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About this mod
A complete design revamp of every Imperial fort, tower, and ruin in Skyrim, using a new tileset and hand-placed assets.
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
- Changelogs
Description
"Imperial walls and towers used to make me feel so safe..."
- Ralof
I've always felt the same way as Ralof. Castles in the Elder Scrolls games used to look much more like, well... castles. This mod tries to bring Skyrim's Imperials back to their former glory by adding parapets, battlements, and facade machicolations to all Imperial forts, towers, and ruins in Skyrim and Solstheim
New wall and tower designs inspired by:
Castle Bruma (Oblivion),
Castle Dawnguard (Skyrim),
and loosely, Castle Warwick, (England).
Don't Forget to Endorse!
"Imperial walls and towers used to make me feel so safe..."
- Ralof
I've always felt the same way as Ralof. Castles in the Elder Scrolls games used to look much more like, well... castles. This mod tries to bring Skyrim's Imperials back to their former glory by adding parapets, battlements, and facade machicolations to all Imperial forts, towers, and ruins in Skyrim and Solstheim
New wall and tower designs inspired by:
Castle Bruma (Oblivion),
Castle Dawnguard (Skyrim),
and loosely, Castle Warwick, (England).
Don't Forget to Endorse!
Performance
In my testing this mod generates roughly an additional 100-500 draw calls in the largest Imperial forts (almost nothing, even compared to vanilla). So if you can run vanilla Skyrim with no problems, you're good to go!
Compatibility
Incompatibe with mods that move vanilla Imperial walls or towers. Mods adding new forts/towers/ruins are compatible but will not recieve the new battlements.This mod is NOT a model replacer. Due to how vanilla forts are constructed, new wall parts are independent objects. This also helps the mod play nice with others, grants virtually no chance of CTDs, and makes it extremely easy to patch for down the road. However, you will only see the new walls and towers in locations covered by this mod and it's patches. These new models also function as dynamic navcuts, keeping draw calls down and eliminating the need for any navmesh edits or collision markers. Textures and decals for the new models will use whatever textures you have installed for more seemless integration and full compatibility with texture overhauls. Parallax mesh options are available in the FOMOD. Lods for DynDOLOD included by default.
Patches Included in FOMOD for:
- Environs - Whiterun Watchtower Doesn't Stay Broken
- Ryn's Western Watchtower
- Alternate Perspective
- JK's Castle Volkihar
- Lux Orbis
*Not shown here, but I highly recommend that you use these textures: Forts of the Old Empire [1k - 4k]
Installation
1. Install with any mod manager:- Requires BEES if running an older, downgraded, or VR version of Skyrim.
2. Run DynDOLOD:
- v2 fixes the floating tower issue :)
My Other Mods
ALL Vanilla Locations Covered:
EASTMARCH HOLD
Abondoned Prison
Fort Amol
Gallows Rock
Mistwatch
Mistwatch Folly
Morvunskar
Refugee's Rest
FALKREATH HOLD
Bloodlet Throne
Cracked Tusk Keep
Fort Neugrad
Falkreath Watchtower
Helgen Keep
Ilinalta's Deep
HAAFiNGAR HOLD
Castle Volkihar
Fort Hraggstad
Northwatch Keep
Pinefrost Tower
Wolfskull Ruins
HJAALMARCH HOLD
Fort Snowhawk
THE PALE HOLD
Fort Dunstad
Nightcaller Temple
THE REACH
Broken Tower Redoubt
Fort Sungard
THE RIFT
Darklight Tower
Faldar's Tooth
Fort Greenwall
Treva's Watch
Rift Watchtower
Stendarr's Beacon
Autumnwatch Tower
WINTERHOLD HOLD
Driftshade Refuge
Fort Fellhammer
Fort Kastav
Snowpoint Beacon
Frostflow Lighthouse
WHITERUN HOLD
Fellglow Keep
Fort Greymoor
Western Watchtower
SOLSTHEIM
Ashfallow Citadel
Fort Frostmoth
Highpoint Tower
Notes for Mod Authors
You are free to use my models however you like in your own work or to make any patches/addons for this mod. I will be uploading a Resources for Mod Authors plugin to the Misc files section that has everything already set up and ready to use in the Creation Kit. You are not allowed to charge money for any project that uses my files. You have open permission to port this mod and its patches/addons to any console as long as you credit me as the creator. However, please make sure that no ports of the specific files already exist on the platform. I don't want console players to have to sort through 10 different versions of the same mod. For all other use cases, feel free to ask me for permissions, I'll probably allow it.
EASTMARCH HOLD
Abondoned Prison
Fort Amol
Gallows Rock
Mistwatch
Mistwatch Folly
Morvunskar
Refugee's Rest
FALKREATH HOLD
Bloodlet Throne
Cracked Tusk Keep
Fort Neugrad
Falkreath Watchtower
Helgen Keep
Ilinalta's Deep
HAAFiNGAR HOLD
Castle Volkihar
Fort Hraggstad
Northwatch Keep
Pinefrost Tower
Wolfskull Ruins
HJAALMARCH HOLD
Fort Snowhawk
THE PALE HOLD
Fort Dunstad
Nightcaller Temple
THE REACH
Broken Tower Redoubt
Fort Sungard
THE RIFT
Darklight Tower
Faldar's Tooth
Fort Greenwall
Treva's Watch
Rift Watchtower
Stendarr's Beacon
Autumnwatch Tower
WINTERHOLD HOLD
Driftshade Refuge
Fort Fellhammer
Fort Kastav
Snowpoint Beacon
Frostflow Lighthouse
WHITERUN HOLD
Fellglow Keep
Fort Greymoor
Western Watchtower
SOLSTHEIM
Ashfallow Citadel
Fort Frostmoth
Highpoint Tower
Notes for Mod Authors
You are free to use my models however you like in your own work or to make any patches/addons for this mod. I will be uploading a Resources for Mod Authors plugin to the Misc files section that has everything already set up and ready to use in the Creation Kit. You are not allowed to charge money for any project that uses my files. You have open permission to port this mod and its patches/addons to any console as long as you credit me as the creator. However, please make sure that no ports of the specific files already exist on the platform. I don't want console players to have to sort through 10 different versions of the same mod. For all other use cases, feel free to ask me for permissions, I'll probably allow it.