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This mod from XMarksTheSpot, Brumbek and Ismelda adds windows that light up at different times of the day. It also adds chimneys that smoke, as if someone has a fire in the building. The best of the window lighting mods, as it combines the best aspects 
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- Author: XMarksTheSpot, Brumbek, Ismelda
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What is this AWLS about
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This mod has 3 functions:
-Acting as a simple meshes replacer for all the construction with windows in Oblivion and offering a lit version of the windows (no plugin needed).
-Allowing to lit and Unlit the windows depending on the plugin you are using (OBSE Required).
-Adding Smoke to every chimney if you are using the optional chimney replacer meshes.
Working on Better Cities, it has always bothered me that we couldn't have a proper way to have lights on the windows due to the fact that the Illumination Within mods were dependent on the location of the buildings. So this mod was the solution we are all looking for except that it was a bit old and didn't use last meshes from the Unofficial Oblivion Patch nor the new structures introduced or re-textured by Blood and Mud.
We then extended the concept of Texian's Window Lighting System to Illumination within, the principle being that we give the meshes 2 states: Lit and Unlit. Once this was done we uses a quest to allow day and night cycle to toggle on and off the windows. As a replacer of all the meshes, this mod allow you to have all the windows around Cyrodiil to react to day and night without having to place anything in the world. It is then absolutely compatible with everything and offer the same services as Illumination Within (except for the shutters).
We, of course, applied this technique to UOP meshes but also QTP3, Blood & Mud (and its QTP3 Patch) and Kvatch Rebuilt meshes so that we cover nearly all the versions of the meshes you can find. More Textures options were also developed for your lit windows until the ultimate Brumbek Pack offering different colors but also Curtains if you choose to have them.
Last extension is consisting in addition of smoke to the meshes of every houses with a Chimney in the game. There is no tool for this part as it has been done manually on every meshes I found having a Chimney. The Chimneys are also scripted and controlled by script like the windows or just permanently on if you don't use any plugin like are the windows.
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Performances
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About the performances, the animation add a whole 1kb to the current meshes so it won't matter much. The Plugins range from Basic (the less intensive) to Advanced (the most intensive) but they have no impact at all on my machine.
The Chimney are adding like 10 to 20kb to the meshes but as they all have been PyFFIed before, their size is still inferior to the vanilla meshes size. Regarding FPS, there seems to have little to no impact at all.
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Meshes Pack
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Unofficial Oblivion Patch 3.2 & Vanilla
Qarl Textures Pack III
Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch 4.0 & SI meshes
Blood & Mud
QTP3 meshes for Blood & Mud
Kvatch Rebuilt meshes
Better Cities (Chimneys) Meshes
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Textures Pack
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Texian's Window Lighting System
Illumination Within
Brumbek's Mixed Textures
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Chimney Pack
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Qarl Textures Pack III UOP Optimized (Default)
Blood & Mud (and QTP3 for Blood & Mud)
Kvatch Rebuilt
Better Cities
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Different Plugins
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There are 3 different plugins you can use (with the Advanced as default). Each of these plugins offer different lighting options as follow:
Basic (Less engine Intensive):
Will light up all the windows from 20pm to 7am.
Chimney Pack basic ESP:
Chimney are set on small smoke from 7am to 20pm and on large smoke from 20pm to 7am.
Medium:
Will light up all the windows from one hour before sunset to Sunrise and also,
Will light up all the windows during the day while it's raining.
Chimney Pack Medium ESP:
Chimney smokes are small during the day and large during rain and night.
Advanced:
Will light up most of the windows from one hour before sunset to 1am,
Will leave some windows lit all night long (along with cathedral windows and Inns/Tavern windows) but most of them will be unlit,
Will light up most of the windows at 5am until sunrise,
Will light up most of the windows during the day while it's raining.
Chimney Pack Advanced ESP:
Chimney smoke are set on large during the 6 cold months of the year during the night. They are set on small during the day.
Chimney smoke are set on small during the 6 warmer months of the year during the night (except on the norther part of Tamriel and in mountains where the smoke is still large). There are no smoke during the day, except when it's raining.
A small random factor (25%) allow to have different type of smoke (a large one among smaller ones or a small one when no other chimney are smoking).
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Main Files are REQUIRED! That means that you need to Download them!
Optional files are OPTIONAL! Use one of them instead Brumbrek Texture Pack from the Main File if you prefer.
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To Install
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1. Get the Meshes Pack
-Choose your ESP from the Basic, Medium and Advanced options
-If you want to use the Chimneys copy* the Textures folder from:
-01 Smoke Textures
-If you are using QTP3, copy the meshes folder from:
-10 QTP3 (Required) plus
-11 QTP3 Windows & Chimneys if you want to use the Chimneys** or
-11 QTP3 Windows Only if you don't want to use the Chimneys
-If you are using Vanilla Meshes, copy the meshes folder from:
-20 Vanilla (Required) plus
-21 Vanilla Windows & Chimneys if you want to use the Chimneys or
-21 Vanilla Windows Only if you don't want to use the Chimneys
-If you are using Shivering Isles, copy the meshes folder from:
-30 SI (Required)
-If you are using Kvatch Rebuilt mod, copy the meshes folder from:
-80 Kvatch Rebuilt Windows & Chimneys if you want to use the Chimneys or
-80 Kvatch Rebuilt Windows Only if you don't want to use the Chimneys
-If you are using Better Cities mod, copy the meshes folder from:
-90 Better Cities Chimneys Only if you want to use the Chimneys
-For Bravil:
-If you are using Blood & Mud mod:
-If you are using vanilla meshes, copy the meshes/Textures folder from:
-40 B&M Textures (Required) plus
-40 Bravil B&M (Required) plus
-41 Bravil B&M Windows & Chimneys if you want to use the Chimneys or
-41 Bravil B&M Windows Only if you don't want to use the Chimneys
-If you are using QTP3 patch for B&M, copy the meshes/Textures folder from:
-40 B&M Textures (Required) plus
-50 Bravil B&M QTP3 (Required) plus
-51 Bravil B&M QTP3 Windows & Chimneys if you want to use the Chimneys or
-51 Bravil B&M QTP3 Windows Only if you don't want to use the Chimneys
-If you are not using Blood & Mud
-If you are using vanilla meshes, copy the meshes folder from:
-70 Bravil Vanilla (Required) plus
-71 Bravil Vanilla Windows & Chimneys if you want to use the Chimneys or
-71 Bravil Vanilla Windows Only if you don't want to use the Chimneys
-If you are using QTP3, copy the meshes folder from:
-60 Bravil QTP3 (Required) plus
-61 Bravil QTP3 Windows & Chimneys if you want to use the Chimneys or
-61 Bravil QTP3 Windows Only Only if you don't want to use the Chimneys
*: By "copy" I mean Copy and Paste to you OblivionData folder of course.
**: All meshes have the windows Lighting System, whether they are with Chimney smoke or not. Chimney Only folders just mean that this is the folder when you want also the smoke on the chimney instead of windows animation only. .
2. Get one of the Texture Pack
-copy the Textures folder to your Obliviondata folder, or,
-follow the install procedure from the readme in case of Brumbek Texture pack.
OR create 2 OMODs with the archives (Meshes Pack and Textures Pack of your choice) using OBMM and activate them trusting the script to make your installation simple. (When asked to overwrite a mesh, use CTRL + Click on OK you have reply Yes to All overwrite prompt).
Read the ReadMe(s) for detailed procedure...
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FILE TAB
Main Files are REQUIRED! That means that you need to Download them!
Optional files are OPTIONAL! Use one of them instead Brumbrek Texture Pack from the Main File if you prefer.
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To Uninstall
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Simply delete the files that were created in the meshes/textures folders in Oblivion/Data or uninstall the OMOD using OBMM.
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Requirement
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To use the plugins you have to use OBSE (v14 or more recent should be more than enough)
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Legal Use
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Feel free to use the textures and meshes as yo wish in your projects. Grant back credits to the people mentioned in the credits below as the ideas/meshes are theirs with some rework I did and me (Ismelda).
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Ratings
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If you think that no mod is perfect, then do not download or rate this mod. It is not for you.
Everyone knows that nothing is perfect but still we try to achieve perfection. So your rating must not reflect a philosophical state but just how this mod is doing comparing to what it announces and what it does. If you have valid suggestion then by all means do so. We do not see how to make this mod better because it already has all the features we can add to it and wont cripple your machine.
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Credits
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Brumbek: For the Mixed Textures pack combining the Illumination Within textures with the Texian's frame for the windows as well as some new glow map and textures.
Dev_Akm: for Qarl Textures Pack III for Blood & Mud
dev_akm and Kivan: for QTP3 UOP32 Compatibility Patch
Ismelda: Orginal concept of the Texian's Window Lighting System enhancement.
Quarn and Kivan: for their job at fixing meshes
Ryan: for Blood & Mud
Slap & ModMan: Textures from Illumination Within
Texian: for the creation of the Window Lighting System
XMarksTheSpot: For the animated meshes, for the program to animate your buildings, for the basic script to make the animation usable.
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Tools
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Nifskope
IllumAnimation created by XMarksTheSpot
Oblivion Mod Manager, OBMM How To & Oblivion Mod FAQ and OMOD Creation.
Wrye Bash and BAIN
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Contacts
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Official Forum Thread
IRC Channel
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Changelog
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Brumbek Pack 5.1.1:
-Correction and simplification in the omod script
-Correction of the cathedral, temple and chapel meshes to stay lit all night long.
Brumbek Pack 5.1.0b:
-Fixed a corrupted mesh of the Chorrol Mages Guild (Vanilla Red/Orange Chimney version)
AWLS 5.1.5:
-Fixed the LeyawiinUpperHouse04 and LeyawiinMagesGuild UVMap to properly display the curtains if you use them.
AWLS 5.1.4:
-Fixed a script issue which was making the chimneys to not properly animate depending on the conditions set.
-Renamed the "Chimney Only" folders to "Windows & Chimney" for less confusion.
AWLS 5.1.3:
-Fixed a script issue which was making the door windows to be lit all the time.
AWLS 5.1.2:
-Addition of the Cathedral of Mara to for QTP3, QTP3 for B&M and Vanilla version. The mesh was deleted by error during the packaging for v5.1.0.
AWLS 5.1.1:
-Fixed BravilFairDeal.NIF for QTP3, QTP3 for B&M and Vanilla version as it was causing Crash to Desktop while entering Bravil World.
AWLS 5.1.0a:
-Fixed some omod script issues.
AWLS 5.1.0:
-Control of the smoke animation through scripting again with basic, medium and advanced features.
-Addition of Bravil B&M QTP3 patched meshes for the Chimneys.
-Re-upload of the main Meshes Package with all the options (Chimneys or Windows only) + Kvatch Rebuilt Meshes.
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AWLS 5.0.3:
-Fixed the Animation for the LowerClass houses to be enabled.
-Addition of Better Cities meshes needing for smoke in the Chimneys.
AWLS 5.0.2:
-Addition of the Chimney Smoke to Kvacth Rebuilt meshes. (Install the Optional Pack of AWLS for Kvatch first to properly trigger the windows).
AWLS 5.0.1:
-Addition of the Chimney Smoke to all other houses meshes.
-Modification of the Readme of the Main Meshes Archive.
-Optimization of the Folder Structure to ensure correct installation of Blood & Mud textures.
AWLS 5.0.0:
-Addition of smoke in the chimneys of Anvil's houses.
-Made the Main Meshes archive BAIN Ready and modified the OMOD script accordingly.
-Removed a faulty interior door meshes in Anvil QTP3 meshes.
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AWLS 4.2.0:
-Fix of wrong Leyawiin mesh
-Fix one Leyawiin mesh that still had flipped windows and improved a couple others
-Fix of B&M BravilTowerTop01.NIF mesh to include animation
-Fix of all cities window�s texture misalignment by Brumbek (Vanilla/UOP, and QTP3)
-Changed B&M Mages Guild to use Chorrol mages guild window
-Added B&M red windows for two B&M buildings
-Re-Optimized all meshes with PyFFI for greater performance and less stuttering
AWLS 4.1.0:
-Fix of the Leyawiin window's texture misalignment by Brumbrek (Vanilla/UOP and QTP3)
-Fix of the omod script which wasn't installing properly the Bravil meshes for Vanilla/UOP
AWLS 4.0.3:
-Fix the ship cabin meshes for QTP3 or Vanilla (they are the same) to actually animate like the other windows.
AWLS 4.0.2:
-Fix of the script to not light on the windows during rain at night but only during the day.
AWLS 4.0.1:
-Fix of the Mages Guild Windows Symbol for Blood & Mud (and QTP3 for Blood & Mud)
-Made the color of the 3rd state (used during rainy days) a bit less pale.
AWLS 4.0:
-Modification of the IllumAnimation Tool to offer a new animation state.
-Modification of all the meshes to get a 3rd Animation state.
-Modification of the Medium and Advanced plugin to trigger the 3rd animation state when it is raining by day.
-Integration of the Skingrad Meshes with better aligned windows by Brumbek for Vanilla/UOP and QTP3/UOP.
-Addition of a new texture pack with grey windows.
-Addition of a new window mesh for the Leyawiin Mages Guild door and of the UpperDoor Meshe of Leyawiin forgotten earlier.
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AWLS v3.2.4:
-Fix of the Advanced plugin to not debug to console for less stuttering.
-Separation of the textures pack for lighter download. Choose your texture pack from Texian, IW and Brumbek packs.
AWLS v3.2.3bis: Really fixed this time
AWLS v3.2.3: Fix for the Bravil Tower Top which wasn't using the correct window texture.
AWLS v3.2.2:
-Addition of the Bravil Castle Tower Top for B&M, B&M QTP3, QTP3 and Vanilla.
-Removing of the AnvilDoorUC02.NIF which is for interiors only.
AWLS v3.2.1: Fix of the Bravil Mages Guild in Bravil for B&M and QTP3 B&M which where using the Mage Window Symbol material for the ropes and ended blue...
AWLS v3.2:
-Fix of the Advanced Plugin to actually keep the Inns lit all night long.
-Fix of the Cathedral meshes to stay lit all night along with the Inns.
AWLS v3.1.2: Fix of the omod installation script.
AWLS v3.1.1: Patch to add a glow map for Blood & Mud Mages Guild Symbol windows.
AWLS v3.1:
-Fix of the Folder Structure (QTP3 Bravil was not in Bravil Folder).
-Improvement in the scripts for all plugins.
-Addition of randomness in the lighting of the windows in the Advanced plugin.
-Removing of the Better Cities Meshes (they are included in Better Cities now).
-Optimized all the meshes through PyFFI.
AWLS v3.0.1:
-Fix of the MagesGuildWindow
-Addition of one missing Glow Map to one of the Weynon Priory Windows.
AWLS v3.0:
-New batch of files with Unlit state with vanilla windows textures and Lit state with special bright textures of your choice (Texian or Illumination Within).
-Improved omod installation script
-Fix of a lit building in Skingrad
-Addition of the Ships Windows
-Addition of the IllumAnimation tool to make your own animated construction.
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AWLS v2.0.2: Fixed the meshes of the IC Market & Talos District which weren't animated properly.
AWLS v2.0.1: Fixed some Illumination Within Textures.
AWLS v2: Animated Meshes and esps to toggle them properly in game.
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QTP3 v1: Addition of the Qarl Textures Pack III for Vanilla Oblivion.
SI v1: Addition of the WLS for SI.
v1.0.2fix: Fix for the Bravil Warlock Luck for the non B&M and non QTP3 for B&M version. You just need to overwrite the current meshe.
Addition of the main package with the fixed meshe for Bravil Warlock Shop.
v1.0.2: Initial re-release with UOP 3.2 meshes, Blood & Mud and Qarl Texture Pack III for Blood & Mud.
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By ShadowMerchantBC (I just got here) on Nov 04, 2010
