Mod:  Always Foggy 1_0
Game:  TES IV: Oblivion
Author:  David Brasher                                          
Date:  8/13/11                   
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CONTENTS                          
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1. Information on the Mod
2. Installation
3. Version History
4. Conflicts, Known Issues, and Troubleshooting
5. Copy Status and Credits
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1. INFORMATION ON THE MOD           
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	   This mod makes it so it is almost always foggy.  This is useful if you like the 
atmosphere fog provides or want to hide ugly LOD and VWD problems.

	   Morrowind made good use of fog to hide things in the distance.  This technique
improved frame rate and graphic appearance of the world.  There was no problem with grass
growing on bare ground as you walked closer to it or fort ruins suddenly popping into 
existence as you got close enough to them.

	   Some Visible When Distant mods can cause terrible performance on some computers,
so it might be good to hide things in the distance rather than make them visible if your 
computer is like that.  Of course, you could turn your viewing distance down on your in-game
slider bars, but that tends to look kind of bad.  In my opinion, fog is more natural-looking 
and immersive than having the computer just clip off everything that is a certain distance 
from you.  Fog blends and shades and you don't end up with sharp razor-edged boundaries 
between	what can be seen and what cannot be seen.

	   This mod only edits the Cyrodiil area in the Tamriel worldspace.  It makes it so 
it is foggy 90% of the time, and normal weather from the region you are in is present 10% of 
the time.  

	   This mod only makes about two edits to the game.  This explains why the file size 
is so small.

	   To avoid hard conflicts with mods that remove borders, this mod also removes 
borders.  This can show up as a mod conflict on reports, but it is of no concern because this
mod makes exactly the same edit as the other mods and things will work properly when playing
Oblivion regardless of the load order of the effected mods.

	   So if you like fog, or are not satisfied with how things in the distance look and 
how fast your game runs, this might be a good mod for you.  	   
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2. Installation                           
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           Extract (decompress) the .esp to your Oblivion directory.  
The default is:  C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion\Data\
Mark the box next to the "Always Foggy" plugin in your mod manager.
 
           Alternately, extract someplace else.  Then move the .esp to Oblivion\Data.  If 
asked if it is okay to merge folders, say yes.  Mark the box next to the plugin in your mod 
manager.

	   To improve performance, you may want to remove your DistantLOD files from Visible
When Distant mods you have installed in the past.  Those are sometimes what cause the lag, not 
the .esp that you unchecked in your file manager.  You might also turn down your viewing 
distance with the in-game slider bars, if you are still yearning for better performance.  Set 
things up so that you only hide things that are beyond the viewing distance allowed by the fog.
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3. Version History    
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V 1.0  8/13/11   Initial release.   
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4. Conflicts, Known Issues, and Troubleshooting
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	   Since this mod only edits the Cyrodiil part of the Tamriel worldspace, you could 
encounter clear weather when in a city.

	   This mod does not add fog to the Shivering Isles, the areas outside of Cyrodiil, and 
the cities and special worldspaces.

	   If you locate a bug, contact David Brasher on TES Nexus so that the situation can be
examined and can hopefully be fixed. 
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5. Copy Status and Credits           
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Credits:  Bethesda for making Oblivion in an open format anyone can mod.
		
Copy Status:  Public domain with no restrictions.  Use however you like without having to ask 
permission, notify anyone, or give credit.           
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