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Hey all, I was just following the DDS Optimization guide when I encountered a possible mistake in the guide. On the DDSopt Optimization tab, under the "Optimize the Vanilla Textures" after step 23, there's this Is this leftover from previous directions? There is no such folder in the working folder screenshots. Also seems kind of out of place that it tells you to set the constraints back to default again. Just thought I'd let you know. Thanks!

So should we follow MO's instructions or leave them as is in the guide?

Had Sam Guevenne of the night to remember quest show up in nothing but a hood.

I get random enemy mages not wearing their robes either. Hoods and weapons, and they'll have a robe in their inventory, just not equipping it for some reason. And not always, just sometimes.

Thanks! I assumed so, but wanted to make sure.

Just had a question of clarification on the Vividian ENB installation. On the "Files" pane, click [Add]. Navigate to VividianTemp/Vividian ENB/Main Files, select all contents in the folder except enblocal.ini, EED_verasansmono.bmp, and the Data folder then click [Add]There is no Data folder in the archive. Is this referring to the enbseries folder?

I've had that problem with the hair clipping on that helmet in the old skyrim revisited too. Someone told me it's a problem with certain vanilla styles.

So another Nvidia driver has been released and the ENB sun rays shining through bug still remains. ENB dev's attitude seems to be 'not my problem' and Nvidia seems to be passing over it. Anyone know of any alternative suggestions besides just disabling sun rays?

Agreed. Hey I've downloaded your wallpapers before!

And this is the most crucial sentence in this post. I don't really understand why people complain about exploits like this... Even in vanilla game you can use console to overpower yourself, no? Or just turn god mode on and happily start smashing giants at level 1. But you don't do it. So why would you exploit the above? Effectively, there is no difference between equipping all those items and reducing shout cooldown to 1 second and reducing shout cooldown to 1 second using console command. If you want to cheat, you will ALWAYS find a way to do so. But why spoil the fun? Yeah, I thought about mentioning that in my post. I suppose I could just not wear certain gear, or take certain perks. That's often a common response when there's balance issues like this in games. But there's something unsatisfying about it. It feels like you're gimping yourself.  It's a more satisfying feeling to have challenging gameplay and just enough tools to meet the challenge.  It seems like that's a major point of mods like SkyRe.  They remove exploits like the crafting cycle, 100% spell cost reduction, make the game more challenging, and then give you new tools to meet the challenge. I hope that I don't come off as being critical. I am very appreciative of Iroha's work, and the work of other helpful forum members here.  I don't think I'd be currently playing Skyrim without you. I was just wondering if you'd changed anything, and at the same time trying to put in my two cents of feedback. You're right about the Master of the Mind perk, I didn't think about using illusion spells one-handed, so that's a perfectly good reason to leave it. For now I'll just wear different gear and remove perks until I feel my character's voice power is properly balanced. Thanks for response!

Couple of things I've noticed thus far. There's some redundant perks in the illusion tree.  The dual cast perk in the bottom of the tree allows you to affect automatons, daedra, and undead, but so does the Master of Mind perk higher in the tree. I prefer such a perk being accessible lower in the tree, because otherwise it makes starting out as an illusionist pretty difficult. Your spells are useless against the Draugr you find in almost every dungeon. Also, I was wondering if you altered Mighty Magick's Voice module to take into account Skyre's Voice-oriented speech perks or Frostfall/Cloaks of Skyrim's voice cooldown reducing items. Quoted for reference The unlimited magnitude increase seems like it could get pretty over-powered on it's own.  I had been playing a sword and shield nord who shuns magic and only focuses on shouts.  With the speech perks from SkyRe plus Mighty Magick's magnitude increase, it could get out of hand. Not to mention all the cooldown reductions: 20% from Mighty Magick, 30% from skyre perks, Blessing of Talos, Amulet of Talos, Fur Backpack with Talos Amulet, and Greybeards Mantle (the buff of which shows up twice in active effects).Â

Out of curiosity, what happens when you use an armor that isn't designed for UNPB? Like immersive armors of tribunal robes and mask. Does it crash, do body parts stick through, does it just look like default?

FYI in step 1. d) it should be player.dispelallspells I think.

Looking forward to it!