About this mod
Enhanced Lights and FX has the goal to create a more dramatic and realistic mood to the Skyrim lighting.
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Enhanced Lights and FX has the goal to create a more dramatic and realistic mood to the Skyrim lights by adding lights to all light sources and removing any light without a source, as well as the addition many more effects like smoke, volumic lights, driples, etc. I made some friendly redesigns as needed too, and some redesigns for more dramatic looking.
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EnhancedLightsandFX.esp
-All light sources emits light, even the windows in interiors.
-New candle smoke FX.
-New water reflection.
-New translucent effect to market stands and imperial tents.
-More shadow lights in specific places.
-Each Inn with its own set of lights based in it's local weather.
-Each city with its own set of colors based in it's local weather.
-Enhanced the difference between night and day in interiors.
-Darker and smoky taverns.
-Slight to none FPS loss.
ELFXEnhancer.esp
-Darkened interiors.
-Darkened dungeons.
-Darkened fog colors and tweakened it's distances.
-Reduces color tints so no "white" lights.
-Dynamic lighting templates that changes the ambient lighting depending of the lighting in the place.
-Slight increased contrast and saturation.
ELFX - Hardcore.esp
-Carries all ELFXEnhancer.esp changes.
-Makes all places not inhabited by humans really dark.
ELFX - Exteriors.esp
-Changes exterior light placements and fx.
-New shaders for the exterior windows on the big cities buildings.
-New lantern bugs for Riften area.
-Fake Shadows added to bridges, ships and boats over the waters.
-Removes the "Doesn't light landscape" flag from many lights so those lights the ground generated by heightmap.
-Adds the "Never fades" flag to almost all lights in exteriors so those can be seem from greater distances depending on your INI settings.
-A few friendly new light placements.
ELFX - Weathers.esp
-Tweaks the weathers lighting and colors
-Bigger sun with new textures creating intense sunrises and sunsets.
-More dense rains with new texture and heavier rain sound for storms.
-The fog from fog weathers more strong allowing you to see only a few meters ahead.
-Nights are darker and depends on the weather. Clear nights will be brighter than stormy ones.
Enhanced Ice
-Changes the ice shaders for ice floes and frozen lakes.
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Download the mod using Nexus Mod Manager, activate it and pick the modules you want in the installer.
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Enhanced Light and FX
Should be compatible with any mod that doesn't change light, fx or the meshes it adds, my meshes are a must have, so make sure it overwrites anything it asks to. You can stick with LOOT load order.
The ELFX Enhancer
-Should be compatible with any mod that doesn't change imagespaces and lighting templates, which means ambient light, fog, contrast, saturation, bloom, depth of field, etc.
The ELFX Exteriors
-It should be compatible with everything that doens't place an object over the light sources I placed. You can stick with LOOT load order.
The ELFX Weathers
-It should be compatible with any mod that doesn't change the weathers. It may be compatible with Climates of Tamriel, because it doesn't change the vanilla weathers, but I don't recommend it, because CoT has so much weathers that you may barely experience mine.
Enhanced Ice
-It should be compatible with any ice retexture and any mod that change the icebergs.
It should be compatible with any ENB setting, but I won't give any support to features that are changed by the ENB.
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Insanely thanks to
-Bethesda for Skyrim and Creation Kit
-skyfox69 for NifUtils
-eclips3d for the installer
-xdayman for BAIN installer
-Niftools Team for Nifskope
-Autodesk
-zaga86 for his ice textures.
-Nexus community