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Version 1.41
Removed plugin hashtag for MO2 users.
Version 1.21
Resaved textures in a better, more optimized format with mipmaps, and tweaked the filenames for OpenMW compatibility by removing the # prefix.
MIT files removed since Wrye Mash can't seem to edit the INI blood section for whatever reason.
Version 1.4
Spark texture now includes dark smoke and machine oil (or Atronach blood), with a more vibrant gold for the sparks.
Changed all Ogrim to have dark blood, instead of just the Titans -- purely because no other Daedra have black blood and Ogrim seem like the best candidate with how nasty and bloated they are.
All 8 Dagoth brothers changed from dark blood to bleeding fiery sparks -- being divine with what I envision to have high body heat and caustic blood that combusts as soon as it hits air.
Version 1.3
Included an edit for the BloodSplat3 NIF file.
Full replacement of all 7 blood effects with 1k versions, along with an 8th for 1k bone dust.
Version 1.2
Mounted Rieklings changed to bleed red, since their Bristleback mount makes up most of this enemy's mass.
Named ghosts prefixed for consistency with "Ghost of Galos Heleran."
Version 1.1
Swapped blood types with the Frost and Storm Atronachs, as the blue energy is a closer color match for the former and the dust sometimes appeared more yellow than white. Because of this change, the dust texture has been removed from the mod. It was just a desaturated vanilla image, anyway.
MiNi installer template merged with main download.
Red Blood Mostly healthy mammals, reptiles, fish and anything else not listed below
Dremora I like the idea that they bleed glowing orange blood, like a demonic version of Predator with a volcano-like visage -- an ashy black surface containing fluid that resembles the fiery oceans of Oblivion's Deadlands (which could very well be an ocean of Dremora blood).
Fabricants If there was an extra texture slot, I would have given them white blood inspired by the androids in Alien, but orange was the next best choice (since not much else uses it). Possibly harvested from Dremora?
Goblins Green blood to match their skin color, assuming said pigment is caused by high levels of biliverdin. Plus green blood is a fitting trope for goblins.
Hungers I see them as demonic humanoid leeches, and leeches bleed green.
Kwama Foragers Green-blooded like the Earth annelids they resemble.
Kwama Workers, Warriors, Queen Starting life as blue-blooded crustaceans, assimilation with the Forager annelid results in the adult Kwama's blood being gradually replaced with that of the Forager, both to prevent rejection and allow the annelid to function as the host's sole method of eating, digestion and reproduction. Even Kwama Workers bear this symbiote, not yet being large enough to emerge from the Kwama's former GI tract.
Ogrim I mostly just wanted at least one black-blooded Daedra for the sake of variety, but I picture Ogrim eating anything and everything to the point their blood becomes a toxic black goo.
Netches Blue blood to match their gas bladders.
Saints Green blood contrasts nicely with their golden flesh, especially given that it matches the color of oxidized copper.
Scribs I felt blue more fitting with their purplish shell and jelly innards, and I like the idea of them being crustaceans.
Spriggans Spriggans are humanoid trees, and tree sap is orange.
Twilights Blue blood to match their skin tone and void salts.
Udefrykte Green blood to match its face and glowing eyes. Like goblins, green blood is fitting for trolls in general -- especially ones with weird alien antennae -- with Ice Trolls (Grahl) being a rare exception to better thrive in the cold.
Why spirits don't bleed ectoplasm I had considered giving them the green fluid texture, but it made them seem too corporeal, and I doubt ectoplasm is runny and voluminous enough to spray like blood.
Why vampires and Ash Creatures don't bleed dust I always assumed Ash Creatures were simply coated in ash salts from constant exposure to ash storms, as implied by in-game dialogue:
Ash salts are hard grey crystals formed from the ash deposited by ash storms in the ash wastes and lava fields.
As for vampire dust, my personal interpretation is that vampires gradually dry out and dessicate the more (liquid) blood they lose, ending up dusty and mummified from starvation or violence -- again, as implied by the game's dialogue:
Of interest only to necromancers and alchemists, vampire dust is collected solely from the withering corpses of slain vampires.
As such, black vampire blood is what I presently go with, in keeping with other organic undead.
I also favor black blood for Ash Creatures, as well as other Corprus and Blight monsters to reflect their diseased nature. If I could, I would have made Ash Creatures bleed a foul black acid that corrodes whatever surface it lands on, complete with smoking puddles and health/equipment damage within melee range. I chose green blood for Ascended Sleepers to depict a further increase in poisonous fluid (inspired by their green tentacles and poison-based spells), with Heartwight blood being so unstable it combusts into sparks and smoke upon exposure to open air.
INSTALLATION - Vanilla Engine If you only want the red blood, bone dust and metal sparks, then you only need to install the mod's texture files. Do NOT activate any plugins.
To unlock the new blood options (for both the ESP and Construction Set), open your Morrowind configuration file (in the game's installation directory) and replace the entire [Blood] section with the following:
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[Blood] Model 0=BloodSplat.nif Model 1=BloodSplat2.nif Model 2=BloodSplat3.nif
Texture Name 0=Red Texture Name 1=Dust Texture Name 2=Sparks Texture Name 3=Energy Texture Name 4=Blue Texture Name 5=Green Texture Name 6=Dark Texture Name 7=Orange
INSTALLATION - OpenMW OpenMW users need to add the following (in green) to the openmw.cfg:
