Nocturnal Moths

Add some extra flavor to your night strolls in Skyrim and other parts of Tamriel!

FEATURES

Exterior lanterns will have moths flying around them at night during favorable weather.

• []Moths are active between 10 PM and 4 AM (spawn rate is natural – moths appear around more lanterns as the night goes on – spawn chance configurable in the MCM, default is 33%)

  []Choosing the Seasonal version will make the moths active only from Second Seed until Frostfall (5th–10th month)

  []Favorable weathers include all weathers classified as Clear or Cloudy

  []Hitting a lantern with moths flying around it will make the moths react and fly away

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  COMPATIBILITY

  For a list of mods that are known to be compatible see this article.

  • []Compatible with all mods that add new instances of vanilla lanterns (e.g. Lanterns of Skyrim, Weathered Road Signs, land mods such as Wyrmstooth)

    []Mods that add completely new lanterns with custom meshes (not replacers) require a patch (e.g. Blowing in the Wind, Lux Via)

  • []Mods that add new interiors are compatible out of the box (new cells that serve as interiors are fully compatible and will not spawn moths in them)

    []Since some vanilla and mod worldspaces are used either as exteriors or interiors (think Ancestor Glade from DG – exterior worldspace, ship Katariah – interior worldspace) this mod has to exclude them manually via a list of these worldspaces; New worldspaces added by other mods that have lanterns will spawn moths automatically unless they are added to this list

    Q & A

    • []Why use the Base Object Swapper framework?

      []We're at a point of Skyrim modding in which we have pioneers like po3 that allow us to create mods that would've been a compatibility and performance nightmare in the past. This mod started without the BOS dependency, but I quickly realized to make this mod compatible with any new placed vanilla lanterns there would have to be numerous patches, an external patching tool, or an in-game check every time you would load a new cell to scan for lantern statics. BOS eliminates most of the hassle with compatibility and performance.

    []Performance?

    []All the heavy lifting is done by Base Object Swapper on game launch. Things like moth spawn chances, season/time/weather checks are handled only on lanterns that are loaded in memory, which are