Better Female Elks

Description

Real life female elks don't have antlers. More precisely, females of the extinct irish elk Megaloceros, which served as the basis for the game's model, didn't have antlers (thanks to sh0tungsurge0n for brining this to my attention). So I made this mod to increase realism and improve their look. I also changed a few things related to small antlers. No esp!

With this mod:

(i) Female elks and wallmounted female elks no longer have antlers. Their ears also look a bit more realistic (at least to me). The ears have slightly more polygons, but it shouldn't impact performance.

(ii) Small antlers can no longer be looted from dead female elks. While at it, I also removed the possibility to loot the deer hide (which comes with antlers). Small antlers are still available from apothecary vendors (if you have USSEP, in vanilla you can't buy small antlers from vendors). As of v1. 01, it's also no longer possible to loot a small treasure from them.

(iii) Small antlers are no longer required for building wallmounted female elks for your house (you still need a deer hide though).

Just to be clear, this isn't a port of the oldrim mod No Antlers for Females. I made the mesh changes from scratch and improved the ears as well. Points (ii) and (iii) are new too.

Requirements

As of version 1. 04, this mod requires the amazing Skypatcher, so that the ESP is no longer needed. Compatibility is also considerably improved. That mod will become a common requirement in every recent load order. Make sure you endorse it.

Install/Uninstall

As usual, use a mod manager. Or extract the content of the archive to your Data folder.

If you still want to be able to loot small antlers from dead female elks, or if you just want the meshes, I've added a file with the meshes only (optional files).

Installing/uninstalling the plug-in mid-game should be ok (this mod doesn't contain any script). But, always safer to add on a new game. If you do install mid-game, make a  hard save (no quick save) before installing. After installation, make a new save (don't overwrite your previous save) so that you can easily roll back to your initial save. This is obsolete as of version 1. 04. Thanks to Skypatcher, you can instal/update/uninstal whenever!

If you're already using version 1. 03, there's no need to update to 1. 04, as nothing's changed except that the esp is no longer needed. However, if you still want to update, then follow the usual recommendations when removing an esp from your load order.

If you just take this mod's meshes, then completely safe to install/uninstall mid-game.

Compatibility

- As mentioned above, highly compatible thanks to Skypatcher!