The next-gen BENDr update is a Do It Yourself tool to raycast your entire Skyrim modlist. Your environments will react more realistically to light with real time ambient occlusion and object self-shadowing all without any FPS and performance cost. No need for patches, no scripts, no ESP and no need to run DynDOLOD or start a new game.
Recommend having both 32-bit and 64-bit versions installed
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Special thanks to:
H☬SE - testing, feedback, videos and permissions support Mayhem - for the perfect mix of nice words and kicks up the arsenal that kept nudging me along Synergy Wabbajack Team - especially SnippyStockins and Peanut BennyDollaz - testing and feedback TheGuardianDovahkiin - ParallaxR algorithm testing and tweaking for BENDr outputs dabiggieboss - for testing and showcase video Parapets for the awesome NIF Preview (3D Model Viewer) for Mod Organizer - saved me so much time! AxielT for some great comparison screenshots
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Changelogs
Version v2.21
Storage Calculation Tweak, Anti-Sleep typo fix and Updated Exclusions Database so Mountains and Rocks now get BENDr'd
Version v2.2
Initial release of DIY version
Version 1.8-HeightMapImprove
Updated Amon Textures HD v3.0 Updated Venerable Nordic Temples Updated Riton Landscape (Green Tundra) Updated Riton Solitude Updated Tomato's Whiterun Updated IWAT's Nordic Murals NEW Iconic's Falmer Rosetta Stone Updated Praedy's Apocrypha NEW Rally's Furniture x3 (Upper, Orc, Common) NEW Ancient AF Windhelm NEW Farmhouses and Farm Towns by Clevercharff NEW Parallax Whiterun Streets by Omen Apollo NEW Ruins Clutter Improved - Cleaned and Upscaled Textures NEW Sovngarde HD NEW SRW0 Caves NEW Tomato's Imperial Forts and Dungeons NEW Tomato's V3 Farmhouses NEW Art's Solitude Streets NEW WiZkiD Riften and Ratway NEW Windhelm by CleverCharff NEW COTN - Falkreath Retexture and Consistency NEW Skyrim Realistic Overhaul - see https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/126022 with kudos to dBottle NEW Yummy Snow Landscape Textures NEW Majestic Mountains (Lightside) NEW HQ-Dungeons SSE and AE NEW Riverwood Revitalized NEW Simply Dirt Roads REMOVED CC's HQ Caves NEW Praedy's Tel Mithryn NEW Gamwich's Rustic Reliefs NEW CleverCharff's Mines NEW Retexture Solitude by BigHead NEW Spifferino's Farmhouses of the Nords NEW Clemus33's Vanaheimr Fallforest NEW Clemus33's Vanaheimr Pack (Fallforest, Fieldgrass, Marsh, PineForest, Reach, River and Coast, Volcanic Land) NEW Spifferino's Forts of the Old Empire NEW Tomato's Caves and Mines NEW Extended Cut Saints and Seducers - Tomato's Parallax Standalone NEW Shish's Boreal Whiterun NEW HD Vanilla Landscapes NEW Solitude PeV SSE Port NEW Sublime Solitude - HD Rework NEW Riverbord's Riften Revival New LongLiveApollo's Texture for Northern Roads NEW CleverCharff's Whiterun NEW CleverCharff's Bruma NEW CleverCharff's Orc Strongholds NEW Majestic Mountains Main Texture NEW Spifferino's Mountains of the Northlands NEW dBottle's Lore Friendly Mountains NEW Rudy HQ - Miscellaneous NEW Rudy HQ - Nordic Ruins NEW DaveHans - Novigrad my Solitude NEW Halffaces Ruined Books NEW Sotha's Deep Slumber - A Dwemer Bed NEW Sotha's Dunmer Dreams - A Dark Elf Bed NEW Sotha's Ignoble Beds - A Noble and Upper Class Bed NEW Sotha's Oddments and Miscellanea NEW Sotha's Peasant Dreams Bed NEW Sotha's The Royal Seat - Benches Chairs and Thrones NEW Sotha's Utenlands Nordic Tents NEW MystiriousDawn's HQ Imperial Forts NEW MystiriousDawn's Omnibus Terrain AIO NEW CursedSiren's Divine Dragonscale Decor - A Skyrim Furniture Overhaul UPDATED Tomato's Imperial Forts NEW MystiriousDawn's HQ Fort Dawnguard NEW Halffaces Wagon Wheel UPDATED Tomato's Caves and Mines NEW Tomato's Markarth and Dwemer Ruins NEW MystiriousDawn's Cave Parallax
Version 1.7-NoLODsExclusions
Cathedral Landscapes
Enhanced Rock and Mountain (Standard Textures from Optional Downloads) Detailing the Eldrich - Books+ Detailing the Eldrich - Riekling Architecture Praedy's Chantry of Auriel Praedy's College of Winterhold Praedy's Fort Dawnguard V3 Praedy's Apocrypha
Version 1.5-SpecularAdd
WiZkiD's Parallax Farmhouses
Ver 4.0 - Tomato's Complex Landscapes Parallax AIO WiZkiD's Atlantean x2 - Brown and Green Tundra with original Snow and Coasts, Brown Mountain with Moss Riton Imperial Forts Riton Fort Dawnguard Riton Windhelm Riton Winterhold Rally's Solstheim AIO Mrf's Solitude The Halls of the Greybeards - a High Hrothgar Retexuring Clevercharff's Apocrypha, Caves, Soul Cairn and Forgotten Vale TB's HD Photorealistic Whiterun Roads (Opt 2) ATHEUZZ Volcanic North Mountains Tamrielic Textures SE 1 - Landscapes HD Remastered Imperial Forts Raven Rock HD by CleverCharff Tomato's Mountain Textures Compendium Praedy's Castle Volkihar Praedy's Soul Cairn Whiterun Castle Carvings Clevercharff's Solitude HD Skurkbro's Markarth and Dwemer Ruins Real Dirt Roads Nordic Stonewall Terraces HD Remastered Landscapes - Green Grass Clevercharff's Nordic Ruins FIXED - Ver 4.0 - Tomato's Complex Landscapes Parallax AIO FIX ATTEMPT - Tomato's Whiterun - stairs near the marketplace, please feedback
BENDr adds an extra layer of object self-shadowing and ambient occlusion to compliment the effects in ENB, CS and Reshade No Performance Cost - Zero FPS Hit!
New in Version 2 ✔️ Do it Yourself - BENDr your Entire Modlist ✔️ Familiar - Built on the same Framework as VRAMr ✔️ Improved - no more Artifacts, Retains original Alpha ✔️ No Risk - Creates a Separate Output, Protects your Original Textures ✔️ Works with Everything! — 0 FPS cost - even on Vanilla & Potato Rigs ✔️ Standalone - no Shaders or Plugins Required
This new version of BENDr is built on the same framework as VRAMr. This means none of your original files are altered, you can enable or disable at any time and there is no need for patches, any plugins or the need to re-run DynDOLOD or any other tools
BENDr was originally developed for VR ENB users to emulate missing features that exist in SE/AE ENB and CS called Normal Mapping Shadows (NMS) and Parallax Occlusion Mapping (POM) which add more realistic shadows and depth to Skyrim
During testing however the resounding feedback was that BENDr complimented AE, SE, VR, ENB, Community Shaders & Reshade BENDr is 100% compatible with VRAMr BENDr looks great when paired with parallax enabled meshes If you cannot find a suitable parallax enabled mesh pack then check out PG Patcher (ParallaxGen) and Auto Parallax
