Skyrim Special Edition

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Tweaks of the Blackreach environment to improve the atmosphere.

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Blackreach Edits

There are two different mods included here: Blackreach Weather SE, a re-creation of my original mod for Skyrim, and Blackreach Reimaged, a brand-new mod which expands on Blackreach Weather.  

Blackreach Weather SE

The entire purpose of this mod is to remove the floating white spots inside of Blackreach.  I don't know if it's meant to be spores, or dust, or even the snow that it is classed as inside of the weather record, and honestly I don't really care what it's meant to be, because what it is, is aggravating.  It has bothered me since the first moment I ventured inside of Blackreach, but it was never successfully resolved until now.  See the images for more information.

For those wanting to know technical specifics, one base weather record (BlackreachWeather [WTHR:00048C14]) was edited in order to remove the precipitation and snow flag from it.  Everything else in the record remains vanilla.  There are no dependencies on any record except for Skyrim.esm and Update.esm.  If a weather overhaul mod edits the same record then it will be incompatible, but this can easily be resolved via SSEEdit.  Additionally, it has been updated for Skyrim SE and, if you use Wrye Bash, you can incorporate it into the Bashed Patch and save an esp slot.


Blackreach Reimaged

When Skyrim first came out back in 2011 (has it really been almost five and a half years?) I imagined a completely different Blackreach from what I actually discovered the first time I descended into the depths, which was a teal/aquamarine/turquoise glow brighter than an overcast day.  Blackreach Reimaged is how I imagined the atmosphere in Blackreach would be: a twilit darkness with just barely enough illumination to see by.

Technical details: the only edits that have been made include the one in Blackreach Weather SE (so only choose one esp) to get rid of the "interior snow" effect, as well as editing the BlackreachImagespace and the BlackreachTemplate (Lighting Template, that is).  Currently, no changes have been made to any locations, nor to the lighting templates for the locations immediately adjacent to Blackreach.  As such, Blackreach Reimaged can be incorporated into a Bashed Patch to save an esp slot without any issues.