External Marriage 1.0.0

One may discover a mod or plug-in  that builds upon the relationship between the NPCs of Tamriel.  By that,  these mods supply reactionary dialogue between these NPCs and between any NPC and the player itself.  Such dialogue and more would be made available when defined flags are detected.

This Elder Scrolls Master (.esm) attempts  to let one discern the marital status of NPCs, and permit developers to create their own external .ini file  for their own world-building additions and new NPCs.  Indeed, this master may be the backdrop for a player-marriage system.

This master plug-in does not alter or change already-existing mods that contains marital status checks.  However,  mods that are in development may be encouraged to consider its use.  And some enterprising plug-in developers  may find this of use to create patches to already existing mods.

While External Marriage.esm  has been designed as a Master(.esm) plug-in, it is not the intention to force its use.

There are mods/plug-ins currently available  that contain within their code, methods to determine whether certain NPCs are married, and thus trigger proper responses  when engaged with the player or between each other.  However, that is limited to those mods which the plug-in developer was aware. Modders would need to be aware  of as much of the character lore  as possible to develop a comprehensive marriage system.

  It is the intent  that External Marriage be considered a supplemental system   if it is detected. That is to say, a plug-in created that uses External Marriage should also be able to run without, and rely upon its own relationship   definition system.

INCLUDED:

An example plug-in. It does not have External Marriage as an actual master, but uses the "LoadFormFromMod" commands to access its features to perform four distinct tests to see if subjects within the player's crosshairs are married, grieving, widowed and/or single parents.  Optionally, the plug-in has its own highly-documented crosshairs system which future modders may examine and put the code to their use.

ALSO AVAILABLE:

The download package for External Marriage may contain the master file and a pair of .INI files for which it may function. However, other .ini files also exist which may too be downloaded, and should also be listed within the "External Marriage.ini" file itself.  Upon downloading and installing into your game's INI folder, External Marriage will be able to immediately test for those NPCs covered under their related mods.  Doing so, this can be expanded without actual need for editing/altering the .esm file itself.

CURRENT DOWNLOAD LIST:

• External Marriage.zip
      The main package
   
• External Marriage.ini
      Duplicate of the main package's External Child List / File-Load INI file
• External Marriage - Oblivion.ini
      Duplicate of the first HiyokoClub.ini / Child NPC file in the main package.

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