Skyrim Special Edition

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miliyx and zohryu

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solandmun

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About this mod

A modest and practical overhaul of Windhelm's bridge. ESP-FE plugin.

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Windhelm Bridge Revived
The Windhelm bridge in vanilla Skyrim looks terribly unfinished and empty. This mod aims to give the bridge a sorely needed visual update. It's main purpose is to serve as a main gatehouse into the city of Windhelm and the other a defensive fortification. Originally started as a personal project, because I wasn't satisfied with other existing overhauls.
~ Features ~

  • New guardhouse located at the bridge underpassage
  • New additional architecture pieces like stone trims and arches to cover up ugly vanilla holes
  • A set of stairs and a wooden ramp at the entrance for people and carts respectively
  • Realistic fortifications & battlements to the upper platforms, with extra doors and portcullises on archways
  • Adds various clutter along the corridors
  • 8 new guards, Stormcloak/Imperial that patrol the upper and lower levels of the bridge. Half of them are on day shift and the other on night shift. During their break they will rest at the guardhouse.
  • Faction related items like banners and armours that react to the civil war
  • Adds occlusion planes to help with draw calls & FPS
~ Compatibility ~
This mod is inherently incompatible with other mods that extensively overhaul the bridge.
This mod does not make landscape edits, and only tweaks existing vanilla navmesh.
This mod only touches the bridge itself, other mods that overhaul areas around it like the docks and stables are compatible.
Feel free to make your own compatibility patches.

Compatibility notes
JK's Skyrim - compatible
Dawn of Skyrim - compatible
Open Cities - compatible
SB Fixed Windhelm Entrance - compatible
FYX Windhelm Entrance - compatible
Windhelm Bridge Archways and Doors - redundant (adds the same things)

Available Patches
Better City Entrances
Capital Windhelm Expansion
Enhanced Landscapes
Icy Windhelm
Windhelm Exterior Altered
Windhelm Docks Pathways
Lux Orbis (available in the mod's installer)
Windhelm Bridge Overhaul (Please choose NO tent roof and NO guard area version)
Immersive Citizens
JK's Windhelm Outskirts (available in the mod's patch collection)
JUSTICE - City Exteriors SSE


Available Add-ons
Windhelm Fence 3D (standalone, don't need original mod)
Snowy bridge mesh replacer
Stairs of Skyrim - Windhelm bridge stairs (standalone, don't need original mod)

~ Installation ~

Simply install with mod manager like any other mod.
Probably unsafe to install mid-save, to avoid any unforeseen issues.
Unsafe to remove mid-save, as this mod adds persistent objects.

~ Special Thanks ~

zohryu
for his screenshots, testing and amazing support!
darkfox127 for their helpful CK and nifskope tutorials
Oaristys for their modders' resource pack
JPSteel2 for their Cities of the North assets
Surjamte for their Capital Windhelm Expansion assets
wSkeever for their Windhelm Fence 3D and Stairs of Skyrim assets
mmccarthy4 for their Black Thorn Keep castle assets
GGUNIT for their Lux Orbis bridge mesh
~ Recommended Mods ~
A bunch of mods I like that go well with this mod!
Fortified Whiterun by skyfall515
Capital Windhelm Expansion by Surjamte
Northfire's Windhelm by sgtpetterzon
JK's Windhelm Outskirts by jkrojmal
Icy Windhelm by WiZkiD34