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|                    True Lights and Darkness - Necro Edit                    |
|                        A Morrowind Mod, Version 2.0.2                       |
|                                by Necrolesian                               |
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Description |
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This mod is a version of True Lights and Darkness that makes a number of
changes in line with my preferences.

There are two directories in the archive: one for the full mod, and one
containing a number of modular plugins.

Full Mod
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The "full mod" directory contains two plugins, both of which are "still"
versions of TLAD. This means that they remove the flicker effect from many
lights. (Specifically, the flicker effect is removed from every light that
Di.still.ed Lights makes that change to; see the "details" document in the
archive for a list of these lights.) Most lights except fires and torches are
now still (do not flicker).

Both of these plugins are based on the 1.1 version of TLAD, and include TLAD's
interior daylight.

The "Original Colors" plugin retains TLAD's original colors, while the "Necro
Colors" plugin makes a number of additional changes. These changes are
summarized below:

1. Reverted some of the original TLAD'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 TLAD.)

2. Removed color words from light names. For example, "Candlestick Brass Blue"
was changed to "Candlestick Brass". TLAD'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 TLAD.

5. Deleted references to three vanilla light sources that there was no point in
editing (all zero color values, or a practically zero radius).

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 Colors" plugin contains only TLAD'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 TLAD.

Modular Plugins
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The archive also contains a number of modular plugins. "TLAD Daylight" contains
only TLAD's interior daylight, without any other edits, while the "TLAD Lights"
plugins contain only the light sources, without the interior daylight or any
cell edits.

There are four "TLAD Lights" plugins. Two of these are labeled "Still," which
means they remove the flicker effect from many lights, just like the full
versions of the mod do.

The other two are labeled "Logical Flicker." In these plugins, the flicker
effect is applied in a more consistent manner. Lights with a visible flame are
set to "flicker slow," while fire-based lights without a visible flame have the
flicker effect disabled. The flicker effect has also been disabled for the lava
lights, while it has not been changed for most other lights.

Thanks for AetherSeraph9 for doing the work on the flicker effect for these
plugins! See the "details" document in the archive for a list of lights in
these plugins with the flicker effect changed, compared to the "Still" plugins.

There are two versions each of the "Still" and "Logical Flicker" modular
plugins, one with TLAD's original colors, and one with my toned down color
values.

The modular plugins are intended to be used alongside Let There Be Darkness
(which includes an option for TLAD 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 TLAD's interior daylight
or its light source edits (with or without my color adjustments and
AetherSeraph9's flicker edits).

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Installation |
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Use a mod management tool such as Wrye Mash, or just copy the plugin(s) of your
choice to your Data Files directory and select them in the Morrowind Launcher.
You might want to use the TLAD Daylight plugin along with one of the TLAD
Lights plugins, but otherwise use only one of the included plugins.

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

TLAD'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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Version History |
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Version 2.0.2 - 2020-06-18
   - Added two more modular plugins with lights only, with the flicker effect
        applied in a more consistent manner. Thanks to AetherSeraph9!
   - Removed the "Lights and Daylight" plugins, to reduce the number of plugins
        I have to maintain.
   - Renamed plugin files to make what they do more obvious.

Version 2.0.1 - 2020-06-10
   - Added modular plugins for light sources only and lights plus interior
        daylight, based on the Still Edit version with TLAD's original colors.

Version 2.0 - 2020-05-07
   - Created new "Necro Edit" plugin with the following additional changes:
      - Reverted TLAD's more radical light color changes 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 TLAD here:

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

Also thanks to AetherSeraph9 for all their work on making the flicker effect
apply more consistently.

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Contact |
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Feel free to contact me on the Nexus with any comments or suggestions. You can
also find me on Discord as Necrolesian#9692, or you can email me at
necrolesian@danwin1210.me.

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Usage |
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You can use this however you want, as long as you credit TLAD's original
creators.