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SOLAS ENB is a diverse weather mod, dramatic and muted, combining fantasy and reality.

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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...





FEATURES

Overhauled 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 PATCHES

SOLAS 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 TWEAKING

There 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
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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 Helper
DVLASS
Improved Atmosphere Mesh
Storm Lightning SSE - Enable Snowy Sheet/Fork, Enable Cloudy Sheet/Fork and set Advanced/Default Flash Distance to 4096




INI SETTINGS
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* = Compulsory edit, otherwise optional, but is what I currently use.

skyrim.ini

[Display]
*bDeactivateAOOnSnow=1
*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
*bScreenSpaceReflectionEnabled=1
*bShadowsOnGrass=1
bToggleSparkles=1
bFloatPointRenderTarget=0
*bTreesReceiveShadows=1
bUse64bitsHDRRenderTarget=1
*bUsePrecipitationOcclusion=1
*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
fGlobalSaturationBoost=0.0
fGlobalContrastBoost=0.0
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
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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)




TWEAKING
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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.




PERFORMANCE
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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 & VIDEOS
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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 THANKS

Credits 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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