A test upload. New zip contain only enbseries.ini, you still need all the files from ENBoost + SweetFX + the main file as before..
1) unzip to where the other files are (TESV.exe located), allow to overwrite. 2) open enblocal.ini, set UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics to FALSE. 3) this doesnt have fancy enb stuff like DoF or AO turned on.. Just lighting tweaks, and sunrays (because sunrays are awesome)
My current understanding of enb files are flawed, thus the enbseries.ini which are included as optional file download before WILL NOT produce the same thing that I'm getting in my game.. As it also require providing other files, which I dont have permission to redistribute.
1.5 released for Pure Weather v2.0, If you have too bright snow, make sure theres no snow texture in your texture/landscape folder (PW have its own snow texture in its bsa.. Which are less bright)
I added bloom setting (its highly negligible fps cost even tho both HDR and Bloom are enabled), but you can turn it off if you dont like it #define USE_BLOOM1 <- Change this to 0
I Limited my fps to 60, personally, I hardly drop to 40+ unless I really in battle with so many actors (aka Civil Wars)
Just thought I mentioned everyone the lack of screenshot from the beta enb is due to me actually ditching elfx and go for relighting skyrim.. Honestly, elfx is much more colorful but IMHO, relighting skyrim are in a way, more realistic.. Coupled with ELE, I think its way more better and even tho I now turned on enb effect, granted, only a few lighting tweaks and sunrays + detailed shadow, I think it can work (without dropping too much fps).
Um, not sure if I missed something but the files on the Files tab only contain txt files. Wow, can I say the f word one more time? I thought this was a preset of some sort. Do I have to go through and manually set this up? If so, no sweat. Screenshots really do look amazing
Yep I missed something alright. I didn't read the readme. Thanks for this Deane. I'll have to reference you on my site, http://www.cdemarco.net/skyrim/
I've been poking around ENB a bit. For those that interested, You can try SkyRealism ENB Preset ( http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/23765/? ), Try the Vanilla preset.. but turned off everything except SunRay and Detailed Shadow. It costs about 6fps for me..
To install that ENB preset.. 1) open the vanila preset folder in there, 2) copy everything BUT enblocal.ini 3) open enbseries.ini in notepad 4) scroll to [effect] section, set everything to false except EnableDetailedShadow and EnableSunRays 5) in enblocal.ini, set UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics to false
Fine SweetFX setting, fits Pure Weather's aesthetics perfectly IMO! Endorsed. (Also I'd like to confirm that the scroll locks switch does work perfectly well with this.) One word about recommending Dynavision with Pure Weather: Laast himself advocates against this because Dynavision overwrites his own DOF effects which are indeed quite awesome (especially in cloudy/misty weather). I've used Dynavision as a must-have-mod for two years and loved it, but after trying PW without it I ditched it and haven't missed it yet. YMMV of course.
Thank you for liking it. Its not really a popular setting that peoples know :3 ..
I used an aggresive setting for Dynavision.. static 1.2 (almost maxxed out) compared to the default 0.8 so it blurs out faraway waterfalls (they are ugly) - and that mod that animates them are quite heavy on performance. If you are leave Dynavision setting unchanged, then yes.. its quite redundant -its almost similar.
Haha yes, I used Dynavision in a very similar way, to blur the ugly LOD. But what I meant was Pure Weather's DoF changes according to the weather, which I like - on clear days it's faint, but on foggy days or in a snowstorm it's very strong, much like Dynavision on high settings; whereas with Dynavision it's the same on all days. (Still looks great, of course.)
Curiosity got the better of me thus I tried to go without Dynavision for once.. lucky for me, the next morning was a cloudy day so I dont have to wait for long to see the effect.. Safe to say I now have an extra esp slot free
Now what to do with those ugly waterfall on clear day..
the scroll lock switch doesnt work with this preset, WTF
YOU TOOK OUT THE OPTION ,, I FOUND IT IN THE ORIGINAL SETTINGS, ADDED IT BACK AND NOW IT WORKS , sry, caps
anyway, the option to turn it off its pretty useful when having a lot of mods, and FPS gets very low, every but helps, but true, this preset makes the game a lot more beautiful, it doesnt need turning off,,,absolutely zero performance loss, i tried in a lot of locations, turned on and turned off, same FPS
and finally the game looks almost like in this picture , the mountains feel a whole lot more bigger and realistic now that theyre blue and not dark grey, so thank you, amazing mod, endorsed
I didnt move it I swear.. I uses the default sweetfx setting file from sweetfx 1.5.1 which doesnt includes the keyboard settings
But it shouldnt change the key tho, scroll lock still works in my game, the missing key setting just prevents you to change it .. This download only 3 files, and 1 of them is a readme
After PW 1.9, I still doesnt see the reason to change this setting, altho I now uses vibrance 0.12 instead of this 0.5 setting.. I'll give this setting another review once Laast update PW to v2.
cool, ill test vibrance 0.12 setting thx for the tipp, but i dont think it can get any better than this preset from here , but maybe a few small tweaks make it even better
1.4 released. I believe as long as the 2 main mod remains unchanged (aka Pure Weather 1.3 and SweetFX 1.5.1) this will be the final version.. In fact I think as long as SweetFX isnt releasing new stuff to play, this will be unchanged as well..
Thank to all downloaders and endorsers. Also those who gave me kudos.
Tried several snow replacers even HD one and still its too bright, the brightness come from Pure Weather itself, you can press scrolllock to turn off Sweetfx and still get that bright snow effect. Tone down the display setting 1 notch helps a bit.
Also, turn off all AA setting from Skyrim and your graphic card.. SMAA from SweetFX are superior.
If the colors from this too colorful for you, open the sweetfx_settings.txt, scroll down to this line #define Vibrance 0.5 and change it to something lower. 0 will keep pure weather color and simply use this setting for the SMAA and HDR.
1.3 uploaded.. however I have a bit of problem with a rogue mod screwing my game so I need to go on a bit of bug hunting.. Please help with screenshots ._.
Changes 1.3 =========== 1) Removes a couple of redundant setting, fps gain is not much, but every bits help. 2) play with shadow setting.. now it shouldnt be too dark in shadowy area and nights are a bit tolerable (still dark and require torch in most area)
To do list ========= 1) Those damn white snows on sunny days still need tweaking. but other then that, I dunno what else to add.
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1) unzip to where the other files are (TESV.exe located), allow to overwrite.
2) open enblocal.ini, set UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics to FALSE.
3) this doesnt have fancy enb stuff like DoF or AO turned on.. Just lighting tweaks, and sunrays (because sunrays are awesome)
Feedback welcome.
Sorry for those that have download it.
I added bloom setting (its highly negligible fps cost even tho both HDR and Bloom are enabled), but you can turn it off if you dont like it
#define USE_BLOOM1 <- Change this to 0
I Limited my fps to 60, personally, I hardly drop to 40+ unless I really in battle with so many actors (aka Civil Wars)
And its Purity + Relighting Skyrim + ELE combo but it should works pretty well with ELFX too.
Sunrays(ok.. sunglare)! without ENB !!
Now if I can emulate detailed shadow from ENB I'll be elated.
To install that ENB preset..
1) open the vanila preset folder in there,
2) copy everything BUT enblocal.ini
3) open enbseries.ini in notepad
4) scroll to [effect] section, set everything to false except EnableDetailedShadow and EnableSunRays
5) in enblocal.ini, set UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics to false
One word about recommending Dynavision with Pure Weather: Laast himself advocates against this because Dynavision overwrites his own DOF effects which are indeed quite awesome (especially in cloudy/misty weather). I've used Dynavision as a must-have-mod for two years and loved it, but after trying PW without it I ditched it and haven't missed it yet. YMMV of course.
I used an aggresive setting for Dynavision.. static 1.2 (almost maxxed out) compared to the default 0.8 so it blurs out faraway waterfalls (they are ugly) - and that mod that animates them are quite heavy on performance. If you are leave Dynavision setting unchanged, then yes.. its quite redundant -its almost similar.
Now what to do with those ugly waterfall on clear day..
YOU TOOK OUT THE OPTION
anyway, the option to turn it off its pretty useful when having a lot of mods, and FPS gets very low, every but helps, but true, this preset makes the game a lot more beautiful, it doesnt need turning off,,,absolutely zero performance loss, i tried in a lot of locations, turned on and turned off, same FPS
and finally the game looks almost like in this picture
https://www.google.ro/search?q=skyrim+concept+art&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=QnUcVJywIYTXyQOh1YCYAw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1241&bih=605#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=G2PD0GnGpwAXdM%253A%3BfCFoWz9yxVnvUM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fstatic-2.nexusmods.com%252F15%252Fmods%252F110%252Fimages%252F24157-2-1364677518.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.nexusmods.com%252Fskyrim%252Fmods%252F24157%3B1920%3B1080
But it shouldnt change the key tho, scroll lock still works in my game, the missing key setting just prevents you to change it
After PW 1.9, I still doesnt see the reason to change this setting, altho I now uses vibrance 0.12 instead of this 0.5 setting.. I'll give this setting another review once Laast update PW to v2.
Thank to all downloaders and endorsers. Also those who gave me kudos.
Tried several snow replacers even HD one and still its too bright, the brightness come from Pure Weather itself, you can press scrolllock to turn off Sweetfx and still get that bright snow effect. Tone down the display setting 1 notch helps a bit.
Also, turn off all AA setting from Skyrim and your graphic card.. SMAA from SweetFX are superior.
If the colors from this too colorful for you, open the sweetfx_settings.txt, scroll down to this line
#define Vibrance 0.5
and change it to something lower. 0 will keep pure weather color and simply use this setting for the SMAA and HDR.
it makes the snow less bright, which should help if you're having trouble with that
but thanks anyway
Changes 1.3
===========
1) Removes a couple of redundant setting, fps gain is not much, but every bits help.
2) play with shadow setting.. now it shouldnt be too dark in shadowy area and nights are a bit tolerable (still dark and require torch in most area)
To do list
=========
1) Those damn white snows on sunny days still need tweaking. but other then that, I dunno what else to add.
Lastly.. feedback please.