Ulri Hagraven Replacer 1.0.0

Ulri Hagraven Replacer v1.0 (With optional SL integration)

 

Description:

 

This mods replaces the vanilla Hagraven creatures with the Ulri (raven) anthro bird race from Bad Dog's Birds. Fully standalone.

 

All generic Hagravens and most unique/quest-related ones from the vanilla game and the Dragonborn DLC have been edited to use a custom non-playable version of the Ulri race from BDB. They are now considered NPCs and are able to use the same items, abilities and systems that playable races do. Stats for this custom race are the same as for creature Hagravens, and all NPCs have the same spells and AI they had in the vanilla game (with only a handful of new items added to their inventory as per their new humanoid/NPC nature). They now also use the FemaleArgonian voice type to enable further functionality such as combat dialogue/grunts while keeping their original voice files enabled and working.

 

Additionally, the mod does these changes:

• Melka (found in Blind Cliff Bastion) will become a potential follower* and spouse upon completion of her unique quest, The Affairs of Hagravens (started by talking to her in her cage in the Bastion). She will sandbox at the end of the Bastion indefinitely after the quest is completed unless the PC recruits and/or marries her.
• Moira (from the A Night to Remember quest) will now have a new dialogue option for the PC to oblige her request to "consummate their love" when completing the objective of returning her wedding ring for Ysolda. If used, and after a SL scene with her (or a fallback fade-to-black scene if SL is not installed), she will give up the ring peacefully and will become a potential follower* and spouse once the ring is delivered and that part of the quest is completed.
• Witchmist Grove has been edited to turn it into a proper and inhabitable witch cabin instead of a dump with blood and thrash laying around. It will be used by a generic Witch or Hag NPC until A Night to Remember is started, at which point Moira will spawn and live there.

 

*-> by default, the vanilla Female Argonian voice only includes support for marriage and not for followers; Relationship Dialogue Overhaul is needed to enable follower functionality for Melka and Moira.

 

REQUIREMENTS:

 

--- Dragonborn DLC

--- UNP Compatible body

--- XPMSE

 

The following mods are not a hard requirement of the mod but are strongly recommended to get the full functionality out if it:

 

--- Relationship Dialogue Overhaul - RDO (Required to enable follower functionality for select NPCs)

--- SexLab (Required for Moira's scene in A Night to Remember; a fallback fade-to-black scene will be used instead if SL is not installed).

 

And their respective requirements, if any

 

Notes:

 

--- Melka has a speed multiplier of 200 in the vanilla game, probably to compensate the slow speed of vanilla Hagravens so the PC doesn't have to wait for her while clearing the dungeon. This has been reduced to 100 (default) in her data as it is no longer needed with her as an NPC, but for some reason the value seems to stick in some cases, causing her to run extremely fast if it happens. Selecting her in the console and typing "setav speedmult 100" should fix this, but it may take some time and/or a cell transition for the change to take effect.

 

--- The vanilla Hagraven records have all been edited, so any mod-added NPCs that used them as a reference/template may or may not work. Best case scenario, they should be replaced with Ulri and work fine, but they may also end up still using the original (creature) Hagraven race while being assigned the wrong (new) stats or AI or having some other bug.

 

--- The Glenmoril witches have not been replaced yet and remain as vanilla creature Hagravens due to their custom head harvesting mechanics and scripts. Depending on the way those are set up, it may be possible to replace them too in a future update, but it would have to be looked into.

 

--- During normal gameplay, Moira is disabled after returning the ring to Ysolda, but there doesn't seem to be any specific script to explain why this happens. So far a scripted workaround has been used that should re-enable her and give her the proper factions and relations right after giving Ysolda the ring, but it is unknown whether this will have any unintended consequences.

 

--- Moira will not become a potential follower or spouse if the bribe/persuade/intimidate options are used on Ysolda to skip the ring recovery part of the quest, and may even disappear or remain indefinitely stuck at the entrance to her cabin. She will still have the proper factions, so if she doesn't end up bugged in this scenario, it should still be possible to enable her follower/spouse functionality by using a mod to raise her relationship level (e.g. SLEN) or using the "setrelationshiprank player 4" console command on her.

 

--- The bird talon textures are not compatible with human feet meshes. All hagraven NPCs have been given invisibe and non-playable "boots" that should prevent them from equipping other footwear and thus having texture bugs, but if the item in question has a high armor rating and/or value, they may equip it anyway (especially when following the PC).

 

--- Moira's original weight as per her base data is 50. It doesn't take effect in the vanilla game because creatures ignore the weight slider data, but as with any other NPC, the weight value still ends up stored in the save file once the game is started, so installing this mod mid-game may cause her to keep her 50 weight value and body shape instead of updating to 100 as her new appearance is supposed to. This bug doesn't seem to apply to Melka or the other generic Hagravens for some reason, though.

 

Changelog:

 

V1.0
--- Initial Release

 

Credits:

 

Bad Dog for the Bad Dog's Birds race mod.

Kardienlupus for the original mod idea.

 

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