could you have made the installation instructions any less understandable? Iv done everything I can fathom from your instructions and im left with a black screen with a jacked up outline and iv spent hours trying to figure this out I don't even know how im going to sort this out now I think you should have made a clearer installation guide. also your v121212 link tells you to edit binary variables that aren't even present in the skyrim prefs file.
It installs exactly like every other ENB preset for Skyrim installs - you unzip the files and add them to your Skyrim directory, then download the correrct binary from the enb dev website and do the same.
If you've never used an ENB preset before, you have to edit some one line in your prefs file so that files so that things render properly. That's it. If my instructions are tough for you to follow look at literally any other ENB preset and follow their instructions - they're the same steps.
And the 121212 file is from 2012 FFS - I'd be surprised if it works at all today. I'm certainly not supporting it anymore.
Hello, I absolutely love the style of this enb, it makes the game look more fantastical. But there is a problem with the rocks, some are normal, some are pitch black and only show texture when I walk right up to them. I would appreciate any help.
I just wanted to say, now that my issues with the purple fog/haze sky have been fixed this enb looks great. It is by far my favorite and one of the best on the Nexus. Thank you again for making my game look amazing!
Hi I recently took these screenshots with the new 305 version of this preset. It looks... off. Did I install it wrong or is this just how the preset is supposed to look? http://imgur.com/a/YbE8c Also if I did install it wrong can somebody tell me how to properly install it and/or link some screenshots of the v305 preset in action?
(btw I would like to say that The Goddess 121212 version is my favorite ENB of all time so thank you Anaphiel for that!)
The .306 and .308 versions have weather-specific settings for all vanilla, DLC, and Vivid weathers, but they're not all equally balanced out. The shots that you posted are of weathers where it looks like I probably have the ambient light and sky gradient intensity and/or curves settings too high. Right now the cloudy and stormy weathers, as well as some of the edge case weathers like Skuldafn, the Soul Cairn settings, etc are the best, and the clear weathers and the various Vivid weathers are all sort of hit and miss.
Glad that you liked the older versions - the newer builds are (IMO) better and more balanced in some meaningful ways, but I'm still struggling to achieve those improvements with the overall character of the older builds.
If you're ever interested in screenshots, my Flickr and Tumblr accounts have more than you'd ever really want to look at. The ENB preset that I'm using for those shots is fundamentally similar to the version here - I haven't been developing it in any systematic way for quite a while now, just tinkering and tweaking here and there.
I have since done some tweaking to the enblocal, and it appears that when I disable "EnableMultipleWeathers", the sky goes from an unnatural-looking purple colour to more of a normal blue colour. It also fixed a recurring crash-to-desktop when in exteriors. Any idea why?
Other than that, the preset looks amazing (interiors are sooooo good). Thanks a bunch.
Does anyone else have an issue where late at night/early hours of the morning everything is bright pink/purple? I can't see anything. I have to wait until like 5 AM to let it clear up. It's been happening for months now on different playthroughs and is getting rather annoying.
If I had to guess I'd say you're having trouble with your sun or sunglare textures - the purple shade makes it sound like a missing or corrupt texture. Can you post a shot of the problem somewhere so I can see exactly what you're seeing?
Tnanks - and when you do, let me know what weather is active (you can see that by opening the ENB editor and opening the weather panel) and also which version of the preset you're using - the old .12.12.12 version or the slightly less old .305 version :)
I use most of the recommended mods from the mod page so I use sunglare disabler. How do I post pictures in the thread? I have one that I think gets the point across, lol. As for weather, do I find that in the in game ENB menu? And yes I am using the more recent version of the ENB.
I just uploaded a pic of what the pink fog looks like. Usually it's more purple and a bit easier to see through but this extreme pink happens usually on a new playthrough on the first night or two. Usually lasts from like 8 PM to 6 AM. I mean otherwise the ENB is beautiful but how on earth do I fix this? It's the newer build...as I said before I am not sure how to check the weather...I don't have any weather mods running.
Whoops, sorry for not replying to your earlier message - I don't stop by The Nexus that often these days. Thanks for posting the shots - you're right that they're not the missing/glitched sun texture issue that I thought it would be at first. I'm guessing it must be some edge case weather that I don't have good settings for.
To find out what weather is active, open the ENB editor by hitting shift-backslash (if that doesn't work try shift-return; I usually change the default but not always). Once that's open, near the top of the left-most pane you should see the option to show the weather panel;. At the top of the weather panel is the current and outgoing weather and the name of the weather file that's being read. Both of those bits of info would be helpful.
Okay I found it. It happens when it says goddess_cloudy Weather002. But the purple only happens at night. When it's cloudy during the day it looks fine. Also, I noticed that the moving shadows bug I keep experiencing only happens at night during this weather also. Although I don't have a weather mod active, I do have mods that improve things like rain and cloud textures. When this happens though it's never raining.
I use Dramatic Clouds True Storms- Thunder and rain redone Downpour Minty's Lightning Wonder's of Weather
OK, had a chance to look at this, and I'm pretty sure i know what the problem is. Next time you see this happen, open up the ENB editor and the weather panel. In the weather panel, find the [ENVIRONMENT] section and then scroll down until you see a setting called "FogColorFilterAmountNight". Change that to a lower number (or even to 0) and the pink/purple fog should go away. If you see it in any other weather that'll work as well. Once you have it looking the way you want, hit the "Save Current Weather" button at the top of the weather pane to save the settings.
There are a ton of unfinished or unbalanced weather settings in this version, and this weather seems to be one of them.
Thank you so much for taking a look at it. I can't wait to see if this works! It's still a gorgeous ENB. When it first came out my graphics card couldn't handle it so when I updated my card this was the first thing I grabbed for Skyrim. LOL. I will let you know how it goes.
I think it may have helped a little but I will need to play more. I uploaded another pic. It seems to still be happening. There was a point where I saved while it was cloudy and reloaded the game and it looked normal. Cloudy and pretty, not pink. But I haven't been able to get it to do that again since.
EDIT: Okay. I have noticed since turning that setting to 0 the air is blue now instead of purple.Is this normal? I posted a pic.
It's definitely not how I'd like it to look, but remember you're using an incomplete and out of date version of the preset - there's a TON of stuff in there that I would fix given infinite time :)
As always I suggest following me on Flickr and grabbing newer builds as I post them, or if you prefer the older builds either accept that they have some (occasionally very) rough spots or tinker with them yourself and fine-tune it to your taste. I'm sorry, but I don't really have enough spare time to work on my current ENB build, much less to re-install old, abandoned presets to work on them.
Thats okay I understand. Thanks for trying. I did take a look at the one on your flickr account. I might give it a try if it had the same look and feel as this one. I have never used ELFX or vivid weathers but I will try them out.
Edit: trying out the new one. Holy crap some of your characters on your flickr page have amazing dresses/robes. Is the ENB on your flickr account letterbox compatible? I am trying to turn it on via the instructions in an earlier post but it isn't showing up?
Edit again: I like the look of the old enb better. The interiors on the new one are amazing but I loved the exterior coloration on the .308 better. Hopefully someday the newer one will look like it. I am gonna try the old one with ELFX and Vivid weathers and just tinker with the fog.
I like the exterior of the old enb and the interiors of the new one LOL. Too bad I can't do both.
Heh! Now you know what I've been spending all of my Skyrim time on instead of finishing my ENB preset - mashups! Well, mashups and character textures, I guess.
There are actually a bunch of different preset builds available through my Flickr account - check the "File Releases" and :ENB Releases" albums... my suggestion is to look at the screenshots, find some that you like the look of, and try to find the build that's closest in date to them (or message me there - I have most of the builds that I've made archived, most of which never got uploaded). Most of the older ones are based off of the same codebase that I've uploaded here on the Nexus (or similar), while most of the newer ones are based on my KR ENB re-make (which I think looks more like the older Goddess than you'd think a lot of the time, although it is sharper and brighter in the most common weathers).
As far as letterboxing goes, yep, pretty much every version that I make has that feature. It can be in different places depending on the build, but usually it's in the Effect.txt settings. In the latest KR ENB builds you just pop open the editor, look for the Effect.txt section of the Shader Parameters tab, and scroll down to "Letterbox". Click on the line that says "Letterbox" and you'll see a check pop up next to it and the letterbox will be active - you can adjust the slider to whatever thickness you prefer using the "Letterbox Size (%)" control.
Oh! I didn't see the archived section, I will have to take a look. As a former modder I can say that once you start working on this stuff you're doing it more than you play the game. But hey if those armors are your own mashups you're pretty good! I tend to like the mages and some of those robes/dresses are gorgeous. No one in Skyrim will have the same outfit.
As far as the letterbox goes I did find something that says "Letterbox %" and I tried to increase the number but nothing happened. I didn't notice a check box. I will look again.
Edit: Oooh I see what you mean. I didn't even realize I had to click on that. LOL. I am trying to find that nini's Adler Armor conversion armor your character is wearing but I think it's gone the way of the dodo.
Okay, well. I thought you'd be interested to know. The files for the omega goddess here on the nexus, I tested with both the 305 and 308 binaries. They were both brighter and the purple issue was there in all its glory with the hazy trees and fog. Then I downloaded the 305 version off your blog. The lighting is much darker but the issue is gone. lol. Guess I will use that instead!
Probably not, at least not without some work on your part (or a lot of work, in the case of the older version of The Goddess).
I do have a version written directly to the .319 binary available for download on my Flickr account, though. Bear in mind that it's a totally different codebase - I re-built around the KR ENB preset - it has a lot of the look and feel of these versions, but is still pretty different.
Most new binaries introduce new features, some of which may be enabled by default. If you drop in a new binary, it has no settings for those new features, so it writes default settings to the ini files, none of which are remotely balanced to work with the other features. Boris may also have re-written the way things like SSAO, subsurface scattering, day/night detection etc. work, which may need to be accounted for by modifying the ENB settings. As a result you're likely to get some unexpected, usually unpleasant results using a much newer version of the binary.
The version of The Goddess hosted here that's intended for use with the .12.12.12 binary for example is 5 years out of date - there's five years of new settings and code changes that would have to be accounted for. Even the newer version, written for the .305 binary, doesn't support some newer features that can change appearances pretty dramatically.
Oki dokie, thanks much for the fast reply and link! Glad to find a ENB preset that I like the look of to go with my very basic ENB {no presets just the setup to add presets to it}
Is there no way to get the vignette in the new version? Also, my in game ENB menu doesn't come up. What is the key combination for this preset? Shift+Enter doesn't work for me for some reason...
Try shift-backslash for the menu... I usually move it away from enter because otherwise I find I end up accidentally entering things in the menu every time I close it.
As for the vignette, I assume you mean the letterbox effect. Once you get the menu open look under the effect.txt section of the shader window and find the "letterbox" section, then just click next to the name and adjust the size to your taste. There is actually a vignette section as well, which basically darkens the corners of the image to add a sort of framing effect.
Don't hit "Apply Changes" - it sounds like the obvious choice, but what it actually does is re-load all of the shader files. Terrible wording from Boris on those menu entries. Instead you need to hit "Save Configuration" and close the editor... that writes the change to the ini file so that it's persistent.
It is rather misleading. I did figure it out though, thanks. It couldn't find any threads about anyone having the same problem so I am not sure you will be able to replicate it. Is it possible it has something to do with my graphics card?
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also your v121212 link tells you to edit binary variables that aren't even present in the skyrim prefs file.
If you've never used an ENB preset before, you have to edit some one line in your prefs file so that files so that things render properly. That's it. If my instructions are tough for you to follow look at literally any other ENB preset and follow their instructions - they're the same steps.
And the 121212 file is from 2012 FFS - I'd be surprised if it works at all today. I'm certainly not supporting it anymore.
I recently took these screenshots with the new 305 version of this preset. It looks... off. Did I install it wrong or is this just how the preset is supposed to look?
http://imgur.com/a/YbE8c
Also if I did install it wrong can somebody tell me how to properly install it and/or link some screenshots of the v305 preset in action?
(btw I would like to say that The Goddess 121212 version is my favorite ENB of all time so thank you Anaphiel for that!)
Glad that you liked the older versions - the newer builds are (IMO) better and more balanced in some meaningful ways, but I'm still struggling to achieve those improvements with the overall character of the older builds.
If you're ever interested in screenshots, my Flickr and Tumblr accounts have more than you'd ever really want to look at. The ENB preset that I'm using for those shots is fundamentally similar to the version here - I haven't been developing it in any systematic way for quite a while now, just tinkering and tweaking here and there.
I have since done some tweaking to the enblocal, and it appears that when I disable "EnableMultipleWeathers", the sky goes from an unnatural-looking purple colour to more of a normal blue colour. It also fixed a recurring crash-to-desktop when in exteriors. Any idea why?
Other than that, the preset looks amazing (interiors are sooooo good). Thanks a bunch.
To find out what weather is active, open the ENB editor by hitting shift-backslash (if that doesn't work try shift-return; I usually change the default but not always). Once that's open, near the top of the left-most pane you should see the option to show the weather panel;. At the top of the weather panel is the current and outgoing weather and the name of the weather file that's being read. Both of those bits of info would be helpful.
I use Dramatic Clouds
True Storms- Thunder and rain redone
Downpour
Minty's Lightning
Wonder's of Weather
Edit: Also just so we're on the same page I am using the 308 version of the binary cause I needed the memory boost.
There are a ton of unfinished or unbalanced weather settings in this version, and this weather seems to be one of them.
EDIT: Okay. I have noticed since turning that setting to 0 the air is blue now instead of purple.Is this normal? I posted a pic.
As always I suggest following me on Flickr and grabbing newer builds as I post them, or if you prefer the older builds either accept that they have some (occasionally very) rough spots or tinker with them yourself and fine-tune it to your taste. I'm sorry, but I don't really have enough spare time to work on my current ENB build, much less to re-install old, abandoned presets to work on them.
Edit: trying out the new one. Holy crap some of your characters on your flickr page have amazing dresses/robes. Is the ENB on your flickr account letterbox compatible? I am trying to turn it on via the instructions in an earlier post but it isn't showing up?
Edit again: I like the look of the old enb better. The interiors on the new one are amazing but I loved the exterior coloration on the .308 better. Hopefully someday the newer one will look like it. I am gonna try the old one with ELFX and Vivid weathers and just tinker with the fog.
I like the exterior of the old enb and the interiors of the new one LOL. Too bad I can't do both.
Thanks for all the help!
There are actually a bunch of different preset builds available through my Flickr account - check the "File Releases" and :ENB Releases" albums... my suggestion is to look at the screenshots, find some that you like the look of, and try to find the build that's closest in date to them (or message me there - I have most of the builds that I've made archived, most of which never got uploaded). Most of the older ones are based off of the same codebase that I've uploaded here on the Nexus (or similar), while most of the newer ones are based on my KR ENB re-make (which I think looks more like the older Goddess than you'd think a lot of the time, although it is sharper and brighter in the most common weathers).
As far as letterboxing goes, yep, pretty much every version that I make has that feature. It can be in different places depending on the build, but usually it's in the Effect.txt settings. In the latest KR ENB builds you just pop open the editor, look for the Effect.txt section of the Shader Parameters tab, and scroll down to "Letterbox". Click on the line that says "Letterbox" and you'll see a check pop up next to it and the letterbox will be active - you can adjust the slider to whatever thickness you prefer using the "Letterbox Size (%)" control.
As far as the letterbox goes I did find something that says "Letterbox %" and I tried to increase the number but nothing happened. I didn't notice a check box. I will look again.
Edit: Oooh I see what you mean. I didn't even realize I had to click on that. LOL.
I am trying to find that nini's Adler Armor conversion armor your character is wearing but I think it's gone the way of the dodo.
I do have a version written directly to the .319 binary available for download on my Flickr account, though. Bear in mind that it's a totally different codebase - I re-built around the KR ENB preset - it has a lot of the look and feel of these versions, but is still pretty different.
Most new binaries introduce new features, some of which may be enabled by default. If you drop in a new binary, it has no settings for those new features, so it writes default settings to the ini files, none of which are remotely balanced to work with the other features. Boris may also have re-written the way things like SSAO, subsurface scattering, day/night detection etc. work, which may need to be accounted for by modifying the ENB settings. As a result you're likely to get some unexpected, usually unpleasant results using a much newer version of the binary.
The version of The Goddess hosted here that's intended for use with the .12.12.12 binary for example is 5 years out of date - there's five years of new settings and code changes that would have to be accounted for. Even the newer version, written for the .305 binary, doesn't support some newer features that can change appearances pretty dramatically.
As for the vignette, I assume you mean the letterbox effect. Once you get the menu open look under the effect.txt section of the shader window and find the "letterbox" section, then just click next to the name and adjust the size to your taste. There is actually a vignette section as well, which basically darkens the corners of the image to add a sort of framing effect.
Every time I click apply changes to add the letterbox my game freezes and then the letterbox disappears.