Icy Cave Remaster

About this mod

Icy Cave Remaster is a mod that overhauls icy parts of the skyrim's caves.

I was never satisfied with ice caves so I built this mod to fit my own icy vision for the ice caves.

Although the original vision was just making some textures, it's been growing into a rather complicated mod that has numerous types of ice and even some themes for some interior locations.

Features

Fantasy ice textures

My aim for ice appearence was purely to fit skyrim's aesthetics. Some locations having a dark earthy appearence, others really cold and frozen feel, and of course very refractive locations.

Individualized ice caves (WIP)

As my mod expands, I've began to heavily utilize BOS which allows me to essentially customize interiors whatever way I want without needing to worry what ice might look elsewhere. The way the mod originally was made is by simply adding textures even though they didn't entirely fit with each other. So customizing each cave and giving it their own theme is one of the biggest features of this mod.

Currently this is still heavily WIP and there are MANY cave locations that are slowly being worked on and fixed up to look properly.

Some of these locations can be seen in the images tab.

If you ever really explore your surroundings, many caves will have various floating meshes or holes in walls/ceilings. So I've been fixing these issues up.

Cave fixes are now separated into it's own dedicated mod called Skyrim Cave Fixes. As it will be developed beyond just ice caves during it's development. I also didn't want to lock these fixes with this mod so that anyone can use them to improve the immersion improvements to their game.

Here's a few examples of what these fixes look like with ICR:

Duplicate mesh overlapping which results in z-fighting

Ceiling missing around the edges of the room

A literal hole in the ground

The mesh is not covered which reveals the empty underside of the mesh.