Switchable Scriptures

Perfect Placement has finally made Book Rotate obsolete, (which was so script heavy it could be CPU draining), and replaced it with lua magic. However one feature I missed was being able to open and close books and scrolls. This mod lets you do that, using switchnodes in the nifs to change meshes.

It covers all vanilla books and scrolls, not just ones that originally had open versions. I also made sure not to alter any original book positions to prevent any clipping or floaters.

I recommend Perfect Placement to use in conjunction with this mod. https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/46562

Hrnchamd is working on making PP work nicer with placing books on lecterns, so look for a future update on that.

Press the B key when targeting a book to open or close it. You can assign a different hotkey in the mod config menu.

Since the script uses a hotkey instead of the OnActivate event, it's compatible with scripted books and doesn't interfere with

them. You could even use Book Rotate with it (but why would you want to?)

First make sure you have installed the following:

MGEXE - https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/41102

MWSE 2. 1 Development version - https://nullcascade.com/mwse/mwse-dev.zip

If you don't have the latest version of MWSE, this mod will crash your game, so make sure to run the included updater.

Install the core mod and patches for any replacers you're using.

The optional Closed Book Icons folder switches all open book icons for the closed ones, since they're now all closed by default when

Replacer meshes currently included (original textures required):

Melchior's Magnificent Manuscripts: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/45626 (used as base meshes, textures required for all options)

RR's Better Meshes: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/43266

Illy's Dirty Books: http://download.fliggerty.com/download--715 (also requires her esp for unique books)

STA Guide-to Replacer: http://mw.modhistory.com/download-44-3101 (don't load the original esp, use the Noscript one included)

You need the original textures from those mods to use these replacement meshes, and MD's textures for all of them.

The optional folders are arranged so you can overwrite them to get the most out of all three.

My setup uses folder 00, 02, and 04 to get Illy's unique books and RR's concept art book pages.

Illy's Dirty Books also changes the menu book and scroll so if you're using other replacers it's best to only install the textures in

the Illy subfolder and load either MD's or RR's overtop.

The STA Guide-to replacer patch comes with the no-script version of the esp, but you will need the textures from the original mod.

You also need the scroll text