Children of Cyrodiil

[Emma]

CHILDREN OF CYRODIIL ver 1.1





Video (by Lycanthrops): www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyPOGWJrBgg

Download at Nexus: www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/45948/?

Download at my web-site: lovkullen.net/Emma/CyrodiilKids.htm


Something has always been missing in Cyrodiil. Where have all the children gone?
Well, now they are back!

Approx 90 children of various races and ages are roaming the streets of Cyrodiil towns, several babies are sleeping in their cradles, and you will also find that a new generation is on its way, as some female npcs actually are pregnant.

All the children are fully voiced (around 1300 voice entries), fully scheduled and living with their own families. Many of them have siblings, best friends, hobbies, pets, horses, chores to do over the day etc. In other words, each one of them is unique, which you will find if you spend some time looking at their behaviour, talking to them or listening to them talking to each other or to other npcs.

You'll find the children in or outside the towns during daytime, playing on the streets, in the parks or maybe at one of the playgrounds. In the evenings and nights, they'll be home with their parents.

You can interact with the children, talk to them, ask them about their thoughts, play games with them or offer them simple gifts that you can buy in many of the stores.

You can not harm them, and you are not supposed to. As Cyrodiil is a dangerous world, all kids have their own amulet of instant teleporting that they will use if you injure them.

New in ver 1.1:

- Now compatible also with Nushka's HGEC textures for OCO2
- Clothing meshes have been reworked and some kids are wearing necklaces/amulets in order to get rid of visible neckseams
- A few additional voice files have been added

Credits:

Majamikol - girl voice

SirCharleyTheKhajiit - boy voice (recordings originally from Children of Morrowind mod, used with permission)

Koutetsu - the "school uniform" (provided by Princess Stomper's resource package, see below), which has been the base for so many children outfits, as well as additional permission to use other of his children related meshes and outfits.

Lycanthrops: Baby in cradle-model, children-adapted meshes of vanilla outfits, girl dresses, swingsets, rockinghorses, balls, ponies (from Rideable packponies-mod by Lycanthrops and me), adaption of toys and teddybears so that they can be carried.

Uumpa - animations used by the kids (from Uumpa's animation packs).

RamyEnfant - animation from Ramys Enfant companion mod.
special note:
"Ramy's Enfant"
"These animations are established and developed by the Japanese Modding Community"

Enayla - new face textures used by orc and elf children (from Enayla's New Face Textures mod)

LogInToDownload - skirts from his Comfortable clothing mod.

Kaizit (Stesha) - carryable doll

Russader - pregnancy robe (HGEC Weighted Pregnant Dress)

Ren - hairs and eyes from Mystic Elf mod

Nequam - eyes from "Elaborate Eyes"

IDKRRR - hairs from the Corean mod

AlienSlof - new textures for the dogs

Seyheb, Sniffles, Striker879, Chambcra, Sylar/Marek, OldRPGDaddy, Firespark, Saebel - testing, trouble-shooting, valuable suggestions.

Princess Stomper with friends for the resources collected in the Children of Oblivion Resources mod, as follows:
- books by Princess Stomper, originally used in Children of Morrowind (see further notes below)
- short story by Michael Kirkbride
- custom artwork for the books
- school uniforms by Koutetsu
- Wooden toys by MicTheMage
- Bear resource by Xiamara
- Wooden sword and shield by Pekka
See readme for further notes!

Installation:

Simply put the esp and the bsa in your Oblivion Data folder. Don't forget to activate the esp!



Usage

- The main home of this mod is on my web-site, lovkullen.net/Emma/index.htm. If you have received this mod from any other source it may not be the latest version!!
- Please do not upload any versions, current or altered, of this mod anywhere without our knowledge and agreement.
- Please do not include this mod in any compilation without our knowledge and agreement!
- Please do not re-use the children voices anywhere without my specific agreement.
- Should something happen so that the mod is no longer available on the net, please try and contact me. I do not wish this mod to be uploaded anywhere, not even in its current state, without my specific agreement! I specifically request that you respect this.


- Emma

[Emma]

Compatibillity:

OCO2 character overhaul: Fully compatible, the children races will not be affected. However, the optional file "HGEC Texture compatibility add-on" will miscolor the hands and feet of the children. To my knowledge, no other available textures will cause any issues.

Better cities: No severe side-effects during testing, however some of the playgrounds are affected, and a patch might be made later on.

Open cities: We haven't really tested this, but I expect that a patch will be requested




Some further notes:

- The animations that are making the children so lively are by Uumpa, and they are motion capture animations. This means that they don't have a normal collision. Therefore, the children might occasionally do their animations into statics. I have asked experienced animators for advice, but have learnt that there is not much I can do about this. So, the side-effect of the lively and active kids is that you might from time to time see them do animations into statics or even into other npcs. I hope this won't be too immersion-breaking.

- There are only two voice-sets used for this mod. Both are made by my own children. The boy's voice was actually recorded for Children of Morrowind, and as the boy is now a young man, he hasn't been able to add anything further. Therefore, the girls have a lot more dialog than the boys.
When I made Children of Morrowind, I used voices from many children of members of the community. In return I promised to ensure that nothing would "happen" to the kids - no kids being killed, no abusement in screenshots etc.
With the wide range of mods available for Oblivion, it would be much harder to make the same promise today. Therefore, I have choosen to only use the voices of my own children, who are old enough to ensure me that they are fine with it.
The quality of the voice recording may vary, as many of them were made long ago. I have tried to edit them as well as possible, and I still felt that the genuin small-girl voice that my daughter used at the age of 5 added so much that I kept the files in spite of the not-so-high technical quality.

[Seyheb]

This excellent mod makes a huge improvement to the ambience of the city and towns of Cyrodil! I couldn't play Oblivion without it now.

[blockhead]

Congratulations on release.

[Emma]

Thanks to PhilippePetain at the Nexus forums, there is now also a patch for Open Cities Reborn available for the children. You can download it here: www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/download/1000010183

There should also soon be a patch for Open Cities Classic.

[Emma]

This mod has now been updated to ver 1.1, with the following improvements:

- Now compatible also with Nushka's HGEC textures for OCO2
- Clothing meshes have been reworked and some kids are wearing necklaces/amulets in order to get rid of visible neckseams
- A few additional voice files have been added