Hello again. So yeah. I got all the train that I can see fixed and using the Nordic snow. The problem now is that now all the JK's Skyrim outskirts mods that take place in snowy areas. The three pics are from the Windhelm outskirts mod. Everything with white, white snow is from JK's mod with the exception of the fallen tree log and that's from the Skyrim.esm with either Nature of the wild lands or ruin clutter improved for the trunk textures. Any thoughts or ideas?
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This is a issue with your snow shaders and has nothing to do with my work. My work makes ground snow parallax. You need to be looking at mods like Simplicity of Snow or Better Dynamic Snow. That is where your issue exists. Potentially due to a conflict and requires a load order change.
Sorry As I don't know how to add spoilers. Anyway I fixed it. I use Majestic Mountains 4.02 and Nordic Snow 3.4.4 and there's no patch for these two mods so MM's was just running amuk all over the snow object you saw in white. Just sad that I can't use MM's now. I know how to patch for plugins, but textures and meshes is above my pay grade if you know what I mean lol.
FYI I was never blaming your mod or work. I was simply reaching out for help. Sorry if you felt that I was.
"Your enbseries.ini should reflect the following to enable terrain parallax: EnableTerrainParallax=false" Why would you set EnableTerrainParallax to false when you want to enable terrain parallax?
You want EnableComplexTerrainParallax enable not Terrain parallax. Terrain parallax is a older version of parallax that Boris implimented, this could have changed and maybe he repurosed it but i personally have no issues with this setup and parallax is in fact visible for me and my beta testers.
I am a little confused as to the load order with the fix or if its needed at all. I am using Nordic Snow with the ProjectedDiffuse Patch. So right now my load order is Nordic Snow, your parallax mod, ProjectedDiffuse, your diffuse fix. It gets a little confusing when you are loading fixes for fixes :)
Use one diffuse fix or the other its not necessary to use both. 99% of users will already have a diffuse texture loaded due to using BDS, SOS, or the texture will be included in the snow texture mod. The file states to use it only if you see missmatch and that most users wont need it.
I use Skyland, but I overwrite their snow with Nordic Snow bc I prefer it. When I enable this I notice that it overwrites some files from Skyland's Complex Material. Which one should I let win?
Sure thing - so this is a parallax retexture. That said you need the parallax files of this mod to win right. You cannot use anything from Skyland Complex Material as it specifically relates to snow you have to use everything I offer if you want my parallax snow since thats my whole thing. If you use Skyland snow you would want to use Skyland Parallax.
Sorry, I figured it out after I commented this. It was such a dumb question I felt dumb after I figured it out lol but thank you so much for humoring me
No question is dumb. We are not born with this knowledge. You may have seen Complex Material and not realized that meant parallax so were unsure what to do there. Its all good. Questions are how we gain more knowledge.
im 80 to 90% sure thats a issue with your snow shader. Better Dynamic Snow, Simplicity of Snow something like that. and likely relating to your load order. If im right im willing to bet roads and bridges also look wrong.
Well about "shiny" texture i can t figure out but for others tiles it comes from here https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/74923?tab=files I choose a color which matched my old snow and if i install yours i need to find a new one which match it correctly (brighter i think). I put a post on BDS mod to see if they have already meet this strange bug!
Thx for your help this snow is abolutely gorgeous and magnificent!
I finally managed to use your mod with parallax and fix my mismatch problem. I m explaining here and in nordic snow to help ppl meeting the same one.
So when you allow your mod to overwrite everything it s alright but there are more than only snow01_n . If you have installed (like me) atlantean , Tomato complex and Skyland for example it creates a lot of different snow dds files which come with their own letter like that :
and more important in order to fullfill the mod terrain parallax blended https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/88261?tab=description it creates a new file inside landscape/parallax with snow01.dds & snow02.dds like that
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The solution is to extract your file and duplicate your snow01 in order to subsitute all texture EXCEPTED the snow_m . If you substitude snow_m you will have typical black texture bug about lack of parallax dynamic cube texture.
And here the result of it. I leave it for any one who meet that in the future it can help!
I recently went "parallax" and have hated the snow in various parallax texture mods I use. I was like "Damn, I wish I had Nordic snow again!" and then thought, wonder if someone made one and you sir have saved my game! This is awesome! Not overdone parallax weirdness like in the other textures mods. This is PERFECT snow! Thanks and endorsed of course.
Wow dude you have some awesome reviews in posts. Looks like you do some great stuff man (how did I miss this?). Just ordered a side of Beast Within, Werewolves Among Us and Nights Taverns and Inns to go with my Nordic Snow main course. Went to an Inn to try Taverns immediately and spot on marvelous. Again great job and thanks :)
This mod seems to be partially incompatible with No Snow under the Roof. I got perforated ("acid look" ) snow textures on wooden stairs with it in Dawnstar. After hiding the three snow01 files, the NSUTR edited snow NIFs on the stairs looked ok again.
You got it in reverse honestly. No Snow Under Roof came out almost a decade ago (8 years ago) it uses the alpha value from Skyrim LE designated in its meshes. No Snow Under Roof should have its meshes updated so that the alpha is more flexible (or just nix it). This is a by product of the mod showing its age. I would use vanilla snow. Or shop around for a snow texture mod that doesnt cause this issue which honestly will be a lot of luck and guesswork. My best guess would be a old snow texture mod and I dont think it can be parallax. meaning you can not use parallax on anything if you use No Snow Under Roof. Parallax is put into the Alpha Channel thats how it works im willing to bet that mods meshes will freak out from the alpha of the parallax texture.
He hid his stats so I cant track how people are using it - but my bet is it might be trending down if its meshes are not updated and users are moving to use parallax. You could also try to see if the original version of Nordic Snow works - if it does then yea that mods meshes just dont work with parallax its too outdated. I would probs if it were me just nix the alpha check totally it doesnt need it imo that im aware of just let it be a static mesh. That would fix it.
Thank you for your detailed response! Much appreciated.
With the original non-parallax snow01 files from Nordic Snow, the NSUTR snow objects/meshes looks fine. So it seems to be a parallax issue indeed as you said.
Great mod, thank you! I dont add too many visuals, but snow improvement is priceless One question: do you know why snow bridges look dark? Normal snow road and then dark road-snow on bridge. Saw it near Windhelm. I use only SMIM retexture for roads
I have seen this before caused by another mod I cant recall. inspect your meshes and see what mod is adding a bridge mesh to your game for specifically snow.. I think it was like a parallax blending mesh or part of a full retexture. I dont use it but I tested one ages ago. I can only say for myself I use really unblended roads or whatever for 3D roads and I use the fix for it and thats about it and things more or less look normal.
both of you are great, i love my snow :) been using nordic snow for over 4 years, and now that I've been messing with parallax for the last month finally found this too thank you both!
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This is a issue with your snow shaders and has nothing to do with my work. My work makes ground snow parallax. You need to be looking at mods like Simplicity of Snow or Better Dynamic Snow. That is where your issue exists. Potentially due to a conflict and requires a load order change.
FYI I was never blaming your mod or work. I was simply reaching out for help. Sorry if you felt that I was.
Why would you set EnableTerrainParallax to false when you want to enable terrain parallax?
Hope that helps!
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Can t figure out why it make 3 differents colors and how to fix it.
Well about glacier it should be another issue i think i need to check why
I choose a color which matched my old snow and if i install yours i need to find a new one which match it correctly (brighter i think). I put a post on BDS mod to see if they have already meet this strange bug!
I finally managed to use your mod with parallax and fix my mismatch problem. I m explaining here and in nordic snow to help ppl meeting the same one.
So when you allow your mod to overwrite everything it s alright but there are more than only snow01_n . If you have installed (like me) atlantean , Tomato complex and Skyland for example it creates a lot of different snow dds files which come with their own letter like that :
The solution is to extract your file and duplicate your snow01 in order to subsitute all texture EXCEPTED the snow_m . If you substitude snow_m you will have typical black texture bug about lack of parallax dynamic cube texture.
And here the result of it. I leave it for any one who meet that in the future it can help!
before
Anyone else encountered this issue?
He hid his stats so I cant track how people are using it - but my bet is it might be trending down if its meshes are not updated and users are moving to use parallax. You could also try to see if the original version of Nordic Snow works - if it does then yea that mods meshes just dont work with parallax its too outdated. I would probs if it were me just nix the alpha check totally it doesnt need it imo that im aware of just let it be a static mesh. That would fix it.
With the original non-parallax snow01 files from Nordic Snow, the NSUTR snow objects/meshes looks fine. So it seems to be a parallax issue indeed as you said.
One question: do you know why snow bridges look dark? Normal snow road and then dark road-snow on bridge. Saw it near Windhelm.
I use only SMIM retexture for roads
thank you Erik!