Description

I was watching the lord of the rings the other day, do you remember that scene where Frodo and his friends are sailing through the river to find the Argonth statues, I always wanted to do something like that in Riften or the Lake Ilinalta in Skyrim

Features

This mod adds a simple spell called Prepare Rowboat that will summon a boat you can ride, you can buy a copy of the book at Belethors shop for a small price
and the best of all without any script, so it should be compatible with almost anything and there should't be any CTDs due to scripts (there could be some model conflicts and glitches). There use to be a mod for Oldrim that added boats with a similar implementation but it was pretty buggy and produced a lot of CTDs I took the idea from there (Finally Real Boats) what it does is basically attach a boat model to a horse and distribute the boats by replacing all existing static ones with the working ones, it produced a few Glitches like the boat making horse noises and the boat following you to the city gates, I always thought it was a great Idea and wondered why nobody expanded on it. 

• A summonable rowboat you can ride.
• The boat makes boat sounds and doesn't follow you.
• The speed of the boat will be reduced if you touch land (technically you can still ride the boat on land but it will be pretty slow).
• You can now go grab some fish on open sea if you use better Third person selection.
• You can go hunting slaughterfish with an axe.
  

Future Plans

I plan to Expand this in the future, I just made this mod as a proof of concept. I'm learning some animations and 3d modeling so I expect to add custom animations and behaviors in the future, as long as I manage to keep motivated. as of now only 3 more items in the to do list so that I can consider this V1.0.

• adjust the boat mesh height and the saddle bone so that the player is not clipping to much in the boat.
• adjust movement speed so that the boat feels more natural.
• I wasn't able to do a thorough enough test so I need to thoroughly test this after the adjustments, comment feedback and bog reports also help.
  

After V1.0 is out I will be working adding proper collision to the boat and animations for the rider and the boat (if possible, but I cannot make any promises for what I know skyrim animations and behavior files can be tricky)


Compatibility

The mod does not use scripts and touches as less vanilla records as possible so it should be compatible with everything out there, Only conflict I could think of is horses mods like Convenient Horses, but this doesn’t use horse behaviors or AI packages so I think it should be safe, I don't use any horse mods to test this.


Known Issues

Always keep in mind skyrim is a pretty old game with a lot of limitations and issues, so mods can only do so much, there is going to be clipping janky movements and funny bugs, (try hitting a slaughter fish as hard as you can with an axe) this implements a mechanic that  possible in the original skyrim so expect a lot of glitches and jankiness.

• If the boat is on land it will be floating a little above the ground level.
• The boat will turn around on its own or escape in some situations.
• Water will clip through the boat; this is a limitation of Skyrim's engine.
• The boat doesn't have a proper collision mesh so you will fall through the boat if you try to jump on it.
• You can ride the boat on land but it is pretty slow.
• You will see a lot of clipping and visual glitches when boarding and unboarding the boat.
• Other boats in the world are not rideable; you need to summon your own boat.
  

Requirements

• Rowboats of skyrim you need to install this mod as this is the model I’m using for the rowboat if you don’t want other boats to be replaced by this you can simply just install the textures folder and remove everything else (I may do a vanilla boat version later or if the creator requires me to do so). No longer needed I added the textures to the mod so now the mod doesn't have any hard dependencies
• Bug Fixes SSE otherwise the change in speed when boats touch land may not work.
  

Installation

Just install the requirements and the install this mod with Vortex or MO2


Credit to:
PraedythXVI for importing the boat model to use in Skyrim.
TooManyDemons for creating the models.
SigiBaes / KnightRangersGuild  for the Idea.