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About this mod
A dark fantasy visual preset for SE inspired by The Grim and Somber ENB (Jyggalag version) for the Old Skyrim
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PLEASE:If you downloaded and liked my preset, don't forget to return here and click on "ENDORSE"! That's my only request to you! I've spent too much time and work with it, so endorsing my mod you will be helping me and I will appreciate it so much. Thank you all!!
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Somber Phantasy is an ENB Preset for Skyrim Special Edition made for those who like a harsh and dramatic visual with dark and, sometimes, foggy atmosphere, without expressive saturation. It was inspired by Jyggalag version of the amazing The Grim and Somber ENB for the old Skyrim version. So If you liked that preset in the old game, probably you'll like this one for SE. Everything carefully tweaked and tested for a great graphics experience with not too much impact on performance. If you prefer vivid colors, crisp and clear graphics, then this mod is not for you, so give a try to my Imaginarium ENB instead.
- REQUIREMENTS
Weather Mods: This ENB was tuned specifically for the mods Skyrim Legendary Weathers and Mythical Ages - Weathers and Lighting Overhaul by Arindel (omega2008). I got better results using these two mods for this type of look. Feel free to test with other mods (maybe some saturation adjustments will be necessary). I can't promisse that I'll make specific versions for X, Y, Z weather mod in the future.
Lighting Mods: The interiors settings are based on Enhanced Lights and FX mod, but MAYBE the look will be fine with others, feel free to try. For Enhanced Lights and FX DO NOT INSTALL the Weathers option and if you don't like darker interiors I suggest to not install the Enhancer option too. The Exteriors plugin is not recommended to be used with this preset. IMPORTANT: Enhanced Lights and FX esp plugin(s) must be bellow the weather mod one in the load order!
ENB Helper SE: It is necessary for the multiple weathers settings: ENB Helper SE This is a SKSE64 plugin, so obviously you also need SKSE64 installed in your game.The optional file "Old Skyrim SE Shader Bundle" is highly recommended, you can find it in the same page. IMPORTANT: As soon as Skyrim SE receives new updates from Bethesda, the ENB Helper SE also will need to be updated, so stay tuned about it. Multiple weathers function will not work if you update your game without update the ENB Helper SE.
VERY IMPORTANT: NEVER USE PrivateProfileRedirector SE with ENB. It will mess with some ENB settings, so you will have wrong visuals and will think that the ENB is causing problems. Remove it and reinstall the ENB if you already was using them together.
- INSTALLATION STEPS
*** Installation video tutorial (Portuguese-BR voiced) avaiable HERE
1- In the Game Launcher, choose TAA for AA
method and disable Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (ENB already has a much better one).
NMM or Vortex users: go to [Documents> My games> Skyrim Special Edition> Skyrimprefs.ini]
Mod Organizer 2 users: go to [ ......Mod Organizer2 > Profiles > Default > Skyrimprefs.ini]
find the following lines, set and save:
[Display]
fDynamicDOFBlurMultiplier=0
bIBLFEnable=0 ---> (VERY IMPORTANT!!!! You'll have lens flare problems if this line is set to 1)
fGamma=1.0000
bUse64bitsHDRRenderTarget=1
bVolumetricLightingEnable=0
bTreesReceiveShadows=1
bDrawLandShadows=1
bShadowsOnGrass=0
iVSyncPresentInterval=0
[Imagespace]
bLensFlare=1
If you don't have some of the [Display] lines above in your Skyrimprefs.ini, you can copy/paste them to somewhere under [Display] inthe file.
2- ONLY for NVIDIA users: If you are using HDMI conection, Its VERY IMPORTANT to set your Dynamic Range in full, in the graphics card control panel (see this image). For AMD Users: open AMD control panel, click on Gaming tab > Games > Global Graphics > Display > Pixel Format and set to: RGB 4:4:4 Pixel Format PC Standard (Full RGB).
3- Download the latest ENBseries from: http://enbdev.com/download_mod_tesskyrimse.htm
Open it and extract ONLY the files d3d11.dll and d3dcompiler_46e.dll from wrapper version folder to your Skyrim Special Edition folder ;
4- Download Somber Phantasy ENB from files tab of this Nexus page, open it and extract the content
(enbseries folder, enblocal.ini and enbseries.ini) to your Skyrim Special Edition Folder;
5- Run the game and enjoy the new look.
The basic installation finishes here. If you want to customize some settings see the options bellow.
- OPTIONAL ADJUSTMENTS
*Basic Color Correction: If you want to adjust saturation, brightness and contrast to suit your tastes, no problem! You can do it in ENB GUI (Shift + Enter ingame menu), go to ENBEFFECT.FX and adjust CC:Contrast , CC:Saturation, CC:Brightness, etc.... Don't forget to click on SAVE CONFIGURATION to keep these changes in your game .
*Letterbox/ Grain/ Vignette/ Sharp Amount: The Letterbox effect (black bars up and down on the screen), Grain and Vignette are disabled by default. You can turn ON/OFF these effects any time ingame in the ENB GUI > ENBEFFECTPOSTPASS.FX . You can also adjust the black bars size, grain/vignette intensity and sharp amount in this same menu. Don't forget to click on SAVE CONFIGURATION if you want to keep these changes.
*ENB Rain Replacement: This feature is disabled by default, but if you want to try it open ENB menu (shift + Enter) > on the bottom of left window click on "RAIN" > check the line "enable" ( the green mark will appear) and click on SAVE CONFIGURATION on the top of same window.
**IMPORTANT: If after the installation your visuals are VERY different from my screenshots so, you did some mistake during installation or you also need to adjust colors, contrast , brightness , hue, etc. in your monitor. Leftovers files from other presets or 2+ weather/lighting mods at same time can cause issues.
- UNINSTALLATION
In the Skyrim SE Folder, delete: enbseries folder, d3d11.dll ; d3dcompiler_46e.dll ; enblocal.ini and enbseries.ini
- UPDATES
IMPORTANT: Before update to a new version of this preset please uninstall the previous one!
- PERFORMANCE
This ENB preset is already performance friendly and playable in Mid-End machines. With my specs (Intel i5 4690 3,5-3,9 Ghz ; GTX 1070 8gb VRAMand 16 gb RAM) I'm running the game + this preset with 60 FPS almost
all the time (1920 x 1080 resolution), but FPS drops occurs in some places.
I will not be working on performance versions of this preset, but if you need more FPS consider my main recommendations:
- Reduce (or disable) godrays , shadow distance and quality in the game launcher.
- Reduce your grass density increasing the value of iMinGrassSize=*** in the ini files.
- You can disable Sun Rays, ENB DOF and Ambient Occlusion( by shift + Enter ingame menu or setting EnableSunRays=false, EnableDepthOfField=false and EnableAmbientOcclusion=false in enbseries.ini). If disable ENB Ambient Occlusion I recommend to re-enable Screen Space Ambient Occlusion from the game in the launcher.
- In Graphics card control panel some settings can also increase performance.
- Highly recommend SSE Fixes to gain FPS in several places
- RECOMMENDED MODS (In installation Order)
- Ruins Clutter Improved
- Static Mesh Improvement Mod
- Skyrim Realistic Overhaul (Not avaiable on Nexus, so Google it!)
- NobleSkyrimMod HD-2k
- Enhanced Vanilla Trees (I'm using Custom Large option with Vurt's Foliage v1)
- Vivid Landscapes - All in one
- aMidianborn Landscape SE
- Verdant - A Skyrim Grass Plugin (or Veydosebrom version 1.0.0 or Realistic Grass Field)
- Beautiful Cities SSE
- Rustic Windows - Special Edition
- Nordic Snow (or Fluffy Snow)
- 8K Night Skies - Stars and Galaxies (I'm using 8k Natural Fantasy)
- Skygazer Moons SSE (I'm using the No Glow option)
- Realistic Water Two (watercolor option is not recommended)
- CREDITS:
- Bethesda for Skyrim Special Edition
- Boris Vorontsov for ENBseries
- aers for ENB helper SE
- Crosire for Reshade Framework (Some Reshade features were ported to ENB)
- Wolfgrimdark and Tansarville for the enb palette bitmap
- Arindel (omega2008) for Skyrim Legendary Weathers and Mythical Ages mods
- Marty MCFly for ENB ADOF and Lightroom shaders
- JawZ for enbeffectpostpass shaders (from MSL)
- Kingeric1992 for ENB sunsprite shader and texture
- Loadus for DPX Cineon Shader
- Ceejay for Curves and Fake HDR shaders
- Prod80 for Technicolor2 and Shadows shaders
- Adysss for the port of some external postpass features to ENB and for the Shader Addon
- MaxG3D and Firemanaf for the Bloom shaders used in this preset
- nanoman2000 for the ENB raindrop texture