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I finally decided to rebuild a mod that I'd created for personal use years ago in a way that would enable me to share it out on the Nexus.

The mod replaces every, single building and many other decorative pieces in the Imperial City with custom meshes that are textured using a variety of quality Imperial City retextures from various authors so that those textures can be used all at once to make buildings look unique.

I have permissions from most of the texture authors to share their resources in my mod except VKVII's Imperial City retexture which does not allow reuse of resources. I'll be able to provide instructions with my mod for how to download those resources directly and copy them into a special directory to work with my mod, however.

I also used ImpeREAL City - Unique Districts as a base because I've loved that mod for years and think it really works well for what I was attempting to do.  I reached out to ImpeREAL City - Unique Districts mod author SilentResident and am waiting to see if she will grant permission to use her mod as a base for mine. I'll wait a bit longer to see if I get a response, otherwise, I'll remove her custom designs and try to create my own district decorations, but that would delay the mod release quite a bit.


From my playtesting, I think it's really a cool experience to go district-to-district and see a unique color palate! Districts no longer look exactly the same. Some districts are a hodge-podge of different colored buildings, maybe they were built at different periods of time. Other districts are consistently themed, yet unique from other districts. The fun part is the Imperial Palace district features different colored pathways to the district entrances that match that district's street coloration. This helps find which district you want to go with (with some familiarity and practice) and I'm planning to add signs to each entrance to make it even easier.