanner types (with and without Alpha on feathering mare and stallion models)

All models use vanilla textures

For better screenshots of the models using Slof's Textures, please see here http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/38412/?

The texture paths on the nifs are the same as vanilla. IE. arabmare.nif is textures/actors/horse/horse01.dds, saddlelight.nif is textures/actors/horse/saddle.dds, etc.

The meshes are remakes of the vanilla Bethesda horse. Use it as you wish; just give me credit. The textures aren't very good. Feel free to modify them as you need.


The saddles are re-sized to fit the horses. The arab saddles only fit the arab type models. Shadowmere's eyes are mapped different from the vanilla horse. (Uses the darker eye
seen on the texture files.) I've only added the glowing eyes to him/her. If you want to add the other controllers too, feel free to do so.

Stallion parts are mapped to the upper left corner similar to Slof's textures.

Adds 5 new light breed horses to the Loreius Farm.


The horse is a re-sculpture of the vanilla horse mesh and uses a modified saddle and skeleton.nif file. The horses are marked essential and are as fast as the regular horse. Use Swift Steeds move it for faster horse. (1.5x the speed of vanilla)


Requirements:
Skyrim 1.9.29.0.8 or higher

Versions

Swift Steeds.esp uses 2048 textures

Swift Steeds lo res.esp uses 1024 textures

Use one -- the two are not compatible



Manual installation

1) Extract the contents of the ZIP folder into your Data folder.
2) Make sure the Swift Steeds.esp is checked in the Launcher.


Un-installation

1) Delete the files/folders associated with the mod
(Swift Steeds.esp in your data folder and the Swift Steeds folders found under meshes and textures in your Skyrim folder.

(Default is path C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim\Data)

2) Make sure Swift Steeds.esp is unchecked in the Launcher.


Conflicts

Not compatible with any horse armors.


Known Issues

Riding can look odd when viewed from the side. The skeleton doesn't fit the mesh as well as it could, so I'm hoping moving the bones will help.
But until a new nifscript is released for Blender, there's no way to do this. (That I know of anyway.)

I've also had issues with the horses dying even though they're marked essential if the esp is placed before Convenient Horses and Convenient horse herding.
Just make sure it loads after those two mods or similar mods if you don't want them to die.

Permissions

All texture and mesh files are modder's resource. You don't need my permission to use them, just credit me for my work.

Please do not upload the esp file to other sites.

Credits

Thanks to Bethesda for creating Skyrim and the Creation Kit.
Thanks to InsanitySorrow for the ReadMe Generator the ReadMe is based on.
Thanks to the Blender, Paint.net, Nifscope and GIMP developers for providing free software.
Thanks to Hanaisse (Tes Alliance) for the 'Creating Armor in Skyrim' tutorial.


In loving memory of my horse Flicka.