Description:
Have you experienced this situation, when two great but significantly different mods touch the same location and you couldn't decide between them? The worst case for me was a Blue Palace - when I discovered (very late, shame on me!) Drengin's Blue Palace Terrace, I was already a user, big fan and active patcher of JK's Blue Palace . I wanted both of them at once! There was some patch between them already made by leontristain (big kudos!), but their method (leaving only minimally modified JK's version inside) didn't satisfy me. So, the idea started to grow and now it finally materializes. Hereby I present to you my twisted vision of the patch for both of these Blue Palace great mods.
Main features and changes:
- Significant changes to the palace layout, many rooms are transferred to different locations and the whole concept tries to mimic the exterior shape of the Palace.
- The palace entrance and the main hall utilize mostly JK's layout. The dome is moved forward - right above the throne room.
- The feasting hall added in JK's is extended sideways and contains additions taken from Drengin's dining room: an additional table for Jarl Elisif and her closest associates, an expanded main table, and some additional furniture and decorations.
- On the right side of the main hall, between the staircase and Pelagius' Wing are located the lounge and the corridor with the door to the external side gallery.
- The library/study room in the right palace wing now contains a fireplace and some additional bookshelves and decorations.
- Sybille's Stentor room and guest quarters on the middle level are moved a bit closer to the main palace entrance making room for staircases rotated 90 degrees.
- The rooms of Elisif, Sybille, Bolgeir and Falk use mixed additions from both mods.
- Rooms for exiled Jarls are placed on the bottom floor of the left wing of the palace (using modified JK's layout) with the living/dining room in the middle (which uses the space originally designed for the dining hall in Drengin's version). Right next to it, you can find an additional staircase leading to the upper gallery and the palace's basement.
- The kitchen is placed right below the main dining hall on the same level as the living room and the bedrooms. A little additional dining space for the servants and occasional guests is added to the area.
- The servant's bedroom and a little storage are placed in the right wing, next to the kitchen.
- The exit to the garden is located at the end of the corridor which divides the bottom daily/bedroom section from the kitchen/servants' area.
- Exterior changes from both mods remain mostly untouched - only some unnecessary/clipping elements are disabled. The courtyard is taken from Drengin's version with the courtyard doors and little resting area above the main gate added in JK's.
- The plugin was compacted with an ESL flag set, so you don't have to worry about losing another slot in your plugins' load order.
- The patch is based on the recent versions of both Blue Palace mods and the latest USSEP. It is suggested to run it on the newest (1.6.1170) version of Skyrim or the one downgraded by best-of-both-worlds patcher. If you performed a full downgrade (and you miss the four CC creations which are vanilla files now) you need to learn how to create dummy masters with WryeBash and clean masters in xEdit.
- Due to significant changes to room bounds and some other persistent stuff you need the new game to make it all work. Don't even try to install it on the existing save.
Compatibility:
- Compatible with almost all Solitude city overhauls - external navmesh is left almost untouched (only finalized with new door markers in the courtyard). Just load this patch after every other mod changing the surrounding city area (with optional original patches for Drengin's Blue Palace Terrace and/or some third-party ones).
- For compatibility with Grand Solitude - The Walls of High King Erling you need only BluePalaceTerrace-Grand Solitude-Patch.esl from Drengin's Blue Palace Terrace page.
- The main patch installer provides several patches for mods adding/changing stuff in the interior. Here's the list of the patched mods with credits . Do not use corresponding ones for JK's Blue Palace or Drengin's Blue Palace Terrace.
- I strongly recommend Improved Solitude Arch which has a variant intended for BPT - LOTD combo.
- The patch for Mrf's Solitude is already provided by the author in their mod's installer.
- This patch isn't (and probably never will be) compatible with Palaces and Castles Enhanced.
- Not compatible with Lightened JK's Blue Palace.
Other notable Blue Palace Terrace patches:
- Blubbos Solitude - Blue Palace Terrace Patch by Poellafrire - moves some overlapping trees
- Blue Palace Terrace Patch Collection by Jonado - patches for Seasons, Open Cities, ELFX
- Drengin's Blue Palace Terrace - Birds and Flocks Patch by AgentW - moves a floating bird nest from Birds and Flocks to a more appropriate location
- LOTD Museum Dress-up for Blue Palace Terrace by godescalsus - a great addition to the LOTD patch, it changes the rear part of the museum architecture to fit better with Blue Palace
Credits:
- Drengin for Drengin's Blue Palace Terrace,
- JKrojmal for JK's Blue Palace,
- Antistar, Abamber , Plangkye, Repzik and Titansbane for Extravagant Interiors meshes (modified and used in Extravagant Blue Palace patch),
- GGUNIT for testing and some ideas implemented into the final mod,
- Janquel for JK's Interiors Patch Collection (I've used and reworked some of these patches),
- Jonado for LOTD patch fixes and tweaks (and our common work on the official DBM_BluePalaceTerrace_Patch),
- Matcm149 for Ignoble Beds patch,
- Monops for Blue Palace Garden patch,
- ra2phoenix for some fixes and addons,
- The Patching Council for dealing with my presence almost every day and kicking my lazy butt from time to time :P
Instructions
Run the FOMOD installer using your preferred mod manager and choose which patches you want to install. Most of them will autoselect depending on the mods active in your load order, but you should check them carefully anyway - some of the patches are designed for specific variants of the patched mods.
Requirements
JK's Blue Palace Terrace
FOMOD installer
