PERMISSIONS: NO REUPLOADS... ANYWHERE... PERIOD! No matter what Nexusmods sets the permissions to when they do an upgrade and screw up!



For the Skyrim SE port: Feuerkl1nge has my permission for the conversion and upload (but strictly on Nexusmods)



Intro

This is not a Parallax mod

Features

Better look and feel

Better shading due to better geometry

Overlapping road meshes should look slightly better

Textures

does not contain textures

Landscape Texture Pack WIP (completely different pattern)

Immersive Roads (semi-compatible, but has some serious seaming issues)

Compatibility / Load order

F.A.Q

Does it include bridges?

Static Mesh Improvement Mod covers bridges as you'll be using SMIM anyways.

Do you plan to cover roads in towns as well?

That's quite unlikely! Honestly I haven't even looked into those. It may not even be possible if they are treated as landscape. The main reason, however, is the amount of different patterns and small cobble stones would require even more polygons than the main roads.

Is the ESP really necessary? These are just meshes

Yes, it is! Base and dwemer roads would be OK, but everything else would have the wrong textures. On top of that I'm not using the standard directory structure.

Performance

Known issues / bugs

Installation

Credits

Real Roads for Skyrim aims to bring life to the dull roads by using 3D meshes. It covers all road meshes in all variations inc. the shiny Dwemer roads.! For more information please have a look at Matthiaswagg 's review . You can find a comparison (Vanilla/Parallax/Real Roads) in the images from users section provided by hdshatter Videos by hodilton , BDMods and KnightStreak featuring version 1.xPlease note that this mod! For a list of of compatible textures see below (not every listed texture is fully compatible):Not compatible withIf you have any mod (ESP) that adds Parallax mapping to roads, load Real Roads after (i.e. place it below) whatever Parallax mod you have . If it consists of only loose files (NIFs) feel free to ignore (or delete) them.Correct load order:-- Random mod.esp-- Another random mod.esp-- Some Parallax mod that might tamper with roads.esp (keep it above my mod or uncheck it if it only affects roads)-- Real Roads.esp-- Other random mods.espIf you are unsure, just place it at the bottom of the load order.I haven't done any extensive tests, but I see no real decrease in performance. Most users reported no decrease in framerate, a few others had a minor impact.Blood splatters have been reported to look "wonky". [Looking into it later]Extract into your Skyrim/Data folder or use the NMMA big thank you to Percevan for testing