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Registered at Tesnexus just to download a few mods I wanted to look at. Not posted on any of the Oblivion-related forums. One factor is I can access this place at work, but many others are blocked at the proxy.

The Rumple mod was just thrown together as a test of the mod potential of the game. It let me build armor models, change textures, add script, add an NPC - everything except terrain and buildings - and some of it was easily "borrowed" from existing mods. I was fully expecting to complete the project and go back to DS2 work, but there are a few little issues that are holding me from doing that - like her getting lost all the time.

After moving her to a base at Lipsand Tarn, to reduce her path options (I thought) I have discovered that the AI will allow her to run straight down the mountainside, and following her on foot I came across a dead polar bear with its head embedded in a rock! I later found her back at Lipsand Tarn waiting for the bear to return. There are possibly settings in the AI dialogs that will prevent this, so I may have to post in the forums to find out a few answers. I didn't add the "Bottle of Schnapps" quest yet, so that may create a few more little things to clean up, and so on ad infinitum.

Also, having learned to do a few modding chores, I'm finding myself fixing the sloppy bits of the mods that I'm using - like gloves that don't hide rings, mesh weighting errors, texture seams that don't line up, scripts that don't test all the possibilities. So far I've resisted publishing the fixed versions, but if I release one of my own....

EDIT: Just discovered "Path Grids" by Googling around. I bet the mountain roads don't have any, because there aren't any Beth characters to use them. If so, I have a fix, but a LOT of work.

Re-Edit: The paths were there, but the wrong kind. A LOT of alt+clicking to turn a path blue, and she rides along the roads at last! I may still add a "buy me a bottle" mini-quest just because.

Edit cubed: Released her to the wolves at the Official Forum (which I recently joined). I should be able to get back to Lara soon!