Skyrim
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Vorph
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I just download 100 things at once with NMM and let BOSS sift through the wreckage. The real pain in the ass is having to clean a third of them with TES5Edit. It's shameful how many people upload dirty mods with ITM records in them, even some major ones with hundreds of thousands of DLs.
Decided to go with SPERG myself too, SkyRe just seemed unnecessarily complicated and bloated with things that didn't sound like good ideas at all.
Decided to go with SPERG myself too, SkyRe just seemed unnecessarily complicated and bloated with things that didn't sound like good ideas at all.
Mures
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To those asking about the clouds/rain, it would seem you can literally walk up to/into the rain.
Mod description:
This pretty much does what it says on the tin.
These clouds are real 3D objects which will react to the current weather.
You can touch them, fly through them, fly over them, fly under them, drink them when they rain on you
(you can see rain in the distance)
....THE SKY'S THE LIMIT
Clouds are controlled by a script which will give the cloud layer a random height and coverage based on the current weather type. There are also chances of 'extreme' events, such as 100% coverage at a low height,
or even no clouds at all.
In addition to regular clouds, you will also encounter rain clouds which dump their load off in the distance.
Rain clouds also double as fog at close distances as the rain effect can look like fog up close.
Features:
. Pseudo-volumetric clouds .
. Distant rain effects .
. Clouds react to weather, (low dense coverage during fog/rain/snow, sparse high coverage for clear weather) .
. Random variation to cloud coverage and altitude to maximize weather diversity .
. Blends perfectly with Skyrim's already existing cloud and sky textures. .
. full compatibility with pretty much everything (including other weather mods) .
. And all this with no noticeable performance hit!
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Mod description:
This pretty much does what it says on the tin.
These clouds are real 3D objects which will react to the current weather.
You can touch them, fly through them, fly over them, fly under them, drink them when they rain on you
(you can see rain in the distance)
....THE SKY'S THE LIMIT
Clouds are controlled by a script which will give the cloud layer a random height and coverage based on the current weather type. There are also chances of 'extreme' events, such as 100% coverage at a low height,
or even no clouds at all.
In addition to regular clouds, you will also encounter rain clouds which dump their load off in the distance.
Rain clouds also double as fog at close distances as the rain effect can look like fog up close.
Features:
. Pseudo-volumetric clouds .
. Distant rain effects .
. Clouds react to weather, (low dense coverage during fog/rain/snow, sparse high coverage for clear weather) .
. Random variation to cloud coverage and altitude to maximize weather diversity .
. Blends perfectly with Skyrim's already existing cloud and sky textures. .
. full compatibility with pretty much everything (including other weather mods) .
. And all this with no noticeable performance hit!
Vorph
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You're talking about theReal Cloudsmod though. Which is indeed really cool, but also really buggy as it's a brand new mod. The author posted that he's redoing it from scratch using particle systems which should get rid of the really strange bugs it causes. I would not recommend using it until then.
Knytestorme didn't specify if he was using that in his screenshots, or just Climates of Tamriel. If he is using it, the bugs would explain the Too Much Brown screenshot, because the clouds amplifying any colored light is one of the major issues right now.
Knytestorme didn't specify if he was using that in his screenshots, or just Climates of Tamriel. If he is using it, the bugs would explain the Too Much Brown screenshot, because the clouds amplifying any colored light is one of the major issues right now.
Vorph
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Yes. Read the log file it generates carefully (should open up in your web browser automatically). Recognized plugins are the ones that it re-ordered for you, unrecognized just get dumped at the end of the load order and you may need to figure out where they go. Or get rid of them, because unless they are brand new and haven't been added to the database yet, they are probably old and outdated.
Vorph
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Have you been playing with 4.0b4? The changes sound good, but if it's missing support for the DLC stuff, I'm not sure I want to use it yet. I can't read the SA thread so I have no idea what the author has posted there recently as far as status updates.
Tuco
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1. First you have to use NMM to download all the mods you want.
2. Then you have to handpick files from each mod and package them using Fallout New Vegas Mod Manager, which is just a repackaged Fallout3 Mod Manager, which is just a reskinned Oblivion mode manager.
3. Then you have to Load them up in wyre bash or whatever and set which mods you actually want.
4. Then you run BOSS to have it set up your load order
5. Then you run ASIS to do its thing
6. Then you run Reproccer to do its thing
7. Then you make wyre bash created its bashed patch.
8. two days later you can start playing the game. Have fun figuring out why it's crashing!
2. Then you have to handpick files from each mod and package them using Fallout New Vegas Mod Manager, which is just a repackaged Fallout3 Mod Manager, which is just a reskinned Oblivion mode manager.
3. Then you have to Load them up in wyre bash or whatever and set which mods you actually want.
4. Then you run BOSS to have it set up your load order
5. Then you run ASIS to do its thing
6. Then you run Reproccer to do its thing
7. Then you make wyre bash created its bashed patch.
8. two days later you can start playing the game. Have fun figuring out why it's crashing!
Yeah sorry, using the volumetic clouds with RealVision, CoT and Realistic Lighting....been a little distracted with work and getting hooked baxck in to D3
I never modded skyrim - is it this involved because it's Skyrim or did you use to mod this way for, say, New vegas as well? My last PT of FONV I installed about 30 mods (maybe that's not much) and did nothing but install them with the big ones (overhauls and such) on top. I crashed a lot, of course. But all I did was a clean save after reinstalling the mods and BOSS-ordering them. Never had a problem again.
I did do the leg work before hand to make sure authors claimed their mods compatible with any overhaul or similar mod I might have. I guess you guys are trying to cram incompatible mods together? Is that what wyre bash/ASIS/reproccer do?
Elerion
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Nah, I've just been using 3.1, the latest official release. The changes sound good indeed, but I didn't want to fiddle with a beta when I first installed it.
Check the last ~10 pages of the SA thread, though. There are bound to be someone asking that exact question in there. Most likely you can use the 3.1 DLC patch along with the 4.0 beta mod, if not he wouldn't have a lot of people testing it.
edit: Sorry, didn't finish reading your post. I'll check the thread and see if I find an obvious answer.
edit2: He just posted 4.0b4, including a Dawnguard patch. Also, I found these quotes:
4.0b4 is here:http://www.seorinwastaken.com/sperg/SPERG4.0b4.7z
Updated DG patch is here:http://www.mediafire.com/download/28...49/SPERG-DG.7z(apparently some bugs in the bundled version)
I'm not sure I would recommend running the beta versions without having access to the SA thread for troubleshooting and/or being a savvy mod user, though. It's beta for a reason. In any case, remember to uninstall 3.1 if you have it installed (through the in-game menu) before installing 4.0.
Celebrindal
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Honestly, I never had problems using the Nexus mod manager. Shit was easy. I just downloaded the stuff and read the instructions on what order they should be installed in.
I curently have ~162 mods for skyrim and I have only ever used NMM and have no problems outside random CTD's that I'd say are due to the memory limit on Skyrim than NMM
Vorph
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It's only that involved for him because he uses SkyRe and ASIS. Wrye Bash is rarely needed unless you are using mods that say DO NOT USE THIS WITH X OR Y and you do it anyway.
For the vast majority of people modding Skyrim or any other Bethesda game, the only tools you need are NMM, BOSS, and TES5Edit (FNVEdit, etc.). TES5Edit is mostly optional, but I like to clean mods that have identical-to-master records in them because they can cause problems if they are near the end of your load order, and as someone who makes mods too it's just fucking sloppy work.
