Important notes
- If you are updating from a previous version of Vampiric Hunger you must overwrite all files during installation.
- Do not enable the Vampiric Hunger patch for Galsiah's Character Development. That was created for version 1.0 and it's no longer necessary.
- Do not enable the separately released Vampiric Hunger Bloodlust Effect.esp addon. Although it should work with this version of Vampiric Hunger, there is a newer, updated version in this package.
Installation
- Extract the downloaded zip archive. (You can use either Windows XP's integrated packer, WinZip, WinRar, ZipGenius, 7zip and many-many other programs.)
Make sure when you extract the zip file it's content goes into your Morrowind\Data Files directory. (The default Morrowind directory's location is C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Morrowind.) Also make sure that all included files go into the proper subdirectories: icons to the Icons\VH, meshes to the Meshes\VH, textures to the Textures\VH directory.
- I suggest you to make a backup savegame before you enable the mod.
- Start Morrowind and in the autorun menu select Data Files.
- You should now see a few new entries in the list that start with Vampiric Hunger. To enable a mod double click on it's name, so the little box next to it will be checked. But don't enable all of them.
- Vampiric Hunger Base.esp - This is the base file of the mod. You must enable it.
- Vampiric Hunger Extended.esp - This is an addon for the base mod. See the Features page to see why is it's features in a separate esp file. Enable it if you would like to use it. Important that this esp file must be below (newer than) Vampiric Hunger Base.esp.
- Vampiric Hunger - BL.esp - This file will provide compatibility with Bloodlines. Only enable it if you have the Bloodlines mod installed. See the Comatibility page to learn more about how to make Bloodlines run without error messages. Important that this esp file must be below (newer than) Bloodlines and Vampiric Hunger Base.esp. If you played Bloodlines before with your current savegame please also note that enabling this esp file will create an error message the first time you load your savegame. You can ignore this error message by clicking Yes. Also note that Vampire Realism also comes with a similar esp patch for Bloodlines. The Vampiric Hunger Bloodlines patch is compatible with Vampire Realism's but Vampiric Hunger's patch must be the newer.
- Vampiric Hunger - SU.esp - This file will provide compatibility with Suran Underworld. Only enable it if you have Suran Underworld 2.5 installed. Important that this esp file must be below (newer than) Suran Underworld and Vampiric Hunger Base.esp.
- Make sure that every third party esp file are below Vampiric Hunger Base and Vampiric Hunger Extended in the mod list.
See the Compatibility page to learn about how to set the loading order of the mods.
- Press OK, start the game and play.
- Important if you have Vampire Realism installed you'll have to open one of the two mods configuration menu and disable one of the mods' sun damage and hunger feature. To open Vampire Realism's menu open the console with ~ and type: StartScript VR_Menu, to open Vampiric Hunger's menu type: StartScript VH_Setup.
- If you had been already a vampire in the game before you installed Vampiric Hunger you can change your age in Vampiric Hunger Base's menu.
- In Vampiric Hunger III you can choose beween two detection system in Vampiric Hunger Extended's menu. The default detection system is called GetDetected detection technique. You can change this to the Crime Based detection technique. The benefits of the Crime Based system is that your companions won't make you a known vampire when they see you feeding, embracing or burning from the sunlight. There are disadvantages though: There are many NPCs in the game with alarm rating of 0. They won't detect you. Moreover when NPCs detect you doing something bad and after this you attack an NPC in the same cell the other NPCs won't defend the one you attack never again. This is an issue with the game's crime system.
Installing the Morrowind Graphics Addon
- This addon requires the Morrowind Graphics Extender (MGE) application and a video card which supports Pixel Shader 1.3. If you don't have MGE you can download the latest version from TimeSlip's site .
- In Morrowind's autorun menu click on Data Files.
- If you have MGE v1.10f or previous version then enable the Vampiric Hunger MGE Addon for MGE 1.10f-.esp file.
- If you have MGE v1.11 or later version then enable the Vampiric Hunger MGE Addon for MGE 1.11+.esp file.
- The difference between MGE 1.10f and 1.11 is that 1.11 supports multiple shaders, but for me this version gived a serious frame rate hit. So this is why I added support for the previous versions, too.
- Click OK.
- If you haven't already did then extract Morrowind Graphics Extender into your Morrowind folder.
- In your Morrowind folder run MGEgui.exe. You'll need the .net v1.1 framework to do so. If the application doesn't start download .net from Windows Update or from Microsoft's website.
- In Morrowind Graphics Extender under the MWSE tab select Custom for the operating system you use.
It's not required but you can disable MGE's display messages under the Render State tab and you can load the default Morrowind graphics settings under the Main tab.
- Close Morrowind Graphics Extender and start the game normally.
- Once the game has loaded you should set up your screen resolution in Vampiric Hunger's configuration menu. This step is not required but otherwise the bloodmeter will show up at the upper left corner of your screen and not where it was meant to be. To set the screen resolution:
- Open the console with the ~ key.
- Write StartScript VH_Setup into the console.
- Select Configure Vampiric Hunger MGE Addon, then Screen Resolution.
- Choose the correct resolution.
Vampiric Illusion
If you like Vampiric Hunger III try the Vampiric Illusion addon by ps33.
This addon will improve the roleplaying elements of the game by adding a spell which hides the fact from people that you are a vampire. You will become a known vampire if people see you without this spell or a helmet.