Readme for Equine Expansion Pak v2.0
http://www.wheel-of-time.com/nwn/
-written by Finniksa



CONTENTS:
- Description
- Instructions
- Version History
- Credits



DESCRIPTION:
This is the second version of the Equine Pak, with modified models, textures and animations based off the DLA (Arcana&Blackmoon) Horse model. There are 67 horses in this pak including the original DLA horses and the textures from our previous pak. In addition, this pak includes 4 pregnant horses, 5 foals, 6 yearlings, 7 ponies, 6 pony foals, 7 heavy horses, and 1 of each: zebra, zebra foal, zorse, mule, donkey, quagga, nag. Pack Animals carrying panniers (sacks and baskets) include: Pack Horse, Pack Pony. The new standard horse textures are: grullo, roan, red roan, blue roan, leopard appaloosa. Two of the warpaint horses from the previous pack were also redone. The 19 textures from Equine Pak v1.0 are also included.

Since this pak is about 50 MB zip, we also made an Equine Sample pak that is a smaller download, but has only a few different models and portraits. The Equine Sample Pak includes one of each: standard horse, pregnant horse, foal, yearling, pony, pony foal, heavy horse, zebra, donkey, quagga, pack horse, pack pony, and it only has a single horse portrait. The Sample Pak has 15 new horses, and the 2 original DLA horses.



INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Download the zip, extract the file with the .hak extention to your Neverwinter Nights hak directory. (USUALLY C:\NeverwinterNights\NWN\hak but this varies depending on how you installed your software.)

2. Extract the .erf file to a directory where you can find them again.

3. Make a module or use an existing module that doesn't already use a hak pak, and go to Edit->Module Properties->Advanced->Hak File-> and select "equinepak" and click OK.

4. It will add the pak, and compile it, and it should say "No errors." Click DONE.

5. Go to File->Import and browse for your .erf file. It will add all our pre-made creatures to your module now.

6. Click on the Monster button on the top right side of the Aurora Toolset, click Custom, then look under Animals->Other for horse models.

7. Place the creature where you want it, and there you go. Edit them as you wish, the .erfs are just a guideline.



Version History:
Corrections: The problems associated with overwriting models have been corrected. Extra animations were added and other animations were modified for many of the models.
Plans: We would like to add riders for the next version for all of the different horse types and generic hominoid types. We'll look into it after the release of our farm pak and the dino pak we're working on with Koffein and Firehazurd.
Problems: We're aware of a problem with the textures being too big for some people's systems, causing the game to chug when a PC approaches a horse. It doesn't happen for our system so it's really hard for us to know if it's been corrected. I believe this is caused by the texture files being too big, so we may include .dds in addition to the .tga textures. We're also aware of the problem with the tail textures on at least some systems. We will try to correct this as soon as we figure out why the transparency isn't working in the game for those folks. Some of the animations are still a bit weird, but we're working on it.

Version 1.0: This included 19 modified textures and a few portraits for the horses. It was released on 10/25/02 and was 7.77 MB.

Report problems from this pak to Finniksa or Nitocris.



CREDITS & THANKS:
* All Modified Horse Textures, Animations and Models (except those created by DLA or Finniksa) were by Nitocris (jamie@wheel-of-time.com)
* War-paint Horses by Finniksa (niksa@wheel-of-time.com)
* Based on the Horse v.1 by Dragonlance Adventures (www.dladventures.com)
* Original Horse Model by Arcana
* Original Horse Model and Animations by Derek Lo (Blackmoon) of www.e-volve.ca
* Original Horse Texture by Dragonlance Adventures (www.dladventures.com)
* Portraits and Photos from various horse magazine sites online. Contact us if you know who did them!
* Thanks to Arcana, Blackmoon and the Dragonlance Adventures project for releasing this horse model!
* Thanks to NWVault and Maximus for hosting it so others could download it and help work on it.



Updated: 11/14/02