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BESTIARY



Description

Bestiary is a mod, that reintroduces the Bestiary as seen in one of Daggerfall's demos, and further builds upon it.

Pressing "B", or the hotkey of choice, in-game will open the screen, as can be seen in this YouTube video.

Bestiary fully supports D.R.E.A.M. and other texture replacement mods. (the D.R.E.A.M. patch will be integrated into D.R.E.A.M. itself with it's next update)

Credits

• King of Worms - D.R.E.A.M. Patch and UI partial UI design
• Jagget - Author of patch 1.5 and 2.0
• Ninelan - Bestiary item art
• UESP - Most texts are copied (with minor editing) from here from here, or the Daggerfall User's Guide.

Changelog

Links

• Download - https://www.nexusmods.com/daggerfalluni ... ?tab=files
• Nexus - https://www.nexusmods.com/daggerfallunity/mods/222
• Source code - https://github.com/Shapur1234/DFU-Bestiary

Congrats on the release, very glad to see it and thank you for a nice cooperation!

If I might add for a wishlist - adding a mob to bestiary only after 1st kill would be nice and offer a sense of progression. After that kill a text like "beast XYZ has been added to your bestiary" might pop up to let player know whats up.

King of Worms wrote: ↑Mon Aug 23, 2021 11:57 pm Congrats on the release, very glad to see it and thank you for a nice cooperation!

If I might add for a wishlist - adding a mob to bestiary only after 1st kill would be nice and offer a sense of progression. After that kill a text like "beast XYZ has been added to your bestiary" might pop up to let player know whats up.

Thanks,
the wishlist has been updated.

Version 1.1 released

• Rebuild for DFU 12.2
• Added dependencies check for Bestiary - DREAM patch, to ensure it always overrides bestiary data and isn't loaded without it
• Fixed some entries showing incorrect spells
• Added support for Kab's Unleveled Spells
• Mod settings can now be edited mid-game (all except ClassicMode)

Version 1.2 released

• Killcounts are now tracked
• Minor entry text change

Shapur wrote: ↑Mon Oct 04, 2021 1:48 pm Coming soon along with adding a mob to bestiary only after the 1st kill

Can you make that an option? I like the possibilty to have the enemies available right from the start.

haloterm wrote: ↑Mon Oct 04, 2021 3:34 pm

Shapur wrote: ↑Mon Oct 04, 2021 1:48 pm Coming soon along with adding a mob to bestiary only after the 1st kill

Can you make that an option? I like the possibilty to have the enemies available right from the start.

Already thought of that
There are currently 3 "modes":

• Always unlocked - Does what it says
• Book item - The whole thing is locked, until you find the book and click USE on it
• Kill to unlock - Makes an entry viewable, only after you kill the corresponding monster (like Witcher 3)

P.S.: I wonder how many quotes can you nest

haloterm wrote: ↑Mon Oct 04, 2021 3:34 pm

Shapur wrote: ↑Mon Oct 04, 2021 1:48 pm Coming soon along with adding a mob to bestiary only after the 1st kill

Can you make that an option? I like the possibilty to have the enemies available right from the start.

ya i see the book as something you can buy to learn about monsters but its expensive. Or you can maintain your own bestiary on top of the official one that youd find in bookstores or maybe only guild libraries.

Your own would fill in when you killed the monster (or learn from the main bestiary) and contain your kill counts and other personal info while the purchasable is static and just contains all known info on the monster. (known by the authors at the time of writing.)

Maybe in guilds you can ask members to tell you about monsters and itll fill in your bestiary or buy training to learn about liches or werewolves.

Perhaps this is all too far out of place for this mod lol. The best use for it is to know what hits what in the early game, if you forgot loljk. This does however add a nice RP element that could be fun. If only we could ensure its game world impact

Shapur wrote: ↑Mon Oct 04, 2021 3:52 pm
Already thought of that
There are currently 3 "modes":

• Always unlocked - Does what it says
• Book item - The whole thing is locked, until you find the book and click USE on it
• Kill to unlock - Makes an entry viewable, only after you kill the corresponding monster (like Witcher 3)

good stuff

Ok my browser crashed when I finished this bug report, one more try

Missing frames:
Front facing animations of Scorpion, Spider, Seducer, Dreugh, Lamia, Zombie are missing some frames

Added rotations:
I know they cause performance issue (can that be solved?) but they also cause visual bugs, where these added frames look very dark. .
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Dragonling - this mob has duplicate archives in DFU. Its in archive 295 and 289. DFU uses 289 ingame, so DREAM uses the same. Your mod uses 295. This causes the mob to render in low res when using DREAM. Changing the archive from 295 to 289 in your mod will solve this bug.

Scorpion front facing frame has performance issues and looks dark. This whole mob is switched. In other mobs, when I rotate the mob right, I get the perf issues and dark frames. Scorpion has these problems when rotated to the LEFT and viewed from FRONT. View from back has no issues, while other mobs have issues when using this view.

If these bugs could be solved, it would make the DREAM compatibility much better.

FRONT FACING ATTACK ANIMATIONS:
Wereboar and werewolf - when turned on, the mob disappers in some frames.
Nymph, Orc, mummy, skeleton, fish - missing some frames

I think there might be more missing frames around, you should check that, its re-occurring bug. Also check other than front facing attack animations. Just a suggestion tho. But the mod needs a bit more polish.

If I can help with something, pls let me know.