Luxury Beach Villa SE 1.1.1

Luxury Beach Villa
~by Render Reindeer

 

~***** Happy Holidays to everyone! Here's a special gift to all my fellow screen archers out there! *****~

Description:
This mod adds a large Luxury Beach Villa with custom furniture and art on a remote island paradise. It is mainly just a cool location for screenshotting.

 

I've always thought there are plenty of modern outfit mods in Skyrim, including a metric ton of bikinis, but not enough modern locations/houses to take pretty screenshots in. Since we only have a handful of them, I decided to make this house mod. The initial idea came up when I discovered that the "Water for ENB" mod has really pretty reflections, especially in beach/island locations such as Villa Studio SE by Daymarr. I just wanted to edit the building a bit for screenshots so I dabbled in CK to move some things around.

 

That's pretty much how I started, now about 2 and a half months later, the villa I ended up editing became something else entirely and I decided to try and release it for public use. Hopefully it looks as good as advertised and runs alright.

Contents:
 

The mod is effectively a massive luxury home inspired by modern aesthetics and designs.

It is an exterior only location (there are no interior cells) allowing for dynamic lighting & weather:

 

The mod does include some floating omni lights and up to 4 shadow casting lights (as per engine limit) for night time shots.
The mod is not exactly designed as a player home with chests and containers, etc. It is more oriented for screen archery, although there are some interactable elements.

 

There are 4 "areas" I want to highlight:

 

Section 1: The Backyard
The area around the outside perimeter of the villa which includes:
- Swimming Pool and Sunbathing Area
- Outdoor Bathroom
- Recessed Firepit
- Outdoor Patio with Roof
- Car Garage and Driveway
- Jacuzzi Deck
- Smaller Fireplace Deck
- Hot Springs 
- Outdoor Staircase to second and third floors
- The Boat

 

Section 2: The Ground Floor
The area when you enter the villa from any one of the entrances which includes:
- Kitchen
- Dining Room
- Living Room with Fireplace
- Bar Area
- Entertainment Room with TV
- Common Bathroom 1
- Stairwell to second floor

 

Section 3: The Second Floor
The area after the main stairwell or alternately reachable from the outdoor staircase, it includes:
- Bedroom One and Balcony
- Office Room
- Large Common Bathroom
- Bedroom Two and Balcony 
- Hallways and stairwell to the third floor

 

Section 4: The Third Floor
The area after the second stairwell or also reachable from the outdoor staircase, it includes:
- Bedroom Three and Private Bathroom
- Common Bathroom 2
- Gaming room with Pool table
- Small Western Balcony
- Large Southern Balcony
- Outdoor Roof Bar
- Small Eastern Balcony
- Raised Northern Balcony with Infinity Edge Pool

 

Simply put this mod contains most of the screenshot areas in one cell/island so it may cause some performance issues (I have not optimized anything yet and have not used object culling planes to improve performance so far)
The mod has also been navmeshed for followers and I have tested their movements across the three floors of the house, the surrounding property and some of the terrain. Please report any bugs experienced on pathing.

I highly recommend using ENB Lights for the campfire lights to show up properly and to try SAM (Screen Archer Menu) as it allows different sunlight angles for screenshotting in outdoor locations.

 

What else is included:
There are a few sunglasses dispersed around the house for screenshotting.

(Future areas/ideas):
Home Gym with equipment on second floor
Rooftop garden on third floor
Sauna house next to Hot Springs
Volleyball Court next to Swimming Pool Area
Some fancy cars in the garage plus a road
More accessory/outfits or interactable objects

Installation:

 

Version: 1.0 
Dependencies: Skyrim SE, Dawnguard, Dragonborn

Recommended: ENB Light , NiOPA Pose Adjustment, SAM (Screen Archery Menu) 

The download contains the following files and folders (SE):

 

Meshes
Textures
[RR] LuxuryBeachVilla.esp
ReadMe.txt

 

Use your preferred mod manager or alternatively, manual Installation:
Extract the listed files into your Skyrim data folder.

Location:

 

You can reach the island through a trap door found in Riverwood, to the right of the front entrance.
You can also just type "coc LuxuryBeachVilla" to teleport to the island.

 

 

Compatibilities:
 

Potential conflicts with VillaStudio SE and Timeless Suite 3.0
This mod may need to be placed below these two mods in your load order for the textures and props to appear correctly

 

Details:
- This mod will most likely overwrite most of the texture and mesh files from VillaStudio SE by YeYeBirde/Daymarr, as it was used as a base when making the CK file 
- This mod might overwrite some texture and mesh files from Timeless Suite 3.0 mostly the the furniture and clutter objects

Eventually, I plan to disassociate entirely from the two mods so there are no compatibility issues. For now, please contact me if you find any bugs or encounter problems.

Credits:
 

Special thanks to:
- Alter Native for giving permission to use Timeless Suite 3.0 furniture assets so long as it's not distributed on nexus due to DAZ licensing stipulations
- YeYeBirdie for the initial Beach Villa mod used as base and Daymarr for the CK file which was referenced for this mod to exist
- Ugraine for feedback and general advice
- Maxie for the creation of SAM (Screen Archer Menu) which assisted in troubleshooting various aspects of the mod including lighting and materials

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.
For any kind of permission please contact me first.

Many of the used assets are from the free downloadable section of (https://www.cgtrader.com/) and (https://sketchfab.com/) which are stock databases for 3D assets that I have converted to Skyrim. 
Some of the assets used, although free have a NonCommercial License so they must not be shared outside this mod.
Many of the custom assets are made by me specifically for this mod and must not be shared without permission
            
Various free meshes from:                     

https://www.cgtrader.com/

https://sketchfab.com/

Paintings, textures and general designs used from:

https://pinterest.com/

This is not a mod made for commercial gain or profit, but as a hobby and general interest. Please let me know if any other credits have been missed for me to add. 
You are welcome to donate to my patreon if you would like but it's not necessary. 
Please also mention any bugs or weird visual glitches as this is a 1.0 release.

 

Thanks for downloading and have fun screenshotting!

 

~ Render Reindeer