I uploaded an update to REDUX today, which adds several visual effects not present in version 1.0. That is not to say that version 1.0 is deprecated, as it works exceedingly well in terms of performance. It also doesn't superseed ReDeLuxe. They look different, and ReDeLuxe has a couple more advanced features as well. Please consider them like this: - 1.0 is more performance-friendly - 1.1 has more advanced visuals but with the same general contrast and saturation as 1.0 - ReDeLuxe has many more advanced visuals, with a revision to contrast and saturation which may be more to your taste. It is however slightly more taxing to your game, depending on if you're on a low-spec or high-spec machine.
Looks great, I have used Raid Weathers for a long time due to suiting my aesthetic tastes and the stealth so this its great for some variety and maybe getting over my decision paralysis over which interior lighting mod to pick. So the redeluxe version its like the classic one but with Skyrim Particle Patch for ENB from the enbseries forums merged?
And gotta said I apreciate you included the low to medium textures, I so do not need nor want 2k textures for effects that I can blink and miss.
Yeah ReDeLuxe includes particle patch plus subsurface scattering and other stuff, I believe I detail it in the description. Test it out, and decide between one or the other version based on performance, as honestly both versions look pretty great to me.
Ty so much for this mod! I'm in dount, I only use ENB Boost 'cause I'm on a non gaming pc. Is the new version better anyways, if I don't use ENB effects? Ty.
Thank you so much! For non-ENB, they both give good results. The latest ReDeLuxe is a little heavier on resources, but also covers elemental effects and other visual sections, while the first version is lighter on resources. I'm using the first version in my budget laptop (it's still a gaming computer but has only 8gig RAM), you should try what works smoother in your machine.
Thank you so much! If the Aequinoctium book didn't spawn in your inventory, get it from my mod with AddItemMenu, it gives you visual options (presets) that you can change your game looks. I recommend the Vivid or the Cold preset :)
If you're running a NVIDIA GPU and have the game overlay, you can also set additional effects to your tastes, including SSAO, by pressing Alt+F3. ENB is still important because of Speedhack, but you can have its effects off. Unless you really need grass collisions but that's something else.
Yeah, making a modpack for Lenovo legion go (LEGO) and have just about everything figured out for a 60fps setup that is stable. Then you release these two mods and now I got a bunch of cool stuff to figure out. Not too mention saving me about 20 mod slots. And it gives me something to do until Skyblivion comes out.
And Addmenuitem mod is more or less required for LEGO, you can't page up and down (in console) with onscreen keyboards lol. So thanks for that one too.
Anyways, great stuff! Thanks for uploading both these mods.
Wow I've been oggling one of those for some time now :) I am super happy that both this mod and Nirnfeel are of good use to you. I've been making a new list for LE and thought these up so I could have a larger headroom for plugins, plus it's much more practical to just install one or two mods for gameplay and weathers than having to go through endless lists of patches. ;) I'm basing my new list on ezPG and Interesting NPC for my new list, with Dreamborne Islands as a new location.
:) Actually there's something about LE that I believe was really lost in SE, in some way LE visuals are on the one hand simpler but on the other seem really aesthetic. Yeah it has RAM limitations, yeah it's more unstable (was installing some quests today and oh my aedra the game wouldn't start until I removed Interesting NPC :'( ), but on the other hand we don't have to deal with modpocalypses here, since there are no more Beth updates! AE has proven to be a nightmare with its latest update, rendering my Vortex Collection The Magically Hip REDUX almost useless because of mod updates (OAR in particular "gained" a very nasty interaction with the base anims mod Underdog, I think I managed to circumvent the issue, but it makes things definitely even more convoluted, and I needed to loose EVG Animated Traversal and Skyclimb in the process). I was just testing my new modded build for issues and yet again, when I reach the Whiterun section right between Honningbrew Meadery and the farms for the giant fighting sequence, game just froze up. This particular Whiterun area consistently gives me issues with each new build. You gotta love this, really. But when things are finally working, it's excellent (still need to make hard saves each time you plan on exiting or entering a cell, but other than that...).
pros of LE: no more useless update like AE thus no CC items, the best enb presets, some mods specifix to LE, as no update your hundreds of maybe thousands of mods wont be broken like in AE, cons of LE: unstable, crash to desktop in 5 minutes usually, lack of mods thus lack of support as well, most modders seems to move on to AE already, LE has less performance boost options and mods than AE so these are from my experience you can expand this list so on for me the only reason to still play LE is that it was my first and i played it about 4 years with literally 0 mods! yes includind unofficial patch and other fix mods :) then i was browsing on youtube and saw some mf doing skyrim walking simulation videos and thats how i got here :) if another reason to add is that LE has superior enb presets till now there are very few presets on AE to worth to talk so enb preset is a huge factor for me to stay now gotta go to work im planning to create a stable modlist from 0 till 800ish i guess wish me luck :D
There are still a couple of gems exclusive to LE as well, like Acalypha. I've managed stable 2-hour playing sessions with over 160 mods installed (check Carriers of Fate or Creature Comforts on YouTube), but I admit it takes a lot of tweaking to get there. Memory limits are still the biggest hitch, one needs to be careful about the amount and size of both textures and meshes we place. Still, I managed to have two modded games with a lot of content (Rigmor of Bruma, Rigmor of Cyrodiil, Yuriana, Acalypha, Arissa, Beyond Skyrim: Bruma, Frostfall, Campfire, World's Dawn, Immersive Creatures and much, much more). Unfortunately I had to take out Touring Carriages, but the list is solid and waiting for third episode of Rigmor to keep on going. I think the 200 mods threshold is where things start to get too dicey to maintain.
160 is joke comparing to my 850 plus, best stable i made was 432 or something? and now just started and building i doubt that i will reach or pass 1000 because i said there are lack of mods especially bos- base object swapper which is a big loss as you said tweaking is the most important thing while modding especially on fragile LE :( ill check your youtube then share my screenshots or a video on LE page i doubt that theyll be better than my previous but ill try my best lol
Nevermind, I checked your peofile and you do (or did) have Special Edition with 854 mods. Either way, my thing is to get as much interesting content as possible with as little plugins possible into the builds I make, with decent look despite playing on low to midrange gaming laptop.
yep and you can do this as well because there are 2 known ways to do this first there is a mod that removes 255 pluging limit second mine was mostly esl type that doesnt count as pluging so you can pretty much reach 1000 maybe 2000 with this example nolvus dude that mf always had over 1000 mods now over 3000! also mine was moslty small graphical mods that doesnt add anything to plugins
Yeah, on Special Edition that's fine, or in LE if you're using pluginless mods. But for stability's sake, I always say in LE avoid going over 200 plugins, in SE 400 plugins. Things get pretty dicey pretty fast from there on up. Apart from that, the less plugins the less glitches and general troubles, in either game. Nolvus is in everyone's mouth nowadays. :) Their list helped me stabilise my own builds, as they gave good advice in terms of bug fixes and load order. But yeah, I play on a laptop, and prefer smaller builds to play through with different characters. 2K, 3K, that is impressive but not my goal. :) Just good, diverse game builds.
same i play on laptop and whatever k is not my goal as well im only trying to replace all the textures i can find with higher quality versions so the feeling of skyrim wont change much as for nolvus and nolvus dude i find them overrated and always looks silly as it looks like a whole new game anything but skyrim lol one last thing you dont need aanyone elses modlist maybe except essential modlist from wabbajack i noticed that we both use the same bugfixes with a few exceptions maybe and on top of that modlist you can add anything you want to keep it simple essential wabbajack list+ landscape of your choice, tree mod of your choice, water mod of your choice, grass mod of your choice, texture mod of your choice and weather mod of your choice are simply enough to start you can do the same in LE as well there is a new guy that uploads his lightweight modlist and so far he is doing fine i recommend you checking on him really nice looking skyrim plus he is using gtx 1650 which is a big advantage for many ;) as most people dont have rtx 2-3-4 whatever series
Yeah I mean I liked Nolvus when I saw it played on a laptop with a GTX 1650 actually, but that was a long time ago. I myself have a laptop with a GTX 1650 :) Good-looking Skyrim? Sure, but my main focus goes to character looks, with simple textures so I can sculpt heads to my taste for new characters, followers and replacers. For playing, I like to get a combination of mods like my recently released Nirnfeel to change things up and then get a couple of AiO creature mods, enemy spawns, and big quest and NPC mods. The most content possible in one plugin. In LE now I'm testing Tamriel HD I think, combined with aMidianborn, Bellyaches and some Rustic retexes, nothing too dramatic.
i see if you want the truth ive played skyrim with 0 mods for too long that it bored me after years i play it non modded for 0 mods straight even withouth skyui and unofficial patch so i needed a change after seeing the video of sinitar dude and the others ive decided to try yet here i am i have 558gb of mods both LE and SE lol it seems this is the best i can get rarely new mods gets my attention and they are mostly LE port/backports lol im using gtx 1050 laptop now and if i tweak for hours and maybe days i can get a flawless gameplay ;) right now modding LE lets see what it will look like when it finished as for npc/character overhauls maybe i get used to it over the years but they dont bother me anymore maybe i can try some plus i recognize people in skyrim so easily xD
I've used a gtx 1050 laptop before, actually two, one with the 4GB version and the other with the 2GB version of GTX 1050. ENB is what kills FPS with GTX 1050 mostly, more than with the 1650, since 1050 has more difficulty with shader rendering. I was able to mitigate this by using ReShade with a simple preset made by myself for Special Edition (Mana Vault Enhancer), and by carefully resizing textures. Also, there's a mod called Enhanced Textures Detail (UV Tweaks) that improves vanilla textures quite a lot and even makes a couple of objects higher poly (like ropes and such). Enhanced Vanilla Trees is also quite a good improver without melting your GPU, while for SE Vanilla Grasses Reimagined is good (my HHaley's Mojo Grass port is not bad either), and for LE undoubtedly Grass on Steroids. Or you can go the Skyland way for SE, in LE I'm liking Tamriel HD which covers most things. Actually this WeReLight mod came from the need I have to be able to play without resorting to either ENB or ReShade, for performance reasons. If I'm playing an over 1 hour to 2 hour session, I'd rather my laptop doesn't heat up too much so the CPU won't start throttling, and this mod gives me that. I can play with ENB for a bit - for dialogues or some specific landscapes - but then I can get the game's better performance for battles. I also like the weathers effects better without ENB, rain is more visible, the world gets really darker when there's a storm, etc.
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I uploaded an update to REDUX today, which adds several visual effects not present in version 1.0.
That is not to say that version 1.0 is deprecated, as it works exceedingly well in terms of performance.
It also doesn't superseed ReDeLuxe. They look different, and ReDeLuxe has a couple more advanced features as well.
Please consider them like this:
- 1.0 is more performance-friendly
- 1.1 has more advanced visuals but with the same general contrast and saturation as 1.0
- ReDeLuxe has many more advanced visuals, with a revision to contrast and saturation which may be more to your taste. It is however slightly more taxing to your game, depending on if you're on a low-spec or high-spec machine.
I hope this is helpful!
And gotta said I apreciate you included the low to medium textures, I so do not need nor want 2k textures for effects that I can blink and miss.
Test it out, and decide between one or the other version based on performance, as honestly both versions look pretty great to me.
For non-ENB, they both give good results.
The latest ReDeLuxe is a little heavier on resources, but also covers elemental effects and other visual sections, while the first version is lighter on resources.
I'm using the first version in my budget laptop (it's still a gaming computer but has only 8gig RAM), you should try what works smoother in your machine.
thank you
If the Aequinoctium book didn't spawn in your inventory, get it from my mod with AddItemMenu, it gives you visual options (presets) that you can change your game looks. I recommend the Vivid or the Cold preset :)
Yeah, making a modpack for Lenovo legion go (LEGO) and have just about everything figured out for a 60fps setup that is stable. Then you release these two mods and now I got a bunch of cool stuff to figure out. Not too mention saving me about 20 mod slots. And it gives me something to do until Skyblivion comes out.
And Addmenuitem mod is more or less required for LEGO, you can't page up and down (in console) with onscreen keyboards lol. So thanks for that one too.
Anyways, great stuff! Thanks for uploading both these mods.
I am super happy that both this mod and Nirnfeel are of good use to you. I've been making a new list for LE and thought these up so I could have a larger headroom for plugins, plus it's much more practical to just install one or two mods for gameplay and weathers than having to go through endless lists of patches. ;) I'm basing my new list on ezPG and Interesting NPC for my new list, with Dreamborne Islands as a new location.
me: *sigh* me too kid :(
Actually there's something about LE that I believe was really lost in SE, in some way LE visuals are on the one hand simpler but on the other seem really aesthetic.
Yeah it has RAM limitations, yeah it's more unstable (was installing some quests today and oh my aedra the game wouldn't start until I removed Interesting NPC :'( ), but on the other hand we don't have to deal with modpocalypses here, since there are no more Beth updates!
AE has proven to be a nightmare with its latest update, rendering my Vortex Collection The Magically Hip REDUX almost useless because of mod updates (OAR in particular "gained" a very nasty interaction with the base anims mod Underdog, I think I managed to circumvent the issue, but it makes things definitely even more convoluted, and I needed to loose EVG Animated Traversal and Skyclimb in the process).
I was just testing my new modded build for issues and yet again, when I reach the Whiterun section right between Honningbrew Meadery and the farms for the giant fighting sequence, game just froze up. This particular Whiterun area consistently gives me issues with each new build. You gotta love this, really.
But when things are finally working, it's excellent (still need to make hard saves each time you plan on exiting or entering a cell, but other than that...).
cons of LE: unstable, crash to desktop in 5 minutes usually, lack of mods thus lack of support as well, most modders seems to move on to AE already, LE has less performance boost options and mods than AE
so these are from my experience you can expand this list so on for me the only reason to still play LE is that it was my first and i played it about 4 years with literally 0 mods! yes includind unofficial patch and other fix mods :) then i was browsing on youtube and saw some mf doing skyrim walking simulation videos and thats how i got here :) if another reason to add is that LE has superior enb presets till now there are very few presets on AE to worth to talk so enb preset is a huge factor for me to stay now gotta go to work im planning to create a stable modlist from 0 till 800ish i guess wish me luck :D
I've managed stable 2-hour playing sessions with over 160 mods installed (check Carriers of Fate or Creature Comforts on YouTube), but I admit it takes a lot of tweaking to get there. Memory limits are still the biggest hitch, one needs to be careful about the amount and size of both textures and meshes we place. Still, I managed to have two modded games with a lot of content (Rigmor of Bruma, Rigmor of Cyrodiil, Yuriana, Acalypha, Arissa, Beyond Skyrim: Bruma, Frostfall, Campfire, World's Dawn, Immersive Creatures and much, much more). Unfortunately I had to take out Touring Carriages, but the list is solid and waiting for third episode of Rigmor to keep on going. I think the 200 mods threshold is where things start to get too dicey to maintain.
Either way, my thing is to get as much interesting content as possible with as little plugins possible into the builds I make, with decent look despite playing on low to midrange gaming laptop.
But for stability's sake, I always say in LE avoid going over 200 plugins, in SE 400 plugins. Things get pretty dicey pretty fast from there on up.
Apart from that, the less plugins the less glitches and general troubles, in either game.
Nolvus is in everyone's mouth nowadays. :) Their list helped me stabilise my own builds, as they gave good advice in terms of bug fixes and load order. But yeah, I play on a laptop, and prefer smaller builds to play through with different characters.
2K, 3K, that is impressive but not my goal. :)
Just good, diverse game builds.
I myself have a laptop with a GTX 1650 :)
Good-looking Skyrim? Sure, but my main focus goes to character looks, with simple textures so I can sculpt heads to my taste for new characters, followers and replacers. For playing, I like to get a combination of mods like my recently released Nirnfeel to change things up and then get a couple of AiO creature mods, enemy spawns, and big quest and NPC mods. The most content possible in one plugin. In LE now I'm testing Tamriel HD I think, combined with aMidianborn, Bellyaches and some Rustic retexes, nothing too dramatic.
ENB is what kills FPS with GTX 1050 mostly, more than with the 1650, since 1050 has more difficulty with shader rendering. I was able to mitigate this by using ReShade with a simple preset made by myself for Special Edition (Mana Vault Enhancer), and by carefully resizing textures. Also, there's a mod called Enhanced Textures Detail (UV Tweaks) that improves vanilla textures quite a lot and even makes a couple of objects higher poly (like ropes and such). Enhanced Vanilla Trees is also quite a good improver without melting your GPU, while for SE Vanilla Grasses Reimagined is good (my HHaley's Mojo Grass port is not bad either), and for LE undoubtedly Grass on Steroids. Or you can go the Skyland way for SE, in LE I'm liking Tamriel HD which covers most things. Actually this WeReLight mod came from the need I have to be able to play without resorting to either ENB or ReShade, for performance reasons. If I'm playing an over 1 hour to 2 hour session, I'd rather my laptop doesn't heat up too much so the CPU won't start throttling, and this mod gives me that. I can play with ENB for a bit - for dialogues or some specific landscapes - but then I can get the game's better performance for battles. I also like the weathers effects better without ENB, rain is more visible, the world gets really darker when there's a storm, etc.