~ Little Lace Dress for Exnem’s Body ~
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Name: Little Lace Dress
Version: 1
Date: 1/2/2008
Category: Clothes
Author: Skeuomorph


Description
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Adds a new dress with multiple lace (and other) textures and colors; garters, panties, and stockings in various colors; pumps, heels, and sandals in various colors and textures.  Includes more than 100 meshes and associated textures.  Rather than continue to clog the IC merchants’ inventories, all items are located in a chest under the IC Talos Bridge just below the Chestnut Handy Stables.

This is my second mod release and really results from experimentation with UV mesh mapping in Blender.  That being said, it has only been tested on my own computer.  Please let me know if there are any problems, inconsistencies, etc.


Details
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This dress mesh evolved out of my Little Black Dress experiment.  While the LBD was an attempt to replicate Growlf’s Hotbody black gown for the Exnem Female EyeCandy Body model, this new dress is entirely original.  While there may be incidental design similarities with other mods, Geometry served as my main influence.  

This is the third top design I’ve developed, but No. 2 wasn’t terribly interesting, hence many items are labeled with T3, as is the pluggin itself.

Most likely the dress will work only with Exnem’s Female EyeCandy Body Replacer (Nude).  

I also use Koks’ “Real Female Body for EyeCandy Imperial Race v1 Full” as my basic female skin texture.  The mesh references this texture.  Koks’ texture replacer UV map is contained in the footfemale.dds file and the mesh points to this as the skin source.  Other female texture replacing mods that utilize the “footfemale.dds” texture as the whole body UV map will work with this mod.  There may be (almost certainly will be) oddities in skin tone where a texture replacer not keyed to the female foot is used.  

The skirt portion of the dress is made to specifically accomodate 

As far as I know I have solved several problems with Tad’s original garters and stockings for the Exnem body model.  Many people reported game crashes associated with retextured versions of Tad’s original meshes.  All the garters, and stockings contained in this mod are generated from a single *.nif.   This bypasses Tad’s original stockings (no garter) *.nfs which had errant skin partitions, at least in the downloaded version I have.  I was able to replicate the game crashing to desktop when equipping retextured versions of the original stockings.  Making this change cleared all crash problems on my machine.

The included pumps and heels are just retextures of the released Peka Pumps for Exnem.  I included these with this release just to color coordinate.  

The skirt portion of the dress is made to specifically accommodate Tad’s stockings with panties.  Some minimal clipping may remain, however.  A simpler solution to this was to create panty-less versions of the garters, which are included.  The garter portions are visible through the transparent textures, but they tend to flicker depending on the angle of view.

All the stockings, and garters are keyed to the Tail biped slot.  Making versions also keyed to the amulet slot (as with the original) would make this mod much larger than it already is.  It is a simple change to make in the Construction Set for those who need or really want items tied to the amulet slot.


Meshes created in Blender v. 2.45
Textures created as texture bakes from Blender then manipulated in the Gimp v. 2.0, and to some extent Paintshop Pro v.7.0


Known Issues
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none that i have encountered so far

Requirements
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Exnem Female EyeCandy - Body Replacer (Nude) 
[not sure if it will look OK with the Underwear version]

Oblivion v. 1.2.0416 (via the Shivering Isles Patch) 
[made with Knights of the Nine, Shivering Isles, and all official DLC mods installed as well as the Unofficial Oblivion Patch, and the Unoficial DLC mods Patch.  However, no data from these additional sources were purposely used in the mod, so there should be no conflicts.]


Install
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Manual Method:
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Extract the compressed files to a temporary directory and then place them in the Oblivion\Data directory, except for the “Screenshots” folder which is just that: in game screenshots of the dress in several poses

If you have Oblivion installed in the default location the Data directory is most likely here: 
C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion\Data

File structure (in case things go amiss):
Meshes: Oblivion\Data\meshes\clothes\skeuomorph
Textures: Oblivion\Data\textures\clothes\skeuomorph
Icons: Oblivion\Data\textures\menus\icons\skeuomorph 

This mod does not replace or overwrite any existing content so choose “Yes” when asked if you wish to replace files.


OBMM Method (Oblivion Mod Manager):
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The included OBMM archive includes OBMM conversion data.  Simply create a new *.omod and import the archive and it will arrange itself using this included data.


Uninstallation
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Simply delete or otherwise remove all folders named skeumorph from these locations within the Oblivion directory hierarchy:

Meshes: Oblivion\Data\meshes\clothes\skeuomorph
Textures: Oblivion\Data\textures\clothes\skeuomorph
Icons: Oblivion\Data\textures\menus\icons\skeuomorph 

As well as the SkeuomorphT3.esp file in the Oblivion\Data directory



Credits and Thanks
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Exnem -- for the wonderful body mesh
Koks – for the high resolution textures
Growlf – for the original inspiration
Tad - for his original stockings and garters and kind permission to alter them for this mod.
All the many who have worked on the Peka Pumps conversion to the Exnem model
Apachii and Hobbs for cluing me in to the icon answer and there great mods.

The folks at Renderosity.  Great textures and an invaluable resource

And all those people working in the open source software realm, particularly Blender, the Gimp, and Nifskope

And of course Bethesda Softworks for creating Oblivion in the first place


Licensing/Legal
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Before using any components of this mod, please ask permission and provide credit.  This is original work.


Contact
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You can find me on the teseyecandy.com forums as “Skeuomorph”
You can find me on tesnexus.com as “Skeuomorph”
You can send me an email here Skeuomorph@comcast.net


Software Used
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TES Construction Set v.1.2.404
Nifskope v. 1.03
The Gimp v 2.4.2
PaintShop Pro v 7
Lview Pro 20007
Blender v. 2.54



I hope people are pleased with, and find uses for this Little Lace Dress

--Skeuomorph
