Witcher Horse Expansion

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About this mod

Over 50 new horse coat colors, 20 unique horses with special effects and optional ENB light, 21 unique ESO inspired horses, wild horse herds, and a zorse!

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This mod does not have any known dependencies other than the base game.

Mods requiring this file

Mod name	Notes
A few edits (HFE and WHE)
bmmboo's mini patches and mods dump	NOT REQUIRED, just recommended. Also pictured in mod images.
Cathedral Armory for CC	For the Witcher Horse Expansion patch
Frost Retexture for Witcher Horse Expansion
Golden Dwemer Pipeworks Redone Patches for Various Mods
Higher Poly Vanilla Saddles
Kaidan 2 Kiai Horse Replacer - WillOhTheWisp's Witcher Horses and Elrian's Craftable Saddles
Kaidan Revoiced Witcher Horse Patch	version 2.4b+
No more glitchy textures. Witcher Horse Expansion compatibility patches (ENG and RUS)	Main Requirements
Patch for Witcher Horse Expansion and Simple Horse Tweaks
RedBag's Falkreath - Patch Collection	for the patch
Simplest Witcher Horses
Witcher Horse Expansion (PTBR)
Witcher Horse Expansion - Beyond Bruma patch
Witcher Horse Expansion - German	Original-Mod, wird zwingend benötigt!
Witcher Horse Expansion - Mysticism Rebalance and Re-Distribution	Hard Requirement
Witcher Horse Expansion - Russian Translation	Оригинал
Witcher Horse Expansion - Spanish	Requiere del Mod Original
Witcher Horse Expansion - Traditional Chinese (CHT)	Hard requirement

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I am happy for anyone to use my work, but I cannot extend permissions for all of the assets used in this mod. So long as you obtain permissions from the original asset creators or verify open permissions, you may use my portion of this work freely.

File credits

CDProjektRed for providing permission to use the horse model and textures
Feradia for her Roach Textures from Fera's Roach and Horse Overhaul and Fera's Tribute Horses
chakaru11 for their Roach Horse Resource Pack
RefurbSkyrim for their wings resource
PraedythXVI for his multiparallax and Arvak textures
Vindition for his frosted glass cubemap
DrJacopo and Cathedral Concept for the otherwordly cubemap
zzjay for her horse mane mesh
jg1 for the stars and rainbow example fx included with VFX Editor, adapted for use for the unique horses
Pop000100 for extracting the wild horse textures from the texture cache from Fera's Roach and Horse Overhaul and the fixed CRF patch
substill for the SkyTEST Redux and Simplest Horses patches
Kynkaid and Tommas for the menu to apply wings to the unique horses
Rudy102 for the ENB glow texture
Pieter82 for the higher poly saddle models

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German Author:oOMariselaOo	Witcher Horse Expansion - German
Other Author:WillOhTheWisp - Vagrant999	Witcher Horse Expansion - Traditional Chinese (CHT)
Portuguese Author:Granhadd	Witcher Horse Expansion (PTBR)
Russian Author:Nocturn	Witcher Horse Expansion - Russian Translation
Spanish Author:Alexiel26	Witcher Horse Expansion - Spanish

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Chevaux De The Witcher (French Translation)
Witcher Horse Expansion - Wings Options
Witcher Horse Expansion 1k (Xbox)
Witcher Horse Expansion 2k (Xbox)

Changelogs

Version 2.4b
- [FOMOD] Fixed installation error for zzjay's Horse Overhaul
- [Updated Patch - zzjay's Horse Overhaul] Corrected the plugin name for the faction saddles option
Version 2.4
- [Main Mod] Added specular to alpha channel of normal maps.
- [Main Mod] Removed unnecessary alpha channels on diffuse maps that did not have transparencies.
- [Main Mod] Wing options can now be distributed to Nightmare, Black Unicorn, and White Unicorn with a power, no need for additional plugins (thanks to Kynkaid and Tommas!). The wings are assignable only to horses with the correct keywords. These horses will randomly have an option assigned to them on game startup, but this can be tweaked in the menu.
- [Main Mod] Added patch to fix flickering horse manes by applying a NULL texture to the vanilla horse mane, so only the WHE mane shows. This should prevent flicking on horses added by other mods.
- [Main Mod] Added Rudy's ENB glow texture, as ENB glows were already mapped to that texture and it was not previously included. Should prevent issues with ENB light option not working.
- [Main Mod] Carried forward changes from Load Screen Shading Fix for the horse and rider load screen art.
- [Main Mod] Fixed shader flags for specular, environment maps, and multiparallax.
- [Main Mod] Integrated the meshes from High Poly Saddles, for both vanilla saddles and for saddle patches that used vanilla meshes.
- [Main Mod] Fixed rotation of bits on all saddles, so the bit now actually sits in the mouth. Rotation fixed on all bridles added by other saddle mods as well.
- [Main Mod] Moved Karinda to the other side of the Whiterun Stables building, so that she no longer does a dance buried in the floor.
- [FOMOD] Compressed PNG images in FOMOD to make download size (marginally) smaller. Reordered patch list.
- [New Patch] Animated Carriage
- [New Patch] Simple Horses (courtesy of substill)
- [New Patch] SkyTEST
- [New Patch] SkyTEST Redux (courtesy of substill)
- [Updated Patch - Equestrian] Actually flagged the SC Horses dummy plugin as ESL.
Version 2.3
- [Main Mod] Restored environment mapping shader flag to Dwemer Horse, Black Beauty, and Bronze Horse.
- [Main Mod] Removed soft lighting shader flag, to fix meshes being white in some games.
- [Main Mod] Rotated the QASmoke chest the right way round and added the dismiss horse spell tome to the chest.
- [Updated Patch - Equestrian] Cleaned ITMs and updated texture sets to use WHE normal and specular map.
- [Updated Patch - Horse Armors for SSE] Cleaned ITMs.
- [New Patch] Aenbyr
Version 2.2
- [Main Mod] Fixed CTD caused by Nightmare's special effects.
- [Main Mod] Removed specular flag on the unique horses since it resulted in excessive shininess with ENB Light.
- [Main Mod] Added spell to dismiss horses.
- [Main Mod] Changed summoning spells to no longer be considered dangerous casts, so NPCs shouldn't react negatively. Also added condition to not be castable in non-rideable space.
- [Main Mod] Added replacements for loading screens for the horse and horse with rider.
Version 2.1
- [Main Mod] Mesh and texture fixes - added specular, fixed texture stretching on neck, adjusted some mesh values, fixed cubemaps, and added a no decals flag on eye glows.
- [Main Mod] Renamed mane mesh to match AE to fix double mane.
- [Main Mod] Added new wild horse textures - caribou, dark, dark grey, dun, light cream, okapi, war pony, wild ass, zebra, and new zorse (texture extraction courtesy of Pop000100).
- [Main Mod] Added wild horses to leveled lists and replaced the hand placed wild horses with the leveled list options. Added sandbox AI to the wild horses.
- [Main Mod] Removed stray ENB light node on Thunder's unicorn horn nif that was causing crashing.
- [New Patch]: Horses Gone Wild
- [New Patch]: ESO Imports
- [New Patch]: Animated Wings (14 different options)
- [New Patch]: Aeonbarr
- [New Patch]: Blaze of Eventide
- [Updated Patch - CC Wild Horses]: Flagged CC Wild Horses patches as ESL.
- [Updated Patch - Cutting Room Floor]: Updated so Karinda is actually disabled now (patch courtesy of Pop000100)
- [Updated Patch - Horse Armors for Skyrim]: Fixed FOMOD not installing properly.
Version 2.0
- [Main Mod] ESP-FE is the only plugin option now, as maintaining both options was too much work and confusing besides.
- [Main Mod] Removed Placed Projectile that was causing crashing at Knifepoint Ridge.
- [Main Mod] Renamed horses in the leveled lists so they are easier to spawn via console.
- [Main Mod] Placed Meteor at the Skaal Village (previously overlooked placing him).
- [Main Mod] Fixed the actor records for the Hearthfire horses so they will show as the unique ESO horses.
- [Main Mod] Removed extraneous assets (fire gradient texture and horse skeleton).
- [Main Mod] Fixed the rotation of the bit on the bridle so it sits more flush with the mouth.
- [Main Mod] Changed file path of the upscaled Watcher's Eye textures, so they don't conflict with anything else that retextures them.
- [Main Mod] Edited the UV map on the eyes and added a cubemap.
- [New Patch] Wild Herds of Skyrim
- [New Patch] Equestrian
- [New Patch] Cutting Room Floor
- [New Patch] zzjay's Horses
- [Updated Patch - CC Horse Armor - Steel] Corrected folder name from bgsse012 to bgssse012. Fixed clipping on saddle.
- [Updated Patch - CC Horse Armor - Elven] Fixed clipping on saddle.
- [Updated Patch - CC The Cause] Fixed nif name for Daedric horse.
- [Updated Patch - Convenient Horses] Integrated the updated patch into the main FOMOD. Additionally, fixed clipping on saddles and rotation of the bit on the bridles.
- [Updated Patch - Craftable Saddles from the Witcher 3] Integrated the updated patch into the main FOMOD. Additionally, fixed clipping on saddles and rotation of the bit on the bridles.
- [Updated Patch - Craftable Horse Barding] Integrated the updated patch into the main FOMOD. Additionally, fixed clipping on saddles and rotation of the bit on the bridles.
- [Updated Patch - Horse Armors for Skyrim] Fixed clipping on saddles and rotation of the bit on the bridles. Fixed badly weighted saddles. Fixed pathing in the FOMOD to point to the correct patch.
- [Updated Patch - Immersive Horses] Integrated the updated patch into the main FOMOD. Removed IH AI from the wild horses, as they were following the player as a herd any time a horse was ridden.
Version 1.2
- [Updated Patch - Wild Herds of Skyrim] Updated to include the mesh for the foal's mane and tail that I initially forgot to upload. Compacted FormIDs for the Wild Herds of Skyrim patch.
- [Updated Patch - Equestrian] Removed the armor record from Equestrian that was outside the bounds for ESL.
- [Updated Patch - Craftable Saddles from TW3] Fixed clipping issues.
Version 1.1
- [Updated Patch - Craftable Saddles from TW3] Includes the new Caparison of Lament and Nilfgaardian saddle, as well as the option to choose between saddles with and without stirrups. Will be integrated into the main FOMOD once more updates are made.
- [Updated Patch - Convenient Horses] Fixed crashes that occurred when equipping leather armor from Convenient Horses. One of the BSTriShapes had Default Shader Type but still had Environment Mapping Shader Flag.
- [Updated Patch - Immersive Horses] Enables adoptability for the unique horses and ESO horses.
- [New Patch] Equestrian and Wild Herds of Skyrim

WITCHER HORSE EXPANSION

Witcher Horse Expansion is a complete horse overhaul that introduces the horses from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt into the world of Skyrim. There is a vast new variety of horse coat colors, converted from The Witcher 3, Fera's Roach and Horse Overhaul, and Fera's Tribute Horses. Nearly all horses are now unique in appearance. Additional horses have been added into the horse encounter leveled list to dynamically add new horses to come across during gameplay. Horses that previously were not unique in appearance (such as Cicero's horse) will now have distinct coats. There are new named horses that can be found throughout Skyrim and Solstheim, some with regular coats and some with mythical appearances and magical effects.

♘♞ Features ♞♘

20 unique horses with special effects and optional ENB light that can found throughout Skyrim and Solstheim
21 ESO inspired horses that can be found throughout Skyrim
56 unique horse coats distributed throughout the horses of Skyrim
Zorse that accompanies M'aiq on his travels and that will appear alongside M'aiq during his roadside encounter
Karinda restored to the Whiterun Stables
Wild horse herds that roam the open plains and snowy mountainsides of Skyrim
Unicorns with 42 different wing options

♞♘ Unique Horses ♞♘

There are 20 unique horses with special effects and optional ENB light that can be found throughout Skyrim and Solstheim. They can be discovered in unique locations after finding and activating their summoning catalyst. The spell tomes to summon the unique horses have also been distributed in the merchant leveled lists with varying degrees of rarity and can be purchased from the Riverwood Trader or Phinis at the College of Winterhold. Alternatively, you can retrieve all the tomes from a chest in the QASmoke cell. The two unicorns can only be summoned unless you have the Wild Horses CC.

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Ember Heart
Location: Solstheim, in the field of burning craters near Tel Mithryn
Summons: Burning Crater

Ghost Horse
Location: Hamvir's Rest
Summons: Ghostly Cairn

Dwemer Horse
Location: Nchardak
Summons: Dwemer Pedestal

Thunder
Location: Above the entrance to Twilight Sepulcher
Summons: Storm Altar

Bronze Horse
Location: Outside Bronze Water Cave
Summons: Bronze Valve

Wraith
Location: Necromancer's Bluff
Summons: Horse's Skull

Despair
Location: Dead Men's Respite
Summons: Pale Light

Ruin
Location: Burnt carriage near Twilight Sepulcher
Summons: Burnt Body

Death
Location: Falkreath graveyard
Summons: Death's Grave

Deathcharger
Location: Ritual Stone
Summons: Horse's Skull

Plague
Location: Bthardamz
Summons: Diseased Pustule

Permafrost
Location: Frozen Lake in the Falmer Valley
Summons: Ice Spire

Nether
Location: Mzulft
Summons: Disused Astrolabe

Nightmare
Location: Nightcaller Temple
Summons: Gruesome Visage

Celestial Unicorn
Location: Statue of Meridia
Summons: Aetherial Projection

Kelpie
Location: Lake Ilinalta
Summons: Drowned Victim

Black Beauty
Location: Outside the Glenmoril Coven cavern
Summons: Demon Tree

♞♘ ESO Inspired Horses ♞♘

There are 21 horses with unique ESO inspired names that can found throughout Skyrim. They aren't strictly lore friendly but there were so many new horse coats to implement and I thought it would be fun to use some for ESO Easter eggs. 3 of the ESO horses are used as replacers for the Hearthfire horses.

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Buttercup
Location: Lakeview Manor

Matilda
Location: Heljarchen Hall

Fadeel
Location: Loreius Farm

Frolics-In-Rain
Location: Hlaalu Farm

Meteor
Location: Skaal Village

Peri
Location: Kynesgrove

Pivott
Location: Kynesgrove

Pom'el
Location: Kynesgrove

Shinkicker
Location: Brittleshin Pass

Slumgullion
Location: Markarth Stables

Snow
Location: Blackbriar Manor

Sojourn
Location: Winstad Manor

Sugarloaf
Location: Nightgate Inn

Triumph
Location: Wayward Pass

Truffles
Location: Mushroom Ring in Falkreath

Whinnie
Location: Honeystrand Cave

Windmane
Location: Darkwater Cavern

♞♘ Available Patches ♞♘

Immersive Horses
Kaidan
Convenient Horses
Craftable Saddles from TW3
Horse Armors for Skyrim
zzjay's Horse Overhaul
Craftable Horse Barding
Equestrian
Wild Herds of Skyrim
Horses Gone Wild
CC - Wild Horses
CC - Daedric Horse
CC - Horse Armor - Elven
CC - Horse Armor - Steel
Cutting Room Floor
ESO Imports
Aeonbarr
Aenbyr
Blaze of Eventide
Animated Carriage (replaces the horse model with WHE model)
SkyTEST
SkyTEST Redux
Simplest Horses

All patches are either mesh only patches or are plugins flagged as ESP-FE.

♞♘ Additional Community Patches ♞♘

Patch for Witcher Horse Expansion and Simple Horse Tweaks - by bertoost
Witcher Horse Expansion Compatibility Patches - by PharaoN_Man
Witcher Horse Expansion - Beyond Bruma Patch - by urbon
RedBag's Falkreath - Patch Collection - by monkeyangie, Czasior, and robertgk2017
JK's Windhelm Outskirts Patch Collection - by Czasior
Cathedral Armory for CC - by MidnightVoyager
Animated Carriage - Vanilla Horse Textures Patch by Bectile (fixes texture sets to keep vanilla cart horses)

♞♘ Compatibility ♞♘

Witcher Horse Expansion is natively compatible with both Special Edition and Anniversary Edition, as it uses the new mane partition system from AE. If you do still continue to have double mane, there is an optional file that applies a NULL texture to the vanilla mane, so that only the WHE mane shows.
Not compatible with mods that change the model or textures of horses
New saddle meshes will need to be refitted to the new model, but retextures will work fine
Load Witcher Horse Expansion below any mods that add new horses.

♞♘ Future Plans ♞♘

Add special abilities to the unique horses (think Death decapitating Draugr or Thunder using shock spells)
Fluffy horses with shell meshes/textures
Replacer only version

♞♘ Credits ♞♘

CDProjektRed for providing permission to use the horse model and textures
Feradia for her Roach textures from Fera's Roach and Horse Overhaul and Fera's Tribute Horses
chakaru11 for their Roach Horse Resource Pack
RefurbSkyrim for their wings resource
PraedythXVI for his multiparallax and Arvak textures
Vindition for his frosted glass cubemap
DrJacopo and the Cathedral Concept for the otherwordly cubemap
zzjay for her horse mane mesh
jg1 for the stars and rainbow example fx included with VFX Editor, adapted for use for the unique horses
Pop000100 for extracting the wild horse textures from the texture cache from Fera's Roach and Horse Overhaul
substill for the SkyTEST Redux and Simplest Horses patches
Kynkaid and Tommas for the menu to apply wings to the unique horses
Rudy102 for the ENB glow texture
Pieter82 for the higher poly saddle models

♞♘ Tools Used ♞♘

♞♘ Thanks ♞♘

Second for inspiring me to start modding, always encouraging me, and being my favorite person
PraedythXVI for being my emotional support texture artist and a genuinely good friend
Mihail for advice on lore and implementation
zzjay for advice on extracting Witcher files
Skyking for advice on generating normal maps with Materialize
Kartoffel for ESRGAN upscale tutorials and advice on upscale models
Halls of Ysgramor Discord for being just a fun place to be

This mod is very special to me as it was the first big project I undertook. I started knowing nothing and learned so much while creating it. This mod stands on the shoulders of the entire modding community and would not be possible without the incredible ingenuity of the various mod tool developers, the generosity of mod authors willing to share their work, or the many knowledgeable individuals who share their knowledge with others. Thank you!

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