I made this for a few reasons.. one was to just do something different. I also like to hide LODs and pop in as much as possible. Water reflections and volumetric lighting don't work properly in VR so having no direct sunlight makes it so you can retain proper coloring of the water.. And lastly in VR aliasing is most noticeable in clear sunny weather so this helps that aspect a lot.

List of changes from original Obsidian

1. All clear sunny weathers removed. The new base weather is an overcast cloudy weather.

2. Removed most rainy weathers(only rainy weather is the magic storm)  and increased chance for foggy weather. Snow is kept to areas that normally get snow but did add small chance for snow in/around whiterun

3. Added small chance to have the blood red eclipse from Dawnguard DLC in various areas

4. Removed bloom and eye adaption from all image spaces



Do NOT use the seasons feature when using this version of Obsidian

I HIGHLY recommend pairing with my recommended mod list below.


Real Life Snowflake 

Real Rain - this kind of looks off in VR but some might prefer it.

Morning Fogs

Ethereal Clouds

Ethereal Cosmos (you won't see the Sky that much with this weather setup)

No Snow under roof of course get any patches for various mods you have

No Snow Under Roof Fixes

Volcanic Mushrooms

Realistic Waters Two with Skyland Watercolor

Smooth Shores

For trees I think this works best with 3D Trees

I use The Great Forest of Whiterun Hold so the Tundra weather was setup with that in mind.. Alpine Forest will work as well but neither is required.


For a nice horror experience use Rogue-Like Encounters Monster Only Core version

Thanks again to the authors of the Great Obsidian Weathers mod