Name: Arn the Knight Templar Equipment Set
Version: 1.5
Date: 05/08/2010
Category: Weapons & Armors
Requires: Oblivion 1.2.0416
Author: theRoadstroker (snake_ao@hotmail.com)
Source: http://www.tesnexus.com/


ChangeLog
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- 2.0 
  Added *NEW* Tin can helmet
  Added *NEW* Overlaping ChainHood
  Added *NEW* Knight Helmet
  Added *NEW* Carry shield on back (for RP players)
  Changed: All Hoods & helmets to use Amulet slot instead of Tail slot
  Changed: Location of Templar chest from Anvil bay to Testinghall ( Coc Testinghall )
  Added: A new location for people who want to buy the equipment in a store, location in Skingrad Church
  Tweaked: Sword mesh/Model
- 1.5
  Added Real Metal Shine to the Sword,Chainmail,Hoods
  Added Optional Nehrim.esp for people who wants to play with my armor with the Nehrim Mod
- 1.0 
  Released

Description
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Arn - the Knight Templar Equipment Set is:

A Male and a Female set of Armor which comes in 3 different stages - Just a Chainmail , Chainmail with A tunic on top , Chainmail with Tunic and a Cape.

A Chainmail Hood & Helmets - Hoods can be pulled over the head,overlap or down, to preferance 

A Shield - which you can choose to hold vertically or Horizontaly or on Back.

A Sword - which can be held with one or two hands - holding it with two hands Increases the damage done with 50% but leaves you with less defense.

The Mod was inspired by Jan Guillou's Books about Arn - the Knight Templar which were later was made into movies.

Arn a boy from the west coast of Sweden , who was sentanced in his early adult life , along with his Love, because of jealousy, betrayal and politics -
to serve the church for a half life (20 years). To serve out his sentence Arn is soon shipped out to Jerusalem to fight the Holy War as a Knight Templar,
Where He later would be known as "Arn de Gothia".

*Every Model is new and was made by myself, 96% of all Textures are hand painted with a Pen Tablet*


Preformance
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All of the models are made to be Game models , true to the original Oblivions Polygon count - meaning that, they will try to look as good as possible -
While keeping a very strict/Low polygon count in order to have None to very low impact on preformence and FPS of the game.

Casual

- Low impact on your PC preformance

Pro

- Armor Model 2000 - 3200 approx polygons
  sword Under 200 Polygons
  Shield Under 500 Polygons

- Textures sizes from 256x512 - 1024x1024

***TESTED***

On a 

P4 2.61Ghz
768Mb RAM DDR1
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 256mb
Win XP

With no FPS loss on High

Location
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FREE VERSION - Testinghall

VENDOR/MERCHANT VERSION -  Skingrad Chapel/Church - Read the book on the altar.

Installation
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If you are new to Oblivion Mods, please Read this first:

In order to get mods working correctly you will need to create a text file (.txt) inside Oblivion/Data Folder.

Inside this text file - copy and paste this:

meshes/ \s
textures/ \s
sound/ \s

And name it "ArchiveInvalidation.txt" without the quotes.

*** Manual Install: ****

Extract

- MODArnTemplar.esp
- MODArnTemplar - Files.bsa 

to Oblivion/Data Folder

*** OMOD: *** (Requires Oblivion Mod Manager (OBMM) ) Highly Recommended! 

This is a OMOD Ready Archive that let's you create an OMOD with ease.
OMOD's are useful because they are easier to keep track of and they let you know if there is any conflicts with other mods before you install them -
they also makes it easier to install/uninstall the mods again.

Blue - Installed Mod
Green - No conflicts
Yellow - Minor Conflicts
Red - Major Conflicts
Black - Not usable

To create an OMOD from a OMOD ready Archive:

* Open up OBMM
* Hit the "Create" Button
* Hit the "Add Archive" Button and find this mod Archive and hit open.
* When asked if you want to use the found OMOD data hit Yes.
* (Optional) Select the Compression Level (Very High - recommended)
* Hit "Create OMOD" and you're Done!

Double Click the .Omod file.

Activade OMOD Mod file inside OBMM


Uninstall
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Manual Install:

Delete 

- MODArnTemplar.esp
- MODArnTemplar - Files.bsa 

in the Oblivion/Data Folder


OMOD:


Right Click OMOD - Delete



Incompatibility
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- None Known



Known Issues or Bugs
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- Minor Clipping issues


Contact
------- 

snake_ao@hotmail.com


Special Thanks To:
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Grace Darkling 

- For professionally taking awesome screenshots and "being there" , Woot! ;)

Qurion

- For Coverting my mod to Nehrim

NIFTools Crew 

- For creating the useful NIFTools.

Timeslip 

- For creating the useful OBMM.

LHammonds 

- For all His useful tutorials.

The Fans 

- For ...being there and downloading my crap.

TESNexus Crew 

- For ... also being there..so people can download my crap.


Credits
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theRoadstroker
 
- Modeling
- Texturing
- NormalMapping
- Rigging
- UV Layout
- Mapping
- Design/Concept Art

Grace Darkling
- Design
- Screens 
- Support 

Qurion

- Nehrim Esp

RAIAR and Madcat221 

- HG EyeCandy Body (type C)

Robert 

- MaleBodyReplacer v.5


Licensing/Legal
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YOU MAY NOT:

Alter/Change/Use any Content of this mod for your own or any others work and release to the public ,without my permission

Claim Credit/Ownership of this mod

Include This Mod in bigger mods or community mods ,without my permission

Use this mod to make money or any other kind of profit of any kind.

Port this mod into other games / mods / software / Media ,without my permission

Post/Upload to a different site then www.TESnexus.com ,without my permission

YOU MAY:

Discuss and Link this mod from other sites then TESNexus.

Make videos for video sharing sites like Youtube


 
To get permission - please use the E-Mail address below 
or send me a PM on http://www.tesnexus.com/ - my username is: theRoadstroker

By Downloading this mod, you Agree/Accept to these terms.

Thank you.

**Equipment inspired from the Swedish Movie "Arn - Tempelriddaren (the Knight Templar)" & "Arn - Vgen vid Rikets Slut" (The Path at the Kingdoms End).
Which is apart of Jan Guillou's famous Books with the same name.

**Female Designed by theRoadstroker & Grace Darkling



Special Note From the Author
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Thank You for reading through this.

Hope you Enjoy this Mod.

- theRoadstroker
