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Oriental Rural Tileset            	by coulisfu                                        
Version 2.3			19/12/03
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Hotu 1.61 Padded
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This hak adds new features terrains and groups of an oriental theme to the Rural tileset. Included are 8 new terrains, 3 groups, 23 features and 107 new placables. I've also included Hills by Thallion Stelliani (thanks thall), and lucifer churches extended waterfalls. Everything has been prefixed with "Ori_" so they are easy to find in the terrain pallette. Below are Directions on adding the hakpak, Tips to using the terrains, a couple of notes on the placables, known issues, credits and version history. Thanks very much for downloading and I hope you have fun! 

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	Directions-

1-Unzip the file.
2-Place the 'OriRural_v2.3'.hak file in your nwn\hak folder.
3-Place the 'OriRural2.Erf' in your nwn/erf folder .
3-Open up any area in the toolset.
4-Select the 'OriRural_v2.3' in ModulesProperties/CustomContent.
5-Now create a new area and choose the tileset 'oriental_rural'
5-The new content will appear in the terrains 3 palettes.
6-Now go to File and import and select the OriRural2 erf file.
7-The placables will appear in the custom pallette under parks&Nature, Penants and signs, miscellaneous and miscellaneous interior.

	A word on using the new terrains-

The building terrains (Noble/Temple/Rural) make extendable buildings.You can paint buildings of almost any shape and size you want usingThese. Use the eraser to change the features of the buildings, this can add doors or steps.

With the Temple terrain its a bit different. Painting a single row of temple will produce a roofed  walkway. Painting a block of terrain will create building in the middle of the structure. To create doors on these middle parts use the features "Ori_TempleSideDoor" and "Ori_TempleEndDoor" which are under the features pallette.

The Bamboo Terrain supports streams, but you must paint the bamboo down first and then paint the streams from inside to out. Also if you erase the stream it is best to erase from outside the bamboo to the inside as I havn't yet made all possible variations. The bamboo terrain and walls are the only terrains which can be painted on the edge of the tileset.

The Ori_Walls crosser so far is only freindly with water trees and one variation of raise/lower.

The Ori_Castle terrain and Ori_CastleWall crosser have their shadows disabled due to performance problems. The Castle terrain has walkable roof tops, I;'ve included a feature to give access to the roofs.

	The Placables

The placables included are meant to be decorative only and none of them have portraits. Some of the placables have been design to fit in with my buildings. Lanterns will fit neatly under the Noble roofs, the crossbars of the temple terrain and the corners of the pagodas. I've also included a lantern stand so you can place them anywhere. windows will also fit neatly into the temple and noble terrains.

	Known issues,

-a few odd tiles with shadow problems, I'm still trying to figure out.
-Tile fade! I have added tile fade to the temple roofs, but as yet nothing else.
-The new content overrides the new turf house1x1 feature in the rural tileset.

	Credits-

All credit for the hills terrain goes to Thallion Stelliani and the guys who added the edges to them. All credit for the extended waterfalls goes to Lucifer Church. A big thanks to the NWN community who have given great support, feedback and great tools. I'd also like to thank Na for help fixing some of the issues with the tileset... Thanks Na.
	
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Version History-
1.0 - Release.
1.1 - Changed so in does not replace the original rural tileset
1.2 - Bamboo stream alpha problems fixed, players feet no longer dissapear.
     - Pagoda ground floor door fixed, you can now select the door properly in the toolset.
     - Bamboo Edge tiles, removed the trees in the edge tiles to reduce the hit on the CPU.
     - Wall edge tiles added, also fixed some pathfinding issues there.
     - Added Tatami as a 1x1 feature so if you want outdoor tatami you don't have to have grass growing through it.
(Thanks to Na who spotted and fixed these problems then sent me the files for this update).
2.0 - Major Update, 3 new terrains, a few extra features and 54 new placables.
2.1 - Minor fixes, rotated a few doors so they opened up the right way, removed some things from the hak that were not needed, fixed a couple of shadows on the castle terrain, added mini maps for the rice fields which I forgot to put in and added lucifer churches extended waterfalls.
2.2 - Minor fix. A missing walkmesh for the Castle Roof Entrance was missing, it is now back in the hak.
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