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My attempt to add photorealism into original game.

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Version 1.1

Subsurface scattering from ENBSeries 0.221, added color filters, switched some effects to higher quality and other tweaks.

Features:

Better bloom.
Ambient occlusion.
Detailed shadows.
Sun rays.
Sky lighting.
ImageBasedLighting.
Soft particles.
Particle lights.
Rain drops.
Darker nights and dungeons.
Natural colors.
Depth of field isn't presented in the preset, because i amn't interested in this effect. Reflections are not activated due to performance, besides i dont know how to make them looks decent indoors.

Known Issues:

Ugly horizont.
Night eye isn't working.
Sometimes you can see strange light aura around your character. It is caused by ambient occlusion.

Performance:

Well, actually i can't predict how much FPS you will lose, but i think it is going to be 10 and more. You can minimaze performance drop by setting UseDefferedRendering to false in enblocal.ini, but this step will disable most ENB effects.

Installation:

First you should go to your SkyrimPrefs.ini (\My Documents\My Games\Skyrim) and set those lines to 1:
bFloatPointRenderTarget=1
bTreesReceiveShadows=1
bDrawLandShadows=1
bShadowsOnGrass=1
Next go to Vorontsov's site (http://enbdev.com/index_en.htm) and download ENB Graphic modification for Skyrim. I am using version 0.199.
Then unpack it, choose wrapper or injector version and replace files from the folder with my files.
Finally, grab and drop ENB files in your Skyrim folder (where TESV.exe is).
In this preset i activated ENB edge antialiasing and anisotropic filtering, so disable them in game or/and in videocard driver. ENB VSync also enabled in my preset.

Thanks to:

Boris Vorontsov for creating ENB (http://enbdev.com/index_en.htm).
--JawZ-- for guide to ENB and enbeffect.fx with DNI separation (http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/users/196978).