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|                    True Lights and Darkness - Necro Edit                    |
|                         A Morrowind Mod, Version 2.0                        |
|                                by Necrolesian                               |
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Description |
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This mod is a version of True Lights and Darkness 1.1 that makes a number of
changes in line with my preferences.

There are actually two main plugins in the archive. The "Still Edit" plugin is
identical to the original TLD except that it removes the flicker effect from
every light that Di.still.ed Lights makes that change to. (Otherwise, no
changes are made to TLD's settings). Most lights except fires and torches are
now still (do not flicker).

The version of TLD on which this plugin is based is 1.1 (the version with the
interior daylight). If you don't want interior daylight, but do want a still
TLD, you can use the "Lights Only" modular plugin alongside the original TLD
(for more on the modular plugins, see below).

The "Necro Edit" plugin makes the same changes the Still Edit plugin does
(removes the flicker effect from many lights), plus quite a few additional
changes from the original TLD. These changes are summarized below:

1. Reverted some of the original TLD's more radical light color changes back to
vanilla colors. This is the biggest change in this version. I left minor color
tweaks alone, along with changes to *lightness* that don't significantly change
the hue (e.g. all three color values are similarly reduced, making the color
"darker" but a similar hue). Only the more significant or radical light hue
changes are reverted. (Light radius and other values remain unchanged from the
original TLD.)

2. Removed color words from light names. For example, "Candlestick Brass Blue"
was changed to "Candlestick Brass". TLD's other changes to light names (e.g.
its changes to word order for better inventory sorting, plus qualifiers such as
"Poor" and "High Quality") are left unchanged.

3. Incorporated a few fixes from Patch for Purists. These mostly consist of
removing the "illegal to sleep here" flag from cells that it should be legal to
sleep in, but also include increasing fog density in one cell to avoid the fog
bug, and a minor formatting change to the name of a couple lights.

4. Re-added a script that was added by Tribunal to one light source but removed
by the original TLD.

5. Deleted references to three vanilla light sources that there was no point in
editing (color values remained all zeros).

6. Deleted all cell reference changes other than the interior daylight
additions. These mostly consisted of light sources being removed, added or
moved around, along with a few other edits that were probably accidental.

7. Deleted references to a number of cells entirely. These include exterior
cells, cells added by mods, cells with no ambient light value changes, and a
test cell.

8. Deleted one of the interior daylight light sources and its associated script
that were only used in one of the mod-added cells removed in this version.

The "Necro Edit" plugin contains only TLD's (modified) light source edits, its
ambient light edits to interior cells, and its interior daylight. The archive
contains a "details" file listing in greater detail all changes made in this
version relative to the original TLD.

The archive also contains three modular plugins. "Lights and Daylight" includes
only the changes to vanilla light sources (from "Necro Edit") and TLD's
interior daylight, without the cell ambient light changes. "Lights Only"
includes only the vanilla light source changes with no interior daylight, and
"Interior Daylight Only" includes only the interior daylight with no other
changes.

The modular plugins are intended to be used alongside Let There Be Darkness
(which includes an option for TLD ambient light values), but they can also be
used along with a different lighting mod, such as Di.still.ed Lights, if you
prefer the other mod's ambient light values but like TLD's interior daylight or
my version of its light source edits.

TLD's original readme (which is included in the archive) recommends editing
your Morrowind.ini with the following lighting settings:

[LightAttenuation]
UseConstant=1
ConstantValue=0.382
UseLinear=1
LinearMethod=1
LinearValue=1
LinearRadiusMult=1
UseQuadratic=1
QuadraticMethod=2
QuadraticValue=2.619
QuadraticRadiusMult=1
OutQuadInLin=0

You should totally do that.

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Installation |
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Use a mod management tool such as Wrye Mash, or just copy the plugin of your
choice to your Data Files directory and select it in the Morrowind Launcher.
There's no point in using more than one of the included plugins; use only one.

In general, this mod is a replacement for the original True Lights and
Darkness, not a patch. Use either this version, or the original, but not both.
However, the "Lights Only" plugin can be used alongside the original TLD, if
you like my version of TLD's light source edits but don't like TLD's interior
daylight.

Like the original TLD, most of these plugins require Tribunal and Bloodmoon.
The "Interior Daylight Only" plugin requires only Morrowind.

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Version History |
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Version 2.0 - 2020-05-07
   - Created new "Necro Edit" plugin with the following additional changes:
      - Reverted TLD's more radical light color changes back to vanilla colors.
      - Removed colors from light names.
      - Incorporated fixes from Patch for Purists.
      - Restored script added by Tribunal to a light source.
      - Deleted all cell reference edits other than interior daylight.
      - Deleted unnecessary edits.
   - Added modular plugins for light sources, interior daylight, and both.
   - Renamed mod because it does more than just still the lights now.

Version 1.0 - 2019-08-02
   - Initial release.

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Credits |
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True Lights and Darkness includes the work of B00ze, Cool Demon and Byblos. You
can find the original TLD here:

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/39605

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Contact |
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My email address is necrolesian@danwin1210.me. Feel free to email me with any
comments or suggestions, or contact me on the Nexus.

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Usage |
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Feel free to use this however you want, as long as you credit TLD's original
creators.