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Fast, optimized and stylized with new custom shaders by Adysss. This ENB feels moody, cold and rustic. Everything tuned for vanilla weathers with the complete Lux suite to compliment this.

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Feel free to join my discord: Ebony Vibes

ENB has always been a passion of mine. And creating one which suits my tastes is something I wanted to achieve. Simple and effective. Cold and rustic, with a splash of natural and soft toning using lightweight shaders.

Adyss (Who you might know from Surreal ENB, Berxerk ENB and awesome bloom addons, which Rudy for example uses) came to me for a collaboration. I wanted a rustic, cold and slightly filmic ENB while still maintaining as much performance as possible. So he cooked up some true magic and voila, Ebony ENB is born. Kudo's to him!


Skyrim, the northernmost province of Tamriel, is a cold and mountainous region also known as the Old Kingdom, Mereth, or the Fatherland, or Keizaal in the dragon tongue.

Requirements

  • ENB Helper - Hard requirement for the multiple weathers to work
  • Enhanced Volumetric Lighting and Sunshadows (EVLAS) - For corrected volumetric lighting, sun and moon shadows.
  • Moon and Stars - Sky Overhaul SKSE - Hard requirement now, mainly to fix the moon phases.
  • Mists of Tamriel - Subtle Mist in MCM
  • Supreme Weathers for Vanilla - Mists of tamriel patch available on its modpage.
  • Strongly adviced to use Vanilla weathers. Why?
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    I can not guarantee the outcome of how it will look on different weathers. Most weathers add new weathers which haven't been added in my weatherlist. So therefor untouched. Weather mods also change the colortone; therefor not accurately tuned. So please be aware of the risks of it looking "wrong" or "bad".
  • Lux - Install; 
  • Please make sure you atleast grab the Lux Via Recources file as it is a requirement for Lux
  • Beams - Particle without effect lighting
  • Mists and Fog - Effect Lighting without Particle 
  • The rest is up to you and your load order
  • Optional but highly recommended: Lux Via and Lux Orbis
  • Preferably Burned Orange, matches the light cast from it.
  • Standard or lux orbis if using lux orbis
  • All the Addons
  • Reduced embers glow, reduced flame glow 
  • Any patch you need. Also grab the ENB Light patch.

Installation

  • First make sure you got all the requirements
  • Download Ebony ENB Required Files - By Rudy (Thanks to rudy for the perms and creating this!) with your favorite modmanager. Let it overwrite everything. (If there's something you want to overwrite these files with because of preferences, do so)
  • Download ENB from here and extract the d3d11.dll and d3dcompiler_46e.dll from the WrapperVersion folder to your game root folder  (\common\Skyrim Special Edition, where your skyrim.exe is located)
  • Simply download the ENB from my modpage; Extract all the contents from the MAIN folder to, again, your game root folder \common\Skyrim Special Edition
  • Please ensure that SAOEnable=0 in skyrimprefs.ini
  • Make sure bIBLFenable=0  is set in skyrimprefs.ini
  • That's it! You're done!


Performance

  • First grab the main file as instructed above
  • Simply grab the file from the performance folder
  • Drag and drop it into \common\skyrim special edition. Overwrite when prompt
  • Make sure SAOEnable=1 in skyrimprefs.ini. Done!

ENB Depth of Field is disabled. ENB SSAO is disabled. Complexparticle lights shadow is disabled plus the bigrange reduced from 0.5 to 0.35

Technicalities

This ENB has a relatively light-weight and simple shader setup and it's not using any reshade addon at all. All the visuals are done so through the ENB. Light-weight shaders mean that it's less impactful overall. This does not give you miracle FPS. But if you have an ENB setup that integrates more effects and more complexity, then theoratically it will cost you a bit more. But that really depends on how the ENB is optimized.

Night Eye works by default! This is automatically integrated in the shader system this ENB runs on. You can adjust it. Should work fine with predator vision

Using the ENB;

  • To use the ENB and change some settings or preferences, simply tap the END key on your keyboard to open the GUI.
    Here you can adjust several settings or tick of any effects you do not like. After changing some things, you can simply save the preset in the top left corner
  • Noteworthy things to consider in the middle tap are several things, which also contains enbeffects. In here you can adjust global image settings to your liking. This is also where you can find the settings for Night-Eye. In postpass you can turn on cinamatic bars and disable vignette. All up to you
  • Parallax is disabled by default. But you can manually enable them. Simply open the enbseries.ini in your skyrim directory. Set whichever parallax setting you want to true. Do not turn on terrain parallax, instead use complexterrainparallax.

Small overview of my modlist

Ancient Dwemer Metal
BnP - Female Skin, BnP - Male Skin and BnP - Child Skin
Cathedral Armory with most of the armors from Xavio's Armor Retextures
Majestic Landscapes
Skoglendi - A Grass Mod
Happy Little Trees
Simplicity of Sea
Underground - dungeon Textures only for forts, caves, mines and riften ratway
Stony AF Markarth and Dwemer Ruins
Skyrim Remastered - Glaciers and ICE IMR
Natural Waterfalls


Changelog:

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Version 2.8:
  • Adjusted the weather list to add apocrypha weathers and interiors to dungeon sepperator
  • Retuned apocrypha weathers
  • Slightly adjusted apocrypha interiors
  • Slightly adjusted Soulcairn
  • Slightly adjusted Sovngarde
  • Increased SSS brightness for SSAO
  • Fixed an issue where Apocrypha weathers was not listed correctly in the weatherlist

Version 2.7:
  • Reworked the interior location weather list
  • Made the overall interior look more dramatic looking, warmer for mostly civil places. Colder for dungoens
  • Removed the inns interior ini, still has the sepperated city inn ini's
  • Removed all the temple ini
  • Increased the water intensity in city inn interiors in case you use JKs, which adds bathing spots
  • Made the blue palace more warmer and dramatic
  • Made the winking skeever inn more warmer and dramatic
  • Lowered the pointlight intensity for Ravenrock interiors
  • Made bee and barb more dramatic looking
  • Darkened Dragonsreach for a more warm and dramatic look

Version 2.6 without version change:
  • Fixed ComplexParticleLight's particle intensity for being too overbright.

Version 2.6:
  • Adjusted the Heavy Fog weathers to be more in balance. Now the two are sepperated
  • Reworked the entire Weatherlist for future implementation for ENB Extender. Also for per region weather edit
  • Adjusted Clear Fall Forest and Cloudy Fall Forest as an example
  • Adjusted Interior Gamma to be slightly darker
  • Adjusted some fire settings to compliment Embers XD
  • Sky changes for clear weathers
  • Subtle SSAO changes
  • Made DoF slightly stronger and a little more noticable

Version 2.5.3:

  • Added Tel Mithryn unique interior INI's
  • Added Ravenrock unique interior INI's
  • Weather from Extended Cut - Saints and Seducers added to the weatherlist
  • Adjusted the weathers from ECSS accordingly and in favor of the style choice for the weathers
  • Made day time a bit more contrasted again. This all in favor for flora looking better and less flat
  • Made interiors a tiny bit darker
  • Adjusted the pointlight accordingly
  • Fixed some minor VL issues.
  • Turned Parallax to false as prev editions did.

Version 2.5.2:

  • Changed the VL intensity for fog weathers
  • Changed the VL intensity for rain weathers
  • Changed the VL intensity for cloudy weathers
  • Changed the VL intensity for clear weathers
  • Sky brightness and curve changes on cloudy weathers
  • Sky brightness and curve changes on clear weathers
  • Cloud intensity increase for sunrise, day, sunset for cloudy weathers
  • Increased the intensity of cloudshadows for cloudy weathers
  • Reduced VDR shoulder for day time
  • Increased saturation for day time to compensate for the VDR changes
  • Increased exposure for day time to compensate for the VDR changes
  • Made Depth of Field more subtle and less intrusive
  • SSAO IL amount increased
  • SSAO SSS amount reduced
  • SSAO IL Brightness increased
  • SSAO Amount increased
  • SSAO Intensity increased

Version 2.5.1 without version change;

  • The VDR Max White in dungeons was to strong. Readjusted that to 50. Point light should not be so dull and dim now.

Version 2.5.1:

  • Corrected the rainwetsurfaces. Was a little too strong
  • Did some minor colorcorrecting on Supreme Rain
  • Increased the maxrange of VDR Max White in de enbeffects code
  • This allowed me to put VDR Max White in interiors to 100. Which reduces the overblown white on skins and surfaces a lot
  • VDR Max White has also been put on 50 on all exterior settings. Doing the same as mentioned above technically
  • Increased the sky intensity on sunrise, day, sunset on clear, cloudy, clear aurora and cloudy aurora

Update version 2.5 without version change:

  • Now has the update files added in the main folder
  • Has a performance setup added

Version 2.5:

  • It will contain Rudy's required files as an extra download.
  • It contains Rudy's night sky and 4k clouds.
  • Rudy's EVLAS and Moon and Stars ini tweaks
  • Rudy's bird fixes and all the other standard stuff. No ESP.
  • Moon and stars plus EVLAS are a hard requirement now.
  • Supreme weathers a soft requirement, should look okay without.
  • Reduced the adaption levels. Rebalanced, so less blinding when looking into brighter sources
  • Interiors are redone. Should look more balanced with the pointlighting
  • Interiors look a bit warmer now with warmer firelights and less overblown fire. (Embers XD required)
  • Reworked the water. Made brightness changes and reduced the muddyness for more transparancy ( I personally use the Water Mod from wSkeever)
  • Day time rebalanced, warmer temperature settings and rebalanced the color with it.
  • Clear weathers redone, looks less overblown. More balanced and less blue.
  • Rebalanced the bloom so it doesnt glow as much on skin and surfaces
  • Reworked contrast and saturation. Slightly higher settings, so more deeper black tones.
  • Reworked SSAO for better blending with the contrast changes
  • Reworked VL for Clear and Cloudy weathers at night times. More intense
  • Aurora weathers change with more popping aurora's
  • All clear and cloudy weathers including aurora weathers have more star intensity. This also makes the milkeyway pop more. All and all more atmospheric
  • Changed the Supreme Rain weather to be a little more darker during daytime
  • Adjusted the SubSurfaceScattering to be a bit warmer on the skin
  • Added Saints and Seducers extended cut it's weathers to the weatherlist. Currently untested.
  • The "other lighting compatibility" is removed. Main support is lux. Should look okay with ELFX+Enhancer, ELE and alike. Brighter lighting mods, not sure. But will not test. This is all due to the time and effort I'm putting in and allows me to focus on one combination of things.


Version 2.1:

Small upload of a few minor changes and balancing;

  • Overall more color balancing

  • Weather changes for the supreme weather support, minor rain intensity changes

  • Blackreach now is adapted on exterior as well as interior settings (For example, I use paper world map and for some reason it changes blackreach to a worldspace record. This might help with any other mod doing that)

  • Adaption levels increased. It should adapt now when there's a bright light-source in your eyes. Less visible in interiors, more in exteriors. It shouldn't be too intrusive.


Version 2.1:

Small re-upload on the Lux version without version change. Forgot to disable complexterrainparallax. You can re-enable it yourself manually if you want. But I bet there are a lot of people not using that feature because it can be quite performance taxing in some cases.

  • More overall colorcorrection, reduced the greenish tint a little bit on shadows

  • Sunset and sunrise changes for clear, cloudy, clear aurora and cloudy aurora. More in line with its intended design. Colder look for consistancy

  • Made the rain storms brighter

  • Heavy fog at night is brighter

  • Added helgen weather

  • Fixed some weatherlist errors. Moved the inns ini away from the dungeon sepperator

  • Added Supreme Weathers support, read the main page for installation instructions


Version 2.0.1:
  • Minor overall colorcorrection

  • Less greenish day-time skycolor

  • Rebalanced heavy storm weathers, brighter during day time

  • Rebalanced light fog weathers, brighter during night time


Version 2.0:
  • Bloom changes, overall less blown up (better for skin)

  • Exppsure increased for interior / exterior

  • Rebalanced color tone-mapping for interior/exterior. Especially noticable on firesources looking less pinkish

  • Fully tuned SSAO. Activated by defauly now. Read the instructions!

  • Adjusted reflection changes, less strong for balancing

  • Adjusted vegetation changes, specular map less bright for balancing

  • Rebalanced Heavy fog, heavy snow and heavy rain

  • Split the war unique weather and rebalanced

  • Increased saturation. Still looks cold, but just more colorful and balanced.

  • Solstheim weathers rechecked and balanced

  • Reworked Blackreach

  • Reworked Apocrypha

  • Reworked distant fog balancing on clear and cloudy weathers

  • Unique weathers (Eclipse Weather, Valley DLC 1 weathers, Sovngarde weathers, Soulcairn weathers) Reworked and rebalanced

  • Rebalanced Dawn,Sunrise, Sunset and Dusk. Little more visibility and balancing, mainly overbright skin should be less prominent now

  • Removed the Kingeric's plugin requirement. It can now be used as optional. Please read the instructions on the mod page.

Credits

Adysss: for creating the shaders and custom luts
Sandvich Maker: Reforged UI
MartyMcFly: ADOF  
Timothy Lottes: VDR Tonemap  
Prod80: Color Balance  
martinsh: Film grain 
kingeric1992: some bits here and there  
-JawZ-: For the dungeonseperator
TreyM: some little helper functions 
Rudy: for the ENB Required files. All credits to him on this one!