Skyrim Special Edition

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This is a ReShade preset featuring shaders to make Skyrim feel cold, less vibrant and less welcoming. As it should be! Includes conditional shaders, and a RayTracing shader among other effects.

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Somber Reflection - A Raytraced ReShade Preset
This is a ReShade preset featuring shaders to make Skyrim feel cold, less vibrant and less welcoming. As it should be! Includes conditional shaders, and a RayTracing shader among other effects. It aims to provide a believable image in all circumstances, with a realistic color palette and realistic lighting.

This preset includes my new conditional shaders and my ray tracing shader.
The raytracing shader I coded uses a simple ray marching technique to trace rays through the scene and accumulate the color and distance along the ray.

Keep in mind that this shader is not a complete ray tracing solution and would not provide the same level of accuracy and realism as hardware-accelerated ray tracing.

The benefit however is that this shader is not costly on performance, and still produces a relative good ray tracing effect.



No ENB was used on the screenshots, only Haze Weathers 2 and Veydogolt with Veydogolt Trees.

Soft Requirements
Community Shaders and its add-ons: Grass Collision - Grass Lighting - Tree LOD Lighting
SSE ReShade Helper to render all effects under the Skyrim UI

Installation
- Download ReShade 5.8.0 (or later) with full add-on support
- Download this preset here and put it in your Skyrim folder
- Run Skyrim and when on the title page, press 'Home' on your keyboard to access ReShade
- Select 'Somber Reflection' as your preset
- Play and enjoy!

Special Thanks / Credits
CeeJay.dk for the UI used in my Conditional Vibrance shader.
DKT70 and CeeJay.dk for code used in my Conditional Technicolor shader.
Pascal Matthäus ( Euda ), Marot Satil, JJXB for code used in my Conditional SSDO shader.