NORTHERN WILDERNESS 1.2 - RESHADE PRESET //

Northern Wilderness is a preset for ReShade 3

This is based on "Cool Wasteland Preset" for Fallout4

CHANGELOG VERSION 1.0

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FEATURES

*Cooler color palette (More blue+green, less red - This removes the colorful warm/orange look of Vanilla game)
*Outwashed look, reduced saturation
*Darker, more vibrant Sky
*Dynamic depth of field
*More contrast
*More sharpness & details (better looking textures)
*decent grain-effect for reducing color-banding
*Nice performance

INSTALLATION

For using this preset you need ReShade v3.

Download Reshade: http://reshade.me/
Install ReShade & Preset:
Download ReShade Installer and select Skyrim SE Game EXE "SkyrimSE.exe".
Click on "Direct3D 10+" button (it's already selected so click again) and accept downloading collection of standard effects from github. Select all, press OK.
Copy "Northern_Wilderness_1_0.ini" to your main Skyrim folder. (steam/steamapps/common/skyrim special edition)
That's it.
Start the Game.
There's an initialisation lag during loading screen.
Open ReShade overlay by pressing "SHIFT+F2". You can follow the integrated tutorial.

*SELECT NORTHERN WILDERNESS 1.0 PRESET IN OVERLAY TO APPLY SETTINGS*

ReShade should now work.

Add this to dxgi.ini to enable HOTKEYS:

[INPUT]
KeyMenu=113,0,1
InputProcessing=2
KeyScreenshot=44,0,0
KeyEffects=145,0,0

*Access ReShade interface by pressing "SHIFT+F2"
*You can turn off ReShade by pressing the "SCROLL"-KEY.
*Pressing "PRINT" allows you to save PNG Screenshots in your Skyrim folder.
*You can toggle the DOF with the "PAUSE"-KEY

If you don't like the DOF you can deactivate it permanently:
Open ReShade interface and Toogle off "Matso-DOF".

ENJOY!


Mods used in my screenshots:

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This preset should work fine with AMD/Nvidia mid-class single GPUs and won't drain your peformance.
The Preset was tested with AMD Radeon R9 290X XFire 4GB VRAM, Intel i7 4770K @4,5Ghz 16GB RAM - 1080p, Ultra Settings.
Small impact on performance, if you experience issues you can leave a comment.

KNOWN ISSUES

*DOF makes HUD blurry.

CREDITS

Thanks to crosire (ReShade developer), Ganossa (ReShade Assistant tool developer), CeeJay.dk, Marty McFly, JPulowski for the great ReShade Framework.
http://reshade.me/