FAQ: -Parallax is like an older version of Tesselation. It's a heightmap and a stronger depth effect than a normal map. ( hope this is an ok explanation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_mapping
-You need meshes with activated parallax and an according "_p.dds" texture like in LE.
- This only works for meshes so far, not for terrain(world)
- Some meshes turn blue ingame with parallax. Then they need Shader flag 2: vertex color checked and! BsTriShape: Vertex Desc: Vertex Flags: Colors checked
- There is an old parallax tutorial by me on my LE mods
When rendering a mesh, the game looks up which shader to use based on flags. So for example Parallax+Vertex Colors+Specular is a specific flag combination that loads a specific shader. If it can't find a shader, it just doesn't render - which is why you end up with things turning blue.
The shader for "Parallax alone" is missing, but "Parallax + VC" exists, and so does "Parallax + VC + Specular", so for now all parallax meshes MUST have vertex colors, or they will not render.
I hope to inject the non-VC Parallax shader at some point but that's for future dev.
for anyone having trouble with this mod when uninstalling it (I wanted to switch to using community shaders for the new updates it has). Uninstalling SSE PSF (this mod) caused ctd on loadup. After reading through bunch of random s#*! for some reason uninstalling "detection meter" or "detection meter ng" worked for me (stopped the ctd caused by this mod). I also removed the "sseshadertools.dll" from this mod in the skse plugins. Don't know if that had an impact but this fixed all my problems - thought I'd share the info
ok, I found it after going over the comments more carefully. However, it's an archived version with reports of CTDs. I'll give it a try, but I don't expect it to work for now. I hope aers will soon release an official update!
I don't suppose it'd be possible to keep an old file section? Every time Bethesda changes the color of their cash shop font and releases it as a a new update, breaking all the .dll or popping off with error messages are supper annoying. I understand why mod authors don't want to keep up to date. It'd be nice if everyone could keep an archive for each version of skyrim so that we don't have to choose which mods we can or can't use. We'd just have to sync with the version.
'This is "bEnableImprovedSnow" in your ini file. In addition, landscape specular must be enabled (bLandSpecular), but this is default enabled afaik.' which folder?
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FAQ:
-Parallax is like an older version of Tesselation. It's a heightmap and a stronger depth effect than a normal map. ( hope this is an ok explanation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_mapping
-You need meshes with activated parallax and an according "_p.dds" texture like in LE.
- This only works for meshes so far, not for terrain(world)
- Some meshes turn blue ingame with parallax. Then they need Shader flag 2: vertex color checked and! BsTriShape: Vertex Desc: Vertex Flags: Colors checked
- There is an old parallax tutorial by me on my LE mods
Thank you aers for this great, great feature
When rendering a mesh, the game looks up which shader to use based on flags. So for example Parallax+Vertex Colors+Specular is a specific flag combination that loads a specific shader. If it can't find a shader, it just doesn't render - which is why you end up with things turning blue.
The shader for "Parallax alone" is missing, but "Parallax + VC" exists, and so does "Parallax + VC + Specular", so for now all parallax meshes MUST have vertex colors, or they will not render.
I hope to inject the non-VC Parallax shader at some point but that's for future dev.
Its possible some ENB effects wont apply to meshes with parallax due to the way ENB shader patching works.
1. Is this a problem?
2. Can I fix it from my end?
3. Is an official fix planned?
Edit: There is a fix if you see the comments for an updated one made by another person.
I'll give it a try, but I don't expect it to work for now. I hope aers will soon release an official update!
Updated Version, personally using on 1.640 incase anyone still needs it
(Edit: See also GeneralJohn's comment over there for getting things working as, ironically, the updated mod is also out of date.)
Every time Bethesda changes the color of their cash shop font and releases it as a a new update, breaking all the .dll or popping off with error messages are supper annoying. I understand why mod authors don't want to keep up to date. It'd be nice if everyone could keep an archive for each version of skyrim so that we don't have to choose which mods we can or can't use. We'd just have to sync with the version.
It taunts me from the archive section