goldenplaysterraria

Looking for the best ambient horse mod out there? This might just be the mod for you!

Features
-I've added a hundred ambient horses (most of which have custom textures) that will be ridden in towns, missions, be seen in pastures, and spawn in the wild so you don't get tired of seeing the same horses over and over again, I wanted to make them unique but still blend in with the environment well.

- I added around fifteen draft horses of various breeds including Mules, Friesians with a model by bolju, Percherons and more.

- Gave all stable and gang horses unique coats, although you can easily use others in their place, and I recommend doing so if you end up wanting to use a horse from a different mod as your own.

- The stat cards will simply say "Horse" instead of displaying incorrect breed and coat color information.

- Most NPC horses will now be gelded, while wild and some special horses will remain stallions. This is all optional and not included in the lightweight version

- I have worked hard to try and make this mod as bug free of an experience as possible, and will continue to fix any bugs that get reported within reason.

- Foals now spawn in the world in pastures and in the wild; rarely. You also won't see non-wild horses in the wild and there are special wild variants that look thinner and have unkempt manes, although these parts of the mod are completely optional.

- A few of the horses in the mod will have heterochromia.

- Removed the shine effect applied to horses, if for some reason you prefer the shine delete the "ShineFix" folder. Big thanks to KristianD3 for making this part of the mod, go check out some of the mods made by them.

- I have bigger plans for the future of this mod, so as always: stay tuned

How To Install
- For all of the files in this mod, excluding the Individual Files (see the file description for more details), simply find the folder that has an install.xml inside of it and drop that folder along with all of its contents into your "LML" folder and the mod should be installed.

Conflicts
- There are a handful of horse mods that edit the base game Vanilla horse textures, some of which are utilized by this mod. This might result in some horses looking a little different than how they were intended to, but may also be completely fine in most cases.

- The main version of this mod edits ambientpedmodelsets in order to spawn foals and make it so only wild horses will spawn in the wild. You can fix this conflict by either following the merge tutorial included with the mod, downloading the Lightweight version of the mod, or deleting ambientpedmodelsets.

Bugs
Known Bugs:
- Any horses that are not typically available in the stables or given as a mission reward will revert to a bay when saved as your own. There is currently no way around this, if you wish to save a specific coat from an ambient horse you will need to download the individual file for said horse and replace a different horse with the coat you want

- On very rare occasions, a man will be seen brushing the air. This can be fixed by removing the ambientpedmodelsets file, though foals will no longer spawn and non-wild horses will appear in the wild.

- Clay Davies will occasionally mention the breed of the horse you sell to him.

- You cannot lock onto or lasso foals.

- The final horseman challenge cannot be completed if you have the ambientpedmodelsets installed. This can be fixed using an optional file for the mod provided by lexo1000.

- This is significantly larger than any other mod I've made so there's bound to be some errors, if you find any: let me know. Do try to make sure that you are able to replicate any bugs you find and ensure that it isn't due to another mod, otherwise, I appreciate any constructive feedback.

Fixed Vanilla Bugs:
-Every single enemy horse in certain random encounters and missions like "Advertising, the New American Art" and Black Belle's used the placeholder Flaxen Chestnut Morgan, resulting in there being about ~20 in these missions total. This mod fixes this by making them random

-Sheaths now properly connect into the horse model in nearly all circumstances

-Fixed a vanilla bug with "We Loved Once and True II" where a random placeholder horse would appear in the background

-Fixed a bug where Trelawny would use a rope bridle in "Friends in Very Low Places"

-Fixed an issue where Eagle Flies and Rains Fall would ride Tobiano paints in the intro to "My Last Boy", instead of their own horses

-Gave materials and normals, as well as correct UV mapping to saddles that did not previously have them

Version History
Please navigate to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zpfoBwBfq3mXSgO1kDXMU2YaVgO6xEL2f4F02e9tN7k/edit?usp=sharing for a full and updated version history for the mod.
 
These Mods are REQUIRED in order for this to work:
- Scripthook RDR2 (Latest version)
 
- Lenny's Mod Loader (Latest version)
 
- Version.dll, or an Online Content Unlocker (Latest version)
 
- It's not required, but I heavily recommend Horse Eye Draw Distance Fix and Equine Texture Improvements!

Fixes 1907 John without editing any big files like shop_items or catalog_sp
 
Are you tired of mods that fix John but have a bunch of other files or try to make him more "RDR Accurate"? Tired of searching through mods trying to get the perfect 1907 John since Rockstar undoubtedly broke him? Look no further, this is the mod for you:

Features
- 1.00 face textures
- 1.00 pants and gloves
- Fixed Rachel's nose texture and color to be accurate to real life
- Shouldn't conflict with any other mods!
- NPC head model for John with a tutorial to fix the neck seam

If you would prefer to use his 1899 hair instead of 1907, use this lightweight mod and if you want his facial expressions to be better use the lightweight JMFAO







Known Issues
- Slight clipping on the 1.00 gloves and pants
- When wearing the closed collar rancher shirt or the union suit (when underweight) alongside the torso models, there is a slight clipping issue.
- The buzzed and bald haircuts do not work.




Accuracy Issues
- Sulkii has told me that the hair he's using has the wrong consistency and that the left parted models you start the epilogue with are not physically possible, they've also said John would NOT have dyed his hair with ink or stolen an entire wagon of oranges at the orange orchard. I plan to give John better hair in version 1.1 of the mod

- The head model and 1.00 face texture should be accurate to his NPC counterpart but won't be 100% accurate to RDR1, you can view this as a stylistic change on the part of the developers.

- His clothing proportions won't be perfectly accurate since I wasn't able to integrate JMRE's system for that.

What does this mod do?
Main File: This mod takes the horse harness from online and removes the lantern altogether, replacing the large saddle bag. As a result of this, some NPCs will also use harnesses which feels more natural than you being the only one to use it. It also features different color variations depending on which color large saddle bags you select.

Tutorial Version: Contains a tutorial so that your horse can wear the horse harness from Online and keep all components intact.

Is this mod accurate to the real world and more specifically, the Old West?
This mod aims to add an extra layer of realism to the game as breast collars were used from time to time in the Old West and they are also used sometimes in Western movies. Cowboys and riders today use breast collars to keep their saddles from sliding backwards, so if you use one of these IRL I hope this mod allows you to better recreate your actual saddle setup.

How do I install this mod?
You'll need Lenny's Mod Loader and Version.dll in order for it to work.
 
Main File: Simply drop the file into your lml > stream and you should be good to go. Once the mod is installed, equip the large saddle bag via the stable if you haven't already and it should appear on your horse.. unfortunately you won't be able to see the collar until you exit the stable but you'll know it's equipped once your saddle bag goes away.
 
Tutorial Version: Follow the tutorial.

I happen to like my saddle bags, can this mod replace something else?
Main File: Yes, it should also be able to replace horns, small saddle bags, or bedrolls. All you need to do is change the filename to the name of the model's .ydd file which you can find through OpenIV and you should be good to go!
 
Tutorial Version: The tutorial will show you how to keep them!
 
 
NOTES:
 
You only need one version or the other, though you're welcome to use both if you so desire.
 
While the colors in the "color variations" picture reflects the main file, you can sort of change the color a bit for the tutorial version by editing the three numbers following value=  in the Step 3 file. Use the horse color palette from here to get an idea of what the color is gonna be.
Horse Harnesses-1838-1-0-1670825101.rar TUTORIAL TO KEEP ALL ACCESSORIES AND HAVE ORIGINAL TEXTURES.zip