Oriental Umbrellas and Lanterns

Version 1. 4 Just in time for Halloween, a small update which (forthcoming pun intended) adds witch brooms and pumpkin lanterns--lit and unlit--in an assortment of variations: . Basic brooms (black or brown bristles) with no enchantments.  These brooms were adjusted to fit the hand better in the third-person perspective--and at the same time keep the bristles off to the side (as much as possible). Basically if you use the brooms as shields (which is primarily how I use them), you will lose a bit of your first-person perspective real estate. ^^''' . A pair of enchanted brooms that boost regeneration rates for health, magicka, and stamina when you are blocking. . A special "broom of stealth" which renders you invisible when you are blocking (instead of the regen boosts).  Some other stats suited to a stealthy player are boosted as well. . Two enchanted broom staves, one with wall of lightning, and the other with fireball. . A pair of 2H broom weapons, which you'll want to use the CK on the armor you're wearing to adjust the "weapon adjust" to 4 (the maximum, I think?)--to avoid some serious clipping. . Pumpkin lanterns with a variety of face patterns . Pumpkins you can carry around (basically unlit lanterns) just for the heck of it.

There are two alternative brown bristle textures (unused by the mod) in the witch folder.  You can use those to replace the bristle texture(s) if you like.  Black I chose on purpose, but the brown ended up darker because of the real-geometry of the bristles: depending on your resolution and anti-aliasing method, the lighter colors can result in a serious case of the jaggies across the fine bristles (that blends in better with the darker colors).

The pumpkin patterns are from Zee Que's Pumpkin Cutouts (designbolts.com), with the exception of Sanrio's Kuromi.

Like everything else, these new items can all be found in the same strongbox at the Drunken Huntsman.  I did notice this time when I was in there testing things out, an NPC (a Whiterun guard, no less) took something out of the strongbox. :O  I didn't realize they would do that, before.

Oriental Umbrellas and Lanterns - Version 1. 3

Another (small) lore-busting update from yours truly. =P

New Stuff: Animated pinwheels and shield umbrellas.

I had always wanted to make an animated pinwheel, but could never get the animation to work. Basically whatever I tried to animate would either A) Cause CTD, or B) simply not show up in the game--at all. Finally I discovered you simply cannot created the NIF from scratch because there are some values with the NiTransformInterpolar that cannot be specified by keyboard entry (e.g. nan for the Y axis, and <float min> for Translation). NifSkope has an option for <float min> entry in the Scale field, but not the Transl