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About this mod
A semi-realistic balanced ENB preset for Cathedral, Mythical Ages and Obsidian. The goal was to achieve a beautiful, reasonably realistic, correct image.
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Clarity - Balanced ENB
News:
Night Eye and Predator Vision compatible now (thanks to user Fallven for the idea), different visual settings for saturation, luminance, and sharpness have been added (v1.4).
Description:
Clarity ENB was created to obtain a realistic and beautiful image, realism is not to reduce the saturation of colors (the image should remain beautiful and attractive), but to correctly display each of the details that you see on the screen.
Detailed description:
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A correct image means the following:
- Proper lighting day and night, the more cloudy the weather, the darker, and not vice versa. Light enough only on a cloudless night
- At night, the clouds are dark, not white
- On a sunny day, the environment looks saturated and vibrant, as it should be
- The color of the fog is adjusted, very light fog (lighter than the sky) in the distance is excluded
- A significant reduction in direct sunlight during sunsets and sunrises (when the sun is already below the horizon and there is no direct sunlight)
- Contrast, brightness and colors are set realistically depending on the time of day
- General lighting setting so that the image looks harmonious
Clarity ENB passed rigorous testing (dozens of hours for each weather mod) to identify and correct deficiencies, in this ENB you will not see green sky, blue sun, purple grass, too bright and dark details of the landscape or sky and similar flaws, everything has been checked and fixed. Just enter set timescale to 500 in the console and look at the change of time of day. Do not forget to return the default settings by entering set timescale to 20 in the console :)
Additionally, I made a universal preset that you can use with any weather mod. It has generalized settings that are more or less suitable for different weather mods. In terms of depth of development, it is far from the presets for Mythical Ages and Obsidian. This preset, of course, has not been thoroughly tested with all weather mods, since it will take hundreds of hours, which I don't have.
Although the universal preset does not give the correct image everywhere, it is still working and ready to use.
- Proper lighting day and night, the more cloudy the weather, the darker, and not vice versa. Light enough only on a cloudless night
- At night, the clouds are dark, not white
- On a sunny day, the environment looks saturated and vibrant, as it should be
- The color of the fog is adjusted, very light fog (lighter than the sky) in the distance is excluded
- A significant reduction in direct sunlight during sunsets and sunrises (when the sun is already below the horizon and there is no direct sunlight)
- Contrast, brightness and colors are set realistically depending on the time of day
- General lighting setting so that the image looks harmonious
Clarity ENB passed rigorous testing (dozens of hours for each weather mod) to identify and correct deficiencies, in this ENB you will not see green sky, blue sun, purple grass, too bright and dark details of the landscape or sky and similar flaws, everything has been checked and fixed. Just enter set timescale to 500 in the console and look at the change of time of day. Do not forget to return the default settings by entering set timescale to 20 in the console :)
Additionally, I made a universal preset that you can use with any weather mod. It has generalized settings that are more or less suitable for different weather mods. In terms of depth of development, it is far from the presets for Mythical Ages and Obsidian. This preset, of course, has not been thoroughly tested with all weather mods, since it will take hundreds of hours, which I don't have.
Although the universal preset does not give the correct image everywhere, it is still working and ready to use.
Technical description:
- Using the almost complete set of functions of the latest versions of ENB, including Wet Effects, Rays, Particle Lights and others
- Intensive use of the weather system, which, although it takes a lot of time, but allowed me to fine-tune each type of weather, including the introduction of separate settings for the weather in Solstheim
- Different image quality settings
- Clarity ENB does not darken interiors, if you want to, use other mods, for example: ELE, RLO (without weather) or ELFX with Enhancer
- Clarity ENB is absolutely completely based on Skyrim Re-Engaged ENB by Firemanaf (with his permission), all shaders are taken from Skyrim Re-Engaged ENB, I just made some settings
For a more interesting image, it is recommended to use ENB Light and a series of mods Rudy HQ - More Lights for ENB SE. At the same time, the use of these mods is absolutely not necessary, the ENB works without them.
If you want to change some ENB settings:
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The brightness of the nights and interiors:
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While in the game, press Shift + Enter, look at the right side of the menu that appears, open the enbeffect.fx tab, Find the string Nights & Interior Adjustors and edit the brightness of nights and interiors as you like.
Saturation, Sharp and Blur:
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While in the game, press Shift + Enter, look at the right side of the menu that appears, open the enbeffectpostpass.fx tab, and edit the following parameters as desired:
- Technicolor2_Saturation and DPXSaturation (to change the saturation of the image)
- Sharp: amount, Sharp: range (to change the sharpness of the image)
- Blur: amount, Blur: range (to change the blurriness of the image)
- Technicolor2_Saturation and DPXSaturation (to change the saturation of the image)
- Sharp: amount, Sharp: range (to change the sharpness of the image)
- Blur: amount, Blur: range (to change the blurriness of the image)
Brightness of the characters' eyes:
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While in the game, press Shift + Enter, look at the left side of the menu that appears, scroll down to the EYE tab, change the IgnoreWeatherSystem parameter from false to true, and change the parameters SubSurfaceScatteringMultiplier, SpecularAmountMultiplier as you want
If you see red squares under puddles of blood of fallen enemies:
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If you see red squares under puddles of blood of fallen enemies, then you have installed mods that change blood. I did my best to eliminate this bug, but unfortunately it was not possible to completely eliminate it. The bug appears in cloudy weather due to the fact that the ENB dynamically forms shadows from clouds, and puddles of blood from mods, that change blood, apparently do not take this into account. I’m not ready to refuse this feature of the ENB. If you can’t refuse to use blood modifying mods, turn off the cloud shadow feature in the ENB, this will make cloudy weather less atmospheric (lighter), but there will be no errors. To disable cloud shadows, while in the game, press Shift + Enter, look at the left side of the menu that appears, scroll down to the CLOUDSHADOWS tab, then change the IgnoreWeatherSystem parameter from false to true.
Hotkeys:
Shift + Enter - enable / disable the ENB menu
Shift + F12 - enable / disable ENB
Shift + F10 - enable / disable the DOF effect
* - show FPS
Night Eye and Predator Vision:
For correct functioning of the night eye and other in-game effects, as well as predator vision mod, you need to install the ENB Image Space Fix (only the main file, not patch) and my ESP (patch). Both ESP are flagged as ESL, so they won't take up space in your load order.
If you don't want to install the ENB Image Space Fix for some reason, you must uncheck "Apply Game Color Correction" in the enbeffect.fx tab, otherwise, the image will be incorrect.
Installation:
1. Install the desired weather mod
2. Install the ENB Image Space Fix (only the main file, not patch)
3. Download and install ENB Helper SE
4. Download the latest ENB, unzip and copy the following files into your SkyrimSE folder: d3d11.dll, d3dcompiler_46e.dll
5. Download Clarity - Balanced ENB for the weather mod you need, unzip it and:
- copy all files from the 1_Main folder into your SkyrimSE folder
- install Patch with your mod manager from folder 2_Patches, load order:
1."weather mod".esp
2.ENBImageSpaceFix.esp
3."Patch".esp
- choose the settings you need from folders 3...6, copy and overwrite files to your SkyrimSE folder
6. Disable Godrays, Ambient Occlusion, Snow Shader and Lens Flare in the Skyrim Launcher, make sure that the in-game brightness slider is set to the default position. Version for Cathedral and Obsidian can work with vanilla volumetric rays, but does not require them to be enabled. Turning on vanilla volumetric rays in the Skyrim Launcher causes a drop of about 4 FPS on my PC.
I also highly recommend calibrating your monitor.
Sorry for my English, it's not my native language.
ENB was created on the build with the following mods:
- Skyrim Particle Patch for ENB SE
- Relighting Skyrim - SSE
- Enhanced Lighting for ENB (ELE) - Special Edition
- ENB Light
- Series of mods Rudy HQ - More Lights for ENB SE
- Skyland - A Landscape Texture Overhaul
- Lightweight Water Overhaul
- Slightly modified Northern Grass SE
- Skyrim Flora Overhaul SE (Trees Only Version)
- Realistic Aspen Trees SE
- TREES ADDON SE
- Tempered Skins for Males
- Tempered Skins for Females
Credits:
This ENB preset is based on Skyrim Re-Engaged ENB by Firemanaf (many thanks to him for permission).