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Follow Iroha's guide... it should solve any problems you have with SkyRe and Skyrim Revisited: Link

Use DDSOpt whenever a 1k version of a mod is not available. I however use DDSOpt to optimize those even as it can help and run DDSOpt on most things (except Enhanced Blood Textures and WATER, etc) to see if it can be optimized. Follow the DDSOpt guide it'll probably help you a lot.

Oh Neo gave you a sneak peek huh?

If you want all of that running smoothly I'd follow Neovalen's Skyrim Revisited guide as you'll need to make some patches as well. I'd nix UFO in favor of Extensible Follower Framework. Kick Player Headtracking to the curb (not worth the hassle imo). Dwemerverse will likely have problems and if you're just looking to spice magic up a bit follow Iroha's SkyRe guide it requires a Skyrim Revisited install just fyi. I haven't tried Hunterborn or Unknown Enchants out yet so idk how they are everything else you mentioned is in either Neovalen's guide or Iroha's extension.

I like the look.

I forgot to post these earlier (got a headache and forgot) but I finished up the EDT versions before I left for class. Archive: Link That's all of the distance compares unless you can think of something else. As far as mod testing goes I wouldn't mind helping out. I got back early tonight so I'll see if I can get it all setup. Do we need the optional mods as well?

Thanks for sharing I'll try it out.

Nexus Page:Link Why I use it: I think it's one of the least appreciated objects in game and never felt happy with it the vanilla table just didn't have the right... oomph to it I guess. This just feels... right to me it's hard to explain and the screenshots don't do it justice especially the uncompressed multicolour version which is what I'm using and would recommend (though if you think you're pushing it with other large interior textures go for the compressed it just won't look as good and kind of ruins the feel for me). I've been using this for a while now and it never gets old. Plus it's a jeclxohko mod so I just had to try it and I'm glad I did.

That's fine if that's what you think is best. I'm just not ready at this point to do full S.T.E.P. mod testing as I don't have the time right now to setup S.T.E.P. 2.2.6. Textures are easy enough just load up my Vanilla Profile add the fixes and such. I'll probably get a full S.T.E.P only setup at some point maybe in a week or so after I've submitted this screenplay and my rough cut of the film. Until then I'm just doing the compares with nothing but SKSE, Alternate Start, iHUD, Elys AltF4, SMIM and the Unofficial Patches with 1k Optimized HRDLC and Vanilla Assets (Vanilla Textures and also Loose DLC folders with Optimized textures).

My thread for compares is over here. Post anything texture related that you want tested there and/or via pm with location ideas, which mods you want compared and if you want some shots with combined textures and I'll get to it as soon as I can.

Does this need compares still?

Well IMO from the shots Beauty of Skyrim beats the other two out for texture one. The Beauty of Skyrim and Hectrols caves are my choices for texture two they're both equally good imo. However didn't someone want more compares? I think the person who did these compares did a no no and for shot three combined mods? My thread for compares is over here. Post anything texture related that you want tested there and/or via pm with location ideas, which mods you want compared and if you want some shots with combined textures and I'll get to it as soon as I can since the Mod Testers seem spread thin as of late.

Also S.U.M. skyproc manager is a godsend.

Well I don't know per se what's going on with it but from the conversation I had with him about permissions and such and how his projects were doing he did not mention anything about his needs mods and I asked him about how his optimizations to Wearable Lanterns and Frostfall's code were coming and he said that the only mod he was working on right now was his team's follower mod.

The above reason is why whenever I'm in the mood for a body replacer I will use a UNP style body rather than CBBE. Though I wish that project to make NPC's use the weight slider and different body types worked better like Automatic Variants but for bodies and faces. I also cannot understand why people want skimpy armors and such. Ok so I'm going to dress my character like a prostitute... opps guess I needed more armor protection because he/she died awful quick. Plus they often make me want to gag.

I'll probably do the EDT variations tomorrow. As soon as tech or Will tell me where they'd like me to take the compares I'll post those as well. I also noticed that If I placed EDT as higher priority in Mod Organizer it overwrites only one of the files from Enhanced HD Terrain so I might also post a combined shot.

Ok this is basically what I had gathered using what I knew about encoding, photography, etc pooled together however that is a much better explanation that I believe others will find straighten things out.

So he was saying to use R5G5B5 compression on Terrain Bump?

So are you saying to half the resolution? I think I and several other people are probably a bit lost by your comment Kelmych.

You should do some research on the issue here. There have been others with invisible animals and a Bashed Patch will not solve your problems. Ask CopyWrite85 he experienced the issue himself recently I believe. You can also search through his posts using the search feature. Reading through the Skyrim Revisited forum will answer ALOT of the questions you'll probably have. Good luck and most importantly try to have fun, welcome to the forums.

I have the vanilla shot ready but for some reason Skyrim Performance Monitor is not printing on the screenshot like it normally does so the info is not displaying. Album To be honest I can't tell that the Enhanced HD Terrain 2k does anything better than the 1k so I'd definitely recommend the 1k if that's the mod you chose. Here is a folder from my Dropbox if you want (I think it shows the comparison better)

Plus it will have more information for things like texture optimization. To be honest you should be able to just keep your mods updated and follow Neo's current guide excepting in the case of one's who's .esp's have been fixed by their authors.

I personally use SkyRe which itself comes with a lot of .esp's and really the only thing from ABT I ever used was the higher arrow recovery and speed. The recovery I deal with via tweaks in Wyre Bash and I can live without the faster arrows.

There's also another fun fact talking about archery and a bit off topic but there are only a few people that can shoot a true longbow not the "longbows" they use for today's archery competitions anyway.

He He He and why doesn't it level something up anyway lol but seriously?