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New as of v0.4: Now included are compatibility meshes Grimbot\'s SI Book Jackets following restructure. Also include is DLC Book Jackets. Books in Oblivion are known for many things. Knowledge, gaining useful skills, and more annoyingly floating in mid air, or shooting off of bookshelves. This mod is a test to possibly change that collision

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= Better Book Collision =
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Author: Ryu Doppler

Version: v0.4

Offical Forum Thread at the Bethesda Forums

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= Details : Ryu Doppler =
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New as of v0.4: Now included are compatibility meshes Grimbot's SI Book Jackets following restructure. Also include is DLC Book Jackets.


Books in Oblivion are known for many things. Knowledge, gaining useful skills, and more annoyingly floating in mid air, or shooting off of bookshelves. This mod is a test to possibly change that collision.

What it does is modify the collision values for the books to be slightly smaller. What this in turn does is allow the actual meshes to be much closer together than normal. Allowing for more compaction for books both on a shelf, as well as laying on top of each other.


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= Final Notes =
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This mod I guess would be more of a tweak mod than anything else. An experiment in plausibility for an Idea I'm surprised that noone has thought of or made/tried a mod of. At least, in that I haven't found one that exists currently.

Includes 19 Meshes from Default Oblivion, as well as 237+ Meshes from Book Jackets.

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= Testing =
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For convenience sake a test ESP called BookCollisionTest.esp is provided. The esp contains an interior with a shelf overstacked with books. The Interior's name is RDBookCollisionTest. It is for those who wish to test for themselves quickly the difference between how a normal overstacked bookshelf reacts to one with the tweaked collision for the books.

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= Installation =
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Default: Copy the Meshes folder supplied, and paste it in the your "Oblivion\Data" Directory. If done correctly, the copied contents should be found afterwards in the "Oblivion\Data\Meshes\Clutter\Books" Directory.


Book Jackets: Copy the Meshes folder supplied inside of the 'BookJackets' Folder, and paste it in the your "Oblivion\Data" Directory. If done correctly, the copied contents should be found afterwards in the "Oblivion\Data\meshes\pa\bjob" Directory.

Book Jackets Extras: Located in 'Bookjackets\Extras' are the selection of extra meshes provided from Book jackets. In case one wants to use the extra instead of the normal supplied Book Jacket version, enter the folder of your choice there, copy the meshes folder inside, and paste in the "Oblivion\Data" Directory. If done correctly, the copied contents should be found afterwards in the "Oblivion\Data\meshes\pa\bjob" Directory.


SI Book Jackets: Copy the Meshes folder supplied inside of the 'SIBookJackets' Folder, and paste it in your "Oblivion\Data" Directory. If done correctly, the copied contents should be found afterwards in the "Oblivion\Data\meshes\clutter\books\GrimbotsDLC" Directory.

DLC Book Jackets: Copy the Meshes folder supplied inside of the 'GrimbotsDLC' Folder, and paste it in your "Oblivion\Data" Directory. If done correctly, the copied contents should be found afterwards in the "Oblivion\Data\Meshes\Clutter\Books\GrimbotsDLC" Directory.


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= Uninstallation =
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To remove only the contents of this mod, you will need to remove the following files, which if installed correctly will be located in the "Oblivion\Data\Meshes\Clutter\Books" Directory.

DAOghmaInfinium.NIF
folio01.nif
folio02.nif
folio03.nif
folio04.nif
folio05.nif
messengerdiary.nif
mintingatmiscarcand.nif
ms06logemmamay.nif
mysteriumxarxes.nif
octavo01.nif
octavo02.nif
octavo03.nif
octavo04.nif
quarto01.nif
quarto02.nif
quarto03.nif
quarto04.nif
tomeofunlife.nif


For the Normal Book Jackets (as well as an extra substitute), you will need to remove the files in the "Oblivion\Data\meshes\pa\bjob" directory and replace them with the Book Jackets Defaults.

For the SI Book Jackets and DLC Book Jackets, you will need to remove the files, which if installed correctly will be located in the "Oblivion\Data\Meshes\Clutter\Books\GrimbotsDLC" directory and replace them with the SI Book Jackets defaults.

In the case of complete removal of the Book Jackets or SI Book Jackets mods (unedited or Edited) please refer to instructions from the original mods. Uninstallation, removal clauses or simply looking at an unpacked file and removing manually the files included with the mods.

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= History =
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v0.4 - Update to SI Book Jackets for file path restructure, Compatibility meshes for DLCspellTomes now included
v0.3 - Ommission *See above*
v0.2 - Compatibility meshes for Book Jackets and SI Book Jackets now included
v0.1 - Initial Collision Tweaks Created

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= Credits =
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Thanks to Me, Ryu Doppler for creating this Book collision tweak.
Thanks to PhoenixAmon for creating Book Jackets.
Thanks to Grimbot for creating SI Book Jackets.
Thanks to odin_ml for updated Grimbot files, and the DLC Mesh additions.
Thanks to Bethesda for creating Oblivion.
Thanks to TESNexus.com, for the a one-stop-shop resource for authors and players.