Realistic Flora mod from Quarn will make all flora behave more realistically.
This mod will make all flora behave more realistically by changing their appearance when you harvest them. If a plants ingredient is a flower then the plant's flowers will disappear when you harvest it and so on, through some plant's ingredients are roots which they don't have and you can't see them anyway so the flowers disappear instead (think of it as you snapping them off to let yourself know you've already collected the roots from it).
Notes, Known Issues & Incompatibilities
-It is safe to replace Harvest [Flora] with any version of Realistic Flora. NOTE: Realistic Flora will act like the stop plugin from Harvest [Flora] so if you moved from Harvest [Flora] to Realistic Flora then decide not to use either you'll still need to run a stop plugin of some sort to undo what Harvest Flora [Flora] did to your flora.
-Nirnroot behaviour remains unchanged.
-Pitcher plants have no ingredient so they will now be un-harvestable (next time the cell resets you'll be unable to attempt to harvest nothing from them).
-If your plants arn't appearing "harvested" or it's happening very slowly then you have the animation bug (not caused by Realistic Flora or any mod), it will happen to anything animated and usually appears in gamesaves over the 200 hour mark. To fix this problem you'll need to use zBobGuy's Animation Fixer on your afflicted gamesaves.
-Attacking plants like the Spiddel Stick will no longer attack you once harvested.
Installing
1.) Extract the files from the archive and place them into your Bethesda SoftworksOblivionData folder.
2.) Start the Oblivion Launcher and go to Data Files.
3.) Tick RealisticFlora.esp and click OK.
4.) Enjoy!
Uninstalling
1.) It is perfectly safe to remove Realistic Flora whenever you want without fear of losing any flora in your games.
2.) Delete RealisticFlora.esp, RealisticFlora.bsa and Realistic Flora Readme.html from your Bethesda SoftworksOblivionData folder.
3.) And you're done!
Disclaimer
Realistic Flora is provided "as is", use at your own risk; I cannot be held responsible/liable for anything that happens while using it. Feel free to host the Realistic Flora anywhere you want but only in its original unmodified package, please do not release your own modified versions of it.
Thanks
The NifSkope Team - Big thanks for this very awesome tool, this mod wouldn't of been possible without it!
Vasiliy - For his great BSA Commander program that was used to create Realistic Flora's BSA.
XMarksTheSpot - for showing me the way of visibility animations.
Change Log:
v2.6.0 (23/01/2007)
-Fixed the problem with Motherwort plants causing "bluish" looking screens at certain angles (caused by the draw mode in NiStencilProperty being set to DRAW_CW).
-All 8 versions of Morning Glory no longer use an alternate texture and a duplicated mesh for the harvested effect, slight performance increase.
-Plugged the holes on top the Sacred Lotus, Motherwort, Dragon Tongue and Mana Bloom stalks.
v2.5.0 (19/01/2007)
-Fixed the hit effect on all plants. Unknown to me then the effect of "skin tight" activation also allows you to hit them with melee (spells and arrows go through them, they don't interfere when attacking creatures in or around them) and all plants had the stone hit effect, on the good side it's more realism!
-All flora now use visibility animations, where previously using transform animations. While no difference in-game (maybe a slight performance increase) it works a lot better behind the scene.
-Chopped and diced a lot of plant meshs so they no longer rely on alternate textures and a duplicated mesh for the harvested effect (some still use it since it looks better), slight performance increase.
-Plants already harvested in existing games will now appear harvested when you activate Realistic Flora.
-Stinkhorn now has an altered appearance when harvested instead of disappearing entirly.
-The attacking Spiddal Stick is now supported.
-The 2 types of attacking Harrada Root are now supported.
-Improved harvested appearance of Motherwort.
v2.0.0 (31/12/2006)
-All flora now use nif animations!
-As a result of animation:
-Any plant added, moved, removed, by mods work without issues.
-Can disable Realistic Flora whenever you want without fear of losing any flora in your games.
-The flickering issue when a plant is harvested has been eliminated with no ill effects so only one ESP now.
-Your gamesaves file size will no longer increase since the PlaceAtMe script command is no longer used.
-The "step pop" bug is gone (where the plant disappears totally when harvested until you take a step or two).
-Now safe to use on games that have previously used Harvest [Flora] or older versions of Realistic Flora (don't need to worry about stopping anything as the plants will go back to normal the next time the cell resets).
v1.0.1 (29/12/2006)
-Fixed the Primrose so its leaves disappear instead of its flowers (what it should of been since its ingredient are leaves).
v1.0.0 (29/12/2006)
-First release.
-Created Normal and NoFlicker version.
-Flora is based on the fixed flora from the Unofficial Oblivion Patch.
-All flora now have skin tight activation instead of a big cube which makes it easier to harvest flora that are packed closely together.
