Malakar Posted June 25, 2015 Posted June 25, 2015 Hey everybody,Is anyone of you using one of those enbs?VandB ENB NatureCrystal ENBSugarSweet - Splenda ENB Mellon-Vana Serenity ENB _ ExtendedFX Epic Natural ENB If yes,could you post one or two screenshots please?ENB authors always seem to post overly artistic screenshots but I wanna see the ENB in normal action,like if you're just standing around doing nothing in whiterun or something.I can't decide which one of those I should use,well I installed every one of them but they didn't look anything like in the screenshots.Then i took a break and now im having one of those enbs installed and I like it but I dunno which one of those it is...
Anatriax Posted June 25, 2015 Posted June 25, 2015 Check out Seasons of Skyrim (Screenshot posted in my guide)
Malakar Posted June 25, 2015 Author Posted June 25, 2015 I was using it for a really long time and want something different - plus it has some nasty mouse lag even though im constantly at 40+ fps with it.See my screenshots, most of them were made using Seasons of Skyrim
spoonsinger Posted June 25, 2015 Posted June 25, 2015 What are you looking for? There are two different environments in Skyrim. Interior & Exterior. I think, (and I am fairly willing to be contradicted), there is no ENB setup which caters to both in a consistent manner. I quite like Vividian ENB, because the interiors are quite nice, and you can get rid of quite a few COT mods for the exteriors, because they are built into one of it's esp's. Do I like how the exteriors look. No. However I can live with that, because it's just about the dungeon delving for me. This might not be the case for someone else. Edit :- Actually you will also need to know what texture packs they are using. Some look rubbish on some ENB's, some look great. Skyrim modding is like Sisyphus rolling the rock up the hill. (ENB addition, doubly so).
Malakar Posted June 25, 2015 Author Posted June 25, 2015 Well I found out what ENB im using.Im so blind...there's Opeth_Weather.esp and so on in my load order so that means im using Opethfeldt ENB.There are ENBs that can make Day,Night AND interiors look good.They do it with the help of CoT and ELFX and so on.Seasons of Skyrim for example looks great everywhere imo.Opethfeldt ENB looks great as well and I'm not using any weather mods except for the enbs own one.Example:Day Shot: Night Shot: It's just a shame it's using enb version 0.236 because I REALLY like the fancy water effects that newer enb versions offer The day looks good and is vibrant,the night is dark and interiors are dark as well.In terms of priorityDay>Night>Interior (bright interior is often times easily fixed by using Dark Dungeons for ENB or ELFX)
vram1974 Posted June 25, 2015 Posted June 25, 2015 I don't have any of those ENBs but I recommend Far Off Nirn: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/images/539322/?
Malakar Posted June 25, 2015 Author Posted June 25, 2015 I don't have any of those ENBs but I recommend Far Off Nirn: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/images/539322/? The screenshots you posted...http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/57189/? / http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/56548/?is this the ENB you mean?If yes, the screenshots you posted don't look like the official enb screenshots. Just wanna make sure.It might just be the weather. And thats the thing with ENBs...some weather types make them look horrible. The screenshots you posted for example, I don't like the look of it.It somehow looks too vanilla.
vram1974 Posted June 25, 2015 Posted June 25, 2015 No I'm using the same mods as the author recommended. The screenshots look different because mine are at night and the ones on the Nexus file site are during the day. These are mine during the day: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/images/528638/? http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/images/537527/? I doubt my screenshots look "vanilla" I just have a shitty rig (I'm running in 1360x768 mode). I would imagine a person with a nice machine could make Far Off Nirn really pop. Use Far Off Nirn with Snapdragon's ENB preeffectspass.fx for some really nice eye candy
Malakar Posted June 25, 2015 Author Posted June 25, 2015 No I'm using the same mods as the author recommended. The screenshots look different because mine are at night and the ones on the Nexus file site are during the day. These are mine during the day: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/images/528638/? http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/images/537527/? I doubt my screenshots look "vanilla" I just have a shitty rig (I'm running in 1360x768 mode). I would imagine a person with a nice machine could make Far Off Nirn really pop. Use Far Off Nirn with Snapdragon's ENB preeffectspass.fx for some really nice eye candy Well I'll give both the normal and the cgi version a try.Thanks for recommending the enb. I dunno but something about your night screenshots screams 'vanilla' to me...maybe I don't know how bad vanilla looks anymore...hehe What exactly does the preeffectspass.fx you mentioned do?
vram1974 Posted June 25, 2015 Posted June 25, 2015 It creates a lens effect bokeh like a real camera's depth of field: Note that the mod author has a darker nights version on his website and the skin tint isn't as ghost white (http://faroffmods.blogspot.ca/) He also has the recommended mods that complement his setup. Personally I like the overlit and brightness of his Nexus version.
spoonsinger Posted June 25, 2015 Posted June 25, 2015 Right!!!. In game shots, using Vividian ENB, (which wasn't in the list but should be a nice real life comparison to other shots made from other ENB's posted). Note I suspect images are at 1050(*) rather than 1080 which I'm running at, (blame the picture service). Also you will have to take the rough with the smooth. Like I said 'take what you want from the images but within reason'. (*) Actually they seem really somewhat smaller. Umm. Alternate Start Cell Ivarstead Inn Night Ivarstead River Bridge Foggy Ivarstead River Bridge Night Ivarstead River Bridge Day Dodgy Action Shot Dodgy Static Shot, (Ivarstead Day) cliche Bleak Falls Barrow Shot Bleak Falls corridor towards some light Bleak Falls corridor more towards some light Bleak Falls Cave Just before the droppy downy bit towards the end of the first section Dragon Bridge In the Rain Breezehome Whiterun Gate Uphill Shot. Whiterun Market Place Shot, (Weird patron girl sitting on well for some reason - can't say I've ever seen her do that before - Nice lootified shoes though). Obligatary Unsuitable Boots In Dungeon Shot
vram1974 Posted June 25, 2015 Posted June 25, 2015 Nice screenshots spoonsinger! Hey, I noticed you mentioned Looification. I ran the patch last night and played for a few minutes but not long enough to find any lootified items. I was wondering if I could run by what I did and see if sounds right? 1. Loaded all my mods in TES5Edit to create merged patch 2. Deleted leveled list items and created bashed patch for leveled list in Wrye Bash 3. Ran LLi.jar to produce the esp 4. I placed my TES5MergedPatch.esp before the BashedPatch0.esp before the Lli.esp (last in the mod order)
spoonsinger Posted June 25, 2015 Posted June 25, 2015 Nice screenshots spoonsinger! Hey, I noticed you mentioned Looification. I ran the patch last night and played for a few minutes but not long enough to find any lootified items. I was wondering if I could run by what I did and see if sounds right? 1. Loaded all my mods in TES5Edit to create merged patch 2. Deleted leveled list items and created bashed patch for leveled list in Wrye Bash 3. Ran LLi.jar to produce the esp 4. I placed my TES5MergedPatch.esp before the BashedPatch0.esp before the Lli.esp (last in the mod order) Cheers. Yep that should do it from the instructions. But....... I going to have to say I'm a heretic. (and will now forever have to hold my head in shame, if I'm not burnt at the stake in the meantime). I don't actually do a bashed patch for Skyrim. I actually think the Tes5Edit merged patch is fine. (In fact on my load out, Wyre Bash moans about levelled list sizes). So generally I just do the merged patch, look at it to see if anything is obviously bolloxed, then run the lootification script, (wait an hour), run FNIS. Start game, (another half hour of config), and play. I'm not saying this is the right way to go but it seems to work for me. Anyway apart from some invisible male bodies/floating heads, (because the ARMA record is missing something on most female armors), Lootification is quite good and I do get to see some pretty cool stuff actually in the field rather than in a pre-placed box. Also you don't get the following images burnt into your mind from your standard game:- (ps my LLI.esp is currently clocking in at 64.5MB )
Malakar Posted June 25, 2015 Author Posted June 25, 2015 Im gonna scratch together all the mods I need on a seperate MO installation tomorrow and see if I like the enb.Spoon I really don't like your Exterior Day shots.While they may be colorful they might be too clear maybe?I dunno what it is.Im gonna try out the Far Off Nirn ENB(s) and Serenity ENB tomorrow..Far Off Nirn MIGHT not be colorful/juicy enough for my taste...Look at my exterior day pic I posted above,really like those colors.
spoonsinger Posted June 25, 2015 Posted June 25, 2015 Im gonna scratch together all the mods I need on a seperate MO installation tomorrow and see if I like the enb. Spoon I really don't like your Exterior Day shots.While they may be colorful they might be too clear maybe?I dunno what it is. Im gonna try out the Far Off Nirn ENB(s) and Serenity ENB tomorrow.. Actually I don't like the exterior shots. However I do like the interiors (If there is light you can see.If not,well.....there is a nice inky blackness to it)
Malakar Posted June 26, 2015 Author Posted June 26, 2015 Well I moved back to a summer overhaul and seasons of skyrim..now I remember why I loved seasons of skyrim.I think I will keep that setup for now..I had like 23 fps in that shot...Im using a FX-8320 and a R9 290, running the game at 1920x1080 hehe.Heavy fluctuations...in some areas my fps drop to 23 fps and in others (sometimes forests) I get up to 40 fps. Even though there should NOT be any snow...I still haven't removed all the winter specific LOD mods,im a bit lazy right now heheDoes anybody know if using texture pack combiner improves fps?
spoonsinger Posted June 26, 2015 Posted June 26, 2015 Nice screeny. (and no I'm not stalking you. I'm just waiting for lootification again. Ho hum.). Anyway have you tried http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/12801/? (Probably a good idea to make a backup first though - it's backup can be a trifle unreliable). (ps I've been fiddling with the ENB - Slightly toned down brightness now) (8120 and GTX970 @ 40'ish.)
Malakar Posted June 26, 2015 Author Posted June 26, 2015 Well the size of the textures should not be a problem because I have 4gb Vram so im not running out of vram.I'm gonna try that out tomorrow,thanks for the suggestion.The colors seem odd,its not the yellow tint its just..I dunno...I don't even know why I don't like some ENBs I just don't like them.It is something about the colors.Maybe its the contrast.
vram1974 Posted June 26, 2015 Posted June 26, 2015 I must be doing something wrong because my LLI.esp is only 1.9 MB. I think I need better installation instructions. I ran the proccer but after 3 hours of gaming last night I found no special items added to the leveled lists.
spoonsinger Posted June 26, 2015 Posted June 26, 2015 Lol - too hot to sleep so got up Anyway, have you gone into the console in the game and looked for anything which might have been lootified and given an enchantment? (i.e. 'help platform' for platform boots. No idea what you have in your setup but you get the idea). You could have just been really unlucky.
Killing Joke Posted June 26, 2015 Posted June 26, 2015 I must be doing something wrong because my LLI.esp is only 1.9 MB. I think I need better installation instructions. I ran the proccer but after 3 hours of gaming last night I found no special items added to the leveled lists.When you run the reproccer, you'll have your mods list on the left, open the mod you want to lootify and be sure everything is set.
vram1974 Posted June 27, 2015 Posted June 27, 2015 Ok I tried the reproccer again and this time when it loaded I had all the sexy armor outfits I want to add to the game: Tera armors, Sotetta necromancer, merta Assassin, etc... But weirdly, although those mods are ACTIVE in the reproccer list when I actually run the lli.jar I get the LLI.esp with a list of masters that include ZERO of the armors I want in the game. Instead it adds masters like Immersive Armors, Inconsequential NPCs, Organized Bandits in Skyrim, Dragonborn, etc. What am I doing wrong?
spoonsinger Posted June 27, 2015 Posted June 27, 2015 Ok I tried the reproccer again and this time when it loaded I had all the sexy armor outfits I want to add to the game: Tera armors, Sotetta necromancer, merta Assassin, etc... But weirdly, although those mods are ACTIVE in the reproccer list when I actually run the lli.jar I get the LLI.esp with a list of masters that include ZERO of the armors I want in the game. Instead it adds masters like Immersive Armors, Inconsequential NPCs, Organized Bandits in Skyrim, Dragonborn, etc. What am I doing wrong? Ummm. Right my feeling is its something Wyre bashed patch related. Just for a quick test do a fresh Tes5Edit Merge Patch. Save it, (don't delete it's genereated levelled lists). (Get rid of the Bashed Patch for the time being). Run lootification script. See if the masters are in the LLI.esp. If they are you know it's one of the options in Wyre Bash which probably needs looking at. (Ps the non deletion of the levelled lists in this test is probably irrelevant because the reproccer should be going on your selections in it's config panel, but at least then we are coming from the same point. i.e. if the masters are there in the LLI then you know its a Wyre Bash option problem, if not it's something to do with the reproccer setup)
vram1974 Posted June 27, 2015 Posted June 27, 2015 Ummm. Right my feeling is its something Wyre bashed patch related. Just for a quick test do a fresh Tes5Edit Merge Patch. Save it, (don't delete it's genereated levelled lists). (Get rid of the Bashed Patch for the time being). Run lootification script. See if the masters are in the LLI.esp. If they are you know it's one of the options in Wyre Bash which probably needs looking at. Ok so last night I deleted the bashed patch, ran the merged patch and figured out how to set the Lootification tables for the armors I want: 1. Tera 2. Tembtra Thief 3. Sotetta Necro 4. Sexy Vests 5. Merta Black Rose The LLi.esp now shows masters including those files although it's still only a tiny 713 KB file. I played for several hours and while some items from Dragonborn and other Lootified loot showed up, nothing from those 5 mods. I guess I'm still missing something here.
spoonsinger Posted June 27, 2015 Posted June 27, 2015 Weird. If it was just items 2-5 I would say it was just luck. However there are quite a lot in the Tera pack so I would have thought you would have got at least one visual of it in game. Out of curiosity, if you console one of the Tera armour's, (i.e. help <some Tera armour name> in console), are there any showing up with enchantments? Also that LLI size is really small - so it doesn't look good. Mine is horribly large, but I think most people have within the 10MB to 20MB range.
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