PC_Donkey_?[St_Jiub]

[Worsas]

Test 1 for a donkey/mule texture:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/g7hsffawxrtaj2f/pcmule.png

[Saint_Jiub]

Test 2 (in-game): https://www.dropbox.com/s/w8gmnrplejfd8aq/PC_MULES.png

Fixed up the other two pack mule models (smoothed normals and fixed some weird blue material properties on the luggage- the remaining blue in this screen has been taken care of now as well) for use as well, and adjusted the texture color per Worsas' suggestion. There's a wild/packless version as well.

If everything looks good I'll get it uploaded for y'all.

[Infragris]

The packs on the right one look a little weird, I think - those are the baskets from Dunmer shacks, right? Maybe consider dropping that one: two packed versions and a wild one should be more than enough, especially if we throw your horses in the mix.

[SamirA]

I agree, we should also maybe come up with a new name for these guys, because that pattern makes them look nothing like donkeys imo.

[Tarius]

I think they look like donkeys with a fur change. Perhaps the shape should be slightly altered for larger front legs seeing as how they would need them to climb things, like the various rocks and hills.

[Worsas]

Lengthening the front legs will probably mess up their animation, but we can try that nevertheless. Renaming? I was a bit dubious of that idea first but the more I think of it, the more I agree that renaming could work. Such a renaming would allow for a number of puns in literature or dialogue where a known animal is paraphrased by our new name for it.

[Infragris]

I don't think a name change is a good idea or at all necessary. The very thing I like about this mule and the horse is that they somewhat subvert our idea of what these creatures are, without becoming something else entirely - which I find is very fitting for the Imperials, who lean towards the "classic pseudo-medieval culture" we see in other works of fantasy and (frankly) in Morrowind, but with their own special twist. Strange yet familiar. The creatures still function fundamentally as mules, even if they don't quite look like them: by calling them mules we easily communicate to the player what they are and what they do. Not everything needs a special fantasy name: that kind of thing should be reserved for concepts people are unfamiliar with, even if it's just for the sake of conventionality.

[Tarius]

Lengthening the front legs will probably mess up their animation, but we can try that nevertheless. Renaming? I was a bit dubious of that idea first but the more I think of it, the more I agree that renaming could work. Such a renaming would allow for a number of puns in literature or dialogue where a known animal is paraphrased by our new name for it.

I meant increase in girth, not length, I am not sure how length increases will work.

[Saint_Jiub]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2rbs95u9kxzcx9t/Mule.zip

I left in the version with the baskets for now, I'll leave it to you guys to decide to use it or not.

[Worsas]

Off to review!

[Worsas]

- Added a shadow body
- Solved some rather serious animation group problems
- Added a missing moan sound.

The combat animations remain to look slightly odd. but other than that this seems like a nice environmental asset.

Approved