The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - MODS & TWEAKS

I don't understand, I've tried a few of the ENB mods recomended in this thread but they seem to look awful. I prefer how it looks without them.. Doesn't seem to look like it does in other peoples screenshots.. why?

Without
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With
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To me that looks awful? Its Project Reality ENB, which is highly rated :s

I just want it to look good. I like the colours and feel how I have it, using CoT and a few things but I feel its missing something.. Was hoping to find an ENB mod to enhance it but they all seem to drastically change it, making it way bright and cartoony or extremely dark!
 
Try other enb configs till you find one that is to your tastes, and make sure that the enb version you download from the ENB dev site is the one that the config you are using was made for, otherwise it won't look as intended.
 
I don't understand, I've tried a few of the ENB mods recomended in this thread but they seem to look awful. I prefer how it looks without them.. Doesn't seem to look like it does in other peoples screenshots.. why?

Without
2013010900030.jpg

With
2013010900031.jpg

To me that looks awful? Its Project Reality ENB, which is highly rated :s

I just want it to look good. I like the colours and feel how I have it, using CoT and a few things but I feel its missing something.. Was hoping to find an ENB mod to enhance it but they all seem to drastically change it, making it way bright and cartoony or extremely dark!

Turn your brightness down, as it says in the main Project Reality page.
 
Anybody know how to get rid of the neck seams that XCE causes? I've tried it with vanilla and the seams were horrid, so I downloaded UNP + the UNP patch, thinking it'd fix it, nope. Downloaded CBBE + the CBBE XCE patch, same thing, these ugly ass neck seams. :/

The only thing I can think of, is that perhaps I need the outfit UNP/CBBE patches? Because technically, the women around town are all wearing the vanilla outfits, so the skin under their necks is still vanilla despite the new face patched textures that are supposed to fit UNP/CBBE so if I download the outfits for those mods they'll get rid of the neck seams right?

Does anyone know how to get the vanilla stuff working with XCE though? Bored of pixelated boobies tbh.
 
Anybody know how to get rid of the neck seams that XCE causes? I've tried it with vanilla and the seams were horrid, so I downloaded UNP + the UNP patch, thinking it'd fix it, nope. Downloaded CBBE + the CBBE XCE patch, same thing, these ugly ass neck seams. :/

The only thing I can think of, is that perhaps I need the outfit UNP/CBBE patches? Because technically, the women around town are all wearing the vanilla outfits, so the skin under their necks is still vanilla despite the new face patched textures that are supposed to fit UNP/CBBE so if I download the outfits for those mods they'll get rid of the neck seams right?

Does anyone know how to get the vanilla stuff working with XCE though? Bored of pixelated boobies tbh.

There is a program bundled in with CBBE which removes neckseems. I forget what it is called, but it will be in the CBBE folder where you installed it
 
There is a program bundled in with CBBE which removes neckseems. I forget what it is called, but it will be in the CBBE folder where you installed it

Does it fix the seams on the vanilla outfits though? Wouldn't I need the CBBE outfit replacer to make the body skin match the patched headskins?
 
Does it fix the seams on the vanilla outfits though? Wouldn't I need the CBBE outfit replacer to make the body skin match the patched headskins?

Not sure, all I can say is that I used CBBE and XCE, found that the neckseems were visible, so I ran this and they were gone...I don't know how it works or anything. I don't think the outfits figure in to it though tbh.
 
Got another issue (well two) now. :p

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I'm using aMidianBorn's Book of Silence for the armor retextures, that is all I can think of that might cause this.
 
I don't understand, I've tried a few of the ENB mods recomended in this thread but they seem to look awful. I prefer how it looks without them.. Doesn't seem to look like it does in other peoples screenshots.. why?

To me that looks awful? Its Project Reality ENB, which is highly rated :s

I just want it to look good. I like the colours and feel how I have it, using CoT and a few things but I feel its missing something.. Was hoping to find an ENB mod to enhance it but they all seem to drastically change it, making it way bright and cartoony or extremely dark!

Yes, that looks awful, but you're probably guilty of:

a) choosing the wrong ENB config
b) using an incompatible lighting mod
c) having an uncalibrated display (and/or tweaking the in-game display settings when not necessary)

As a starting point, I would recommend a few different configs to try out with Climates of Tamriel (forget RCRN or RLWC for now):

SkyRealism ENB Evolved - this one adjusts the lighting/saturation ever so slightly, mostly adding the extra effects that come with ENB 119.

The Wilds ENB - more saturated config, supports one of the latest ENB versions and looks quite spectacular on screenshots; currently hidden on Nexus for whatever reason.

Phinix Natural ENB - well balanced ENB with some extra effects, compatible with Climates of Tamriel (RTFM though) and supports the latest ENB wrapper (currently ENB 132).

RCRN Plus ENB - this is a variation of SkyRealism ENB created by TheCompiler (author of STEP) to make it fully compatible with RCRN. Not to be used with Climates of Tamriel.
 
Does anyone use this mod or know whether its any good?

Economics of Skyrim.
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/11919

Yes, and yes.

It's an essential Skyrim mod for me, on any playthrough. I use it with the Bank of Skyrim mod.


BTW, I'm tired of saying this over and over again in this thread, but I hope people realise that the OP is largely outdated and Neil didn't bother to include the edits from my later revisions of the guide. In any case, I highly recommend the STEP guide to anyone who's serious about modding Skyrim. I'm part of its team and some big changes are coming very soon, with the new revision of the guide bringing a lot of fresh air into the project.
 
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Yes, and yes.

It's an essential Skyrim mod for me, on any playthrough. I use it with the Bank of Skyrim mod.


BTW, I'm tired of saying this over and over again in this thread, but I hope people realise that the OP is largely outdated and Neil didn't bother to include the edits from my later revisions of the guide. In any case, I highly recommend the STEP guide to anyone who's serious about modding Skyrim. I'm part of its team and some big changes are coming very soon, with the new revision of the guide bringing a lot of fresh air into the project.

I've used step and gems went through loads of mods they were really helpful. I dont want to add to many which change things too greatly and add imbalances, and that I might want to remove later but cant. I cant use any texture mods because not enough vram.

Is there any good mods which make just nights darker and dungeons darker?
 
I've used step and gems went through loads of mods they were really helpful. I dont want to add to many which change things too greatly and add imbalances, and that I might want to remove later but cant. I cant use any texture mods because not enough vram.

Is there any good mods which make just nights darker and dungeons darker?

I'm using this mod atm, quite good imo although it also does the weather.
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/17802.
 
I've used step and gems went through loads of mods they were really helpful. I dont want to add to many which change things too greatly and add imbalances, and that I might want to remove later but cant. I cant use any texture mods because not enough vram.

Is there any good mods which make just nights darker and dungeons darker?

That's how it starts :p I think I initially wanted a mod for something silly like arrow retrieval and have ended up with around 50-60 odd. My system is pretty poor by todays standards but there are still many mods that can improve the visuals massively without affecting performance. Anyway as above, I use CoT for lighting too there are various options for night time and dungeon darkness.
 
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