covered bridge

All this mod does is add covered roofs to selected bridges in Tamriel world space. The roof has a high enough clearance (about 2 meters) to accommodate a mounted horse and carriage.

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All this mod does is adds covered roofs to selected bridges in Tamriel world space. The roof has a high enough clearance (approximately 2 meters) to accommodate

Mounted horses and carriages.

There are two plugins available: the regular version and the summer version (without snow shadow shader; located in the optional subdirectory).

For assurance, this mod was cleaned using TES5EDIT.

This mod is an experimental product involving the use of Sketchup Pro 2017 as a base editor for creating moderately complex models for use in Skyrim, in conjunction with the Online Model Converter (for converting 3DSmax models - exported by Sketchup Pro - to OBJ), Nifskope (for assigning textures and UV editing) and the NifUtils Suite (for Chunkmerge that generates Havok collisions).

Like most little ideas, this one came to me during a dull afternoon thinking about Sketchup models: if Sketchup Pro can export OBJs, why can't it be used to create new models of prototypes and eventually used in games? After two weeks of experimenting with basic pieces until I decided to create a new grid asset from scratch, the covered catwalk took four days to create.

There is also a reference to this process in the optional section, which explains step by step how I went from Sketchup to Skyrim.

Tools used

SketchUp Pro 2017

Nifskope 2 Alpha

Nifutils Suite

Adobe Photoshop CS6