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Mod Release - Karlov Manor Version 4.0 (LE/SE)

Alter Native

Entry posted by Alter Native in Karlov Manor

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Short Description

This mod adds a medium sized vampire castle to Skyrim and various screenshot locations (accessible via the carriage in the court or the location access room). It is located in north of Solitude. 
Even though normal house usage and gameplay is possible, it is intended for taking screenshots. 

 

Version:              4.0 LE/SE
Release date:     19.03.22 V4.0
Author:              Alter Native
Language:         English
Dependencies:  Skyrim LE/SE, Dawnguard, Dragonborn

 

 

 

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Long Description

Are you a millennia old vampire and tired of living in Harkon's dreg heap of a castle? Are you looking for class and luxury and a place to live your devious, bloody vampire fantasies? 
Fortunately Baroness Nora Karlov had to leave Skyrim on urgent business of the realm, and she was kind enough to grant you living rights in Karlov Manor during her absent. 

This mod adds a medium size manor to Skyrim. It is kept in a dark fantasy baroque style fitting for a vampire character or similar. The castle is located west of Solitude lighthouse, or accessible via the console ("coc ACCastleEx").
The manor features a large living area with various rooms. In an underground area you'll find thrall dungeons for your bloody needs, as well as crafting areas. Furthermore, this mod adds a gothic church/chapel dedicated to Molag Bal. Besides the mod adds various locations I used in my story blog "Of Blood and Pleasure" accessible via the main hall and a secret area. 
 

In more detail the main manor features:

  • An entrance hall
  • Kitchen
  • Dining/ballroom
  • Master bedroom including bathroom
  • Trophy & weapon room
  • Church dedicated to Molag Bal 
  • Various guest rooms
  • Gallery
  • Crypt 
  • Basement storage area
  • Crafting areas
  • Prison
  • Attic
  • Atelier
  • A courtyard (Exterior)

 

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Furthermore this mod features several screenshot locations, accessible via the carriage in the court or the location access room:

 

High Rock

  • Villa Adraa, a large, Renaissance style villa in it's own worldspace
  • Villa Valek, a medium sized abandoned villa.
  • A Noble house located in High Rock
  • Sanctuary, a destroyed church in the High Rock Worldspace
  • Ruined Cathedral
  • Fallen Shrine & Courtyard

 

Hammerfell

  • A new Hammerfell worldspace
  • City of Al Mahan
  • Palace of Al Mahan with private Quarters
  • Palace Garden and Bath
  • Temple of Salomne
  • Bathhouse
  • Hidden Altar
  • Vampire Church

 

Imperial City

  • Dusk Cathedral
  • Necropolis
  • Nightmare
  • Underground Vampire Club
  • Shrine

 

Noir Estate

  • Grand Ballroom
  • Royal Hallway
  • Somber Boudoirs
  • Abandoned Saloon

 

Miscellaneous

  • An Anor Londor version of the Manor, with changed lightning compared to the main manor with several different and new rooms
  • 'Blood Room'
  • The old, more basilica like version of the church of the main manor
  • Various other smaller locations I built for scenes in my stories 

 

 

Trailer (Version 3.0)

 

 

 

 

 

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Permission

This plugin must not be shared commercially.
The rights to the game, all official plugins, additional files and the Creation Kit are property of Bethesda Softworks.
Used external resources (listed below) in form of textures, models, sound effects etc. are property of the original authors.
Please do not distribute or offer this mod for download without my permission to do so. Any upload to the Steam Workshop, Bethesda.net, ModDrop and any form of console ports are prohibited.

Many of the used assets are from a store called "DAZ3d" (https://www.daz3d.com/shop/) which is effectively a stock database for 3D assets. Those can not be uses anywhere without acquiring the respective object and license from the store. (List below)
For any kind of permission please contact me first.


 

 


Credits

Special thanks to:
Collygon for creating custom models and textures for this mod, as well as creating animations
Antistar for Clockwork castle and making it a modders resource, which - in a way - kicked this project off as I had a solid asset base to start from (mostly textures in the style I liked).
Collygon for alpha testing.
Marmotte for beta testing and valuable feedback on lightning and general advice.
Tirloque for beta testing.
devious-Drunna for beta testing
Lord Inquisitor for beta testing
Crw0 for beta testing
Tinaa Slobodnik for beta testing

kozakowy for beta testing

Myst for beta testing
2xGHoSTx2 for beta testing the SE version
Artsick for improving various meshes and general advice.

Nostromo79 for the candelabras and candles used in this mod.
Everybody who provided feedback and bug reports after release
All readers of my Skyrim Story Blog "Of Blood and Pleasure".

 

Everyone who created modders resources and allows the use of their assets.

You'll find a detailed list of those in the readme, as well as further credits, installation instructions and details about incompatibilities and bugs (No bugs and incompatibilities known as of yet).

 

 

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Thanks for reading and downloading, have fun!

- Alter Native

 

 

 

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Changelog

 

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Version 4.0:


Hammerfell Section
- Added Hidden Altar
- Added Vampire Church

 

High Rock Section
- Added a Ruined Cathedral
- Added a ruined Courtyard
- Added Melancholy

 

Added an Imperial City Section
- Added Dusk Cathedral
- Added Dusk Cathedral Tower
- Added Necropolis
- Added Nightmare
- Added Underground Vampire Club
- Added Dressing Room & Theatre
- Added Shrine

 

Added a Noir Estate Section
- Added Grand Ballroom
- Added Royal Hallway
- Added Somber Boudoirs
- Added Abandoned Saloon


Karlov Manor
- Added a Crimson Wing
- Added an Atelier
- Added Hannah's Room

 

Bugfixes and smaller changes
- New wall textures in the main Karlov Manor
- Various new clutter added throughout the Manor and other rooms
- All textures now have mipmaps
- Various smaller bugfixes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Version 3.01:

- Changed the Pool in the High Rock Sanctuary to be better usable for screenshots
- Fixed a broken mesh in the main manor potentially causing CTD
- Fixed two columns in the master bedroom not showing up correctly
- Fixed the library framerate by making the shadow caster an optional enable


SE only:
- Fixed broken LODs in the High Rock Worldspace at the Sanctuary
- Fixed the bedframe not appearing on SE

 

 

Version 3.0:
Hammerfell Section
- Added City of Al Mahan
- Added Temple of Salomne
- Added Bathhouse
- Added Palace of Al Mahan with private Quarters
- Added Palace Garden and Bath
- Added a separate palace room
- Added Destroyed Temple
- Added 'Hammerfell Studio' screenshot location
- The Hallway and private quarters have interior versions in case the shadow casters are not working for you

 

High Rock Section

- Added a Sanctuary to the High Rock Worldspace
- Reworked the Noble House

 

Karlov Manor

- Added a new dressing room including a storage area for gameplay
- Added an attic 
- Added a new room to the library
- Reworked the Bathroom
- Added a new 'Blood Room' accessible via the location access room

 

Anor Londor
- Added a new dining room
- Added a sunny version of the ballroom


Bugfixes and smaller changes

- The weapon plagues are now usable
- Cleaned all used assets to reduce disk space usage
- Added gameplay functionality to the church of Bal, you are now able to get 'Blood of the Ancients' by praying at the Molag Bal shrine
- Added a cleaned up version of the dark room in the first floor
- Removed the night version of the library (it's now part of the main library)
- Expanded the travel system
- Fixed the clipping leaves on SE in the Courtyard
- Fixed the Bathroom sink
- Fixed the not activatable gargoyles in the Guest Bedroom
- Fixed various clipping errors
- Fixed various chairs and furniture to be usuable now
- Fixed various floating objects
- Fixed smaller navmesh issues
- Fixed various .nif issues
 

 

Version 2.0:

 

- Reworked the Church of Karlov Manor
  -> The old version of the Manor was a very popular screenshot location so an unaltered copy of it was kept and is still accessible via the location selection menu
- Reworked parts of the Palor
- Reworked parts of the Master Bedroom, especially the oriel
- Reworked parts of the Dining/Ball Room 
- Reworked 'Valentina's room' 
- Reworked the 'Golden Room' and it's tileset completely, including furniture
- Reworked parts of the entrance hall
- Reworked the exterior area of Karlov Manor
- Added a Gallery to the main building
- Added many new furniture pieces throughout the castle
- Added several screenshot locations with switchable furniture
- Added a carriage to the court for fast travel
- Reworked the "Location access room" with different areas for the different locations

- Several doors to various rooms changed
- Removed the Gargoyle Balcony from the main building, it is only accessible via the location selection area.
- Reduced overhaul red/orangeness of the light
- Further optimization in terms of the amount of candles used which should increase the draw distance

- Fixed Nora Portrait as Door in the story location area
- Fixed a missing texture in the bathroom mirror
- Fixed the collisions of several furniture pieces
- Fixed a room bound problem in the church
- Fixed several glitches in the exterior area
- Fixed the visual bugs at the entrance to Amelia's room

 

 

 

 

 

Version 1.0.1:
Made Karlov Manor it's own location 
Redone/Improved textures for the golden room, Amelie's room and Valentina's room
Redone textures for the knight armors in the west wing
Redone/changed textures for the golden mirrors
Various Bookcases are now containers and can be used for storing items
The Molag Bal seats in the church are now useable. Watch your neck!
Reduced the total number of candles a bit 
Tied many candles to the light enable/disable system in order to increase the draw distance of the candle flames in the main hall
Adjusted Erics death year to no longer be in the future
Various room bound optimizations

Fixed an issue where some god rays would appear green to some players
Fixed a bugged texture of a knight armor that could cause a crash
Fixed a missing blood texture that was used by some of the blood glasses
Fixed a texture bug of an unsupported L8 format 
Fixed a room bound problem regarding the entrance of Amelie's room
Fixed the collision for the cellar load door.
Fixed a deleted navmesh in the exterior cell
Removed identical to master records
Various smaller cosmetic bugfixes

 

 

 

 

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Alter Native

Alter Native

Posted

On 8/15/2022 at 9:14 PM, assassin394 said:

I can't find it. Is there a screenshot of the location?

 

It's explained in the mod description.

Make sure you have the .esp activated. 

assassin394

assassin394

Posted

4 hours ago, Alter Native said:

 

It's explained in the mod description.

Make sure you have the .esp activated. 

There is no new location in the north west of Solitude. I can't find it.

OddPillow4

OddPillow4

Posted

5 hours ago, assassin394 said:

There is no new location in the north west of Solitude. I can't find it.

open console and type tmm1, you will see it on the map, or type coc acmanorkarlov

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Alice2107

Alice2107

Posted

Thanks for your work, it's amazing. Update of my most favorite mod)))))) can I ask you in future updates to return the location 'Amelie's room'. She was small but very cozy, I adored her. Thanks to

Alter Native

Alter Native

Posted

3 hours ago, Alice2107 said:

Thanks for your work, it's amazing. Update of my most favorite mod)))))) can I ask you in future updates to return the location 'Amelie's room'. She was small but very cozy, I adored her. Thanks to

 

You can still access it via the game console.

Type "help Amelie" and you should be given a location name that you can teleport to via "coc [Name]" with [Name] being the ID given in the console

Alice2107

Alice2107

Posted

5 hours ago, Alter Native said:

 

You can still access it via the game console.

Type "help Amelie" and you should be given a location name that you can teleport to via "coc [Name]" with [Name] being the ID given in the console

Ok thanks, I'll try it :)

byowag

byowag

Posted

I can't believe this has been around as long as it has and I'm just now stumbling across it.  FANTASTIC on so many levels.  This is quickly becoming my go to location for screenshots.

philyb

philyb

Posted

I love the Hammerfell stuff.

Lucifeller

Lucifeller

Posted

Would it be possible to ESMify it? it contains a ton of references.

Alter Native

Alter Native

Posted

7 hours ago, Lucifeller said:

Would it be possible to ESMify it? it contains a ton of references.

 

ESLify no, as far as I understand it, this system only works for very small mods, such as armor mods.

ESMify yeah sure, but you have to do it yourself using Wyre Bash for example

 

Deroll

Deroll

Posted

Made an account just to download this mod, because it's amazing. Thank you! I'm yet to find the trophy and crafting room, the manor is immense.

However, biting the cattle of this mod will make my character unable to move for some reason, forcing me reload.

Alice2107

Alice2107

Posted

Good afternoon, is it possible to add to all beds the ability to sleep on them? many without being able to sleep in them. I WILL BE VERY GRATEFUL!

Alter Native

Alter Native

Posted

12 minutes ago, Alice2107 said:

Good afternoon, is it possible to add to all beds the ability to sleep on them? many without being able to sleep in them. I WILL BE VERY GRATEFUL!

 

It's possible yes and I'll try to include it for the next verison, but the next update will be a while off.

hamletsdead

hamletsdead

Posted (edited)

18 hours ago, Alter Native said:

 

It's possible yes and I'll try to include it for the next verison, but the next update will be a while off.

I second (or third, or fourth) that request. I can sleep in them using Simply Rest Anywhere, but it would be way better if a mod like Go To Bed recognized the meshes and my toon could do the "Hey this is me getting into bed and sleeping" animation. And get the well rested bonus for sleeping. Also be nice if followers would use the beds automatically. 

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Alice2107

Alice2107

Posted

Good evening, I noticed a problem, the characters do not sit correctly on red chairs (sideways)

scorrp10

scorrp10

Posted

There is a fixed mesh file for that chair posted on page 7.     

Alice2107

Alice2107

Posted

10 hours ago, scorrp10 said:

There is a fixed mesh file for that chair posted on page 7.     

Thanks a lot, I'll take a look now.

brendja

brendja

Posted

hi very beautiful playerhome i am a non vampire . i missing a cooking pot msaybe a idea for cleaning up the kitchen area. its all so grey and dark . but the rest of the home good and beautifull. one thing in the cellar there are graves where you can not interact with. 

in'n'out

in'n'out

Posted

Are you planning on adding Acoustic Space to both interior and exterior cells?

Alter Native

Alter Native

Posted

1 hour ago, in'n'out said:

Are you planning on adding Acoustic Space to both interior and exterior cells?

 

No, this is primarily a screenshot location. 

I think only the church of the main manor has its own acoustic space 

in'n'out

in'n'out

Posted (edited)

22 hours ago, Alter Native said:

 

No, this is primarily a screenshot location. 

I think only the church of the main manor has its own acoustic space 

I don't know. I enjoy exploring it. The locations are all connected together. That makes them feel like a whole new world space or even a DLC, you know. But the lack of ambient sounds makes the exploration less immersive. That's for sure. I already added some charming mysterious dark music to some of the interior cells, and it really makes the difference. Not sure about the exteriors, I don't want any music there. And I lack the knowledge as to how to add the ambient atmosphere sounds. That sucks.

 

Anyways, are you still working on this mod? I also noticed some of the doors are just nothing, they do not lead anywhere. I guess Villa Adraa has a few.

You know, your mod is sickening! It's awesome. The amount of beautiful details and the whole atmosphere is mind blowing. The lighting is probably my favorite thing about your mod. Knowing that you still have more things to add would be great!

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Alter Native

Alter Native

Posted

34 minutes ago, in'n'out said:

I don't know. I enjoy exploring it. The locations are all connected together. That makes them feel like a whole new world space or even a DLC, you know. But the lack of ambient sounds makes the exploration less immersive. That's for sure. I already added some charming mysterious dark music to some of the interior cells, and it really makes the difference. Not sure about the exteriors, I don't want any music there. And I lack the knowledge as to how to add the ambient atmosphere sounds. That sucks.

 

I understand, but as said before I consider this a screenshot location and usually play with my Skyrim sound off during screenshoting. I may add some more sounds in the main manor as this is the only part I consider viable for gameplay. 

 

34 minutes ago, in'n'out said:

Anyways, are you still working on this mod? I also noticed some of the doors are just nothing, they do not lead anywhere. I guess Villa Adraa has a few.

You know, your mod is sickening! It's awesome. The amount of beautiful details and the whole atmosphere is mind blowing. The lighting is probably my favorite thing about your mod. Knowing that you still have more things to add would be great!

 

Yes I am still working on this mod though there won't be an update in the near future.

Most of these doors are just there to let the location appear bigger than it actually is and it's unlikely that I'll add new rooms to them.

 

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in'n'out

in'n'out

Posted

1 hour ago, Alter Native said:

Most of these doors are just there to let the location appear bigger than it actually is ...

 

LOL

in'n'out

in'n'out

Posted

Think it's possible to add some specularity or gloss to this green hedge? Would look better. It is static it seems.

 

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Alter Native

Alter Native

Posted

5 hours ago, in'n'out said:

Think it's possible to add some specularity or gloss to this green hedge? Would look better. It is static it seems.

 

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Yes, I'll keep that in mind for the next update, thanks. 

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