Vanilla Plus Solitude Entrance

• []INTRODUCTION

I always felt that Skyrim cities are pretty well designed, but their decorations and clutter leave much to be desired. For a vanilla purist like me, the wonderful Spaghetti's Cities fixes much of these issues, but unfortunately it doesn't touch their main gates. This new series aims to do that: to give more personality and details to every city entrance, making them more believable while keeping their original designs, with no major layout changes or new assets. Simple is better (I hope)! Also remember that I'm still kinda an amateur modder, so if you have any suggestions and technical advices feel free to share them!

• []WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS MOD

For the capital of Skyrim, Solitude is very poorly defended in its own layout: there was little I could do. I added some clutter to the first tower, making it some sort of toll house, but I didn't touch the stables near it, since they are already well decorated. The first gate has a banner to dignify it - at last! - and the walls received some defenses and weapons, nothing too crazy. Not much else, unfortunately. No navmeshes edited, all new objects that may get in the way are navcut (hopefully), file cleaned and flagged as ESL, so it won't take a plugin spot. Let me know if something is wrong and I'll try to fix that!

• []REQUIREMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

None, the mod should be compatible with anything that doesn't touch the bridge in a heavy way. It was also specifically made to be compatible out of the box with FYX - The first Rampart and Watchtower of Solitude (which I'm using in my screenshots) and Serious Civil War Finale Sieges; it should also be compatible with mods that modify the carriage area. For the docks, I highly recommend Solitude Docks Improvement.

NOTE: as always, if you want to share patches for this mod, feel free to do on your own and I'll happily post them here!

• []CREDITS

I truly wanted to thank everyone that helped me in learning the CK basics, and also all the wonderful people on Discord who answered my many and noobish questions: your patience is admirable! And of course, thanks to the authors of the mentioned mods, for giving inspiration.