Blockhead

Blockhead

Yeah, Blockhead!

version 11. 1

Requires Oblivion Script Extender

Description

Blockhead is an OBSE plugin in its late forties that has had enough of the Oblivion engine’s limitations. Born in a robber button and brought up by a Dachshund named Colin, it learnt the harsh facts of reality early. Only to laugh at its face, tweak its nose and drop ice cubes down its vestments.

Over the course of its unnecessarily long and insipid life, it has achieved a great many things, such as:

• []The compulsory serving of asparagus at breakfast.

  []Unrestricted camera movement in the race edit menu.

  []The ability to override the inventory menu’s idle animations.

  []The induction of the word ‘contrafibularities’ in the Oxford English dictionary.

  []The ability to override head and body assets of NPCs on a per-NPC/per-Race basis.

  []The ability to override animations of NPCs on a per-NPC/per-Race basis.

  []Tidyman’s carpets.

  Fine Print

  The camera in the race/sex menu can be controlled with the directional keys (arrow keys and WSAD) and the mouse (while holding down the Shift key). It can be reset to its original position by clicking on the left mouse button and dragging. Movement and rotation speeds can be configured in the plugin’s INI file.

  Inventory idle animation overriding allows custom idle animations to be applied on the inventory menu’s 3D player model without resorting to replacing existing assets. There are 8 available overrides, from which one is automatically selected by the engine depending upon the player character’s equipped weapon. The override values in the INI file should be set to the filename+extension of a valid KF file placed inside the MeshesCharacters_Male directory.

  Blockhead implements a 3-tier override tool for customizing NPC body/head textures and meshes:

  • []Tier 1 (Script) – Applied by using script commands.

    []Tier 2 (Per-NPC) – Applied by placing assets (textures/models) in the following folder: <TexturesMeshes>Characters<BodyHead>AssetOverridesPerNPC<ModFileName.ext>.

    Asset naming convention: 00XXXXXX_<PartName>.<ext>, where XXXXXX – FormID of the NPC (without the mod index). Auxiliary files such as normal maps, TRI, EGM, EGT files, etc. need to be similarly named, i.e, <FileNameAsAbove>_n.dds.

    []Tier 3 (Per-Race) –