Vividian - Weather & Lighting enhancement - CoT - RCRN and Pure Weather

[Nearox]

Have you tried the brighter version from the vividian installer? That should lighten up stuff a lot.

Edited August 24, 2014 by Nearox

[Shadriss]

Seeing as I just ran into this and solved it, let me offer a few things to look at:

 

1) Monitor Calibration. If you haven't done it, do it. I use a 60" TV as my monitor, and until recently I was running it under a fairly dark preset, instead of the PC one. In retrospect, this was not bright. :) If you have something like that to work with, use it as a basis, and then calibrate your gamma as needed. This by itself can help a lot.

 

2) ELFX. I like it... but when you combine it's effects with ENB, you get darkness. Lots and lots of darkness. If you're into extreme realism (and by your post, not so much), this is fine, but otherwise, if you run ELFX, you should most likely drop it. This will lighten up the game spaces quite a bit... especially if you are also running the ELE mod included with Vividian, which ALSO alters the imagespace modifiers. SO yeah, I like ELFX,  but it's not a good idea with ANY ENB.

 

3) Finally, and really this maybe should have been the first thing - turn your "Brightness" setting in the GAME'S Options menu ALL THE WAY UP... or at least, most of the way up, in accordance with Magna's instructions on the mod description page. I honestly missed this myself until a friend pointed it out. Easy miss if you didn't catch it.

 

Should at least improve the situation with those three, if not outright solve it. Best of luck!

 

EDIT: I'd use Nearox's suggestion as a final step, if needed. It DOES brighten it up some, but it wasn't something I needed to do to get the right flavor of image. Personal choice, of course, but again - probably a last item if the other three don't quite get you there.

Edited August 24, 2014 by Shadriss

[iamgregor]

I installed Vividian as recommended by the Legendary skyrim revisited guide, but everything is WAY TOO DARK. I can't see anything except in full daylight. I tried really hard to adjust gamma settings or anything else, but none of it worked. As far as I can tell, the only ingame ENB setting I can change is "brightness" under color correction. Everything else didn't work at all and the gamma is locked at 1 (can't go below). I had to use a different ENB, but it's not as nice (other than I can see). 

 

I thought I saw some advice on how to fix that, but I can't find it now. Any ideas?

Just for completeness, I used ENBmanager to "activate" vividian's but did NOT activate any of the ESPs or mods themselves in Mod Organizer and it's looking pretty good right now (plus I can actually see). I'll keep playing with it, but if the conversation is about potential changes to the preset, the darkness would be the first thing to go in my opinion.

[justjr]

For is me ELFX CoT and Vividian ENB are perfect light, like supose to be. In the dark is dark, cast a light and see. In the light, is bright.

Edited August 24, 2014 by justjr

[Mangaclub]

@iamgregor

There are many reasons why this could bee too dark. The most common ones are:

1. Wrong monitor brightness and contrast. Vividian comes withsupport files with a Calibration picture inside of it. Watch it in Fullscreen and in an it very bright room. This is the best way you can adjust your Monitor Contrast and brightness. Especially the contrast takes away amore then you might think.

2. Wrong skyrim Settings. Vividian and other enb presets use a skyrimprefs.ini fGamma=1.0000  setting as default. Please check if its also set that way and if the brightness slider in your skyrim preferences is set to the Middle.

3. Mods. Mods like Climates of Tamriel - Warmer or Colder Interiors serisously darken the Interiors in a redicilous way when used with enb. Mods like ELFX - Enhancer Mess up all exteriors and make them Darker. Leftover esp's from other ENB's like NLA do the same thing. Those are my two favorites that i always com across.

 

and ofcours, please use the Vividian Weather patches according to your mods. Those do magic things and are sprinkled with fairy dust!!  ;)

Edited August 24, 2014 by Mangaclub

[TechAngel85]

Question to Mangaclub and Aiyen,

 

Is ELE - Spell and Torch Lighting a compatible component of ELE with Vividian and ENBs in general? I'm sure that the torch part of Vividian will conflict, but if ELE - Spell and Torch Lighting were to be installed rather than the torch part of Vividian do you know how well it will work? I've not heard much on this part of ELE and would like to know if it'll conflict or if there are any known issues with it.

 

TIA!

[Aiyen]

As I remember then it just alters the torch intensity and color, and then add having spells out as a point light source so it would not conflict with ENB´s... but it would perhaps make sure you get more flickering with shadows etc, since you might go over the max number of active point light sources in a given cell. 

[iamgregor]

@iamgregor

There are many reasons why this could bee too dark. The most common ones are:

1. Wrong monitor brightness and contrast. Vividian comes withsupport files with a Calibration picture inside of it. Watch it in Fullscreen and in an it very bright room. This is the best way you can adjust your Monitor Contrast and brightness. Especially the contrast takes away amore then you might think.

2. Wrong skyrim Settings. Vividian and other enb presets use a skyrimprefs.ini fGamma=1.0000  setting as default. Please check if its also set that way and if the brightness slider in your skyrim preferences is set to the Middle.

3. Mods. Mods like Climates of Tamriel - Warmer or Colder Interiors serisously darken the Interiors in a redicilous way when used with enb. Mods like ELFX - Enhancer Mess up all exteriors and make them Darker. Leftover esp's from other ENB's like NLA do the same thing. Those are my two favorites that i always com across.

 

and ofcours, please use the Vividian Weather patches according to your mods. Those do magic things and are sprinkled with fairy dust!!  ;)

I tried every combination of disabling lighting mods and I have something called Vividians - Extended Weathers... is that what you mean? My Monitor is perfect in every way I can see otherwise and one of the biggest problems I was having was Gamma. I did everything I could to lower it below 1, but the ENB wouldn't let me. That said, yes, I'm CERTAIN it's at 1 :)

For is me ELFX CoT and Vividian ENB are perfect light, like supose to be. In the dark is dark, cast a light and see. In the light, is bright.

It was way darker than that. Right now after the fix, I need  light in caves for darker places, but at least I don't need multiple additional lights in a room with multiple light sources already. It was like light was heavy and couldn't travel more than 10 feet or so.

[justjr]

When I was using ELFX exterios I had problems like these. Don't use it, neither any darker esp from CoT, then you "should" be safe. Also recommend forwarding the changes making an ELE Patch like is recommended in SRLE pack. Almost, if not all changes needed are documented by Neovalen in his Conflict Resolution page.

Edited August 24, 2014 by justjr

[TechAngel85]

Vividian is being added to the ENB Guide as a recommended ENB Profile. As such, I've updated the OP to include a wiki link to the Vividian mod page.

[Mangaclub]

Awsome!! thanks! :)

May we call us now Featured in S.T.E.P. ?:)

[TechAngel85]

Awsome!! thanks! :)

May we call us now Featured in S.T.E.P. ?:)

The recommendations on that guide aren't official but rather well known and up-to-date profiles. They're more suggestions than anything, so you can't technically say that...yet (though that might be coming soon in the form of an official pack if I can get these guys to testing ...from my own testing this is nothing wrong with the setup).

[darkside]

Great ENB!

Just a quick question. What is the most performance friendly DOF options?

[Mangaclub]

thanks ;) at the moment the Default one.

[phazer11]

So. Tried this out. I'm finding the DOF (I think it is anyways from playing with one of the DOF settings) is making everything really blurry.

https://s451.photobucket.com/user/animer/library/Vividian%20Blur