Immersive Ancient Potions

Description

In draugr crypts and dwarven ruins, instead of fresh useable potions you will find well-past the sell-by date ancient nord and dwarven potions. In the Forgotten Vale, you will have a chance to find expired ancient falmer potions and in the Inner Sanctum you will only find ancient falmer potions. There is also a chance to find an ancient falmer potion in chests in falmer hive dungeons. IMMERSION.

Ancient potions are not advised to be consumed but you do you.

Yes this makes some dungeons harder because you won't have useable potions sitting out on tables or in chests, and turns these potions into junk items so there will be less sellable loot. In falmer hives, you will still find fresh potions because those guys can make potions. This does not touch above-ground nordic ruins or dwemer ruins as they are frequently populated by bandits or used by passers-by.

Installation

FOMOD includes texture options for base textures:

• []1k Diffuse or 2k Diffuse[/]

  []1k Normal or 2k Normal[/]

Nord potions use custom textures and vanilla shaders, Dwarven potions use your dwemer textures and vanilla shaders, and falmer potions use multilayer parallax meshes and custom textures. I am not a texture artist so retextures or fixes are welcome.

For the Community Shaders crew some PBR textures for the nord and falmer potions are included in optional files that I made as an exercise for myself - I'm still learning PBR so fair warning, and genuine feedback is always appreciated. Dwarven potions use vanilla dwarven texture paths so if you already have PBR textures for that texture set those potions will look nice at least. I debated releasing these as I don't want to make a fool of myself but decided to be a brave girl. All the screenshots show these PBR textures.

Requirements

• []Required: Base Object Swapper (handles swaps for open cell potions)[/]

  []Required: Skypatcher (handles leveled list and container edits for potions in chests)[/]

  []Optional but very recommended: Description Framework (adds fun flavor text to the ancient potions)[/]

  []Required if using PBR textures: Community Shaders[/]

I attempted to minimize conflicts as much as possible by utilizing BOS and Skypatcher for the potion edits. If you have another Skypatcher file or other similar mod that is editing chest potion leveled lists loading after this one, you may continue to see fresh potions in dwa