I also use open faced guard helmets, cloaks of skyrim, artisian cloaks of skyrim (just adds HDT Physics which look pretty nice), and immersive armors for armor and clothing for npcs.

Pride of Valhalla Skin (females), Tempered Skin (Males)ĮNB of choice I don't use a LOD my game runs a little slow as is Noble Skyrim + Tamrielic textures Water for ENB I personally don't use a flora mod (Cuz of fps) Your preferred weather mod (mine is obsidian) For lighting I use luminosity and lux but some people also use ELFX For character textures I use CBBE and tempered skins for males, Vanilla Hair replacer, demoniac skin texture, Eyes of beauty, a warpaint retexure, high poly head, Hvergelmir's brow and the patch for high poly head someone else made, KS hair and also the HDT one for myself, community overlay 1 2 and 3, Vanilla Makeup HD, Barbarian Warpaints, hdt-smp, CPBC, expressive facegen morph, hd eye map normal, double sided vertex human mouth, XPMSSE, Racemenu, Sakora's Makeover kit. (I just don't have the energy to deal with Dyndolod right now, and this approach still gives me respectable distant views)įor NPCs/Player character, I like mods that aim for a believable balance between realism and beauty, and I'm using a combination of: , and to achieve animated distant waterfalls I tweaked my Skyrimprefs.ini: uLargeRefLODGridSize= 11 TO Skyrimprefs.ini uLargeRefLODGridSize= 21 In addition to your PC specs, and potential willingness to sacrifice performance for visuals, this also depends hugely on personal preference.ĭo you prefer a darker, more grim, more foreboding look? Do you prefer warmer colours/lighting? Do you prefer to stick to a more vanilla Skyrim aesthetic, or not? Do you prefer a more fantasy feel, something more natural, or a look that's somewhere in between? And so on.įor myself, I usually veer toward warmer colours, but not over-saturated, and a balance between fantasy and a natural aesthetic, that tends more toward the latter.

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