slyzz;
Well I personally have 2 approaches both involve files that have vanilla settings from the start. They are similar I just start in a different file to begin with.
Method 1
I start with having all the settings at 1.0 and 0.0 and have the effects such as SSAO, reflection, sun rays etc deactivated. Also turning off everything that alters the image in any .fx file.
Then I start with turning "off" all settings regarding light, setting them to 0 and I start increasing the Direct Lighting to my liking, then the ambient, point, specular and lastly Fog.
After the base lighting is done I move on to sky settings and tweak first the colored sky and have every other setting at 0, then I move on to the clouds, star, aurora borealis and lastly Sun and the moon. However I usually leave SunCorona off as I don't like having a pop in sun glare which occurs with the texture based sun glare. I have the dynamic ENB sun sprite as a glare instead.
After the overall scene is finished I move on to tweak the FX parts such as the Fire, Lightsprite, Volumetric Fog, SubsurfaceScattering etc based on the above tweaks.
Basically whenever I start from the ground I turn on one thing at a time and tweak them at first separately and then compensate anything that is overdone.
A good tip for tweaking your SSAO settings is to use PP 4 with these settings;
float2 EAdaptationMinV4Ext = float2 ( 0.1, 0.1 );
float2 EAdaptationMaxV4Ext = float2 ( 0.2, 0.2 );
float2 EBrightnessCurveV4Ext = float2 ( 1.0, 1.0 );
float2 EBrightnessMultiplierV4Ext = float2 ( 10.0, 10.0 );
float2 EBrightnessToneMappingCurveV4Ext = float2 ( 4.0, 4.0 );
This gives the scene a bright desaturated look which resembles the look Boris have used when showing off the differences between certain SSAO effects
Example images;
SSAO Off
SSAO On
When I have done a good base in the enbseries.ini I go over to the enbeffect.fx to add saturation, brightness, contrast, tonemapping bloom and tweaking the RGB values to my liking.
And I always tweak start tweaking one time and area at a time Exterior Day, Exterior Night, Interior Day and Interior Night.
The other method is the opposite but then I tend to exaggerate values in the enbeffect.fx I know I can compensate with settings in the enbseries.ini.
I hope this helps you it in some way to become better at tweaking you enb presets or find the tip of SSAO useful and the other stuff was just me rambling
saltr;
I don't hate colors but with using such a huge variety of textures as I do, I tend to do not over do them because I know some of them will get way oversaturated because of it, and that I'm lazy about not desaturate those few textures myself
i don wanna make me feel bad in comparsion to this awesome shots/settings here.
