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     The Elder Scrolls III
          MORROWIND:
    Shields for Aleannse Clothes 1 and 2
            V 1.0

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Index:
1. Installation
2. Playing the Plug-in
3. Reason for this Plug-in
4. Known bugs
5. Credits
6. Contact
7. Other notes

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     1. Installing the Plug-in

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To install the plug-in:

-Uncompress the all the files into the "Morrowind\Data Files" directory

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     2. Playing the Plug-in

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From the Morrowind Launcher, select Data Files and check the box next to the "Pek_ale_shields.esp" file.

Go to Tel Vos and enter the Central Tower there. You will find a irritating Wood Elf there, loaded with 181*4 shields so he dont move long, even if you steal a shield. You choose if you want to buy the expensive shields or peek at the lvl 75, trapped chest close to him. 


To look at all screenies provided, open the HTML file: 

Screenies_and_Info_Pekkas_Shields_For_Aleannes_Nice_Armor.html, 

wich give you all names for each shield, wich makes it easier to find the right shield in game when you are shopping, well if you will shop that is and not steal them instead or kill that annoying wood elf who sells the stuff and loot him.
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     3. Reason for this Plug-in

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Shields is something that has been negliciated for Morrowind a long time. Bethesda didnt ship many good looking shields to us either and I have had a really hard time finding shields that I like, wich fits either the armor I use or the weapon that Im using but a shield should fit the armor firstly. I made many failures for sure, making shields with Gimp, but when Aleannes newest armor collection came out, an idea about how shields could look like strucked me, as a flash from the skys and here they are 10 days later. The stats at the shields are same as Aleanne choosed for her armor.

Blocking is a nice skill and one hand weapons suits a ranger/scout character I think for close combat and so does a smaller round shield. I dont like the TOwer shields really as I never play Knights. I play Marksmen, Arechers or scouts firstly and this equipment is for that sort of characters. Im sure a femal knight would look great with a small Domina Shield as well. 
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     4. Known bugs

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If you find any bugs PM me at Elder Scrolls forum and be as specific as you can about what the bug is and what you where doing when the bug occurred. The sweeet Klalikut has beta tested the shields and she found bugs that I have fixed but it is allways easy to miss something when so many files is used, aprox 80 texture files.

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     5. Credits

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First of all Aleanne for her nice armor that inspired me to start making these shields.

Dongle for his nice Ranger Shield Mesh.

Kalikut for beta testing all shields.

mk31bolo and NeilV, that helped me see things I was blind for during development. Inverted shadow and gradients, and the dragon that was turned 90 degrees wrong. We sure had long debates about that issue. I saw that something was wrong but I couldnt put the finger at it. Mixing 2D and 3D can end up in nasty effects that we dont want to have. Now they look right.

Canadian Ice and her nice MQB wich inspired me to start edit shields at all, specially her Mithrill Armor that I thought needed a shield and Im still not pleased with it so I will try again.

I can make the list longer, crediting all that made all nice tools we use and Bethesda for CS and TES.

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     6. Contact

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Send a PM at Elder Scrolls forum to Pekka


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     7. Other notes

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I dont have a file list here but if you want to edit files, armor or body parts, they all start with pek_. If you also want to start edit shields and have Gimp, the free graphic editor, I can email the xcf files I use with every single layer. Just choose a color as one of them should be enough as a ground. The small Domina shields are stored in separate xcf files though wich means its 2 files per color.

The esp is clean from GMST as I use Wryes Vaccine but I also checked it in the Enchanted Editor, wich I prefer before Tesame.