This modders' resource offers spiral staircases, ramps, and other new toys in a modular tileset with over two dozen pieces. I love Bethesda's Ayleid tiles, but wanted to extend the set by supplying some useful additions. These were made for Rathunas, a large town/quest mod.

The new tiles include:

* Spiral stairs: These mate up directly with Bethesda's "narrow hall" interface. One premade staircase is functionally equivalent to Bethesda's "arnhallstairs01.nif" object, but you can build your own multi-level stairs with the modular versions.

* Ramps: Modular ramps mate with both "wide" and "narrow" halls. Premade full-height versions provide the standard 320 unit vertical rise, but a half-height version of each is offered to allow you to place a landing of your choice midway.

* Spiral ramps: Spiral ramps allow vertical movement in a small horizontal footprint. NOTE: The tiles themselves work fine, but because of vanilla tile constraints, these can be tricky to deploy. See the detailed notes below for hints.

* New room tiles: There is an inside corner tile for room balconies, and you can now exit a narrow corridor *under* a balcony rather than just *on* it, and there is a no-rail balcony tile and some stairs to go with it. More options may follow later.

Note: Although these tiles are my own work in Blender, they are of course closely based on Bethesda's vanilla tiles. I take credit for my additions, but not for the original artistic work.

Shameless plug: This is a *partial* set; the full tiles will be released in a few months after my quest mod is released, so as not to spoil the surprises. :)

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This is a modder's resource only, consisting of NIF models. There is no ESP file, and so installing these models will not cause anything to appear in your game.

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All textures are Bethesda-supplied, and this resource does not overwrite any Bethesda models. These are additional tiles, not replacements.

A brief historical note: In the Middle Ages, castle staircases were built to curve to the right as you went up, or left as you came down, as a boon to defenders. Since most people are right-handed, a staircase curving this way gives the person above lots of room to swing a weapon, while for the one attacking from below, the central column is in the way. In my models, the "R" versions are built to favor a right-handed fighter defending from above.

If time permits, I may add a "zero horizontal offset" version (a standalone adaptation of the "middle" section) in a future release. If I do, it will simply add files to the archive, so it's safe to go ahead and use this release.

Please see the included README for more information.