Oblivion

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Upgrade of the old candid enb, now it's fairly colored and still light and playable, also fully compatible whit OR, ( thanks to naritete-san <3 )

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CANDID ENB REBORN











------------------------------------------- USE NEWEST VERSION 4 AT BLUE UNDERLINED LINK HERE PLEASE ---------------------------------------------





CANDID ENB v 3



For a properly good installation of this and many other things i'll send you to those video tutorials ! v 3









!!!!!!!   FOR THIS VERSION YOU ----> NEED <---- ALL NATURAL OR YOUR GAME WILL LOOK TO BRIGHT AND VERY UGLY, NON ALL NATURAL VERSION WILL COME SOON, BE CAREFULL !!!!!!!


IMPORTANT NOTE

Candid ENB v3 just ready, fixed light trouble, too darker dungeuns and bad weather for the second time, now all light spells and torche work better in dark interiors.

this version could be good even whitout immersive interiors, because for enb th interior become like exterior in this mod, anyway they are still compatible and beauty





----- FIRST OF ALL -----

(READ CAREFULLY)


First time i devloped this enb insipied by the videos of KKK JJJ and Naritete that i seen on youtube, soemthing magic for me, anyway now Candid ENB has a proper personality and his own life.

AFTER INSTALLATION AND DETAILED EFFETCS DESCRIPTION FOR EVERY PRESET YOU CAN FIND A LARGE TUTORIA ON GRAPHICAL MODS, THAT I USE ON MY CONFIGURATION.

ALL IMAGES on this page has been taken whit THIS ENB.

Feel Free to send me PM or write suggestions in that page for the future


Installation

Note
I designed this enb for being used whit lastest Oblivion Reloaded, All Natural WHITOUT Real lights
this mean that can use Candid ENB anyway but i strongly raccomand the usage of those mods


Step 1

IMPORTANT NOTE

---ALL OF Antisotrophy filter, ambiental occlusione, antialias and function of your VGA must be turned of, you should open your panel and deactivate all of it for oblivion---

Dawnload the original Enb v 1.81 for oblivion from enbdev.com and copy this content on your Oblivion Folder ( where there are your obivion.exe file )

Dawload the Oblivion Reloaded mod, from this link (isnt requied but strogly raccomanded )

Oblivion Reloaded link

Select how your OR must work, personally i like those settings



[SHADERS]

EnableWater On
EnableGrass  off           -------> i suggest to tag it OFF because have still some bugs, just remember to tweak your ini
EnablePrecipitations off
EnableHDR off
EnablePOM On
EnableSkin off
EnableTerrain On
EnableBlood On
EnableShadows On


[EFFETCS]

EnableUnderwater On
EnableWaterLens  off
EnableGodRays off
EnableDepthOfField off
EnableAmbientOcclusion off
EnableColoring On
EnableCinema off
EnableBloom off
EnableSnowAccumulation On
EnableBloodLens off
EnableMotionBlur off
EnableLowHF  off      -----> Could be turned ON but the effect whit enb can be a bit invasive
EnableWetWorld On
EnableSharpening off
EnableSMAA off


Note
Do not use HDR and SMAA whit ENB, not compatible, 
I suggest to tewak ini in this way and not allow FRAMERATE manager of OBlivion reloaded


iMinGrassSize=120                             (if you set OFF Grass in  Oblivion Reloaded)                
        uGridDistantTreeRange=15 or 20        ( whit 150 % trees dimension it's more than enought )   
                        uGridDistantCount=25  or 36                 ( if you have a lot of mods could be better save memory for them ) 
                     iShadowMapResolution=512 or 1024     (vanilla oblivion set this to 256 whit last patch but can cause CTD )
 bAllow30Shaders=1                                                                                                             
bUseWaterDisplacements=0                                                                                               
                                                                                        
GET Other values from Oblivion Reloaded Page
TURN WATER RIPPLE OFF INGAME. ( YOU NEED FOR USE ENB + OR )

About the ingame options, like distances of objects and actors i suggest THIS

100% of value if you have a light modded oblivion, expecially whitout many HD textures model and not many
45-60% of those valors if you have a Heavily modded oblivion whit lot of textures, many actors and creatures and ect.
this way you should play whit a nice quality at 45-60 fps whit AO and shadows.


THIS ISNT A FAULT OF YOUR PC, YOU CAN HAVE BEST PC OF THE WORLD, THIS IS A FAULT OF OBLIVION ENGINE, YOU CAN DO MANY LITTLE THINGS FOR THAT, MANY LITTLE MOD AND PATCH, BUT NO WAY TO HAVE THIS PERFORMANCE WHITOUT GIVE BACK SOMETHING, REMEMBER U ARE PLAY A 2007 GAME



Step 2

Danload Candid Enb and copy main folder content to your oblivion folder, override when asked, then Select ONE settings from white and normalcolor folder and put it into your Oblivion Folder, override if needed , there are more / less performance settings based on quality and ambiental Occlusion and the same perfomance settings for Candid normal and for strongly altered color version ( strongcolorwhite folder ), Detailed Effects Used in All versions are below videos.

Step 3

Open Your oblivion.ini file, check your resolution on this tags.

iSize W=****
iSize H=****

write those value somewhere, then go to your oblivion folder, open effect.txt.ini ( if u hide the file extension it's named effect.txt ) and search for that tags, the put it the values you got in your oblivion ini ( your resolution, in few words ) save it and now you should play fine.



Step 4
Now Your need to set those parameters in oblivion/data/shaders/OblivionReloaded folder ini filed for those shaders

Fov

100 (105 FOR SCREENSHOTS)

Water

reflectivity      = 1.9
 
Coloring

Strength      = 0.70
Saturation    = -0.25

After it rember to set ingame WATER RIPPLE options from videomeno to off, (ripples will be provided by or, if u use it you will get a water bug from enb)




Detailed Effects For all Version


Note
This ENB previde to use the OR antisotrophy filter at 8, if you wont play whit or or you want both u have to manually activate and set it, there are a little iusses that seems light spell dose not work anymore, so u must use torch or nighteye for dungeons vision


Performance Candid ENB

Depth Of Field
Middle Quality Bloom
Sky tag is off

Basic Quality CandidENB

DepthOfField
EDGE AA
High Quality Bloom
Detailed Shadows
ShadowBlurring
Sky Tag On

Middle Quality Candid ENB

DepthOfField
EDGE AA
High Quality Bloom
Middle Quality Ambient Occlusion
Sky Tag On

High Quality Candid ENB
DepthOfField
EDGE AA
High Quality Bloom
High Quality Ambient Occlusion
Detailed Shadows
Sky Tag On

Ultra Quality Candid ENB
DepthOfField
EDGE AA
High Quality Bloom
High Quality Ambiental occlusion (whit indirect light)
Sky Tag On
Detailed Shadows
Shadow Blurring





OBLIVION ENGINE AND TEXTURE AND GRAPHICAL MOD USED BY ME

IMPORTANT NOTE

OBLIVION ENGINE cannot support a large amount of aviable video memory for texure, so if you want to play fine whit quality textures i raccomand to use 1k, not for your system potential but for the game, and you shoul choose not many moods that crowd the game, that's the first thing that take dawn your FPS
in my opinion the things does affects FPS are at same level ( i'm a 50 60 fps player so understand me xD ), the following affermation are just a incipit based on my own opinion, so if you have no time to read and think about it, skip that and fo to mod section

LOD MESHES AND TEXTURES

( but you have ramdisk for improve that, you can improve your performance a lot but not totally denies the impact of this ) Personally i prefer to play whit basic oblivion lod whit high fov a bit of fog

another motivation to do it is that my favorite texture for forts dosent work really good whit Really AEVWD far model textures, color are totally different.

ACTORS IN CELL

Every time you have to load more actors and creatures your pc freez, better said game engine not your pc, vanilla oblivion it's rarely populated for a reason, so mod like FCOM can and most overhauls affect your framerate and cause some CTD during cell changing, my favorite combination are OOO + Maskar'soblivion Overhaul, COBL and TamrielTravellers, instal more mods that crowd cities are causing high CTD for out of memory of loading new cells ( Of course there are oblivion 4Gb patch for help but this just take dawn your ctd frequency on my experience ) i find really heavy oco v 2 + childer's of oblivion by emma and high spawn size maskar's oblivion overhaul

EXETRIOR SHADOWS

Isnt really a big problem on default oblivion shadows, just if you use shade me, i even seen totally unexsistenting oblivion shadows on fanilla oblivion the only shadow that i can usually see it's the shadow of my own charachter and some actors not the same shadow for large mesh that should be cast it, like bidrg arch and many buildings, but its not strongly performance destroying like full VWD on all map.

LOD OF TREES

That settings are provided by uGridDistantTreeRange= in your oblivion ini, personally i like it on 15 - 20 even if oblivion reloaded config suggest 30, this can save bit of your fps, and the effect at 20 isnt absolutly bad, for that reason whit 30 you see farest trees and lod tree proportion are not perfect, that give idea of how a small world if you see colovian trees from imperial bridge, but if you are in the deepths of a wood your eyes automatically focus other elements and immersion grow-up )

LARGE AMMOUNT OF POLYGONS

When there are too much meshes oblivion engine cannot render all of them in time and this cause a lot of stuttering, this happens many times on better cityes, clintmichs districs version, some Unique landscape like darkforest whitout lowpolygrass and rolling hills whit weat, and other similar mods, dont flame me for said that, those mode are something AMAZING and really give another touch to oblivion world, it's player choice to install this or not !

end of incipit, let's go to mods now.



IMPORTANT : ABOUT TEXTURE MODS

I suggest to play whit 2k version of texture resolution just for QTP3 and FortRuint retexture by lougian, 1k for all the rest ( or can happen that some texture become black and you need to restart oblivion ) , if you really want to play whit all 2k texture size you should try this trick ( i tryed and seems work, but not at all, or how i expected )

- Dawnload oblivion enb boost ( works like skyrim enb boost ) at this link
ENB_Boost0.259

then put wrapper version folder on your DESKTOP, ( yes you must edit it first, change the name of d3d9.dll file into other_d3d9.dll (whit other i mean toher, properly terms )

- Dawnload oblivion enblocal.ini form this nexus page
CTD_and_memory_Patch_ENBoost

Select the proper file for your vga and your system and drag in on the desktop folder we just got from prvious step, override when asked, now open that enblocal and change the following lines as i write here

EnableProxyLibrary=True
ForceAnisotropicFiltering=false ( we said that we are using OR AF so we must turn it off )

save it and put all the content of wrapper version into Oblivion folder ( where you have oblivion.exe )


TEXTURE MODS USED BY ME

All following modes are installed in this order, and overriden the previous texture when asked, it's like a priority line

1 QTP 3 Redimized Or QTP 3 Full

2 Landscape Retexture

3 Cave retexture

4 Ayleid ruins retexture

5 Fort Ruins Retexture

6 Rocks Retexture

7Sewer Retexture

8 Signpost Retexture

9 Hi resolution Varla and welkynd stones

10 Better Staff texture

11 OCO v 2 ( Oblivion character overhaul )

seems can affect your FPS, Read carefully how to install and patch it for costum body mesh, personally i found v 1 less fps affecting, so if you want look for it on nexus

12 Painter Painting Textures

13 Fantasy Nightsky number 1

This mod it's AMAZING

14 Oblivion Grass Overhaul

A must

15 Improved trees and Flora 2

15.1 Improved doors and flora

16 Oblivion Trees overhaul

IMPORTANT NOTE: Oblivion trees overhaul it's a beta, it's a not final, and change enought your oblivion appearence so look screenshots of mod before installing
it's just an option, many of my firends find it nice, i never tested it

17 Ho res Tree Canopy Shadows

Another must

18 TD Rome IC replacer

i love this mode but has a japanise description only so search carefully for dawnload botton, it's just a texture replacer

19 StradaCittàImperiale

Another nice retexture for IC streets

20 Animater water v 3

Change a lot waterfall appearence and power, i like a lot old version, check what you like.

21 Enhanced magic effect

After installing the moode you choose for your game start Oblivion Mod Manager, go on utility tab on right side of obmm vidow, go into archive invalidation
then deactivate all tags o activate only tags that i mention, BSA Alteration, Textures, Generate Only on hash Collision and then give Update. now you should play fine whit all texutres that you have choose.



Other mods That i like and change appearance

1 All Natural

NOTE : for this enb i raccomand no real light version and it seems all natural have a little fps drop

2 Immersive interiors

NOTE (Sometimes can have CTD goingt into and out interiors, but this happen really rarely, to me at less )

3 Personality Idles v 4 modified version

Top of the Top, really give life to persons and your own character, allowing it to make some movements when he isnt moving, whit many poses.

4 Mass outfit redesigned

NOTE : That mode can turn oblivion into a like-skimpy game and i wont it, i like reasonable flavour version, where fems are properly suited whit armors and not so much exposed, of this mod and i deleter the arena armor file on my own pc because was too skimpy, anyway it's player choice


5 Enhanced Vegetation

Thanks for reading , for be patient about my awful english, for not flame me about my 60 FPS performance/quality opinion
Have fun to play Oblivion

AverageModding


My Inspiring KKK JJJ and Naritete Videos