Ever since I discovered ENB, the Study Of Light And Shade has fascinated me. One ENB in particular drew me in and "NLA" is where SOLAS ENB has it's roots, with clear, bright, sunny days and majestic views across Tamriel. However...
Skyrim is a misty place and when the clouds thicken, so does the atmosphere. Sometimes EPIC and OUTRAGEOUS, others soft and restrained, the drama is ramped up...and down as required, and whilst SOLAS ENB is an immersive and balanced ENB, it's mood, however, is not...FEATURESOverhauled Confidence Man Weathers - In the
original NLA, Confidence Man added a heap of new weathers and I've updated them all. Dreamy pastels and mustard fogs, full of flavour, they are the perfect complement to the rest of the mod.
New Weathers - Thundersnow in the vale, eruption weather in Solstheim, Oblivion weather during Helgen attack, Duststorms in the Soulcairn...etc, I've worked hard on adding diversity to all weathers, achieved by giving every weather its own custom ENB weather and together provides over 100 unique weathers.
Kitsuune shaders - SOLAS ENB contains a brand new set of advanced ENB shaders written by one of Skyrims best ENB coders, including anamorphic, sunsprite, lens, ring and sunsprite flares.
Kitsuune also contributed a new LUT by weathers shader, Underwater shader, AGIS, DoF and so much more.
Particle Snow - The vanilla snow shader lacks environment lighting control, resulting in bright white snowflakes in the middle of the night but not with particle snow.
Mangas excellent FX are also put to good use with distant rains, drifting fogs and full sky dust storms. Vanilla snow shader weathers have also been updated throughout.
Location Weather - This has been expanded and now covers Dungeons, Ice Caves, Mines and DwarvenRuins. This allow for seperate control of sensitive interior fog values which are required for many interiors where they provide fake illumination.
SOLAS ENB also utilises ENB wet rain surfaces,
ENB Particle lights, Game Volumteric Rays, TAA, and a subtle immersive DOF. There are
TWEAKING notes below for users after more performance
COMPATIBILITY and PATCHESSOLAS ENB was designed around
ELFX and ELFX Enhancer and also looks good with LUX, ELE, RLO etc. SOLAS ENB can be easily tweaked for other interior lighting mods like Windows Shadows with a few clicks in the
ENB GUI by
TWEAKINGThere is a patch for
Sounds Of Skyrim complete.
SOLAS ENB is designed to be used in tandem with its weather plugin as it has been heavily edited.
Other significant mods used during production include
ENB Light 2,
Myrkvior, Grasses of Galen (my own WIP Grass mod),
Fluffy Snow,
Daves Majestic Mountains Darker, and
Rustic Windows dimmer glow maps.
INSTALLATION & REQUIREMENTS Spoiler:
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IMPORTANT! Failure to set your graphics card to full range or incorrect monitor calibration, leads to a poorly lit, desaturated, washed out image.
Therefore
It is essential that you have set things up correctly and
you must set your Graphics Card set to Full Range Full range setup guide here for either
Nvidia or
AMD Monitor Calibration - Correct monitor calibration begins by resetting your monitor to default, then go to
Lagom LCD and ensure you setup everything correctly, in particular
Black level ENB Binary SSE (News/Download/TES Skyrim SE/v454 or later)
ENB HelperDVLASSImproved Atmosphere MeshStorm Lightning SSE - Enable Snowy Sheet/Fork, Enable Cloudy Sheet/Fork and set Advanced/Default Flash Distance to 4096
INI SETTINGS Spoiler:
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* = Compulsory edit, otherwise optional, but is what I currently use.
skyrim.ini
[Display]
*bDeactivateAOjavascript-event-stripped1
*bEnableSnowRimLighting=0
*bVolumetricLightingDisableInterior=1
fSparklesIntensity=0.20
[Grass]
bDrawShaderGrass=1
*bGrassPointLighting=1
[Imagespace]
iRadialBlurLevel=2
[Water]
*bReflectLODLand=1
*bReflectLODObjects=1
*bReflectLODTrees=1
bReflectSky=1
SkyrimPrefs.ini
[Display]
*bDrawLandShadows=1
*bEnableImprovedSnow=0
*bFXAAEnabled=0
*bIBLFEnable=0
bSAO_CS_Enable=0
bSAOEnable=0
*bScreenSpaceReflectijavascript-event-stripped1
*bShadowsjavascript-event-stripped1
bToggleSparkles=1
bFloatPointRenderTarget=0
*bTreesReceiveShadows=1
bUse64bitsHDRRenderTarget=1
*bUsePrecipitatijavascript-event-stripped1
*bUseTAA=1
*fTAAPostSharpen=0.675
*fTAASharpen=4.0000
*fTAAHighFreq=0.8000
*fTAALowFreq=0.5000
*fTAAPostOverlay=0.675
*bVolumetricLightingEnable=1
*fGamma=1.0000
fGlobalBrightnessBoost=0.0
fGlobalSaturatijavascript-event-stripped0.0
fGlobalCjavascript-event-stripped0.0
fGlobalBloomThresholdBoost=0.0
fSnowRimLightIntensity=0.5
fSnowGeometrySpecPower=0.5
fSnowNormalSpecPower=0.5
fSnowSSSStrength=0.0
fSnowSSSColorB=0.1
fSnowSSSColorG=0.1
fSnowSSSColorR=0.1
fSparklesDensity=0.85
fSparklesIntensity=0.5
fSparklesSize=14.0
fSparklesMaxDistance=2048
iSnowSSSCurrentColor=3
*iVolumetricLightingQuality=2
[Imagespace]
* bDoDepthOfField=1
* bLensFlare=1
[Water]
* bUseWaterDepth=1
* bUseWaterDisplacements=1
* bUseWaterReflections=1
* bUseWaterRefractions=1

LOAD ORDER Spoiler:
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RESOURCES (MO2 left pane)
Skyrim Particle Patch for ENB SSE
Unofficial Material Fix
Assorted Mesh Fixes
Fixed Mesh Lighting
SOLAS ENB
Water for ENB
PLUGINS
SoundsOfSkyrimComplete.esp
ELFX Enhancer.esp
Solas ENB.esp
Solas ENB Particle Snow Patch.esp(esl)
Solas ENB SoS Patch.esp(esl)
TWEAKINGSpoiler:
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Open the
ENB GUI by pressing
SHIFT and ENTER in game.
Most interior lighting mods are compatible with Solas ENB out the box, but if you need to adjust the
interior brightness levels, edit the value at
ENBEFFECT.FX/HDR COLOR GRADING/Interior - Exposure (F-Stops)Users may also wish to edit the Apocrypha Sun intensity for lore reasons etc and you can do this by going to the
weathers window/sky and setting
sun intensity to 0 for all Times Of Day (TOD)
You can also play with the other values like saturation, contrast etc and
brightness is handled by the Exposure (F-Stops) setting.
PERFORMANCESpoiler:
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SOLAS ENB is written with performance in mind, hence the empty prepass.fx. Bypassing its use saves more FPS. Users looking for more performance should try the following.
Skyrimprefs.ini
[Display]
bSAO_CS_Enable=0
bSAOEnable=1
bUseTAA=0
Skyrim.ini
[Display]
fSAOIntensity=15
fSAOExpFactor=0.220
fSAORadius=800.0000
fSAOBias=0.5000
fSAOValueDiffFactor=0.3000
ENBSeries.ini
[EFFECT]
EnableDepthOfField=false
EnableAmbientOcclusion=false
EnableDetailedShadow=false
[SSAO_GAME]
AOAmount=1.5
AOAmountInterior=0.5
ColorfulMix=true
MEDIA & VIDEOSSpoiler:
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Media contributors should also use Weather Control Centre, which allows you to cycle through weathers via hotkey. It's available on the files page, under miscellaneous. You can also console the weathers in the old fashioned way with this
complete list of weather ID's[
CREDITS & SPECIAL THANKSCredits are due to Kitsuune, Looping, Rudy, MangaClub, Confidence Man, Boris, MindFlux, Zilav, Sheson, Ramccoid, Nox, Lagom LCD, The Daedric Doll, and Bethesda. Also want to thank MrNeverLost, ElSopa, Dunc001, JonnyWang, Odin, TrueDraconis, SA547, ModderForka, Frolique, MechanicalPanda, Smokeybear, Essie, Lydia, Mixo, Winedave, and Possten.
Special Thanks go to my wife Gill, who has had to put up with being a Skywidow while I spent waaaay too many hrs making this mod.
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