Skyrim Special Edition

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The Blender Animator

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About this mod

A complete overhaul of all the water in Skyrim - using real-world values for reflections and refraction. (ESL)

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Why is this better

It makes use of the normal map layering system to layer 3 normal maps on top of each other this allows us to imitate very high-quality normal maps without taking up nearly as much memory.

  • The  Wave map - Represents waves created due to wind.
  • The Wave refraction map - Represents the distortion in the waves from rocks and sides.
  • The Wind map - Represents the small water disturbances created by the wind going over the top of the water

It also uses a new way of shading water that is more true to the real word version.

Also, there is an ESL flagged version if your low on load order slots

Screenshots without ENB
btw the grain is much less prominent in-game



Screenshots with ENB




Resolutions
[This mod comes in a range of resolutions going from 4K - 1K however not all the maps need to max quality so the resolution of each map varies - the name relates to the size of the largest resolution normal map.

Performance
With almost all mod you will expect to take a performance hit - however, I have optimised the size of these textures so performance shouldn't be an issue with this mod.

For modders
[b]Feel free to use this mod in your mods just make sure that you make this mod a dependency (You know what I mean)


This is the compilation of 15 separate water mods - in one esp

Hope You like it

Any questions a sticky post has been posted in the comments section that should clarify things.

Works with ENB - However, parallax support not added yet