Most realisitc lighting mod?

[Kernel39]

In your opinion, what is the most realistic lighting mod for Skyrim, and could you link me to it's download?

[Guest]

Define realistic? Nobody can answer that, you're just going to get every man, woman and their dog telling you what their favoured mod is. 

 

If it's a purist setup you're looking for, ie less stylised or dramatic and close to vanilla, then Relighting Skyrim and ELE Lite are a pretty good bet. With the latter don't be put off by 'for ENB' if you don't run one, you can still use it. 

 

[Mister X]

I'd say there must be a reason why RLO is within the Top 50 most endorsed mod, isn't it?

Normally those are the two big mods: ELFX for a more cinematic/dramatic lighting and RLO for realism.

[Kernel39]

The lighting mod I have installed now (I don't know which one it is) has bugs with flickering textures.

 

Which is why I am looking for a superior replacement.

[noodles1976]

Depends on what kind of lighting effect you are looking for...and if you're using an ENB preset.

 

I personally like ELFX. I've seen people refer to this as a 'fantasy' lighting mod, but it's always looked more 'realistic' to me. You have to be aware of if any ENB preset you use is compatible with it, as interior spaces may be too bright or too dark if it's not made to work with it. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/27043/?

 

I used RLO for a while, it looks nice and is fairly performance friendly. ENB compatibility is the biggest thing to watch out for. Basically, it takes vanilla lighting and turns the effects up to 11...some very nice visual results. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/30450/?

 

As mentioned above, ELE is a great mod as well...does not need an ENB to work, but can help enhance an ENB preset further.  http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/59733/?

 

A good overall mod to use is RCRN AE. It does everything...weather, interiors, exteriors, and adds dynamic lighting. So, light through windows at night will be dimmer than during the day. Since it's an all in one package, it conflicts with all other weather & lighting mods. Sometimes these conflicts are a visual benefit, for example combining RCRN & ELFX is a good thing. I've used this mod for years and never had any complaints other than nearly all current ENB presets don't look good with it 'out of the box'. There's really only one preset I've seen with RCRN compatibility, and that's Vividian. For all the rest of them, if you're willing to make edits to the ENB, this is by far the best option to get a simple 'all in one' mod. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/1875/?

 

Those are the four biggest ones that I can think of...and probably the most popular.

 

My current install is ELFX, Organic ENB & Purity...take a look at some of my recent shots in the 'Beauty of Skyrim' thread here on LL to get an idea of what it will look like.

 

N~dles

[spoonsinger]

Currently using ELFX with Vividian ENB, (comfy warm interior option). Interiors are quite nicely lit when there is light source, and you basically need a torch, (not necessarily stuck up your bum), when there isn't a light source. Externals are a bit bright but I always put that down to the big irradiating galaxy overhead - hence the mutations/tentacles and magic. (quite dark in a thunderstorm though).

[NNS10]

Define realistic? Nobody can answer that, you're just going to get every man, woman and their dog telling you what their favoured mod is. 

 

If it's a purist setup you're looking for, ie less stylised or dramatic and close to vanilla, then Relighting Skyrim and ELE Lite are a pretty good bet. With the latter don't be put off by 'for ENB' if you don't run one, you can still use it. 

 

I was considering replacing Relighting Skyrim with ELE Lite, but it seems ELE Lite doesn't do exterior lights.

 

What do people do about that?

[noodles1976]

 

Define realistic? Nobody can answer that, you're just going to get every man, woman and their dog telling you what their favoured mod is. 

 

If it's a purist setup you're looking for, ie less stylised or dramatic and close to vanilla, then Relighting Skyrim and ELE Lite are a pretty good bet. With the latter don't be put off by 'for ENB' if you don't run one, you can still use it. 

 

I was considering replacing Relighting Skyrim with ELE Lite, but it seems ELE Lite doesn't do exterior lights.

 

What do people do about that?

 

 

ELE - lite covers everything, I do believe. 

 

quote from the ELE lite modpage:

 

'In the full ELE - Suite I split each lighting change into their own module. With this ELE - Lite Suite there are two options, either "only Interior Lighting" or "Default ELE - Lite".

The default version of ELE - Lite has the Interior Lighting module combined with these ELE modules;

 

 

Spell and Torch Lighting - Changes the lights of the Torch and most spells lights equipped in the hand

ELE Plugin - RS Light Color - Alters the Parent Light Bulbs colors to "ELE - standardized" colors

ELE Plugin - FX Emittance - Alters the FX Weathers RGB values used to make Light Bulbs and FX effects change it's color based on the time of day.

 

The additional modules are only contained in the main module, ELE_S_Lite.esp.'

 

You could consider using Relighting Skyrim & ELE lite together...just use the ELE Interiors Only plugin, loaded after Relighting Skyrim.

 

N~dles

[shadowlord445]

I like Natural Lighting and Atmospherics  ENB with ELFX

[NNS10]

 

 

Define realistic? Nobody can answer that, you're just going to get every man, woman and their dog telling you what their favoured mod is. 

 

If it's a purist setup you're looking for, ie less stylised or dramatic and close to vanilla, then Relighting Skyrim and ELE Lite are a pretty good bet. With the latter don't be put off by 'for ENB' if you don't run one, you can still use it. 

 

I was considering replacing Relighting Skyrim with ELE Lite, but it seems ELE Lite doesn't do exterior lights.

 

What do people do about that?

 

 

ELE - lite covers everything, I do believe. 

 

quote from the ELE lite modpage:

 

'In the full ELE - Suite I split each lighting change into their own module. With this ELE - Lite Suite there are two options, either "only Interior Lighting" or "Default ELE - Lite".

The default version of ELE - Lite has the Interior Lighting module combined with these ELE modules;

 

 

Spell and Torch Lighting - Changes the lights of the Torch and most spells lights equipped in the hand

ELE Plugin - RS Light Color - Alters the Parent Light Bulbs colors to "ELE - standardized" colors

ELE Plugin - FX Emittance - Alters the FX Weathers RGB values used to make Light Bulbs and FX effects change it's color based on the time of day.

 

The additional modules are only contained in the main module, ELE_S_Lite.esp.'

 

You could consider using Relighting Skyrim & ELE lite together...just use the ELE Interiors Only plugin, loaded after Relighting Skyrim.

 

N~dles

 

 

It clearly says Interior Lighting. I assume that to mean it doesn't do exterior lights.

 

[noodles1976]

 

 

*snip*

 

It clearly says Interior Lighting. I assume that to mean it doesn't do exterior lights.

 

 

 

Quote from the ENB release page, just for a second source to help clarify: http://enbdev.com/enbseries/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1930

 

"Mod features:

 

Exterior Lighting/Weathers

- Weathers have been given more natural colors and they are also not dependant on imagespaces in the same way as vanilla was.

- The weathers have been configured for a better Day/Night detection during Day, Sunset, Night and Sunrise. Middays uses 0% nighttime settings, Midnights uses 0% daytime settings, Sunrises uses ~70% daytime settings and Sunsets uses ~65% of daytime settings.

- *Implemented Mindflux's snow FX additions directly into my snow weathers changes.

- It also fixes some visual bugs with enb activated such as dark horizons during stormy, rainy, foggy and other dark weathers.

- The sunlight have been balanced throughout every weather so there won't be a Storm weather that has brighter sunlight than a Clear weather.

- The shadows have been changed to enhance the visual appearance of the SkyLighting effect by using Boris color assignment in his enbweathersample.esp as a template.

- Removed as much sky banding as I could, but this will change depending on how you set your sky settings to. Darker sky = possibility of increased sky banding.

- Created a new sun.dds texture to go along the new weather changes and to enhance the Sun Rays feature available in ENBSeries. It will have no grain/noise, no banding and will not overexpose most of the sky as the vanilla sun.dds does."

 

I hope that clears it up for you...I was a bit confused by how it was worded on the Nexus, but after I read this at Boris' website, everything became much clearer.

 

Good luck!

 

N~dles

[NNS10]

 

 

 

*snip*

 

It clearly says Interior Lighting. I assume that to mean it doesn't do exterior lights.

 

 

 

Quote from the ENB release page, just for a second source to help clarify: http://enbdev.com/enbseries/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1930

 

"Mod features:

 

Exterior Lighting/Weathers

- Weathers have been given more natural colors and they are also not dependant on imagespaces in the same way as vanilla was.

- The weathers have been configured for a better Day/Night detection during Day, Sunset, Night and Sunrise. Middays uses 0% nighttime settings, Midnights uses 0% daytime settings, Sunrises uses ~70% daytime settings and Sunsets uses ~65% of daytime settings.

- *Implemented Mindflux's snow FX additions directly into my snow weathers changes.

- It also fixes some visual bugs with enb activated such as dark horizons during stormy, rainy, foggy and other dark weathers.

- The sunlight have been balanced throughout every weather so there won't be a Storm weather that has brighter sunlight than a Clear weather.

- The shadows have been changed to enhance the visual appearance of the SkyLighting effect by using Boris color assignment in his enbweathersample.esp as a template.

- Removed as much sky banding as I could, but this will change depending on how you set your sky settings to. Darker sky = possibility of increased sky banding.

- Created a new sun.dds texture to go along the new weather changes and to enhance the Sun Rays feature available in ENBSeries. It will have no grain/noise, no banding and will not overexpose most of the sky as the vanilla sun.dds does."

 

I hope that clears it up for you...I was a bit confused by how it was worded on the Nexus, but after I read this at Boris' website, everything became much clearer.

 

Good luck!

 

N~dles

 

 

That's not part of ELE Light. Also, it's not really a lighting source mod like the interior lighting mod, which adds real light sources to each torch, candle, etc.

 

That looks to be a weather mod like Pure Weather. It's only lighting in the sense that it changes the color of lights. It doesn't affect light sources.