The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion:

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Bathing Mod

Version: 1.0
Date: 26-09-2007
Author: Antistar (Joseph Lollback)
E-mail: josephlollback@hotmail.com
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1. Description
2. Requirements
3. Installation/Uninstallation
4. Playing the mod
5. Save games
6. Conflicts/Known Errors
7. Credits
8. Modder's Resource Info
9. Contact and Information
10. Legal Stuff/Disclaimer
11. Version History

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1. DESCRIPTION
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- Adds the need for your Oblivion character to wash regularly.
- Cumulative penalties to the Personality stat for every day your character goes unwashed (or a bonus to Personality for 24 hours after bathing, based on install options).
- Instantly remove these penalties by washing in bodies of water with soap (purchased from general merchants).
- Purchase a placable copper bathtub for your player-owned home plugin/s and use it to wash instead.
- Purchase a 'Bathroom Area' upgrade for your vanilla Oblivion player-owned home/s, which includes a bathtub and soap, among other things.

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2. Requirements
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- Requires TES IV: Oblivion, patched to at least version 1.2
- Does not require Shivering Isles (though alternate esps that support it are included).

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3. INSTALLATION/UNINSTALLATION
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Installation (standard):

- Using 7-Zip (http://www.7-zip.org), extract the contents of the BathingMod.7z file (except for the [extras] directory) into your Oblivion\Data\ directory, maintaining directory structure.
- Click on 'Yes to all' if prompted.
- From the Oblivion Launcher, select Data Files and:
	- Check the box next to BathingMod_Base.esm (required).
	- Check the box next to BathingMod_Soap.esp (required: adds soap to general merchants - you cannot wash without it).
	- Check the box next to BathingMod_placable_Bathtubs.esp if you want to be able to buy bathtubs you can place yourself.
	- Check the box next to BathingMod_Bathroom_Upgrades.esp if you want to be able to purchase Bathroom Area Upgrades for your vanilla Oblivion player-owned home/s (My Bravil House, My Bruma House, etc).


Installation (bonus, not penalty):

- If you wish to receive a bonus to Personality for 24 hours after bathing, rather than a penalty when you go without bathing:
- Follow the standard installation instructions above, then:
- Replace the BathingMod_Base.esm file you just installed with the file of the same name from the extras\bonus not penalty\ directory in BathingMod.7z.


Installation (with Shivering Isles installed):

- If you have Shivering Isles installed and wish to be able to buy soap and (if desired) bathtubs from stores introduced in the expansion:
- Follow the standard installation instructions above (followed by the 'bonus, not penalty' installation instructions, if desired), then:
- Replace the BathingMod_Soap.esp and (if applicable) the BathingMod_placable_Bathtubs.esp files you just installed with the files of the same name from the extras\Shivering Isles\ directory in BathingMod.7z.


Installation (A Bloody Mess compatibility):

- If you use Ronyn's 'A Bloody Mess' mod, and wish to be able to wash off blood by using the bathtubs in the Bathing Mod:
- Install 'A Bloody Mess' (downloaded separately).
- Follow the standard installation instructions above (followed by the 'bonus, not penalty' installation instructions, if desired), then:
- Extract BathingMod_ABMCP_Bathrooms.esp from extras\A Bloody Mess compatibility\ in the BathingMod.7z file to your Oblivion\Data directory if you have only BathingMod_Bathroom_Upgrades.esp activated (and not BathingMod_placable_Bathtubs.esp).
OR:
- Extract BathingMod_ABMCP_Bathtubs.esp from extras\A Bloody Mess compatibility\ in the BathingMod.7z file to your Oblivion\Data directory if you have only BathingMod_placable_Bathtubs.esp activated (and not BathingMod_Bathroom_Upgrades.esp).
OR:
- Extract BathingMod_ABMCP_Bathtubs_and_Bathrooms.esp from extras\A Bloody Mess compatibility\ in the BathingMod.7z file to your Oblivion\Data directory if you have BOTH BathingMod_placable_Bathtubs.esp and BathingMod_Bathroom_Upgrades.esp activated.
- From the Oblivion Launcher, select Data Files and check the box next to the BathingMod_ABMCP_*.esp you just extracted.
- Ensure correct load order: Bloody_Mess.esp should be higher in the list than the main Bathing Mod esp files, which should be higher in the list than the BathingMod_ABMCP_*.esp file you installed. Use a program like Oblivion Mod Manager (http://timeslip.chorrol.com/obmm.html) to change the load order of your plugins.


Uninstallation:

- In-game, ensure you are not currently being affected by any bonuses or penalties from the mod, and save your game.
- From the Oblivion Launcher, select Data Files and uncheck the boxes next to all esm and esp files you checked when installing the mod.
- If desired, delete all files copied to your Oblivion\Data directory during installation (check the BathingMod.7z file to identify these files).
- You can now load your save game and continue playing.

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4. PLAYING THE MOD
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Using the standard installation of the Bathing Mod, your character becomes dirtier and smellier for every day they go without bathing. This manifests as a cumulative penalty to your character's Personality stat. There are seven penalty levels: once you reach seven days without bathing you will not smell any worse as time passes, but you will smell *very* bad - and will receive a significant Personality penalty by that stage.

You can purchase bars of soap from general merchants in Cyrodiil (one is all you will need; they do not run out) and use them to wash; provided you can find a body of water, or a bathtub.

You will need to be swimming in water to use the soap, not just standing in water (this is a scripting limitation). To use the soap, simply click on it in your inventory. If you are swimming in water, you will wash with it, and have any Personality penalties removed within seconds.

To use the placable bathtubs, purchase one (a 'Copper Bathtub') from a general merchant in Cyrodiil. Travel to where you wish to place it, and face an open, uncluttered space nearby if you can. In your inventory, shift-click on the Copper Bathtub to drop it. This will drop a wooden 'placer' into the world, which you can move around with the grab key to the desired location. At the moment, the placer can bounce around a bit if you accidentally 'drop-kick' it when first dropping it, so it is recommended to immediately take a couple of steps back when dropping it.

The wooden placer indicates the floor-space the deployed bathtub will occupy, and has the words 'THIS WAY UP' printed on one side of it. This text should be facing the ceiling, otherwise the bathtub will deploy upside down. To deploy the bathtub, simply 'activate' the placer as if you were trying to pick it up. The bathtub will appear. From now on, if you activate the bathtub (and are in possession of a bar of soap), you will take a bath. To pick the bathtub up again and add it to your inventory, activate the bathtub while in stealthy mode.

It is not recommended to carry one of these bathtubs with you everywhere: they weigh a *lot*.

To add a bathroom area to your 'My Bravil Home', 'My Bruma Home', etc; just purchase a Bathroom Area Receipt from the same merchant you purchase/d other furniture for the house from. These bathroom areas contain a Copper Bathtub (which you cannot pick up and move around, like the placable ones), some soap, and a number of other items.


Using the 'bonus, not penalty' version of the mod is the same as the standard version: except your character does not become dirtier over time. Instead, you will gain a bonus to Personality for 24 hours after you bathe.

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5. SAVE GAMES
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- Activating this mod should not have any negative effects on your existing save game/s.

- To keep your save game clean in the event that you wish to stop using the Bathing Mod, see the above instructions for uninstalling the mod.

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6. CONFLICTS / KNOWN ERRORS
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- BathingMod_Bathroom_Upgrades.esp modifies the player-purchasable homes in all towns/cities of Cyrodiil, and so might conflict with any other mods that also modify these homes.

- Not really an error, but you may notice the mod adding a scripted spell effect called "Sense of smell". You can just ignore this: it's the script that controls the player getting dirtier over time.

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7. CREDITS
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- Originally inspired by the 'Stinkers' mod for TES III: Morrowind.
- Thanks to Zimnel for his water texture resource, which was used as part of the bathtub water texture.
- Thanks to Ashemanu, Xiamara and Zimnel for their invaluable assistance in beta-testing the mod.
- Thanks to Vagrant for his scripting advice.
- Base copper and wood textures from http://www.accustudio.com/exchange/textures.php
- Bathtub model based on circa-1800 French copper bathtub.
- The 'A Bloody Mess' mod is by Ronyn: http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=OblivionMods.Detail&id=2876

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8. MODDER'S RESOURCE INFO
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The models, textures and scripts included as part of the Bathing Mod are free to use in other modifications for Oblivion, as long as proper credit is given, and included in the release notes for any modifications that use these assets. Modders are also free to create modifications that feature compatibility with the Bathing Mod, though I would prefer it if this came in the form of plugins that are dependent on the Bathing Mod; rather than the Bathing Mod being merged with other plugins.

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9. CONTACT AND INFORMATION
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My e-mail address is josephlollback@hotmail.com

I often hang out at Canadian Ice & Howndog's Morrowind/Oblivion forum, under the alias 'Antistar': http://canadianice.ufrealms.net/forum2/index.php

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10. LEGAL STUFF/ DISCLAIMER
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By downloading and using this modification, you agree that the author of the modification cannot be held responsible for any damage to software or hardware directly or indirectly caused by the aforementioned modification. Use at your own risk, basically.

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11. VERSION HISTORY
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Version 1.0 (26-09-07)
- Initial public release.

Beta 05 (24-09-07)
- Changed the way the control script is implemented. It is now primarily attached to an ability (a scripted spell effect), instead of being in the quest script.
- Fixed the bug where the player would stop getting dirtier over time after travelling to the Shivering Isles.
- Cosmetic tweaks.
- Minor bug-fixes.

Beta 04 (19-09-07)
- Replaced the merged BathingMod_All_plus_Bloody_Mess.esp file with compatibility patches that should achieve the same functionality; without there being any part of the 'A Bloody Mess' mod included with the Bathing Mod.
- Added versions of BathingMod_Soap.esp and BathingMod_placable_Bathtubs.esp in the extras folder which add soap and bathtubs to stores in the Shivering Isles expansion.

Beta 03 (18-09-07)
- Fixed bathroom area not appearing in Benirus Manor if associated quest was completed before activating BathingMod_Bathroom_Upgrades.esp.
- Added unique messages for each days passed without bathing (up to and including day 7; every day passed after that has the same message as day 7).

Beta 02 (17-09-07)
- Fixed bathroom upgrades not working correctly if player had already bought house and all furniture for it before activating BathingMod_Bathroom_Upgrades.esp.

Beta 01 (16-09-07): 
- Initial implementation of features.