CoT

[vestan]

Hi.

 

I know Climates of Tamriel isn't a STEP module, but I thought I would post this question here and hopefully get some expert advice.

 

When I install the 'darker dungeons' optional file with CoT, whenever I get near a word wall or get hit with a spell, the entire screen goes black for a few secs and I can't see.

 

I was reading that you may have to use an ENB with CoT, but the fact is I don't want to use an ENB (my system is kinda' old).

 

Does anyone know of any solution I may be able to try? Or an alternative to CoT - darker dungeons to make the dungeons more foreboding, vanilla dungeon lighting and the majority of lighting mods I've seen that just tweak the ambience don't really cut it for me personally.

 

Thanks for any info anyone can provide.

 

 

[Aiyen]

What you experience is adaptation kicking in since word walls and spells are rather bright. When using just vanilla this effect is rather overpowered. There are mods that remove the effect entirely..however it would most likely conflict with the lighting mods.. since they require editing of the same forms. 

 

Relighting skyrim, ELFX and RLO are options for interior lighting. If you tried all of those and found they aint what you want then options are slim. 

You can try to add ELE as a partial solution on top as well.

 

The thing about CoT and ENB is only if you are using the weather patch...It was made to make CoT easier to tweak for ENB users, not as a replacement for CoT. Since CoT works just superb when you do not use an ENB since that is what it is tuned for. 

 

Hope that helps a little bit. 

[vestan]

What you experience is adaptation kicking in since word walls and spells are rather bright.

 

So would you expect everyone to have this problem? I was just wondering if maybe getting a new better graphics card may have helped .. maybe not

 

Relighting skyrim, ELFX and RLO are options for interior lighting.

 

I may have had a look at those, but as far as I recall, practically all lighting mods I've seen just do little tweaks to the lighting (as you've said).

 

Thanks for the recommendations, I'll check them out.

 

Thanks.

[Octopuss]

ELFX and RLO do make pretty significant changes. If you haven't tried them, I suggest you do.

[Aiyen]

Well the vanilla adaptation effect is definitely not for everyone... I even think it is vastly overdone. 

It can depend quite a bit on your monitor settings... It will however not depend on graphics card. 

 

Also all of those lighting mods are massive overhauls that alter more or less every single interior and even some exteriors in the game... so it is a bit more then little tweaks. 

They will however not add new ways to do lighting etc. if that is what you meant. Compared to newer titles then lighting in skyrim is rather limited sadly. 

[Kuldebar]

I use Relighting Skyrim because it fixes the vanilla lighting without adding more lights and edits that TBH are a PITA to mod around for those of us who like running different mod builds:

 

 

 

-Vanilla lighting done right!
-If there's two fires, there will now be two lights, not one stuck in the middle.
-Also fixes where there is a light source near a wall/corner but light emits from the center of the room.
-Where there's a candle, fire, window, torch... there will be light. Where there's not, no light.
-Fixes a ton of instances where exterior lights didn't light the landscape, usually meaning the ground right under them
-Currently affects all major areas and a large amount of dungeons and misc. locations.
-Iincludes all outdoor areas, working on dungeons now.
-Changes the radius/brightness of lights to more realistic and uniform levels.
-Makes light coming from the sun in interiors reflect the time of day.

 

 

 

The other lighting overhauls are very robust and, yes, more dramatic; but you will need to always keep an eye out for compatibility issues. RLS chief goal is to ensure existing lights are functional lights, not "fake" or invisibly sourced.

 

 

 

Any ENB compatible with vanilla lighting will work with RLS.

[vestan]

I believe I used RLO awhile back but had problems with torchlight in Breezehome, the light AOE cast from the torch turning on and off.

 

I may have actually had RLO run alongside CoT when I first noticed the adaptation problem, so I uninstalled. If I recall the problem with adaptation blindness continued without RLO, so I uninstalled 'CoT darker dungeons/nights' and haven't had the problem, but everything is too light and I can see too much now ... lol, no pleasing some people. :D

 

I've just gotten ULO https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/37846/?

 

I'll give this a whirl, see if it plays nice, then consider trying out 'CoT darker nights/dungeons' alongside and see if the problem crops up again.

 

Thanks for the help.