Vivid Weathers is the ultimate weathermod for skyrim. It combines features of COT, ESS,SS, Vivid Snow, Vivid Clouds and Fogs, Real Skyrim Snowflakes and much much more into one mod. It overhauls the colors and weathers with the aim to have stunning effects even without a ENB.
Mandatory complement of the NLVA and SnowFall Lighting.
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Scriptwork - MCM menus, scrips for interior brightness and so on: Kesta Translations: French: Kesta Japanese: BowmoreLover German: Mangaclub (yes thats me) Italian: david88m
JJC - Climates of Tamriel - Inspirations of certain aspects of the mod atmosphere.nif - JAWZ - enbdev.com
Fixed installer error that when installing extended rain or snow
Version 1.55
- added support for Beyond Skyrim Bruma. Tryd to keep the weathers Lore friendly as possible but that afterall just points out when i actuall palyed it through ;)
- added a fix for the MCM menu by TerraKitsune making the informations available about the current weather even if the mod is loaded after position 128
Version 1.51
the extended Rain and snow effects where broken (thanks to CK) so those are fixed now.
- rised extended snow brightness in the night a bit to reduce the black snow feeling
Version 1.50
This version includes all updates and changes i made to Vivid Weathers Special Edition:
- Added Volume Sliders for Rain, Thunder and Wind
- Added a special Cloudmesh that draws horizont clouds further down so that ugly gap between clouds and horizon will get reduced.
- Reconverted all textures from tga to DDS with gamma correction. The results should be more contrast in the clouds
- removed the vanilla rain esp and reverted the extra effects behaviour, now you have two more .esp files to add extra rain and snow effects (real skyrim snowflakes), otherwise snow and rain will be using vanilla particle systems.
- corrected alot of gradient stuff, cloud stuff..colors... and so on
- reworked skyrims Cloudy weathers. They are now more hazy and cloudy.
- enabled the skyrim sunglares so it is possible again to replace them with the hundrets of sunglare mods out there. (ENB authors take care, changed Sun and sunglare values!)
- added more diversity for cloudy weather sky gradients
- adjusted a bit the distance fog for clear and cloudy weathers
Version 1.39
- Added a new option to the installer that makes the Rain sounds optional.
- Changed the heavy Rain sound cus it was too compressed.
- added a option to the installer to revert back the Rain effects to be more vanilla like. This will make Vivid Weathers Compatible with ENB rain again also.
- recompiled the mcm menu script to make the bloom entry poppup instantly when activating the customizon
- minor adjustemends i forgot :D
Version 1.36
Vivid weathers:
-Added Low resolution textures for all of you who cannot run skyrim with high texture settings.
-Added Italian translation by david88m
-refined the rain sounds to be more noisy and drippy
-reincluded the fixed minty lightning patch.
Vivid Weathers ENB:
- Added Natural Lighting ENB coloring as option in the installer wich gives a much more smooth and natural picture.
- Updated shader code for Nighteye
Version 1.35
- added new rain sounds overwriting the skyrim ones (drizzle, heavy,light, medium). They should now sound more rainy.
- updated vivid weather Rain weathers to proper use those new sounds
- updated all Vivid overcast weather cloud textures to be more detailed in the sky.
- fixed a rain weather with no rain
- added a patch to include all relevant vivid thunder weathers to mintys lightning mod (Lightning during Thunder Storms)
Version 1.31
added a few hotfixes for Usleep and Frostfall. Other than that- version 1.30 changes still apply:
- Added new Rain effects and textures to the Rainy weathers for Strong and Heavy Rain.
- Added Sovngarde, Soulcairn (dawnguard) and Acropocrypha (dragonborn) weather ovauls
- Update MCM script version to 2.
- Added info page with weathers and INI informations.
- Added option to turn ISMods off completely.
- Fixed Day/Night ISMods switch effects (no adjustment time when switching between presets or moving from exterior to interior).
- Fixed frostfall compatibitliy for rainy weathers.
- Update climate sunrise/sunset hours for Karthspire and Sovngard (they're used if USLEEP is installed).
- Removed obsolete refreshing on game load.
- Added Bloom setting (4 level + default), exteriors only.
- Prevented night brightness setting to affect Bleackreach (independant system usually handled by lighting mod).
Version 1.30
- Added new Rain effects and textures to the Rainy weathers for Strong and Heavy Rain.
- Added Sovngarde, Soulcairn (dawnguard) and Acropocrypha (dragonborn) weather ovauls
- Update MCM script version to 2.
- Added info page with weathers and INI informations.
- Added option to turn ISMods off completely.
- Fixed Day/Night ISMods switch effects (no adjustment time when switching between presets or moving from exterior to interior).
- Fixed frostfall compatibitliy for rainy weathers.
- Update climate sunrise/sunset hours for Karthspire and Sovngard (they're used if USLEEP is installed).
- Removed obsolete refreshing on game load.
- Added Bloom setting (4 level + default), exteriors only.
- Prevented night brightness setting to affect Bleackreach (independant system usually handled by lighting mod).
Version 1.22
Small update because those thunderweather changes i mentiond in 1.21 where not carryd over...no idea why -_- anyhow now the new "thunder only - Distant rain" weathers are included.
Version 1.21
- Updated some thunder only weathers with strong needle wind effects and turned down the harsh thunder soundeffect against distant thunder sounds - that way it should be more clear that those weathers are distant thunder weathers as there are distant rains visible on them.
- lowered lightning intensity on those weathers
- Fixed some technicalities in the esp
- added manual install.txt
- added highres raindrops on low rain weathers (chubby rain!!)
Version 1.20
Upgrading.
Its essential you create a clean save with this update!
(Remove Vivid Weathers from your modlist, load up your last save, Save again, Update Vivid weathers and enable it, load last save.)
Following patches where added / merged:
- Vivid weathers is now legendary and includes Dragonborn and Dawnguard support. (and requires it)
- Added Falskaar Support
- Added Wyrmstooth Support
- Added Summerset Isle support
- Added Lanterns of Skyrim support
Changes:
A new preset has been added to interior/night levels called DOOM. this is just for non ENB users! ENB Shaders will puke on you using this and youwill certainly being in DOOM! :D
- Added a FXWeather for the stormshout
- added Rain Fogs to the disabled groundfogs
- Removed SMAA Antialiasing from the installer. It was just too buggy sadly!
- Updated Mindflux particle patch for the ENB installer
...and again much more small stuff that i forgot ...
Version 1.14
Applied previous corrections to the dragonborn addon.
Version 1.13
Fixed record issues on weather for sounds and precipitation references.
Fixed the "default" option of the saturation configuration so it actually default to vanilla instead of low.
Renamed "Medium" to "Vanilla" for Saturation preset.
Enhanced translation possibilities for the MCM.
Fixed .seq file name.
Version 1.12
Just some Internal changes of the esp structure - No new features
Version 1.11
- Fixed ENB installer bug where SMAA wasnt installed
- Fixed translation bug where translation files where not renamed properly so the mcm menu went nuts
Version 1.2
Upgrading.
Its essential you create a clean save with this update!
(Remove Vivid Weathers from your modlist, load up your last save, Save again, Update Vivid weathers and enable it, load last save.)
Following patches where added / merged:
- Vivid weathers is now legendary and includes Dragonborn and Dawnguard support. (and requires it)
- Added Falskaar Support
- Added Wyrmstooth Support
- Added Summerset Isle support
- Added Lanterns of Skyrim support
Changes:
A new preset has been added to interior/night levels called DOOM. this is just for non ENB users! ENB Shaders will puke on you using this and youwill certainly being in DOOM! :D
- Added a FXWeather for the stormshout
- added Rain Fogs to the disabled groundfogs
- Removed SMAA Antialiasing from the installer. It was just too buggy sadly!
- Updated Mindflux particle patch for the ENB installer
...and again much more small stuff that i forgot ...
Version 1.1
- Added Dragonborn DLC patch wich adds vivid weathers to solstheim and some new stormy ash weathers
- Added Frostfall 3.0 compatibility (Kesta)
- Updated AOS2 Patch
- Added a installer option to disable the volumetric fogs during foggy days for performance needers
- changed some skyrim rain weather thundersounds
- fixed some general mountainfogs coloring setting
- Updated the ENB to work together with the new DLC weathers
...and some small things i bet i forgot...
Welcome to Vivid Weathers - a complete weather and Visual overhaul for Skyrim
Vivid Weathers is the latest and biggest Weather and Visual Overhaul for Skyrim It overhauls all the Skyrim Weathers and imagespaces as well as add a whole bunch of new Weathers (500+) and effects (Snowstorms, blizzards, thick fog, distant fogs, distant rain, particle snowflakes...) ...and much more! It includes all features of Real skyrim Snowflakes, Vivid Clouds & Fogs, COT, ESS and SS. It is especially tweaked to look stunning without a ENB in use - so also weaker Rigs get immersive weathers.
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- Over 500+ Weathers - Clear, Cloudy, Blizzards, Stormsnows, Rainy ,Stormrain, Foggy and Thunder weathers... everything you need!
- Complete replacement and enhancement for all imagespaces so a ENB is not needed to have a immersive weather experience
- Adjustable Interior and night brigtnes via ingame MCM menu
- Adjustable Saturation via ingame MCM menu
- Supports: Dragonborn, Dawnguard, Falskaar, Wyrmstooth, Summerset Isle, Lanterns of Skyrim and AOS2
- Over 150 new cloud textures
- 16 new deep thunder sounds for bad weathers
- Immersive sunrise and sunsets by selective cloud coloring.
- Extended groundfogs that adds volumetric fogs on foggy weathers
- Real skyrim snowflakes that add ingame particle snow for a complete new snow and blizzard feeling
- New stars and galaxy textures
- Distant mountainfogs and Rain effects
- Moving fog particles during heavy fogs
- Immersive sunsets/sunrise textures
- Replaces and fixed alot of Smoke and Fog textures (Vivid Clouds and Fogs)
- includes a Highly optimized ENB for all weathers with the new DUSK and DAWN feature (ENB 0.305+ required)
