• 1 - Firstly, credits

• 2 - How to install the mod

• 3 - Features list

• 4 - How it works

• 5 - How to change the default mod settings in the console

• 6 - Versions history

• 7 - How to make a mod compatible with Blood & Gore 1.8 or above

• 8 - Add-ons list and features
  
   

1 - Firstly, credits :

• Cooldemon for the original bleeding mod idea

• Lady Eternity for the original blood meshes and textures

• Dongle for the new blood meshes !

• Ayse for his fantastic textures !

• Horatio, GhanBuriGhan, Puma man, for ideas and pieces of code

• Sisco for his "Fire Hurts" mod idea

• The Morrowind modders community for their constant generation of incredibly good ideas ;)

• Jaga_Telesin for 1st readme file correction ;)

2 - How to install the mod :


Extract the archive into the "Morrowind\Data files" folder. Be careful to keep the folder structure. Overwrite files when asked.

If you're updating from an older version, just remove (or overwrite) the old one and ONLY use the new version.

NEVER EVER USE TWO VERSIONS OF A SAME MOD AT THE SAME TIME.

If you have GIANTS TRIBUNAL running, BE CAREFUL TO TICK THE FOLLOWING IN THE GAME LAUNCHER OR YOU'LL GET NO GORE EFFECTS AT ALL.

• Blood and Gore mod

• Blood and Gore patch for GIANTS Trib  OR Blood and Gore add-on for GIANTS Trib
   

You can replace an old version of B&G by this one, no save game cleaning to do, no problem to fear.

When loading a save game with B&G enabled, you may see some "error" messages saying "count differs" and other stuff about modified elements : that's normal, just continue, there won't be any problem.

- READ SECTION 8 OF THIS FILE to determine which ADD-ONS you NEED to run too.

- THE MOD DOES *NOT* WORK IF YOU USE *NO* ADD-ON.
 

3 - Features list :

PUT YOUR ENEMIES ON FIRE OR MAKE THEM BLEED TO DEATH !

• Makes player, non playing characters (NPC) and creatures BLEED by generating visual elements (blood, chunks, smoke) when they're hit

• Visual elements are based on the NPC/creature nature and what they've been hit by. The elements can include : blood, dark blood, meat chunks, dark meat chunks, bones, bone powder, metal chunks, oil, dark smoke, white smoke, fire

• All elements have an according sound effect

• Elements fade away and disappear with time or when you get away from them or when you get very close to them

• Easily configurable via spells changing the general Gore Level. Can go from normal Morrowind to over-gory movie.

• The various gore levels allow the mod to suit to all computer configurations

• Each aspect of the mod is customizable via very simple console commands

• Gameplay bonus : fire sources can do fire damage, water protects from fire attacks, in Solstheim player and NPC produce breath smoke and water does frost damage

• You can instantly know the result of your hit without having to look at the little enemy yellow bar.

• Morrowind is more realistic with this mod : being hit = bleeding

• Makes combat more funny : You can put an enemy on fire at night with a fire spell and follow the light and smoke if he flees !
   

Blood & Gore DOES NOT MODIFY creatures/NPC/races at all, so Blood & Gore is SUPER compatible with almost ALL mods.

It ONLY dynamically *ADDS* ANOTHER script to them, launched via DIALOGUE entries, and only that, NO modification whatsoever of the creature itself, NO change to the attached script by other mods, etc.

• All creatures tweaked by the mod you're making the add-on for will stay exactly how they were.

• With B&G on, GIANTS creatures keep all their GIANTS scripts and tweaks but ALSO use B&G features, etc.

• The sole and only elements modified in B&G are some voice hit dialogue entries. Period.

• That means that B&G is COMPATIBLE with almost ANY other mod, even those which DO modify creatures, add scripts to them, etc.

• The ONLY mods Blood & Gore might be incompatible with are those modifying the EXACT SAME dialogue voice topic hits entries, so that's not too many. Combat moves from GhanBuriGhan and VGreetings from TheOtherFelix are now compatible, but there may be some others. See in section 7 how to make them merged to be able to use them all at the same time.
  
   

4 - How it works :


The principle of Blood & Gore is to dynamically add a script to each NPC/creature to make them generate stuff when hit.

Advantage : no modification of any creature/NPC = super compatible

It uses the Voice/Hit dialogue topic to generate gore effects when a NPC, a creature or the player is hit.

Gore effects include blood splats, meat chunks, oil splats, metal chunks, dark blood, dark meat, fire, black smoke, white smoke, depending on creature and/or spell effects.

The Gore effect generation is linked to the sound processing, which means that it only occurs if the NPC or Creature generates a sound, a random event managed by the game engine, and not when there's actually a successful hit. However, for the player, the mod uses health value.

 

Check screenshots here : http://thelys.free.fr/blood_screens.htm


 

5 - How to change the default mod settings in the console :
 

(1) Sets the proportional bleeding mode, when active, makes blood generation depend on health ratio. Maximum bleeding is set via wwA_GoreLevel.

(2) Actual gameplay tweaks : when you're in water, you gain a 90 pts fire resistance, blizzard cold, water cold


 

6 - Versions history :


1.00

• First release

1.01

• Fixed a couple of bugs and made it more compatible with some mods, but limited to "official" races only.

1.02

• Added the free "Delete Blood" spell to delete all blood around, and the click-to-delete feature

1.03

• No more bleeding underwater

1.04

• No more bleeding when jumping or levitating. Fixed the underwater problem for "indoor" cells.

1.50

• Added the wwA_Goreprop var for proportional bleeding (see above)

• Added the wwA_GorePC var for PC bleeding probability (see above)

• Now all original red-blooded non-flying creatures from Morrowind + Tribunal are bleeding

• Changed textures to make blood darker

1.60

• Now all original creatures from MW + Tribunal do bleed.

• Added a GIANTS compatible version.

• Added some more gore effects : blood, dark blood, bones, dark blood + bones

1.70

• Added metal effect to all centurions

• Modified the gore effect on Fabricants and Yagrum to make them generate metal pieces too

• Added a patch for GIANTS to make compatible with B&G. This does NOT add b&G effects to GIANTS creatures but ONLY allows the mods to run side by side nicely

• Added specific sounds to all chunks

1.71

• Modified scripts to make chunks disappear when you get away from them

• Added a var ( wwA_GoreDistance ) to set the disappear distance for chunks

• Added a counter ( wwA_GoreMax ) to set the max number of chunks per cell.

1.8

• Removed the gore elements counter, wasn't efficient anyway

• Added smoke effects for sun damage

• Added fire + smoke effect for fire damage

• Added white + black smoke effect for shock damage

• Added white effect for frost damage

• Metal creatures emit smoke when badly hit, and even fire when nearly dead

• Hybrid metal creatures (like fabricants) emit smoke when badly hit

• All new effects come with corresponding sounds (from MW)

• Healing doesn't make characters bleed anymore

• Bloodmoon add-on to make BM creatures bleed too

• A bunch of new variables to tweak the system

2.0

• Corrected meshes by Dongle ! No more transparency display bugs !

• Put back the gore elements counter, now it's working

• Added a bunch of new globals to tweak the mod

• Added a new spell to change to next Gore "level" in game without going through the console. After level 5, it goes back to 0.

  • Level 0 - No gore at all

  • Level 1 - Few effects, Fastest

  • Level 2 - Some effects, Fast

  • Level 3 - Average effects and speed (default)

  • Level 4 - More effects, Slower

  • Level 5 - Max effects, Slowest

  • Note : Level 5 could be also called "over effects". All values are maxed out, it's more for fun or curiosity than really to use it for long

• Added the breath smoke effect when in Solstheim *still beta : when activated, NPC idle voices are off*

• Added the cold water frost damage when in Solstheim

• Added a feature making gore stuff disappear when you get very close : you no longer have to dig though blood to retrieve your victim's equipment

• Reworked mostly everything for speed and efficiency

• Added a bunch of add-ons for

  • GIANTS Tribunal 2.6

  • Wilderness 1.1

  • Cait's Critters Unleashed 2.0

  • Mephisto's Creature Pack 1.1

  • Bloodmoon add-on included

• Added a template add-on for making yours.

2.01

• Corrected the problem with summoned creatures and smoke effects

2.02

• Added 2 other spells to manage Gore level in game easily

• Added blizzard frost damage to Solstheim + console command for disabling it if needed

• Added some new meshes, changed some textures

• Included all add-ons made by Vencha (extra thanks!) for a bunch of popular mods :

  • Adventurer's TC

  • Children of the Night part 2

  • Deadite race

  • Hunting Isle

  • Morrowind Advanced

  • Morrowind Additions Revamped

  • Petshop

2.11

• Brand new textures by Ayse - A great visual enhancement for the mod !

• Added specific blood and gore elements for Dremoras, fire atronach, frost atronach, insects, Gods, Predators and Aliens

• Updated almost all add-ons

• Added compatibility add-on for GhanBuriGhan's Combat Moves mod

• Added compatibility add-on for TheOtherFelix' VGreetings 0.9.4 mod

• Added optional Vampire constant breath effect, white or red

• Added sound effects to breathing

• Cold water and blizzard frost damages lowered

• Cold water and blizzard frost damages now also reduce speed

• Added auto preparation of corpses to "dispose" when getting close to them and avoid CTD. Also added a global var and a spell to manage it.

• Modified smoke variable to manage it independently from gore level

• Implemented corrections suggested by Ayse, giving more diversity to blood splats.

2.12

• Removed bug of frost and fire damages lowering max health and stats

• Frost and Fire damages now depend on player's resistances

• Alien's acid blood does acid damages

• Modified some meshes and textures

• Small tweaking and tuning

7 - How to make a mod compatible with Blood & Gore 1.8 or above (check the included template add-on) :

• 1 - Open the mod you create the add-on for + a renamed copy of the TEMPLATE add-on (as the active one, the one which will be modified) together in the editor

• 2 - Go to Dialogue/Voice/Hit section

• 3 - Copy the example entry fitting the next creature/race you want to add (right click/copy)

• 4 - Change the ID or Race to the one of the new creature/race

• 5 - Go back to step 3 for all other new creature/race

• 6 - Save the new add-on (ex-template copy) and exit

Again, you can see it's very very simple. Even making an add-on for a mod like Mephisto's Creatures pack only took me some minutes for dozens of new creatures.

Note : While making the add-ons, beware of NPC based creatures ! They are not in the creature list but in the NPC list ! New creatures, NPC and races have an * attached to their ID.



Summary of the conventions I used for the add-ons I made (you can find the same info in the examples in the template add-on) :

Blood script = for all "normal" land red blooded creatures/NPC/race

BloodFlying script = for all red blooded flying creatures/NPC/race - use it if the creature CAN fly, even if it can walk and swim too, instead of "Blood"

DarkBlood script = for all dark blooded creatures/NPC/race like vampires, ghouls, diseased/blighted creatures/NPC, etc.

DarkBloodBone script = for all zombies creatures/NPC/race like BoneWalkers

BloodMetal script = for all "cyborg" style (metal + flesh) creatures/NPC/race like fabricants

Metal script = for all metal only creatures/NPC/race like centurions

NoBlood script = for all other creatures/NPC/race like very BIG or SMALL creatures (on which normal effects can look stupid : ex. normal size bones generated by a giant skeleton...), all creatures not supposed to bleed (ghosts, atronachs...), not red blooded, etc.

 

Check latest possibilities in the Template itself, dialogue/voice/hit section




 

IMPORTANT NOTE :

This mod is incompatible with ANY mod which modifies the original default dialogue hit voices topics APART GhanBuriGhan's Combat Moves and VGreetings by TheOtherFelix, thanks to included dedicated add-ons.

Incompatibility issues can vary depending on the mods order of launching. There will be no harm to your savegame or anything serious, no CTD, etc. but you won't benefit of this mod and incompatible mods full features.

YOU CAN USE THE FOLLOWING TWEAK TO MAKE THOSE MODS WORK TOGETHER (thanks to LDones)


"I tested the TESPCD dialogue merging tool, and merged the dialogue entries for Blood & Gore 1.01, Combat Moves 1.1, and VGreetings.

It works. Perfectly. Compatibility is no longer a problem. I happily wandered around chopping people w/ special moves and having their guts spill out all over the place. It was great.

You can get the latest version here:

http://home.covad.net/~elyvsoto/morrowind/tespcd.htm

Once you unzip it, edit the tespcd.ini file - Under the [DialogueRepair] heading change the line that reads 'Enable=0000000000' to 'Enable=0000000101'. That'll enable the dialogue merger tool (called 'Re-Link dialogue). MW still has problems with merged dialogue from re-named Exterior cells (certain dialogue from Haldenshore, Stanegau Isle, etc.) - but otherwise, it works flawlessly.

You can access the Dialogue Re-Link tool from the 'Operations' menu below the title bar. From there it works pretty much like Horatio's Levelled List Merger - It will resolve any conflicts in dialogue by merging extra data in dialogue entries. Like a master levelled list file, it should always be the most recent file. Updating it will not cause doubling or errors of any sort. (Just remember the above warning - MW doesn't always play nice with dialogue assigned to renamed exterior cells, so it may be a good idea to leave mods like Haldenshore or Stanegau Isle (that have big land changes and cell renames) out of a dialogue merge, unless you really know what you're doing). "


 

8 - Add-ons for Blood & Gore v2.0+
 

by Vencha (V) and TheLys


Note : Those are ADD-ONS to Blood & Gore 2.0+ for popular mods and expansions, requiring you to also activate
the original mod/expansion the add-on has been made for.


8.1 - Add-ons list

Blood and Gore Morrowind alone add-on.esp
* for Morrowind creatures only
* use this add-on if you don't use Bloodmoon nor Tribunal

Blood and Gore Morrowind-Tribunal add-on.esp
* for Morrowind AND Tribunal creatures (you don't need the add-on above)

Blood and Gore MW-TB-VGreetings add-on.esp
* for Morrowind AND Tribunal creatures (you don't need any of the add-ons above)
* adds TheOtherFelix' VGreetings mod Hit section voice features (you don't need to activate this part of VGreetings)
* you still need the other parts (non hits) of VGreetings 0.9.4 to have the full VGreetings mod

Blood and Gore BM add-on.esp
* this add-on only affects Bloodmoon creatures - see above for MW and Tribunal ones

Blood and Gore Adventurer's TC add-on.esp
for Adventurer's TC (V)

Blood and Gore Cait Critters add-on.esp
for Cait's Creeters Unleashed 2.0 by HogHead

Blood and Gore CoN 2 add-on.esp
for Children of the Night part 2 by J. Barbosa (V)

Blood and Gore Deadite add-on.esp
for Deadite race (V)

Blood and Gore GIANTS add-on.esp
for GIANTS Tribunal 2.6 by PumaMan
*If you want GIANTS creatures to use B&G effects TOO, use this add-on
*If not, use the patch for GIANTS
*Don't forget that you MUST use the patch OR the add-on if you use GIANTS
*or you won't have gore effects at all

Blood and Gore Combat Moves add-on.esp
* for making GhanBuriGhan's Combat Moves mod applied to ALL creatures/NPC using B&G effects
* you need to activate the complete Combat Moves mod to use this add-on

Blood and Gore Hunting Isle add-on.esp
for Hunting Isle by Jdooby (V)

Blood and Gore Mephisto CP11 add-on.esp
for Creature Pack 1.1 by Mephisto

Blood and Gore MW Additions Rev add-on.esp
for Morrowind Additions Revamped by M6N6M6, Brewu4 & Harlequin (V)

Blood and Gore MW Advanced add-on.esp
for Morrowind Advanced by WormGod (V)

Blood and Gore Petshop add-on.esp
for Petshop 4.2 by Jdooby (V)

Blood and Gore Wilderness add-on.esp
for Wilderness 1.1 by PumaMan







Blood and Gore patch for GIANTS Trib.esp
for GIANTS tribunal compatibility (and ONLY compatibility - see above for the add-on)

Blood and Gore Fire damage.esp
makes (original) fire sources of Morrowind/Tribunal/Bloodmoon (like brasiers) really do FIRE damage
*based on Sisco's mod "Fire hurts" idea*
*Modifies the fire sources so is incompatible with any other mod doing so*
*DOES NOT REQUIRE TRIBUNAL OR BLOODMOON BUT WILL WORK WITH THEM*

Blood and Gore TEMPLATE add-on.esp
template add-on for creating yours very easily



 

8.2 - Add-ons installation :


Just select the add-ons you need for the mods/expansions you use in Morrowind Launcher.

THOSE ADD-ONS REQUIRE YOU ALSO USE BLOOD & GORE v2.0 OR MORE

It may seem obvious to many, but hey, it won't harm to precise it ;-p

These add-ons do NOT modify the creatures nor the original mods/expansions in any way, so you can use any other mod which alters difficulty, stats or anything else about the creatures without having to worry about incompatibility.

For GIANTS Tribunal, the GIANTS add-on ALSO contains all the changes included in the GIANTS patch released with Blood & Gore, so you don't need to activate both, but there will be no problem at all if you still do it anyway.




Vencha contact:
vench0a@yahoo.com
taylor_rocks_and_you_know_it@hotmail.com

Preferred: Private message on the official elderscrolls forums

Have fun ;-)

- TheLys

 

mail : thelys@free.fr

Site : http://thelys.mwsource.com