Great Imperial Archives

GREAT IMPERIAL ARCHIVES v 1. 1. 0

This mod adds 190 lore and tone friendly books from previous Elder Scrolls games to Oblivion remastered.

- Added a no-weight version! Take the archives with you as you go

- Increased and diversified book vendor selection - increased % of new books!

Up next in v 1. 1. 1

- Better covers!

About

Currently, version 1 offers books from TESII: Daggerfall, TESIII: Morrowind, and ESL: Battlespire, available at various immersion-friendly booksellers.

You can find books from all across Tamriel at First Edition in the Market District, but you'll find a better selection of Morrowind's books at Mach-Na's shop, while works published in the western provinces are easier to come by at Ms. Renoit's shop. Some books appeared in multiple games, denoted by "1st Edition" or "2nd Edition" in the title.

In the far future, I'd like to add books from ESO, and possibly any from Skyrim whose in-game publication date is prior to the start of Oblivion. I also want to add the books to more than just the booksellers, and possibly even create an archives building and book collection quests. But first, I'm going to be making a localization patch to remove the dependency on the OBSE and the NL tag remover, which will represent a new version of this mod upon release, and I'm going to expand the models being used. The latter is a simple update to the GILBooks.ini.

Requirements

Currently, the books have tags on their titles and the start of their contents. This breaks some of the HTML parsing for certain books, not to mention making the bookseller inventories order themselves with all the new books up top when sorting alphabetically. As such, this non-localized version requires both OBSE64 and NL-Tag Remover to be installed in order to get the proper effect, at least until we can release a patched localization file. This is technically optional, and you will have no issues beyond the tags and visible markup in the book contents.

Besides this requirement, we need to map the book models. I've been unable to use the oldblivion models in the esp for this, and instead I've had to copy loaded models from book objects and assign them to the form IDs. For this reason, the mod also requires UE4SS for OblivionRemastered and the use of one of its dependants, UE4SS TesSyncMapInjector