If anyone's interested, these are the notes on my results:
Equus seems most fitting (imo) if used with a lighter built horse model, such as Oblivion Horses, SC - Horses, or one of the many other slim horse mod options. If you're using one of these, I would recommend giving Equustotal overwrite priority.
If you're using the vanilla horse model, zzjay's, or Light Horses of Skyrim, I'd recommend letting Aggressive Horse SoundsoverwriteEquus.
Equus is a vanilla sound replacer, so the horse footsteps are rather one-note. Riding over different types of terrain will sound noticeably unrealistic and unresponsive, just like vanilla with no mods. If that sort of thing bothers you, then you do not need a patch for ISC. If you don't use ISC, then installing Improved Horse Step Sounds will help to resolve this.
If you prefer Equus's vanilla-based horse footsteps, then you will need a patch. Either copy-paste the audio files into the ISC file path, or just go in xEdit and copy the vanilla records for horse footstep sounds into a new ESPFE and let it overwrite ISC (I did the latter).
Conclusion:
No matter what your setup or preferences are, Equus is worth installing either alone or mixed with these other mods because it covers sounds that are completely neglected by the rest. A very well done replacer!
I've made an edited version of this today with reduced volumes on many of the sounds, notably the loud idles (much quieter fart!), attack sounds, and etc. Easy drag and drop, safe to install, plus includes a .txt file of slightly more specific changes. Waiting on permission from Sata to post publicly/seeing if they are inactive, but feel free to message me whenever if you see this and I have not posted a link yet!
Sata suggested hosting the edited files in the main files section, so feel free to check it out there if you're interested in the changes that I made!
Does this fix that but when we run that the horsestep is silent for some seconds? that always bothered me in vanilla skyrim and even after all these years i havent seen a mod fix that..
No sadly, i am experiencing that bug aswell recently, it has something to do with loading LOD that the footsteps either you or your horse struggle to keep up
I like the sounds added by this mod but good god I have to uninstall it. The sounds the horses make are f*#@ing CONSTANT and they don't shut up. It makes being around horses and absolute chore with their back to back puffing, snorting, neighing, kicking dirt, back to puffing, snorting on and on and on. If there is a way to disrupt the frequency of these sounds, I'd reactivate this mod in heart beat. Maybe replace 75% of the sounds with silent 10 or 15 second audio files.
the sounds are amazing, but the horses make the sound constantly. This is especially a little over the top when there are multiple horses around the player. Is there a way so the horse sounds is not constantly?
its weird, coz it was working, and now it isnt i put it at the bottom of my load order, i tried disabling it, load and save then restarting the game, uninstall, clean install, new game, everything. it just isnt working, even dropped it directly into the data folder of my skyrim game folder, it just wont work and i have no idea why,
weird is same as werewolf footsteps fix, that just stopped working too and i have no idea why
I'm making a massive RDR2 inspired Horse Overhaul bundle for personal use for Xbox One/X/S. I have this in it as the sounds for them. I keep getting an archive failure when the creation kit gets to the audio files. Any idea how I could fix that?
Nevermind Riley's version doesn't let me archive it. But I can archive the main version. Also Don't worry I will never Publish the horse overhaul bundle I'm making.
Well I've decided to use the main version for the bundle. But now I can't archive the Aggressive horse sounds for the Draft horses. I'm gonna try to use the Unofficial Creation Kit patch. Thank you for the quick reply.
Can't pre-archive when porting to Xbox if doing Meshes and textures together. The patch allowed me to use all the Idle animations and 8 of the rear up animations for Horse Overhaul Sounds. So I guess that's good enough. It ain't worth losing anymore sleep over. Thanks for the help. I appreciate it.
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If anyone's interested, these are the notes on my results:
Conclusion:
Waiting on permission from Sata to post publicly/seeing if they are inactive, but feel free to message me whenever if you see this and I have not posted a link yet!
Sata suggested hosting the edited files in the main files section, so feel free to check it out there if you're interested in the changes that I made!Can we get some sounds introduced for the horses? Such as the Dwarven horse? This mod doesn't add for the undead horse either.
Cheers!
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it just isnt working, even dropped it directly into the data folder of my skyrim game folder, it just wont work and i have no idea why,
weird is same as werewolf footsteps fix, that just stopped working too and i have no idea why
any help will be most appreciated
- be sure the name of your .bsa is the same as the .esp file
- Creation Kit fixes or Unofficial Creation Kit Patch for AE
- directly use "Archive.exe" in the skyrim folder to do it instead (steamapps/common/skyrim special edition/Archive.exe)
hope it helps