SKYRIMLE Vivid Landscapes - Imperial Forts by Aron

[DoYouEvenModBro]

Fair enough. 

[Roberbond]

I have made a comparison among STEP Extended, Vivid landscape+vivid fort and Amidianborn imperial forts+whiterun.

I used ENB and i made a walk from Whiterun to some fortress so the pictures are very similar. I use  ELFX+ELE in the interiors and 

Immersive Content - EDFaL in the exteriors. I have leave some impressions in some descriptions.

 

My final thought is: STEP is much better and balanced

 

About Amidian fortress and whiterun:

PROS:

The wood is very good

The contrast among wood and stone is perfect in dragonsreach

the carved wood in dragonsreach’s pillars  are very good.

the grass is okey in whiterun

 

CONS:

I don´t like the masonry. I think that kind of masonry is from a castle in 18th no in 5th-10th century.

The wood sometimes are too dark

Some tiles in whiterun are perfect square. I dont believe it.

I don´t like the masonry inside whiterun. It is from a new castle. Too much perfect.

the rugs are worse although they contrast better with the textures

the roofs in whiterun are too dark and brown

There are green grass above broken walls. Always

 

About VL and fortress:

I have a problem with this pack, i think it is a very good one but I hate the main texture. I call it the MARINE TEXTURE. That texture is very typical in a stone near the sea water attacked by the salt, but impossible to see it in the mountains.

https://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj526/Roberbond38/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20iMac%20de%20Roberto/Vivid%20all%20Vivid%20fortress/2014-06-02_00074_zpsf6b6927a.jpg

I have seen this texture in Cadiz (Spain) a town near the sea.

pic001.jpg

 

PROS: 

very equilibrated

the caves are differents but i like it

with the grey stones the outside are much better

 

CONS:

The marine texture in the fortress

the brown rocks and stones

 

STEP Gallery from Whiterun: https://s1266.photobucket.com/user/Roberbond38/slideshow/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20iMac%20de%20Roberto/STEP%20EXTENDED-%20Whiterun%20forts%20and%20landscape

 

STEP Gallery more Whiterun and Interiors: https://s1266.photobucket.com/user/Roberbond38/slideshow/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20iMac%20de%20Roberto/STEP%20Whiterun%20Interior

 

Amidianborn whiterun and fortress: https://s1266.photobucket.com/user/Roberbond38/slideshow/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20iMac%20de%20Roberto/amidianborn%20whiterunfortress

 

Vivid all in one+fortress: https://s1266.photobucket.com/user/Roberbond38/slideshow/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20iMac%20de%20Roberto/Vivid%20all%20Vivid%20fortress

[phryxolydian]

Really bro, I don't get what you just did but, what ENB are you using, out of curiosity?

[TechAngel85]

It's the ENB you're using. I've heard the exact opposite from other ENB users saying that AMB looks amazing and rich with their ENB.

[Roberbond]

Really bro, I don't get what you just did but, what ENB are you using, out of curiosity?

 

It's the ENB you're using. I've heard the exact opposite from other ENB users saying that AMB looks amazing and rich with their ENB.

The ENB is Grim&Somber. These pics are not very detailed and are a little blurry, but they look awesome in game. On the other hand i don´t like those textures altought they are good ones technically.

[TechAngel85]

No one is advocating this mod unless it's in combination with an ENB which is outside the scope of STEP.

 

Dropped from Testing.

[EssArrBee]

People do advocate this mod for exteriors. They perfectly fine for non-ENB users. Probably the one VL mod that does.

[TechAngel85]

People do advocate this mod for exteriors. They perfectly fine for non-ENB users. Probably the one VL mod that does.

Not really...

 

 

See all those pits? Turning ENB parallax on will reveal those pits is actually small stones. Completely broken without ENB.

 

No ENB >> ENB

 

 

EDIT:

Update with compare. The non-ENB is flat. The ENB verion has depth added by the parallax.

[hauntmedoitagain]

Doesn't look good in either screenshot, really.