TES Skyrim SE 0.475

[ENBSeries]

I dont know what is that. If changes path of sun - not supported and will never be.

[Ozin]

I dont know what is that. If changes path of sun - not supported and will never be.

Yeah it is just a single gamesetting "fSunYExtreme" from vanilla 40->120

[mcmull500]

Somewhat similar to Ozin's problem, when I have EVLaS installed, the Dawn, Sunrise, Sunset, and Dusk FakeLight settings don't work on complex grass. Everything else still functions fine during those times though. I have ENB Helper installed and everything. Other than this, the grass looks spectacular. I have mentioned this to the author of that mod as well.

[ENBSeries]

Fake lighting is not supposed to work when sun is close to horizon level, because normal for it is pointed to the sky top.

[mcmull500]

ah. thank you very much.

I've noticed this because ambient occlusion turns the grass almost black when there's no direct light present. Obviously this scene looks better with ambient occlusion on, but the grass very dark. is there was a way to tie the FakeLight parameter to the ambient light? that way if direct light is not present, this extreme darkening of the grass would not occur

(first image is ambient occlusion ON, second image is ambient occlusion OFF)

[ENBSeries]

Actually such dark grass is technically correct. But you set too high ao amount obviously, any vegetation in such situation (or beard) will turn to same looking. And i don't see any trick how to fix this, if apply fake lighting all the time, not just at midday, then it will make grass glowing when it's not supposed to be and i'll get other types of bug reports.

[mcmull500]

ah I gotcha. The reason I have my AO cranked so high is to make dusk and dawn have more shadows and depth. Even in vanilla, if you're near a mountain that covers the sunlight, you are left with only ambient light, and it looks really bland without a hefty amount of Ambient occlusion. Having fakelight light on the grass that you could raise and lower per-time-of-day, would allow for such drastic amounts of AO to be feasible. (or if you could lower the AO for grass only)

If you look at anything else in the screenshot, you can see how much depth that AO brings the scene, even without directional light present

[ENBSeries]

Version updated, download again
Fixed ambient occlusion around objects near sky. Moved grass collision parameters to enbseries.ini.

[mcmull500]

thanks for the grass collision settings movement!

also you were right about me using too much AO thank you Boris!

[ENBSeries]

Version updated, download again
Replaced shadow bias for point lights by own code to fix visibility of polygons.