Tricky wrote:Jafin16 wrote:Tricky
You need the enbhelper.dll installed for underwater effects to work. Do you have that installed in the enbseries folder? First thing I'd check before extracting things from the skyrim.bsa. (File path steam/steamapps/common/skyrim/enbseries)
)I'm at work right now, but I'm pretty sure I have this (I know of the file at least).. although now I'm starting to wonder if I installed it in \skyrim\ instead of \skyrim\enbseries
Hm, must check this out! Thanks!
If you wanna try a few more presets that are very good and not over the top designed for 0.251 try Serenity by prod80 or Natural Lighting and Atmospheric ENB by Confidence-Man.
These are both on my (short) list of ENB's I want to try out. Sadly I don't have enough time to try them all out, I simply move from one to the other if I find i have a problem with one of them and delete it from the list. Phinix is alright, but there are a couple things now I'm having a bit of trouble with. The object.. 'sharpness', outside, and that light issue I described. If I can't fix them today, I'll have to pick another from the list. Thanks for the tweak also, I might need it.
Mistveil.. Grim and Somber
On the list!
E ENB is noted for fantastic lighting and being a little in your face with the lighting, but it looks good and is probably the most frequently updated ENB I know of. Ewi65 updates it within a few hours of a new binary being released, and he has since April of last year.
Had to look it up again, but I remember now it didn't make the list. The colours just look.. wrong. Props to Ewi65 on being so dedicated though, I respect that.
Opethfeldt v7
I actually went through a lot of screenshots of that one last evening. It looks great, but a lot of textures seem a little too.. white? It has an almost arctic feel to it. While that probably suits Skyrim best, I didn't add it to the list. I may reconsider though.
Regarding the light "tick" do you mean that some lights just inexplicably seem to go dark when standing in a certain place near them, but then move and they go back, but then moving back turns them off again? If so, that's ELFX and not ENB.
The tick is maybe better explained as an HDR-ish effect that just doesn't work smooth at all. It's as though the brightness just jumps up a little, without going through some kind of analogue / smooth gradient. It's definitely not ELFX that's causing it though.. I've used ELFX since I first started playing Skyrim, about a month ago.
Btw, with any of these ENB's, unless they explicitly say in the description that ELFX-Enhancer.esp should be used, don't use it. Instead opt for nothing or use ELE interiors. The enhancer was designed for vanilla. ELE is designed for ENB. And if you want darker dungeons, use Dark Dungeons for ENB. I realize that mod hasn't gotten a lot of notice in recent months, but it's still great. Just don't use any mods that remove ambient interior fog or it won't work, as it's based on those fog levels.
As it happens I like my dungeons very dark, so I'm alright if it's not perfectly compatible, like with Phinix. But it isn't the main reason why I use ElfX. The last five or so games Bethsoft has made suffer from a problem that kills the atmosphere in nearly all indoor areas: source-less light. Correcting this goes beyond just changing a global value, it requires editing of every indoor cell in the game. I've used mods or tweaks to correct this for every Bethsoft game since Morrowind or so, Skyrim turned out to be no different. AFAIK, ELFX is the only light mod that actually fixes all light sources individually. I couldn't play the game without it, so it's the first requirement to any ENB I use.
A good thing to note about ElfX in regard to compatebility is that you can install different levels of darkness. Three for dungeons and houses, and something like 8 for outdoors. Before I started using ENBs I used the darkest presets it had, but after using Unreal Cinematic I switched to lighter ElfX presets. I haven't had to change it since.
Anyways, this is longer than I intended but I hope I gave you some options and helped with any remaining queries. Cheers and happy gaming!
Not a problem, I'm glad to be able to talk about it in-depth with someone. You've been a great help!
