pack Weather and Lighting (by Smile44)

[Smile44]

Why did you choose not to use elfx exteriors? Did real vision enb say not to?

Pretty much, works well as is so don't need it.

 

:)

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Well it makes no sense why imagespaces should affect how certain textures are displayed.

The only info contained in the imagespaces are HDR values for the vanilla bloom, adaptation etc.

Along with saturation, brightness contrast, image tint, and then the ingame Depth of Field.

 

Stuff like texture poping, is related to the game engine itself, and the properties of meshes.

You can look up at distant decal fix if you want to know more about that. The description page contains an ini tweak you can use if you want to reduce your performance, and properly also make the game more unstable.

 

Since ENB depends on these mesh settings, then you can experience that certain meshes behave differently with ENB on and off. If you think you found one that is entirely wonky, then try to report it over at the ENB forums under mindflux´s thread. He is responsible for the Skyrim Particle Patch etc. and most likely would know what is wrong with the individual meshes.

Fair enough I don't precisely know what the mod does (well I know a bit more now)I just noted this after installing them following another weather pack type suggestion. But as I have said I felt it had more to do with the ENB settings added with this pack which had been tweaked but were obviously not too happy on my machine and I have not looked into adjusting those ENB settings yet.

 

So Imagespace is not the culprit which narrows the possibilities down a tad.

 

:)

[prod80]

Just replied on your post... sorry didn't monitor that forum since it wasn't used by anyone since release of the mod :D

[z929669]

I suggest renaming this Pack to something more specific ... for example:

 

"Goodness Weather & Lighting"

 

... but use whatever you ant

 

"Weather" is too general ;)

 

it looks good!

[prod80]

Just tweaked a bit with the lighting on rain as testing... though this is with ENB, it looks pretty neat IMO

 

[Smile44]

Now called Smile's Weather and Lighting Pack. Hurrah!!

 

:)

[z929669]

I moved it to "Smile's Weather and Lighting", since "Pack" is redundant with the Pack namespace ;)

 

all previous redirect to the new page

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@prod80

A bit blurry, but the lighting is very accurate

[Smile44]

Sigh, there's no pleasing some people. :D

 

All good.

 

:)

[DoYouEvenModBro]

S.T.E.P. recommends Skyrim Performance Plus, including the SnowFall option. Depending on your load order, this could overwrite Quality SnowFlakes. You might want to recommend that if you are using Quality SnowFlakes, you should disable the Snowfall part of Skyrim Performance Plus.

[Smile44]

Could be an idea. It isn't CORE so is highly optional.

 

:)

 

EDIT: This is now done on the page.

[z929669]

Quality Snowflakes is pretty unnecessary, IMO, and it costs performance-wise.

[Smile44]

I've not noticed it having much affect on performance, during slow snowfall you can see the flake structure from time to time as they get close, I really like that feature. Of course I don't know if the same effect is there without QS if it is then clearly there would be no point to it. I will need to look but if it isn't then I definitely prefer to keep it.

 

:)

[DoYouEvenModBro]

I've not noticed it having much affect on performance, during slow snowfall you can see the flake structure from time to time as they get close, I really like that feature. Of course I don't know if the same effect is there without QS if it is then clearly there would be no point to it. I will need to look but if it isn't then I definitely prefer to keep it.

 

:)

I haven't noticed much of a performance decrease either. I used to use this when it was included in S.T.E.P., before we started using Skyrim Performance Plus. Smile, which version of Quality Snowflakes are you using? HD, Alt, or Luminous? 

[Smile44]

Oh good point, I have stuck with the SR recommendation Alternative - but I guess it's up to personal preference.

 

:)

[DoYouEvenModBro]

Smile, are you using ENB Rain? I usually disable it since it makes the drops look huge and weird. 

 

 

 

Also, does Expanded Snow Systems for CoT require DawnGuard? I don't have DawnGuard but I'm not getting any missing master errors with it installed...

[Smile44]

Nope I'm using the rain from CoT Weather Patch, as for Dawnguard it is not required.

 

:)