Crimson's Riverwood - Experiment

Over the years I've used many mods that alter Riverwood. I love them all and have always wanted to build my opinion of Riverwood. Hopefully this mod will bring Riverwood and Greenmount Gardens together.

​ ​ Please remember that this mod is an experiment.

It moves everything in Riverwood. This means that certain objects, such as sawmill wood, may appear in their original vanilla place. It may take a few restarts for the new game to start working. If you have already visited Riverwood, nothing more will be appropriate.

2019-10-08

A new update is now available. Non-GMG only. I won't make a GMG version of it.

I'm very happy with it and am working on the SE conversion.

A new game is required, and players cannot access Riverwood until installed.

Over the years I've used many mods that alter Riverwood. I love them all and have always wanted to build my opinion of Riverwood. This vision brings Riverwood and Greenmount Gardens together. Hopefully I've achieved that goal in this mod.

(Non-GMG version also available)

There's a lot more I want to do, but I have to leave some resource space for users to have HD textures, out-of-memory companions, etc. Maintaining good fps is also a consideration. This was a complete rebuild of Riverwood without having to worry about compatibility with anything else, and gave me the opportunity to try out some ideas.

I'm also considering creating alternative versions of GMG elsewhere in Skyrim. This will have its own village, similar to what I did here. Hopefully I can do more than I did in Riverwood and not mess up other mods or quests.

Some features are: Let

GMG and Riverwood blend into each other in a pleasing way. Large public food garden.

Expand Pond Ideas from GMG

Moved party area to village

Move the smelter to a more central location

Spread out the building so it doesn't look like a high street, plus some extra extras

Try to make the village friendlier

Add more houses and NPCs

between more units

Spread the "load" Better compatibility with Verdant etc.

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For those who want to use Riverwood Keep with SkyrimLazz, a patch is available in the Files section.

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RiverwoodKeep.esp

KRWood.esp

KRWKeep.esp

A patch compatible with Skyrim - All-in-One (MCM) is now available. Load the patch after KRWood.esp

I added a toggle to allow those users struggling with memory and fps to disable things. (Mainly trees and plants.) The location is on the hotel wall, next to the safe deposit box. If you want to edit the content of the switch, the XMarker is located above the waterfall in the pond across from the inn. (Pictures are in the "Images" tab). Select it as the Enabled Parent reference for the object.

This patch only applies to the GMG version of KRWood and only contains the new ESP and scripts. Use this with GMG's tree and plant toggle switches. I spent an hour testing this morning and the average change was 1-2fps and saved about 100-150MB of memory. For those who are having problems, maybe it can help.

For those asking, my rig basics are...

CPU：i7 4790K @ 4.6GHz

RAM: 16GB OC slightly to 1903MHz

GPU: MSI GTX 980 (with

Spare OC monitors): ASUS ROG PG279Q (2560x1440 @ 144Hz) and LG E2360 (1920x1080 @ 60Hz)

And I don't use ENB or huge HD textures on everything. My goal is an absolute minimum of 30-35 fps. However, we all run different rigs and gaming setups. So what works for me may not always work for everyone...

Don't be surprised by compatibility issues with other mods affecting Riverwood.

DO use a new game or something will appear in the wrong location.

Load after DO GMG.

Body Info/Custom Male uses any body you have installed. Female body type is Nightasy's UNPetite (Santa's SG female texture updated (mods/35267/?)

To change the body type or texture, just replace what you want and keep the name used in the directory below. Girls have separate body meshes. If you want to make it younger or have a different body shape, you can use SFW body. (I usually scale d …