Nice!

Pearl diving was one of my favorite things to do in Morrowind for some strange obsessive reason, and now you're encouraging me further.

Thanks for the enabling!

Please make the colored pearls (besides white, black and pink) an optional esp.

I agree that colored pearls should be extremely rare and only found in kollops - maybe make them into a new random levlist found only in specific places in special kollops/grottos.

One mod that will conflict with this is Resources Enhanced by TheLys which adds a special script to kollops so that bubbles appear after harvesting and sets them to regenerate after a number of days like most herbalism mods. The script is set to give ingred_pearl_01 and to handle the randomness (50%). For compatibility would be best to include a patch that changes that script to give from a random levlist with chance none set to zero.

Nice idea. I developed some of the Grottos a bit in Creatures as part of a planned quest (which I scrapped). Some now have "boss" type dreugh, daedric ruins, and massive loot clams.

Yeah, regarding the texture, it's a little odd. I used the Pearl to make an eyeball, the texture is mirrored, so I had two pupils (not a big deal for what it was going to be used for), the equator north to south direction (whatever it's really called) results in a stretched texture, so fine detail isn't possible there.

It's been part of Creatures since about V7 or 8 (I forget )

There's a black pearl included in abotWaterLife which does not map a mirrored image of the texture - 'meshes/ndib_ingred_pearl_black.nif'; uses 'textures/ndib_ingred_pearl_black.dds'

It's mostly about the UV map - looks like the vanilla MW white pearl uses a circular UV map which would only account for one hemisphere of the model, whereas the black pearl UV map is cylindrical which wraps the entire model. Should also mean less distortion.

You should be able to apply the textures Arkeyla provided you to that mesh. Might depend on size and if any hilights are centrally placed.

I couldn't find any info in the readme re: the author - try contacting abot for permissions. :shrug:

Makes pearl diving more exciting! By adding nine new varieties of pearls to find in your submarine travels! Now when you open up various Kollops you will find one of nine of these varieties or none at all. The varieties added are: Grand, Flawless, Bright, Common, Dull, Flawed, and Defective Pearls. Or there is also a chance you will find two rare types of pearls; Black Pearls and Pink Pearls sometimes show up as well. One of the coolest things is that all of the varieties are of varying sizes, worth, and weight as well. So for instance a Grand Pearl will be larger than a Flawed Pearl. So when you organize them on your shelves you will automatically have varied sizes to look at. Happy Diving!

Also, now all of the pearls have unique icons for every type! So you can tell what type you got just by looking at it. And there are also three new textures added as well, black and pink pearls have there on textures and then the rest of the textures use a new normal pearl texture made by Arkeyla.

Oh and this is not a replacer. The standard pearl is still found elsewhere. So it isn't quest breaking.

And I suggest you use a leveled list merger just in case. But the only leveled list altered in this mod is the random_pearl list.

NEW ADD-ON
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Colored Pearls Add-On....
This add-on brings up the total new pearl count to 44! The new colored pearls are all done by Arkeyla, I simply applied her textures to the mesh and placed them in the leveled list. The new shades you can find are Blue, Gold, Green, Purple, and Red. Each one of these new colors has the same varying qualities as the other pearls in the previous version, along with new icons for each color quality. I want to mention that these new colors are textured very subtle so even purists such as myself won't find them distracting. They are totally beuatiful and fit to rest on anyones treasure shelf.

Change log
V 1.00 Initial Release
V 1.10 Added new alchemical properties to pearls, but only on the fourth level. So you need to have a high alchemy to tap their full alchemical potential.
V1.5 New Black Pearls and Pink Pearls added to list! New icons for ALL of the pearls added by this mod. Icons and textures all done by Arkeyla. Lowered possibility of pearls showing up a little to balance.
V2.0 Colored pearls optional .esp added! Now when you find Kollops you can find the nine new pearls in the previous version and beautiful colored pearls by Arkeyla. They come in Blue, Gold, Green, Purple, and Red shades. The new pearls all have varying qualities, varying sizes, each one with unique icons. Total new pearls is now 44! with this add-on.
Plus a small fix to the leveled list %Chance I made.

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I could not get the compatibility patch for Resources Enhanced to work. I do not think that I am familiar enough with scripts or something. So that has not been included. But if someone wants to make a patch and upload it separately or send it to me via email then I will include it in the next version of Pearls Enhanced
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Nice. :tops:


I'll see if I can get it to work since I'm looking at using both together anyways. I'll work on it later tonight/tomorrow - off to see Quantum of Solace!

Have you noticed that the very fiorst person to DL and try the mod gave you a 10?

DLing myself now - it would be pretty silly of me to put the work in and not have the mod. *chuckle* *I plan on making lovely pearl mosaic-like artworks on the floors on my home with the coloured ones.

What a coincidence- I just now started pearl diving on my save game! So this mod is perfect to add to my collection. Thanks, melchior!

I can't wait to see how you'll take the alchemical thing too. Watching this topic.

I made a small update to this mod. All I did was update the readme to make it more comprehensive. Enjoy the mod guys!

Hi Melchior, many thanks for this mod! Could you give some hints with mod order? Would it be:

-Herbalism for Purists
-Colored Pearls
-Colored Pearls Herbalist for Purist Patch

Thanks!