Solitude statue of Mars and Minerva

Two guards in Whiterun:

""What is it? Dragons?

_ No but my cousin's out fighting dragons, and by passing through Solitude, he saw another statue.

_ By Shor, and what does it looks like?

_ Looks like two statues in one, a soldier and a women. And the women stop the soldier by her hand. Hard to believe, isn't it?

_ Gotta keep my eyes open. Damn dragons could swoop down at any time."

"Minerva, the Roman goddess and protector of craftsmen and trades, who wears a helmet with a plume of feathers, prevents Mars, the god of war, from pulling his sword out of its scabbard.

The statue of the two gods was created by sculptor Veit Königer. In the course of the expansion of Schönbrunn Hill and the redesign of the Great Parterre, mythological statues were erected along the hedge walls in 1777." - Noe-3D

Description

This mod add a statue of Mars and Minerva, in the Castle Dour District near the temple.

Install/Uninstall

There's no scripts, so it should be safe to install/uninstall in mid game.

Compatibility

Compatible with RedBag's Solitude

Should be compatible with others Solitude mods that doesn't change too much this part of the city, or else some patch shouldn't be too hard to do (just moving stuff).

Credits

It's from a true scan of a statue of Mars and Minerva: https://skfb.ly/6SDwM. So credits :

- noe-3d for this great scan

- myself for the port into Skyrim

- Veit Königer, the original sculptor of this statue

Tools used

- Blender, for the optimization

- ShaderMap 4 for the normal maps

- Gimp for the textures finishes

- PyNifly for the obj to nif

- NifSkope for the nif

- Niftools and SSE NIF Optimizer for the collision

- Texconv for the dds

- SSE Edit for the patches

- the Creation Kit.

Xtudo is allowed to port this mod on LE.

PrincessAries is allowed to port this mod on Xbox.