A standalone blunderbuss

This mod is a preliminary test to add a certain firearm to the game, and serves as an encouragement to more such mods in the future.  There used to be such mods for the original Oblivion, and I think it is necessary for the remastered as well.  Due to the limited knowledge of myself, I am glad to see enhancements by other modders.

Installation:

1. Install the prerequisites of standalone item mods, i.e., UE4SS for OblivionRemastered and UE4SS TesSyncMapInjector, both obtainable on this site.

2. Extract mod file to the game directory.  To check, make sure that the esp file is in the directory OblivionRemastered\Content\Dev\ObvData\Data, while the pak, utoc, ucas files are in the directory OblivionRemastered\Content\Paks\~mods.

3. Add Blunderbuss.esp to the Plugins.txt.

Ingame:

At present, spawn the item with console command,

player.additem xx001C79 1

in which xx represents the loading order of the esp files.

The stats of the blunderbuss is identical to a fire staff, and fires fire balls.  You may make better enchantment to it in the construction set according to your own preference.

Issues and comments:

The animation uses vanilla staff animations, which appears fine for idle, but still strange for attacking, in which the player character would swing the blunderbuss to fire.  Due to my restricted knowledge, I do not quite know how to add custom animations.

The texture of the model may still not be completely correct.

The blunderbuss does not have proper firing sound yet, I suppose we may need the script extender for it.

Concluding remarks:

This mod adds a simple blunderbuss model to the game.  I do this with the purpose to explore how to add a firearm to the game properly, and I am glad if you can make better firearm mods.  Future updates are not guaranteed.

Acknowledgements:

The model "Blunderbuss" (https://skfb.ly/oBDNE) by Lokeig is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4. 0/).  Minor rotation and scaling are made to the model to fit in the hands in game.  The model is modded into Oblivion remastered following the guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsQ09Oqb02M.  I am grateful to the model author and the modding guide author.