SKYRIMLE Vivid Landscapes - Imperial Forts by Aron

[z929669]

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/43107/?

 

Creating for MT forum.

[EssArrBee]

If I'm mixing up textures for comparisons, do I need to disable the corresponding meshes that come with VL? If I don't hide the meshes and hide the textures will it cause problems without the parallax textures?

[z929669]

Neo is the authority, but I suspect that you will want to use VL meshes only with VL. Textures fom the others will likely behave strangely or at least they will likely not look as intended.

[Violator]

Vivid Landscape - All in One should be used instead.

VL files should not be overwritten by other mods either, so if you want to compare both meshes and according textures need to be replaced, in sets, so you avoid overlapping between regular and parallex.

[DoYouEvenModBro]

If we are looking at the Vivid landscapes imperial forts vs. cabals, why don't we also just do a global testing thread for Vivid Landscapes vs SRO? How much of SRo does VL replace?

[EssArrBee]

I am doing that, but we can't use a mish mash of these mods with VL. I was thinking VL for a couple exteriors, SRO for the rest, and AMB for interiors, but VL changes meshes from parallax support. I don't want to sift through the meshes to find out which ones to disable for testing and then run 3 or 4 test versions like I did for landscape. It would take days to complete that, where just textures only takes me hours. As of right now I'm for a mix of SRO and AMB outdoors and AMB indoors.

 

This will probably go in the next update, which is good because tech and phazer might be back by then to help testing.

[DoYouEvenModBro]

Awesome. Thanks for the response. Sounds good. I've always heard of Vivid Landscapes but never really checked them out in depth, besides moss rocks, which is included in step.

[Octopuss]

Could someone briefly explain what Parallax is? I see it references absolutely everywhere, but I don't quite understand what it actually is. Another injector like ENB or something?

[z929669]

Could someone briefly explain what Parallax is? I see it references absolutely everywhere' date=' but I don't quite understand what it actually is. Another injector like ENB or something?[/quote']

It is a texture/mesh interaction that creates the illusion of increased normal-map steepness. Basically, it increases the 3D effect of 2D objects.

 

Great effect, but depends upon ENB (usually), and is not universally applied to all game objects. It is therefore not included in STEP (and it adds to the complexity of the setup)

[DoYouEvenModBro]

So basically any mod that has its own Parallax effects should overwrite Project Parallax Remastered, right?

[z929669]

So basically any mod that has its own Parallax effects should overwrite Project Parallax Remastered' date=' right?[/quote']

I would venture 'yes' but Neovalen knows much more than I about the parallax mods.

[DoYouEvenModBro]

Does the Vivid landscapes all in one mod page contain everything? There are way too many vivid landscape threads popping up on the nexus or on here for me to count right now.

[Octopuss]

Thing is, I ran into several mods that said something about having Parallax this or that, but also that Parallax is not required, which confused the hell out of me. Also, none said ENB was required at all.

Uh...

[Neovalen]

The game itself can do parallax, however it has bugs. ENB fixes these bugs. The thing is mod authors need to take into account if the bugs are fixed or not when making textures. So on the VL pages you will see a Non-ENB version for this reason if for some odd reason you don't run any ENB.

 

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[DoYouEvenModBro]

This is what I've gathered...

 

Project Parallax Remastered should be placed AFTER SRO (in this case, i'm using the Project Parallax Remastered SRO Version so I placed it after SRO)

 

If a mod contains its own Parallax effects/textures/meshes/whatever, it should be placed AFTER Project Parallax Remastered

 

Parallax requires ENB to look correct. Some Parallax effects don't' require ENB (such as Real Ice Parallax) but the majority do.

 

I hope that clears up your confusion and if I'm wrong on any of this, please correct me. This gets confusing for me sometimes too.

 

Sorry to go off-topic, feel free to spin this off into a Tech Support Thread if needed.