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Add on for JK's Whiterun focusing on the flora using EEKs Renthal Collection. Each profession has been fleshed out a bit more in regards to clutter and I've also added laundry to each home reflecting the occupants that live there. The market has undergone a slight change with new clutter added to the stands. Different versions available.
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Mod name Notes EEKs Renthal Flora Collection As a base flora pack, load 3d plants after JK's Whiterun Required master if using JK's Whiterun JK's Skyrim Required master if using JK's Skyrim Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch Required master - Permissions and credits
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You can use anything in the EEK folders as long as credit is given. Assets in the other named files with EEK_ in front of them have been edited in someway by me and if you wish to use these just make sure the necessary credits are given to the original author.
Please make sure to contact Nivea (Winter is coming), Greenback12 (HD Photorealistic Ivy) and LucidAP (High Poly Project) for use of their assets.
Translations of the esp are allowed as long as you link back to here for the assets and the appropriate credits are given.
There is a spare shack behind Arcadia's feel free to use it in NPC/Follower mods etc. I really can't be bothered with it as it's just a shack! Also feel free to create and upload whatever patches you need but let me know via a PM that you've done it so I can send people your way when needed or I can upload it here if you prefer.
The Whiterun meshes are a combination of USSEP, SMIM and vanilla and have open permissions so that any fixes can be carried forward. So consider these as a modders resource, just make sure to give the necessary credits.
The Firewood meshes are also to be considered a modders resource, just give me a credit.File credits
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Language Name German Author: Hilli1 EEKs Beautiful Whiterun by EvilEyedKyo - German Translation
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This mod is a add on to JK's Whiterun & JK's Skyrim designed using EEKs Renthal Flora Collection and uses assets from High Poly Project, Winter is Coming and HD Photorealistic Ivy, as well as various resources found on the Nexus.
Each profession/NPC has been fleshed out by adding extra related clutter to their work areas, stands and shops as well as adding related laundry to their homes. I've also added more idle markers around the city to accomodate population mods.
The whole city has also had a new lighting scheme implemented that fixes the blinking lights and smoke. The braziers running from the Main Gate to Whiterun Stables has also been tweaked.
I've also reworked the navmesh across the city to accommodate any new additions and animal pens.
Rather than mess with vanilla AI packages and cause problems with ICAIO I have chosen to add six new NPC's to make use of some of the new areas/features added. They have jobs, one being a merchant, around the city and will hang about outside The Bannered Mare during rest periods. Two of them are the guards standing above the main gate and overlook the city.
There is a new mesh included for the Hall of the Dead that places windows behind the bars at the front of the building (see EEKs Whiterun Meshes below).
The aspen trees have been set to full lod so that they will appear from outside the city, They have also been placed under a different ID so Dyndolod doesn't generate lod for them, otherwise lod would appear in the city. Woodpiles etc have also had a aspen texture set applied to them to reflect the surrounding trees (see EEKs Firewood below).
There is a new empty shack behind Arcadia's that can be used by any other modders out there for their own needs. It's only a shack and I really can't be bothered with it as I'll never go in there in game. The new door into Dragonsreach will come into play when I do the interior.
This mod also includes my Gildergreen and Noble Door mods.
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This mod is a add on to JK's Whiterun & JK's Skyrim designed using EEKs Renthal Flora Collection and uses assets from High Poly Project, Winter is Coming and HD Photorealistic Ivy, as well as various resources found on the Nexus.
Each profession/NPC has been fleshed out by adding extra related clutter to their work areas, stands and shops as well as adding related laundry to their homes. I've also added more idle markers around the city to accomodate population mods.
The whole city has also had a new lighting scheme implemented that fixes the blinking lights and smoke. The braziers running from the Main Gate to Whiterun Stables has also been tweaked.
I've also reworked the navmesh across the city to accommodate any new additions and animal pens.
Rather than mess with vanilla AI packages and cause problems with ICAIO I have chosen to add six new NPC's to make use of some of the new areas/features added. They have jobs, one being a merchant, around the city and will hang about outside The Bannered Mare during rest periods. Two of them are the guards standing above the main gate and overlook the city.
There is a new mesh included for the Hall of the Dead that places windows behind the bars at the front of the building (see EEKs Whiterun Meshes below).
The aspen trees have been set to full lod so that they will appear from outside the city, They have also been placed under a different ID so Dyndolod doesn't generate lod for them, otherwise lod would appear in the city. Woodpiles etc have also had a aspen texture set applied to them to reflect the surrounding trees (see EEKs Firewood below).
There is a new empty shack behind Arcadia's that can be used by any other modders out there for their own needs. It's only a shack and I really can't be bothered with it as I'll never go in there in game. The new door into Dragonsreach will come into play when I do the interior.
This mod also includes my Gildergreen and Noble Door mods.
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USSEP and JK's Whiterun or JK's Skyrim are required masters.
EEKs Renthal Flora Collection is required as a base flora pack as I have used some of the textures from there for new plants. Also the city has been planted with these meshes and texture variations. Skyrim 3D Trees & Plants also looks good and adds a totally different atomsphere (the trees look really good against the moon) and should be loaded after EEKs Renthal Flora Collection if you use that.
Realistic Aspen Trees is recommended as I have placed fallen leaves to match the colour change in leaves, not a biggy though.
Embers HD is also recommended as I have come up with a work around for the blinking smoke utilising it's FXfireWithEmbers01_Cheap mesh which emits smoke that doesn't blink.
Guard Torch Remover is recommended to help with any blinking light sources caused by torches.
EEKs Renthal Flora Collection is required as a base flora pack as I have used some of the textures from there for new plants. Also the city has been planted with these meshes and texture variations. Skyrim 3D Trees & Plants also looks good and adds a totally different atomsphere (the trees look really good against the moon) and should be loaded after EEKs Renthal Flora Collection if you use that.
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Realistic Aspen Trees is recommended as I have placed fallen leaves to match the colour change in leaves, not a biggy though.
Embers HD is also recommended as I have come up with a work around for the blinking smoke utilising it's FXfireWithEmbers01_Cheap mesh which emits smoke that doesn't blink.
Guard Torch Remover is recommended to help with any blinking light sources caused by torches.
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If your installing mid playthrough there will likely be things baked into your save, disable them through the console. A new game start is recommended when installing overhaul mods.
Other Whiterun overhaul mods will have serious conflicts.
Any lighting mod that places new lightbulbs in Whiterun, ELFX Exteriors for example, will cause blinking lights and have placement issues. I recommend removing Whiterun from them using SSEedit. This method can be used for other mods or parts of this one.
If your using Skyrim 3D Trees & Plants delete the Gildergreen from this mod.
Other Whiterun overhaul mods will have serious conflicts.
Any lighting mod that places new lightbulbs in Whiterun, ELFX Exteriors for example, will cause blinking lights and have placement issues. I recommend removing Whiterun from them using SSEedit. This method can be used for other mods or parts of this one.
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If your using Skyrim 3D Trees & Plants delete the Gildergreen from this mod.
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For reference my PC specs are i7 6700K, GTX 970, 16gb RAM, SSD, Win 10. I tested on a mod light build of USSEP, textures for everything, JK's Whiterun, Waterplants, Real Wildlife, Birds of Skyrim, Birds & Flocks SSE, Populated Cities, Towns & Villages, Immersive Citizens, Vivid Weathers & Rudy ENB.
Without this mod I have a near constant 60fps everywhere with a slight fluctuation of 1-2fps in places.
With this mod enabled you'll definately hear your fans rev up! There is a big drop (10fps) whilst stood at the entrance looking up the main street as well as on the top steps of Dragonsreach and looking back across the city. It soon sorts itself out though when you turn away. With Rudy ENB on I lost a couple more frames here and there but nothing to write home about.
These are the longest draw distances in the city and the only thing I can do is to delete some stuff or get a better PC, I'm happy to live with it! I have added more occlusion boxes where I can in order to help keep performance up.
As I turned on the population and creature mods performance did decrease further by a few frames here and there but the game was still very playable. There will also be increased loading times simply because it's loading more assets.
Let me know how you get on and if needed I will produce a light version.
Without this mod I have a near constant 60fps everywhere with a slight fluctuation of 1-2fps in places.
With this mod enabled you'll definately hear your fans rev up! There is a big drop (10fps) whilst stood at the entrance looking up the main street as well as on the top steps of Dragonsreach and looking back across the city. It soon sorts itself out though when you turn away. With Rudy ENB on I lost a couple more frames here and there but nothing to write home about.
These are the longest draw distances in the city and the only thing I can do is to delete some stuff or get a better PC, I'm happy to live with it! I have added more occlusion boxes where I can in order to help keep performance up.
As I turned on the population and creature mods performance did decrease further by a few frames here and there but the game was still very playable. There will also be increased loading times simply because it's loading more assets.
Let me know how you get on and if needed I will produce a light version.
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I've kept this as an optional download due to the extra memory hit you will incur when using them.
Using the terrain meshes from USSEP and SMIM (to carry forward any fixes) I have added extra moss-alpha meshes to a lot of the stone surfaces. For example the waterways and wells have all had a new mesh added so that I could add moss to the them. I have also added the moss meshes to the base of Jorvaskr and the entire Guard House to your left as you enter Whiterun.
All terrain meshes have had their UV maps rescaled 1.4 to 2.0 times. This was to fix a personal annoyance with the scaling on the internal banked wall. The knock on effect was that the grass needed rescaling too. Looks great with Noble but results will vary depending on what textures you use. I have also remapped all the walls so that there are no seams showing and the stones are aligned properly.
There is now another version that only includes the meshes with the added moss alpha and texture fixes. This version is compatible with all texture mods as the walls and grass aren't rescaled. It also has a very small impact on performance if any at all.
I use Noble and it doesn't come with a mossalpha texture and defaults to the ugly vanilla one so I downloaded quite a few other texture packs looking for a new stone wall with a matching mossalpha that looked good with Noble and found that the best one came from Langleys Texture Workshop. I have included these textures too with the meshes so be aware when installing and overwriting.
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Using the terrain meshes from USSEP and SMIM (to carry forward any fixes) I have added extra moss-alpha meshes to a lot of the stone surfaces. For example the waterways and wells have all had a new mesh added so that I could add moss to the them. I have also added the moss meshes to the base of Jorvaskr and the entire Guard House to your left as you enter Whiterun.
All terrain meshes have had their UV maps rescaled 1.4 to 2.0 times. This was to fix a personal annoyance with the scaling on the internal banked wall. The knock on effect was that the grass needed rescaling too. Looks great with Noble but results will vary depending on what textures you use. I have also remapped all the walls so that there are no seams showing and the stones are aligned properly.
There is now another version that only includes the meshes with the added moss alpha and texture fixes. This version is compatible with all texture mods as the walls and grass aren't rescaled. It also has a very small impact on performance if any at all.
I use Noble and it doesn't come with a mossalpha texture and defaults to the ugly vanilla one so I downloaded quite a few other texture packs looking for a new stone wall with a matching mossalpha that looked good with Noble and found that the best one came from Langleys Texture Workshop. I have included these textures too with the meshes so be aware when installing and overwriting.
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In order to tie the firewood piles and chopping blocks into the aspen trees I have duplicated, renamed and applied a aspen bark texture set to them in the CK. But due to the vanilla uvmaps on these meshes every log looks exactly the same, so I have remapped them enough to stop this appearing obvious.
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Set up like this the changes only apply to Whiterun but I can't apply these methods to the animation logs without changing them throughout Skyrim, as I don't know how to make Sigurd only use a new set of meshes for the animations.
So you have four choices:
Both versions are compatible with other texture mods as long as they have a vanilla texture name/path.
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Set up like this the changes only apply to Whiterun but I can't apply these methods to the animation logs without changing them throughout Skyrim, as I don't know how to make Sigurd only use a new set of meshes for the animations.
So you have four choices:
- The pine textured version - My choice
- The aspen textured version - affects all of Skyrim.
- Mix them as you see fit.
- Not bother and the log piles won't match the surrounding trees and every log will look identical.
Both versions are compatible with other texture mods as long as they have a vanilla texture name/path.
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Just make sure that your using the right version of this mod for your mod list and this mods esp and patches are loaded after any mod that makes changes to the navmesh.
- USSEP - required - makes navmesh changes
- SMIM
- Noble Skyrim
- Skyrim Flora Overhaul - trees only
- Bent Pines
- Realistic Aspen Trees
- HQ Tree Bark
- Optional HD Textures by Vurt (of SFO fame)
- Enhanced Landscapes Standalone Oaks and Marsh Pines
- Reach Tree Replacer
- Unbelievable Grass SSE
- Hybrids HD Plants and Herbs Retexture
- Green Hanging Spanish Moss HD
- Better Nirnroot - Hi-Res 2K Textures
- HD Photorealistic Ivy
- Water Plants - adds the lillies to the bottom ponds, I've added to the top
- Everything Gamwich
- High Poly Project
- Winter is Coming
- Embers HD
- EEKs Renthal Flora Collection - required as a base
- Skyrim 3D Trees & Plants
- JK's Whiterun & JK's Outskirts or JK's Skyrim - required
- Eli's Breezehome - makes navmesh changes
- Populated Cities, Towns & Villages
- Real Wildlife - will need saving in the CK and the meshes ran through SSE NIF Optimizer
- Birds of Skyrim
- Birds & Flocks SSE
- Skyrim Sewers 4 - makes navmesh changes
- Immersive Citizens - makes navmesh changes
- EEKs Whiterun Interiors
- EEKs Beautiful Whiterun or EEKs Beautiful Whiterun - ICAIO version - both make navmesh changes
- EEKs Beautiful Whiterun - Eli's Breezehome patch - makes navmesh changes
- Realistic Water Two
- Dyndolod - you don't need to re-run fo LOD
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Without these folk's hard work and talent a lot of mods would never happen so a big thanks to them for not only their assets but their tutorials as well.
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