The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (Unity) 1.1.0 or later Name: Lively Cities Version: 1.3.2 Date: 02/23/2025 Category: Locations Author: Cliffworms 1. Description 2. Installation & Requirements 3. Uninstallation 4. Save Games 5. Conflicts/Known Errors 6. Legal Stuff/Disclaimer 7. Changelog 8. Credits ============== 1. DESCRIPTION ============== Lively Cities adds static NPCs on the streets of Daggerfall's cities and smaller settlements. You may stumble upon beggars, tavern patrons, prostitutes, priests, commoners, children, minstrels and acrobats the next time you're in town. These NPCs can be interacted with and some are guild members who will recognize you if you are a fellow guildmate. NPCs have schedules and some will appear during the day, while others will be there at night. Rain and thunderstorms will also disable several of them. The marketplace's building interiors have been revamped. Enjoy these new areas! In addition, because I used buildings' exteriors to place NPCs, I added quest markers to around 60 houses that had none. This means that there are 60 new quest locations that can be used for quests. I also fixed floating lights and aligned furniture with the walls for every building I used. You may thus see less visual oddities inside the houses I edited. Note that, for the moment, desert towns are not fully covered because of the lack of Redguard NPCs. Should the modding community create those, I'll gladly populate these locations. Using Carademono's Animated People module of Vanilla Enhanced is highly recommended, as it brings all NPCs to life with new animations. ============================== 2. INSTALLATION & REQUIREMENTS ============================== Requires Daggerfall Unity 1.1.0 or later, Daggerfall Expanded Textures 0.6.3 or later, New Paintings 0.5.0 or later and the RMB Resource Pack 0.1.9 or later. Either install using Vortex Mod Manager or install manually as described below. Extract the content of the archive to the StreamingAssets of your Daggerfall Unity directory. Example : [Your drive]\DagUnity\DaggerfallUnity_Data\StreamingAssets The .dfmod file will be installed in "Mods". In-game, activate Lively Cities from the mod launcher. ================= 3. UNINSTALLATION ================= Simply remove the mod file from the "Mods" folder, under StreamingAssets. ============= 4. SAVE GAMES ============= Compatible with both new and active save games. ========================= 5. CONFLICTS/KNOWN ERRORS ========================= - Cities Overhaul and Beautiful Cities of Daggerfallis compatible. - Tavern's Redone : The marketplace's taverns will be overwritten with Lively Cities. - Transparent Windows : You may see visual oddities inside the detailed shops and taverns. It's possible the script that controls the NPCs' schedules may not apply when you first arrive at a location. This depends on how many resources need to be loaded on arrival and other ressource intensive mods may affect it. This can result in the marketplace's Day/Night NPCs co-existing. Nevertheless, as soon as a condition triggers (time of day, weather change), the NPCs will react accordingly. If you encounter any other issue with the mod, please let me know. ========================= 6. LEGAL STUFF/DISCLAIMER ========================= The mod may be distributed/translated without my authorization as long as I am credited as the author. Spread the love! ============ 7. CHANGELOG ============ 1.3.2 - Fixed some z-fighting inside taverns. - Removed an evil street lamp outside one of the marketplace's taverns that'd collide with the balcony. - Removed an even more evil chimney smoke that'd haunt one of the marketplace taverns' kitchen. 1.3.1 - Fixed the issue with mismatching shops and taverns on existing save games. 1.3.0 - The marketplace got the Lively treatment. Added merchant stalls, camps and additions to the buildings' exterior. - The interior of the marketplace's shops have been revamped. Enjoy those new areas! 1.2.0 - Added time of day and weather conditions for NPCs to appear or disappear. - NPCs will now have different names. 1.1.0 - Added NPCs to 24 tavern blocks. All non-desert tavern streets are now covered by Lively Cities. - Fixed a priest in a residential block that couldn't be interacted with. 1.0.0 - Initial Release ========== 8. CREDITS ========== Ralzar for the extinguished lights textures. Kamer for the sitting patrons. StarMadeKnight for the new NPC sprites. Propagandist for the very useful World Data Editor additions. Podleron for the RMB Editor Hazelnut for the conditions script the NPCs use. Hazelnut and Uncanny Valley for the World Data Editor. Interkarma and the wonderful community that gave us Daggerfall Unity The DFU community for feedback. Daggerfall's development team, how could I not credit them?