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     The Elder Scrolls III
           MORROWIND: 
    Exotic Imports by Westly
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Index:
1. Installation
2. Playing the Plugin
3. Save Games
4. Issues/Bugs/Mild Irritances
5. Credits & Usage

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    INSTALLING THE PLUGIN

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Manual Installation:

This mod is packaged/archived with 7zip.  Should one desire to use
this mod, an archive programme such as 7zip, Winrar, Winace, or 
Zip Genious should be used to extract/open the information/files herein.
(Although, if you are reading this, then you already know how to do 
extract from archived files, so good for you :) ).

Once extracted/opened, just drag and drop these onto the Morrowind
folder in your C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Data Files directory and 
they will go where they are meant to go (except the README). All the
files are placed inside folders as marked (become familiar
with manual installations, your game will thank you for it). You will then 
be prompted to overwrite.  Click yes/ok and the files should now be
properly installed.

Files included in the Data Files folder of this mod:

Icons Folder
Meshes Folder
Textures Folder
Exotic Imports by Westly.esp
Exotic Imports by Westly README (which you are reading
 right now ;) )

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    PLAYING THE PLUGIN

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From the Morrowind Launcher, select Data Files and check the box next to 
Exotic Imports by Westly.esp to activate the mod :D.

This plugin adds:

Several sets of underwear/swimwear/fantasy inspired BB clothing (with 
most supporting both sexes).

Inspired by the underwear made for mine and Cappucine's high-rez BB
female skins, and at the urgings of fellow community members, I adapted the 
underwear to be "worn" (for those that like to RP a bit further by having 
all clothing articles that can be worn).  What started as a female only mod, 
though, quicly became an offering for males as well (my "equal-opportunity"
approach to my modding won out in this instance, as I like to provide
options for all player types as much as possible; male or female).  Needless to 
say, there should be something for every one (sandals, sarongs, bracers, leather, 
silk, and so on).  

The clothing can be bought at Desele's House of Earthly Delights from Adriana, 
an Imperial merchant dancing her way back to Cyrodiil while selling her 
imported exotic wear as well.


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     Save Games

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This plugin will not invalidate your old saved games. If you save 
your game while this plugin is loaded, you may encounter error messages 
when you reload the saved game without the plugin. But you will be
able to continue on with the original game.


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      Issues/Bugs/Mild Irritances

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- Most of the articles are designed with both genders in mind, but a few
are still only female supported (the Highrock Lace and the Common Wear sets).
I may offer support/updates for the Common Wear for male characters in
the future.

- There are a few "sets" included, but one will find that the bracers are 
set up as armour rather than clothing (as there is no support in the clothing
in game for bracers, so they had to be set up as armour).  Just a heads up ;) .

- In some cases, the male versions required a separate article of clothing to 
be compatible with all versions of BB.  These are designated with an "M" in their
name (but can be worn by females as well.

- I may get a few peanut gallery comments as to the appearance of the male 
clothing, so here is my "put it to rest" statement, as it were:

"The clothing was originally designed for females and was revealing to a certain 
extent.  When deciding/designing the male versions (which were an after thought,
mind you), I kept in mind the nature of the female garments, thus the male versions
show skin as well (as it is unfair for the females to show skin while having the
males magically fully clothed in their versions, never mind the fact that the male
version should be different from the female at all (submit expansion to what this
statement means at a later time :) )".

-These garments use alpha channels (the layer in the texture that makes certain bits
of a mesh transparent through use of texture specified areas).  As such, under certain
conditions, the garmanets might function awkwardly (like flickering when overlapped with
another alpha enabled mesh, or disappearing when spells like "Invisibility" or "Chameleon"
are cast on the player (though once the spell is ended, the garment should return to 
normal).  This true of many BB clothing mods, not just this one (so no worries, enh)?

- This is a Better Body mod, so other body mods are not supported in this 
archive (so clothig will clip with the original bodies and Smoother Bodies).

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      Credits & Usage

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Nioliv - Female Top, boot, Long bracers, and skirt meshes
Dereko - Male Top and Loincloth meshes
Silaria - Male Dragontail shirt meshes
Mandamus - Boot/sandal and BB Tekkou style bracer mesh
Robert - Adriana's head mesh
Ren - Adriana's hair mesh (physiqued/skinned/weighted by Axel)
Westly - Textures and recobbling meshes where needed ;)


Thank you NifTools for NifSkope
Thank you to the community for the continuing support.
Thank you to AlienSlof for initally pointing me down the 
right paths when I first began making mods.

Permissions = Feel free to use this mod as you like (just do not re-upload or 
redistribute this as it is in this archive).  If you would like to use this in 
a mod separate from this given mod, then please make sure that the appropriate
credits are acknowledged and that I am notified so as to assist you if necessary:D.

                    
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Modders for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind may use
these Items/Textures in this mod freely as long as you
give credit to Westly, the original author and right holder
of the eye textures herein and the original mesh authors.

Please respect Bethesda's rules and do not charge money
for your mod or use these textures outside of the The
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.

Do not reupload or redistribute these textures in any way 
that is not in the capacity mentioned above for any other 
purpose than for the modding of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.  
Usage outside of the purpose of modding for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind 
is strictly prohibited.

Please Include this information along with a credit to me
(Westly) in additional READMEs in an individual section
concerning the use of these textures as they are without 
alteration (whereas any alterations are prohibited).

These requests and permissions cover only this mod and
not the game itself.
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Also, please do not convert these to Oblivion (or another game/3-D format), 
as I (Westly), would like the chance to do this myself (at some point),
working from my source files rather than trying to make what I have made 
for Morrowind fit (like a copy of a copy), when adjustments can 
be made on my end that would benefit the quality of the mod a 
great deal :).  This is true of my mods in general (as I like to 
mod as much firsthand as I am able to ensure the right balance 
of quality for players that might use a mod to which my name 
is attached).


Questions? Comments?  

I hang around Planetelderscrolls and The Elder Scrolls Forums 
with my given id "Westly".  Seek me out at these forums. 
Please PM if you have any questions. 

