SKYRIMLE Vivid Landscapes - Birthsigns by Aron

[rootsrat]

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50324/?

 

A retexture of Standing Stones, no explanation needed here, we all know VL series :)

 

Not sure if this will be included in the All In One VL pack, so creating separate thread.

 

Will need compares against Vanilla and current STEP (no mod in STEP mod to covers these currently, apart from a few moss dirt piles (SRO and Re-Defined Dungeons), but no actual stones). I will be able to make them early next week, Mon or Tue.

[Octopuss]

That guy is resourceful. I really like his work.

I am not sure why he didn't make it an update to Dungeons and ruins though. Of course there's no harm in releasing it separately, but...

The screenshots look awesome.

[DoubleYou]

Nice! I had been using a separate mod to get better birth sign textures and will have to test these out!

[Noobsayer]

I usually love the vivid stuff but I prefer the smoother look over these.

[Neovalen]

I love these :)

 

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[rootsrat]

Yeah, I am very pleased with these textures. Awesome work, they look awesome in game.

 

I'll move it to testing.

[Smile44]

I have these in game, snapped them up and they look great in game.

 

:)

[statmonster]

Looks like this might be in the latest version if his All in One.

[Octopuss]

I think so, I believe version 1.7 is being uploaded today (something already appeared under patches).

[EssArrBee]

I'll volunteer to take these on today. I was going to do the farmhouses, but this looks like much less work. Will be up soon.

[Neovalen]

This one is now included in v1.7 of the all in one (confirmed by me).

[rootsrat]

I'll volunteer to take these on today. I was going to do the farmhouses, but this looks like much less work. Will be up soon.

 

This was my plan for today + dragon claws and some other clutter, but the release at work didn't go so well and I'm still stuck in the office unfortunately :/

[EssArrBee]

In the voice of a Mexican Soccer announcer: "SHADOW STRIPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

I forget how bad it can be in vanilla, but there is so much of it, and I think it has to do with the parallax textures. Anyways....

 

 

 

HRDLC->VL

 

Shadow Stone near, showing off the Rift

 

Shadow Stone far

 

Atronach Stone near, showing off the low area with the hot springs, I forget the name

 

Atronach Stone far

 

Steed Stone near, showing off some snow

 

Steed Stone far

 

Guardian Stones near

 

Same, but with a stone activated might be the next one over

 

Guardian Stones near again, different stone because it is in a shadow... ooooooohhhh....

 

Same Guardian stone activated

 

Guardian Stone far

 

 

 

 

It can be hard to see the VL stones in vanilla lighting, they have a lot of shadow stripping and I really can't express enough in screenshots how bad it is. I'll try to play around with some stuff to improve it, but vanilla is vanilla.

[Neovalen]

You know, many times we are discounting parallax mods due to having to use vanilla only. Why is it that STEP hasn't recommended ENBoost + Shadows and Parallax Enabled only at least? It would alleviate said problems and doesn't come with a huge perf hit.

[torminater]

Hmm, it really doesn't look that good on those screens... Does it look better if you disable shadows completely for testings sake?