Hvergelmir

Yes, the full / denser beards look better than ever without question. You might prefer the short beard styles of 4.1 better though, it's a matter of taste and I fully understand why some would prefer those, and wouldn't hold it against them (I attempted to stay more true to vanilla in 5.0, even if it meant a few beards wouldn't look as good as before). I haven't received any requests to leave those beards the way they were in 4.1 though, but if I start getting them I might do an update with new (custom) textures with the same density for the short beards like they had in 4.1

It wasn't necessary before, but I cleaned it anyway for good measure before uploading the 4.0 version.

Dude, I told you calmly in my very first reply hat the issue wasn't caused by my mod and that it is an issue seen before caused by either shader, enb or gpu problems. That was that, I had no magic answer and as you knew it was not caused by my mod - or at least you should have known (which means, whether you like it or not it IS not my problem) and I couldn't help you with it even if I wanted to. Instead of moving along you became more pushy and throw system specs at me, which you apparently think would make a difference and suddenly expecting me to explain it all to you, when it is obvious that I do not have the answer. Then, once again instead of just moving along, you cannot let it be and reply once again saying "maybe" I am stressed "or something" when I have my current situation clearly explained in a sticky at the top of my mod comment page at which point I had enough and I say let's just end it there. What do you then do? You go to a different forum nagging about me behind my back (because that information is completely relevant to to topic), because you didn't expect me to be a member here? That is just low dude, and you're the one calling me rude and immature. I am surprised no one has moderated that part. You were probably been better off asking here to begin with (and not be rude towards mod makers(s))...

Thought this would give me compatibility problems, but was happy to learn it didn't. ;)

I'll post my opinion after some testing.

Any opinions on how invasive the mod is? Looking at the screenshots and judging from that it looks a slight bit too much for my taste. Thoughts? EDIT: I'm gonna install it and judge myself - I always suggest people to do that with my mods, so I should listen to myself.

STEP is currently not interested in using my shield and armor retextures. I do intend to make them reconsider with some of my later releases. You can overwrite your current textures with my work without any problems.

I fixed the fire trail with player.addspell ED2FE and player.removespell ED2FE No luck so far with the frost Atronarch effect. EDIT: Trying the frost Atronarch spell on/off once more finally fixed it.

Apparently transforming to werewolf form cured me of the fire trail. Gonna try find the ID for the frost effect and fix it this way. EDIT: For a brief moment only.

If anybody knows anything about this strange issue/bug I am having, they're very welcome to speak up. I guess it is important to note that this is in no way related to any S.T.E.P installation before anybody asks. Details:

I am confident this should fix some script related issues. Unfortunately it didn't fix either of my current save games.

This is most interesting. I got an old lvl 52 savegame pre 2012 that I have been unable to play since then. Gotta see if this could possibly fix it and make it playable again.

Actually rpsgc actually posted some in the change log for both Brows and Beards just recently. I can't say that I personally like this comparison as the screenshots doesn't do the textures of any of the mods justice. I am aware for comparison reasons they must be compared without ENB and AA, but that unfortunately only do more harm than good. (especially on Beards as AA quickly becomes a necessity here). I am compelled to do my own comparison screenshots for both mods against my own will and morale with better close ups and detail.

Actually rpsgc actually posted some in the change log for both Brows and Beards just recently. I can't say that I personally like this comparison as the screenshots doesn't do the textures of any of the mods justice. I am aware for comparison reasons they must be compared without ENB and AA, but that unfortunately only do more harm than good. (especially on Beards as AA quickly becomes a necessity here). I am compelled to do my own comparison screenshots for both mods against my own will and morale with better close ups and detail.

There's no reason to even indirectly ask for it. That has already been covered in the mod description of Beards and Brows that I intend to also do hair textures at one point. I'd like some opinions on whether or not Brows would be a note worthy entry for next version of STEP, and if too late, the one after it.