Honestly, the improvement this mod contributes to Whiterun is breathtaking. I don't know if EEK even bothers to look at Nexus comments any more but if he/she does I want to say I am in awe of your interior decoration and graphic design skills. Many kudos! I concur with the poster below who said she was tempted to do away with Arcadia and take over the Cauldron shop as her own business!
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I have already started playing and making videos of my current play-through and was loathe to make any more changes to locations my character has already visited (because it would not make sense in the video). But after loading this mod and Belethor's store to have a look for myself I can't take them out of the load order. It would be criminal. I will just have to stay away from Whiterun for a while (or these two stores, at least) to give them time to "remodel" and surprise me when I visit again. Perhaps, because of the civil war, they have both come into money for supplies and invested in expanding their businesses. Whatever, I'll work it in.
Just two critiques (not criticisms). The two footbridges inside the store are only wide enough for one character and if anyone pauses on the bridge (and that happens a lot) then it's impossible to get around them without a lot of creative jumping -- would have been nice if they were a bit wider for two-way traffic.
And to new users of this mod, it seems that the light sources that cast shadows are maxxed out inside the store which has NO EFFECT on the lighting and looks beautiful (if a tad dark); but if you should turn on a personal lantern, or use candlelight or magelight, then the game engine MAY start shutting off shadows near you and some surfaces will flash light & dark as you move the camera around. That is a normal (and irritating) feature of the game engine (it only allows 4 light sources that cast shadow) so be aware of that, but by all means install this mod in your game -- it's gorgeous.
When/if (who am I kidding?) I make a new Skyrim SE build for a future play-through I am most definitely going to include as many EEK interiors as I can. Many thanks for the effort that went into these. Cheers!
This mod is absolutely, without a doubt, the most beautiful interior mod I've ever downloaded. And this is coming from someone who's very picky, and has installed dozens and dozens of player homes. Gorgeous work.
Would very happily pay actual money to this creator to see them make a player home in this same style, it's that beautiful.
Hey Great mod but it seems like there is a conflict with face textures to Bijin NPCs as Aracadias face are black and is being overwritten. Is there a possible fix for this ?
Hi Kenji. I've just encountered this same issue and found that Bijin Npcs doesn't alter Arcadia. I use a mod called Ordinary women and that needed to be re-installed to fix her face. I realise your message is a long time ago but it should help if you ever decide to return to SSE.
I think your mods are fantastic and make the interiors look amazing. However, I am having a problem. Starting from a clean vanilla save and then adding just a few mods including USSE, FNIS, Realistic Lighting Overhaul and Ellie's Breezehome, plus JS Armoured Circlets and your patch for Warmaiden's. I should mention that I have removed the lighting effects from RDO as you suggested and it got rid of the interior smoke.
My problem is that although Belethor's works fine and if I then go into either Arcadia's or Warmaiden's that works fine too. But whichever one I enter third whether it is Arcadia's or Warmaiden's I CTD and I can't figure out why. I could just go with Belethor's and Warmaiden's and forget Arcadia's but you had me at Hello; so any advice would be welcome.
I'd like to start with saying THANK YOU! I absolutely adore all the changed you've made to the interiors.
I would just like to ask, for some reason this mod is causing a huge FPS drop, even when I'm just walking around of Whiterun. I have a very strong PC, gtx 1080 Ti, 64GB of RAM and 5Ghz processor, so my PC can definitely take on a lot, I was just wondering if there is any way I can improve this.
I understand there are a lot of items and there will be some FPS loss, but even walking outside of the store you can tell a huge difference.
I downloaded the version with all interiors, but I think it is this building specifically, simply because walking around the store gives me low FPS.
*EDIT* I don't have many mods, but I have JK Whiterun and RLO.
Thanks, yeah your rig should definately handle this, mine does and it's pretty "last gen". Whiterun and Arcadia's are two entirely different cells so there shouldn't be any problems. Is the fps drop only there after you have exited Arcadia's or is it there consistantly? I imagine if it's consistantly there and you haven't loaded into (put to memory) Arcadia's yet then it's something else.
I can't remember of the top of my head if RLO makes any changes to Whiterun itself, but you will need to make sure you delete arcadia's etc from it (info in description) and it only takes 30 secs to do. This isn't related to your problem but needs to be done for the interiors.
I'm also running JK's but with my EEKs Beautiful Whiterun add on, ICAIO, Populated Cities, several bird mods, Sewers of Skyrim and a wildlife mod and am experiencing no problems related to Arcadia's so ... ? Are you running any population/wildlife mods too?
Anyhow try the new update and tell me how you get on with that, though it's basically the same.
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The new update to 1.3 changes things up a little, read the changelog for the full details. Let me know of any problems and I'll try to sort.
Just two critiques (not criticisms). The two footbridges inside the store are only wide enough for one character and if anyone pauses on the bridge (and that happens a lot) then it's impossible to get around them without a lot of creative jumping -- would have been nice if they were a bit wider for two-way traffic.
And to new users of this mod, it seems that the light sources that cast shadows are maxxed out inside the store which has NO EFFECT on the lighting and looks beautiful (if a tad dark); but if you should turn on a personal lantern, or use candlelight or magelight, then the game engine MAY start shutting off shadows near you and some surfaces will flash light & dark as you move the camera around. That is a normal (and irritating) feature of the game engine (it only allows 4 light sources that cast shadow) so be aware of that, but by all means install this mod in your game -- it's gorgeous.
When/if (who am I kidding?) I make a new Skyrim SE build for a future play-through I am most definitely going to include as many EEK interiors as I can. Many thanks for the effort that went into these. Cheers!
Would very happily pay actual money to this creator to see them make a player home in this same style, it's that beautiful.
first install immersive citizens and next whiterun interiors ?
My problem is that although Belethor's works fine and if I then go into either Arcadia's or Warmaiden's that works fine too. But whichever one I enter third whether it is Arcadia's or Warmaiden's I CTD and I can't figure out why. I could just go with Belethor's and Warmaiden's and forget Arcadia's but you had me at Hello; so any advice would be welcome.
Thanks again for a great mod.
I would just like to ask, for some reason this mod is causing a huge FPS drop, even when I'm just walking around of Whiterun.
I have a very strong PC, gtx 1080 Ti, 64GB of RAM and 5Ghz processor, so my PC can definitely take on a lot, I was just wondering if there is any way
I can improve this.
I understand there are a lot of items and there will be some FPS loss, but even walking outside of the store you can tell a huge difference.
I downloaded the version with all interiors, but I think it is this building specifically, simply because walking around the store gives me low FPS.
*EDIT* I don't have many mods, but I have JK Whiterun and RLO.
Thank you for your help!
I can't remember of the top of my head if RLO makes any changes to Whiterun itself, but you will need to make sure you delete arcadia's etc from it (info in description) and it only takes 30 secs to do. This isn't related to your problem but needs to be done for the interiors.
I'm also running JK's but with my EEKs Beautiful Whiterun add on, ICAIO, Populated Cities, several bird mods, Sewers of Skyrim and a wildlife mod and am experiencing no problems related to Arcadia's so ... ? Are you running any population/wildlife mods too?
Anyhow try the new update and tell me how you get on with that, though it's basically the same.