REL Arrow De-nocker

[Fliggerty]

Title: Arrow De-nocker
Author: Fliggerty

Readme:

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    The Elder Scrolls III
          MORROWIND:
       Arrow De-nocker

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Index:

1. Description
2. Installation
3. Playing the Plugin
4. Features
5. Version
6. Conflicts
7. Thanks
8. Copyright


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    1. PLUGIN DESCRIPTION

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     TITLE:   Arrow De-nocker        
     VERSION: 1.0

     PLUG-IN TYPE: Tweak
     
     BY:       Fliggerty
     CONTACT:  http://www.fliggerty.com
     
Once you have nocked an arrow and drawn in back it has always been impossible to
put the arrow away without shooting it (without going into the inventory.)  This
mod will de-nock your equipped arrow when you press "spacebar."

This works with both arrows and bolts.

This mod is dependent upon Morrowind Script Extender (MWSE) v0.9.2a or later, or MGE v3 or later.


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    2. INSTALLING THE PLUGIN

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To install the plugin, unzip the files into the Morrowind/Data Files
directory.  

REQUIREMENTS: Morrowind, Bloodmoon, Tribunal, Morrowind Script Extender (v0.9.2a or later)


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    3. PLAYING THE PLUGIN

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From the Morrowind Launcher, select Data Files and check the box
next to the Arrow De-nocker.esp file.
Launch Morrowind via the MWSE shortcut.


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    4. PLUGIN FEATURES

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-- Remove arrows and bolts from a drawn bow or crossbow without losing it.


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    5. PLUGIN VERSION

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v1.0
Initial release


I hope you'll enjoy playing this mod. Please direct comments, suggestions,
bug reports, questions to : fliggerty@fliggerty.com


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    6. CONFLICTS

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I have tried to avoid any conflicts with any common mods.  I may have missed something
here or there, if I did please let me know!

It is likely that this will not work if you use a German keyboard.  It seems that
MWSE's key press detection functions do not work with many German keyboard configurations.

Please reports any bugs or problems at <a href="http://www.fliggerty.com/">Great House Fliggerty.</a>

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    7. THANKS

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Too many right now.  Still compiling the list.
But to start it off:

povuholo: Suggested this idea on the TES Forums
ps33: Always my scripting mentor.  While having nothing directly to do with this mod,
nevertheless I would not have known how to use MWSE without his infinite patience and support.
FreshFish: For giving us MWSE.
CDCooley: For continuing the support of MWSE
scruggs: Made a similar mod for OB that provided some of the inspiration for this.
Bryss Phoenix: As always, infinite support and patience!
Everybody else who has always been supportive of modders in general.


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    8. COPYRIGHT

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This plugin is freely modifiable, as long as this readme
file accompanies it and credit is given to the original author. But please remember
that not everything here is my work.  Refer to section 7.THANKS.  By downloading
and running this plugin, you acknowledge the following :

- You have read and understood this readme file.
- You acknowledge that the author of this plugin accepts no responsibility for
 damage to your game saves, operating system, computer, etc,
 when using this plugin.  

NOTE: Please do not upload any of my plugins for distribution without my permission.  I strongly prefer to have
access to everywhere that my work is hosted so that I can update and maintain all of it.

[SpiritedTreasure]

excellent idea!

[TheDaywalker]

Cool thing Fligg!!!  Will you merge all your improvements someday into a kind of "Morrowind overhaul", so that one does not have to install so many single plugins? Would be great!!!


Greets, TheDaywalker!!!

[Sandman101]

This has been needed for a long time.  Thanks for this Fliggerty.

[Froderick]

Thank you so much for this, Fliggerty!  The Oblivion version of this is always one of the first mods I install when I set up a new game because it's just plain nuts that if you miss an opportunity to take a shot, you just have to waste that valuable enchanted arrow shooting it into the ground. Archers of the world rejoice!  

[Dragon_Lance]

[Jac]

Unfortunantly I'm having some problems with this mod:

It seems to activate whenever I have a weapon out and access a corpse. Not an issue, but I have to turn around and requip my arrows. The last time this happened, it switched out my bow with my sword. I switched back to my bow and tried to unknock an arrow with no success. When I used my sword to kill an enemy and loot the corpse, I got a CTD. This is a good idea Fligg, and it worked before but I don't know why it's not working now. I'm using MGE 3.8 something or other.

[Fliggerty]

Hmm, I might need to change the key you press...

[Jac]

Yeah, make it like x or something.

[Fliggerty]

You can change it in the console.  Get the utility I have here called Key Test and use it to get the key code for whatever key you want to use.  Then set the global fl_da_key to that code.

[Raedwald]

Hi all,
   First time here and have a question about this mod. Everytime I load a save with this installed it CTD's. When I remove it, the save loads normally. I am using MGE 3.8. Could it be what I have installed already? See below:

[Game Files]
GameFile0=Better Heads Bloodmoon addon.esm
GameFile1=Better Heads Tribunal addon.esm
GameFile2=Better Heads.esm
GameFile3=Bloodmoon.esm
GameFile4=Morrowind Patch v1.6.4.esm
GameFile5=Morrowind.esm
GameFile6=Tribunal.esm
GameFile7=Better Bodies.esp
GameFile8=Better Clothes_v1.1_nac.esp
GameFile9=BetterClothes_Patch.esp
GameFile10=Brittlewind fix.esp
GameFile11=Clean Kynareth.esp
GameFile12=Fliggerty's Fleeing Fetchers.esp
GameFile13=GCD Restore Potions Fix.esp
GameFile14=GCD StartScript for Trib or Bloodmoon.esp
GameFile15=GCD better balanced birthsigns.esp
GameFile16=Galsiahs Character Development.esp
GameFile17=Healers.esp
GameFile18=JAC_Jasmine.esp
GameFile19=LadyD_Reduced_Commentary.esp
GameFile20=Less Lore.esp
GameFile21=Mashed Lists.esp
GameFile22=Merged_Objects.esp
GameFile23=New Argonian Bodies - Mature.esp
GameFile24=New Khajiit Bodies - Mature.esp
GameFile25=Protective Guards.esp
GameFile26=Sm_longspears.esp
GameFile27=Suran Archery Store_v3.0.esp
GameFile28=Vality's Ascadian Isles Addon.esp
GameFile29=Vality's Balmora Addon.esp
GameFile30=Vality's Bitter Coast Addon.esp
GameFile31=WeatheredSigns.esp
GameFile32=Wilderness Sounds T & B.esp
GameFile33=Wilderness Sounds.esp
GameFile34=k_weather (louder sounds).esp

I do not have it active yet, would it matter where I placed it? Would really like to use this mod.

Thanks,

[Elaura]

Hi!  Welcome to GHF.  I can't answer your question, unfortunately, but I'm sure someone will be along who can later today.  I'm wondering though, why are MashedLists and MergedObjects not further down on your load list?  If you have a reason, I'm really curious as to what it is.  Also, I thought the documentation for Wryemash says you don't need to merge objects if you use it.  I very well could have misread it, so don't feel my questions are suggesting you change anything.  It would probably be better to wait, unless you know the answers!  

[Raedwald]

Thanks for the welcome, Elaura. The list is from my MW.ini. Not from Wrye. I should have used that instead.

Here is my load list:

Plugin1=Morrowind.esm
Plugin2=Tribunal.esm
Plugin3=Bloodmoon.esm
Plugin4=Better Heads.esm
Plugin5=Better Heads Tribunal addon.esm
Plugin6=Better Heads Bloodmoon addon.esm
Plugin7=Morrowind Patch v1.6.4.esm
Plugin8=Less Lore.esp
Plugin9=LCV Schedule Markers.esp
Plugin10=NPC LCV Schedules 03.esp
Plugin11=NPC LCV Locks.esp
Plugin12=LadyD_Reduced_Commentary.esp
Plugin13=Better Bodies.esp
Plugin14=Better Clothes_v1.1_nac.esp
Plugin15=BetterClothes_Patch.esp
Plugin16=JAC_Jasmine.esp
Plugin17=Galsiahs Character Development.esp
Plugin18=GCD StartScript for Trib or Bloodmoon.esp
Plugin19=GCD better balanced birthsigns.esp
Plugin20=GCD Restore Potions Fix.esp
Plugin21=Brittlewind fix.esp
Plugin22=Wilderness Sounds.esp
Plugin23=Wilderness Sounds T & B.esp
Plugin24=Healers.esp
Plugin25=WeatheredSigns.esp
Plugin26=Clean Kynareth.esp
Plugin27=k_weather (louder sounds).esp
Plugin28=Vality's Ascadian Isles Addon.esp
Plugin29=Protective Guards.esp
Plugin30=Arrow De-nocker.esp
Plugin31=Vality's Bitter Coast Addon.esp
Plugin32=Vality's Balmora Addon.esp
Plugin33=Fliggerty's Fleeing Fetchers.esp
Plugin34=Sm_longspears.esp
Plugin35=New Argonian Bodies - Mature.esp
Plugin36=New Khajiit Bodies - Mature.esp
Plugin37=Suran Archery Store_v3.0.esp
Plugin38=Mashed Lists.esp
Plugin39=Merged_Objects.esp

[Elaura]

Yes, that should help keep folks like me from asking.  Have you tried changing Arrow De-nocker in the load order?  From what I've gathered, CTD's caused by mods are sometimes related to more than one script being on the same object.  I'm not familiar with the Suran Archery store, but it may help narrow down the issue if you try unchecking that one and checking Fligg's de-nocker.  If there's no CTD, then those two may conflict.

This is just a stop-gap troubleshooting measure.  I'm sure Fliggerty would absolutely want to know if his mod conflicts, but I also know he may be quite busy today and tomorrow.  Hang in there and PLEASE let us know if you discover a conflict or a resolution.

[Raedwald]

Elaura,
    I have change the load order on this mod a few times with no success. I also loaded it without the Suran Archery mod and it stil CTD. Could it be that the MGE version I am using is causing this issue? Maybe if I have MWSE work outside of MGE?

[Elaura]

Don't know about that one.  *personally* I have had better success with a standalone MWSE installation while running MGE.  HOWEVER, my graphics setup was never truly compatible with MGE, so I stopped using it altogether.  Have you attached any other scripts to the spacebar?

[Raedwald]

I have not. I think I'll try to run MWSE outside of MGE and see if that does the trick. Couldn't hurt. Thanks for taking the time reply.

Rad

[Elaura]

Anytime.    If you continue to have problems, post again.  In the meantime, I'll keep checking back to make sure your thread doesn't drop off into oblivion without getting resolved.  You could even try the email addy for Fliggerty in the documentation, but, as I mentioned, he's probably gonna be busy for a couple days.

[Raedwald]

Well, tried disabling MWSE in MGE and using MWSE externally caused a CTD without addind the arrow de-nocker. Hmmm..When I reset MGE to use internal MWSE, it worked fine.   I have no idea what to do now.

[Elaura]

Hmm.     Never had that problem, myself.  Keep checking back.  We have some great folks here, but many of them work days.  For now, you could either just relax, grab a cold drink, uncheck the de-nocker, and play without it for a while * OR * try starting a new game with nothing but the de-nocker checked.  If it doesn't cause a CTD, then you know you have a mod conflict.  If it does, then you know it's conflicting with MGE.

[Raedwald]

    Idiot I am! I did not try to load it 3rd from last. Now it works. I also changed the activate key to 'c' so as not to have a conflict. It works now Tested it 5 times. Here's my load order just FYI:

Plugin1=Morrowind.esm
Plugin2=Tribunal.esm
Plugin3=Bloodmoon.esm
Plugin4=Better Heads.esm
Plugin5=Better Heads Tribunal addon.esm
Plugin6=Better Heads Bloodmoon addon.esm
Plugin7=Morrowind Patch v1.6.4.esm
Plugin8=Less Lore.esp
Plugin9=LCV Schedule Markers.esp
Plugin10=NPC LCV Schedules 03.esp
Plugin11=NPC LCV Locks.esp
Plugin12=LadyD_Reduced_Commentary.esp
Plugin13=Better Bodies.esp
Plugin14=Better Clothes_v1.1_nac.esp
Plugin15=BetterClothes_Patch.esp
Plugin16=JAC_Jasmine.esp
Plugin17=Galsiahs Character Development.esp
Plugin18=GCD StartScript for Trib or Bloodmoon.esp
Plugin19=GCD better balanced birthsigns.esp
Plugin20=GCD Restore Potions Fix.esp
Plugin21=Brittlewind fix.esp
Plugin22=Wilderness Sounds.esp
Plugin23=Wilderness Sounds T & B.esp
Plugin24=Healers.esp
Plugin25=WeatheredSigns.esp
Plugin26=Clean Kynareth.esp
Plugin27=k_weather (louder sounds).esp
Plugin28=Vality's Ascadian Isles Addon.esp
Plugin29=Protective Guards.esp
Plugin30=Vality's Bitter Coast Addon.esp
Plugin31=Vality's Balmora Addon.esp
Plugin32=Fliggerty's Fleeing Fetchers.esp
Plugin33=Sm_longspears.esp
Plugin34=New Argonian Bodies - Mature.esp
Plugin35=New Khajiit Bodies - Mature.esp
Plugin36=Suran Archery Store_v3.0.esp
Plugin37=Arrow De-nocker.esp
Plugin38=Mashed Lists.esp
Plugin39=Merged_Objects.esp

Thanks,
Rad

[Elaura]

Congratulations!!!  Now get that cold drink and start to playin'!        

[Jac]

I need to try it on a different key the next time I use it. Having it use the space bar caused no end of problems.

[Raedwald]

Jac,
  I made 'c' the action button on my keyboard. It works fine. Just my 2 cents...

[Fliggerty]

Glad you figured it out.  

I will be updating this soon to include a setup script that will let you select the key you want to use.