Whiterun, as mentioned earlier, is designed using EEKs Renthal Flora Collection so is recommended to get the look I designed. As previous users have noted I like my ivy so have made some new ivy meshes to help decorate Whiterun. They have been mapped to Greenback 12's HD Photorealistic Ivy texture that has been included and only affects Whiterun. The vanilla mesh is a static so for this version I have created all the outside ivy meshes to be animated. It was quite surprising what a difference it makes whilst walking around and it really does help to sell Whiterun as a windy city.

Each profession/NPC has been fleshed out by adding extra related static and harvestable clutter to their work areas, stands and shops. I've also added more idle markers around the city to accomodate population mods.


You'll also notice that I have placed relevant animated laundry across the city. Whilst I love Immersive Laundry it will be imcompatible and will need Whiterun removed from it (read below).

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.


As mentioned at the top there are a lot of replacement meshes for Whiterun, a lot meaning nearly all of them. To be brief about it all the buildings have new windows added to them, all the terrain meshes have there UV map rescaled/alligned for the grass and the stone walls, the city walls have had a texture path change and all the interior windows have been replaced. Also all the interior pieces used in the exterior needed double sided turned on for resone explained below. There are also some new meshes from Ambershore for the market well, wrwalltotem01, wrwalltierdivide01 and wrstairswater01 that are beautiful new additions.


I've also reworked the navmesh across the city to accommodate any new additions and animal pens.

This mod also includes my Gildergreen and Noble Door mods, as well as the remapped Pine Firewood meshes that have been retextured via the CK with a aspen texture set. The pine version replaces the vanilla mesh and affects Skyrim whilst the Aspen textured version is only in Whiterun.

The reason for adding "Immersive" into the title is that I have now moved all my interiors into exterior duplicates of Whiterun. Unfortunately Dragonsreach didn't make the jump and kept crashing the CK when ever I tried to copy and paste it over so has been left in an interior cell. Even if it did work it could only be a space you would visit via the console as moving all the NPC's, markers and quest realated stuff over safely is far beyond my knowledge. I have left the world space on the esp if someone fancies the challenge!

Each interior has been dramatically overhauled. This includes the removal/adding of walls and floors and new windows. I have also replaced all the containers with new versions that open fully and have associated clutter in them making each one unique, including bookcases. For the bookcases I have remade all of Blarys bookset resource to allow me to add Book Covers Skyrim texture sets to each individual cover allowing for unique bookcases as well.


The containers are set up on vanilla levelled lists where they exist and created levelled lists where they didn't and are not representative by the on screen amounts dissapearing.


As I hate the fact that a store will remain empty of stock for 13 in game days when you loot everything I've made it so that stores are a mixture of static items, stealable items and harvestable objects that only half empty when looted. This way it still looks like a shop and not a shed after you've gone on a spree! Given all the extra stealable goods available game balance is slightly thrown out of whack early on but that's only if your a kleptomaniac! You can't empty Warmaidens for example but there are a lot more resources dotted around.

As mentioned previously I have moved the interiors to exterior cells, to do this though meant editing a ridiculous amount of meshes. All the internal building meshes needed editing so that they wouldn't let the sunlight or rain penertrate. Bare in mind snow will still penetrate as there is no way round this from the infomation I could find.

Also a lot of clutter meshes aren't set up for external lighting, they tend to be a lot brighter than the meshes around them (especially with ENB) and I have attempted to fix them when I've spotted them. The most noticable was the candlehorn meshes so I have remade these so that the horn and the metal work are seperate meshes allowing me to take the emittance of the metalwork. Also made some extras that I thought were missing from the line-up, including new horn chandeliers with real chain chains.


I also had to remake all the windows so that you could see out of them. I use Noble Skyrim so asked Shutt3r if I could use and edit his window texture to achieve this, which he was cool with so thanks Shutt3r. The massive knock on effect was that it meant anybody not using Noble would have different windows inside and out. So I created new windows for the main building exterior meshes to match. This then knocked on and on until I ended up making window meshes for all of whiteruns interiors and exteriors so they all match. At the same time this allowed me to set the windows up differently.

One feature I love about ENB is the window glow but unfortunately the vanilla windows aren't quite set up right for this even if the textures are provided in whatever texture mod your using. The window on the left is my edited version and the right the vanilla using Noble textures (1st image). As you can see the vanilla window bars allow the light too bleed through them whereas on mine it doesn't.


Seperating the bars from the glass allows me to set up the shader properties differently and turn the emittance off for the bars. It also allows them to make shadows when I need them to. The overall effect makes them look a lot more like 3d glass than the vanilla versions. Where I have added windows to the interiors I have also added them to the external building mesh.

As mentioned earlier I couldn't move Dragonsreach into an exterior cell so improvised as best I could by adding four new windows to each side of the main hall to match up with the external window layout. These windows are see through allowing you to see the sky and night auroras etc.


One thing that has always annoyed me about Dragonsreach is that it's internal layout makes no sense when compared to the external building mesh, especially when entering the Jarls Quarters. I have attempted to rectify this as best I can by moving rooms and doors to better match the exterior, it's not perfect but it makes more sense.

The new playerhome Dovahsreach originally started life as an experiment to get over lighting issues with the Jarls Quarters which I then chickened out of using (solved in this version). As it is a pretty cool space I thought others would like to see it so I converted it into a player home as an excuse to share it without giving much thought on how to implement it properly in game. I still haven't! I've taken some steps towards it but I still don't know enough to implement them properly.

Dovahsreach is placed in a duplicate of Whiterun and is accessable via the door on the balcony in the Jarls Quarters. To gain access you'll need to buy Breezhome and there will be a strongbox with the key inside on your bedside cabinet. For Eli's Breezehome users it is placed on the table downstairs with the other keys. Whilst you may think this is redundant given Dovahsreach is a player home I still want Breezehome to be at it's best if I'm gonna own it, plus I like the added external tower.


To get around having to go through a total of six loading screens to get in and out of the place I have placed a Teleport Spell Book the other side of the bed in Dovahsreach. To get out just fast travel with your map. There isn't a non cheaty way to get back to Dragonsreach from Dovahsreach but if you really want to you will have to TCL through the top floor where you'll see a door on the underside of the floor.

Throughout Dovahsreach you will find various activators for placing items. Some of these will be via direct placement but the majority are done via Display containers. The Display containers are clearly labelled and are restricted to only allow the required items. Only one of any item is required to be placed in the container.


You will also notice several new crafting stations that are used to build all the bottom floor display walls/stands and items. I have left the main display walls unrestricted so that you build them first and get an idea of what to collect whilst out exploring. The mannequins and a few other items are restricted and will require that armor piece/quest item to be in your inventory in order for the recipe to show in your crafting options.

When placing certain objects, the Sigil Stone for example, new crafting stations such as the Atronoch Forge will appear. This in turn opens up more crafting options. Next to the forge you'll see a recipe strong box with recipes detailing what can be crafted through the Atronoch Forge. I couldn't really work out how to restrict this crafting so it's only done somewhat by recipe.

Sometimes in game you have to make the choice on which artifact to go for, the Rueful Axe or Clavicus Vile's Masque for example, so I have made different displays for which ever item you decide to go for. There are also two versions of The Dark Brotherhood display to choose from. Either place Astrid only or place the other three mannequins.

I've tried to make it as intuitive as possible so let me know if your struggling to find/place something. It's crossed my mind that the Heart Stone maybe a tricky one so that goes in the unenchanted staff pot on the Tel Mithryn display, it also plays quite a large part across Dovahsreach too.

For reference my PC specs are i7 6700K, GTX 970, 16gb RAM, SSD, Win 10, so fairly last gen! I tested on a mod light build but with 2k+ textures for nigh on everything, their accompanying meshes, and everything else I mention in this description.

I haven't suffered any performance issues in Dragonsreach or the exterior interiors.

All loading times will be increased as it is loading a lot more in, nothing major though. Mechanical drive users will suffer more.

In Whiterun without this mod I have a near constant 60 fps everywhere with a slight fluctuation of 1-2 fps 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.

In an effort to keep performance up in Dovahsreach I have deleted almost everything except buildings, walls and terrain from Whiterun. Whether this was necessary or not I don't know as I did it early on as a just in case, but I imagine it was.

As you fill Dovahsreach performance will decrease and loading times increase. I went from 60 fps to 45 fps (with ENB) in places over the course of filling it up but considering what's is in there I call that a win!

If your wondering what you performance will be like when Dovahsreach is fully loaded you'll find various test/cheat/backup chests under the balcony tower floor. There purposes are clearly labeled and player discretion is advised. I recommend doing this when testing if it'll stay in your load order as it'll help with your understanding on how it all works. If you do the top floor first and then have a run around the bottom floor you can get an idea on what is added through the top floor Display containers. If you just pick the items from the Items Required chest and run around the crafting stations you'll also see what gets crafted where.

Also remember you don't have to place everything in Dovahsreach, even placing 50% of it still looks cool! So just place what you can if performance starts to suffer.