Dynamic Animal Variants - Mihail Cows Bulls and Calves

Lightweight mod that optimizes Mihail's cow models, randomizes cattle color, and introduces sexual dimorphism. Males are now thicker in the neck and shoulders and keep their horns while their udders have been removed. Females have udders but horns are optional. Calves are smaller with slimmer skulls, bigger eyes, and adorable little baby horns. :) Support and patches included for CACO, SkyTEST, and Wild Cows.

REQUIREMENTS

-Cow Replacer required for the normal maps and skeleton

-Spell Perk Item Distributor OR Model Swapper

-Keyword Item Distributor only required if you want calves to follow their mothers

COMPATIBILITY

-As of version 1. 5 the SPID version should now actually be compatible with Dynamic Animal Variants SPID. I have no idea how DAV SPID interacts with the Model Swapper version of this mod (reports appreciated).

-If you use Favor Jobs Overhaul or some other mod that adds milking to cows, you will probably receive the prompt to milk bulls if you are not using SkyTEST. I'm not a scripter but depending on how it's implemented it might be able to be patched. For now just don't milk bulls if you don't want your immersion broken.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

-See images for visual comparisons! Models have been reduced to over half of the original tricount by dissolving edge loops one-by-one and rebuilding faces where necessary. Decimation wasn't cutting it. I've reduced the tricount as much as I possibly can without losing geometry that would subtract from the overall silhouette. Fluffy versions are also included but obviously their tricounts will be higher since the process to create the fluffy effect involves duplicating meshes. Most duplicated meshes for the fluffy versions have been decimated to around 2,500 tris each.

Original Cow Replacer model: 31,458 tris

This mod's male model: 11,850tris

This mod's horned female model: 10,589 tris

This mod's hornless female model: 12,347 tris

This mod's calf model: 10,696 tris

-Alphas for the fur trims have been cleaned up and made crisper, but the UV space isn't used very efficiently (no offense to Mihail) so it's not a huge improvement

-Again, due to UV space limitations, texture fidelity doesn't look great at anything under 4k, nothing I can do about that short of remapping and retexturing the entire cow

-Improved collision has been implemented for the trophy cow model and the new pelt models

KNOWN ISSUES

-Calf sprint animations are a little scuffed, which is mostly the fault of the crusty vanilla animations and also probably due to some weighting issues on my end. Most cows stay fenced in so you probably won't encounter this too much if ever, but I'll try to tweak some weights in a future update

-Calves follow their mothers a little