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About this mod
Ever wanted DOF with Silent Horizons 2, PI-CHO ENB's quality of skin shading with complex terrain, complex material, complex grass and dynamic cubemap support? Welcome to MESH2.
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
- Changelogs
- Donations
This is my edited SH2 - Universal Core ENB preset.
It's still 90% base SH2 Universal, with a few things changed.
Added the DoF + AO from Pi-Cho ENB, with AO value halved.
Bunch of other edits I really can't remember; tweaked over 2 months of gaming.
Installation Instructions:
- Install Silent Horizons 2 - Universal Core and all of its hard requirements.
- Overwrite the above files with mine.
- (Optional) Delete all files in the ENBCache folder.
- Done!
Performance hit
It will be harder than SH2 - Universal Core because of DOF;
you can turn DOF off in the Effects window and get the exact same performance as SH2 - U.
Changes from base SH2:
- Lowered ENB interior fog.
- Less colorful, clearer water. (works with Water for ENB or Simplicty of Sea)
- Interior and Night exposure adjustments. (under HDR)
- ENB Rain turned off; uses the rain droplets from your weather mod.
- Very dark nights (with Azurite II), comparable to Raid Weathers. Torches recommended.
- Fixes bright waterfall / foam particles at night.
- Fixes water LOD seam + reflection issues if you use Simplicity of Sea.
- Fixes overly reflective eyes when eyecubemap.dds is switched to an ENB Dynamic Cubemap.
- Few other little tiny tweaks that I lost track of.
Imported from Pi-Cho ENB:
- Depth of Field + AO (Marty McFly, adjusted AO amount)
- Skin Subsurface Scattering values
Supports:
- All ENB Dynamic Cubemaps
- Dynamic Cubemaps for Eyes (values have been edited to tune the reflection level)
- Complex Grass
- Complex Terrain*
- Complex Material*
- ENB Terrain Blending (get the fix here)
*Use Parallaxgen to generate meshes to support your downloaded parallax / complex parallax textures.
Also get Auto Parallax, install it and DO NOT TOUCH THE INI FILE.
Weather?
Screenshots and video were taken with Azurite Weathers II. (default ingame settings)
As I did not make any weather specific edits, this preset is still considered rather universal.
Just edit Color Grading > HDR> Exposure (in EVs) / Contrast settings in the FX Shaders window if things are too bright or dark.
Here:
Spoiler:
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FAQ:
Q: My nights are too dark!
A: Adjust the HDR Exposure / Contrast values for Night. (Extender window). See spoiler tag above.
Q: What if I don't use complex material / parallax?
A: Parallax does not activate without the correct texture / meshes, so you just see the non-parallaxed version.
If you're unsure, install Auto Parallax and leave it be. It just works.
Q: What if I don't use Dynamic Cubemaps?
A: Just copy the entire [EYE] section from base SH2 - Universal's enbseries.ini file and replace my [EYE] section, then set DynamicCubemap to 'false' in the enbseries.ini.
Q: I don't like 11 of your changes.
A: Change the values in the ENB Helper window (you can try asking for help in the comments), or use another preset.
Q: Where are all your iconic buttshots?
A: Sir, this is a SFW mod page (for once). Look in my uploaded images section or newer mod releases for those. They are all entirely taken using this modified SH2 preset only, without edits.
Specific config for all screenshots in the Images tab:
- Basegame TAA on, ENB TAA Deblur on
- All skin subsurface textures disabled (_sk.dds textures changed to black)
- DLAA mod installed, max quality
- 1440p native (no upscale)
- Interior Lights (Vanilla locations): ELFX + ELFX Shadows
- Fires: Embers XD
- Rocks: ERM - Enhanced Rocks and Mountains
- Ice: Icy Mesh Remaster
- Snow shader: Simplicty of Snow + Paraphernalia -- Snow Colour Fixes
- Snow texture: Vivid Landscapes - Complex Parallax Occlusion Snow
(with Projected Diffuse Patch)
- Water: Simplicity of Sea
- Terrain (Base): The Omnibus - Terrain Complex Parallax AiO (Terrain textures)
- Grass: QW2 Grass + No Grass In Objects + No Grassias + Landscape Fixes For Grass Mods
- Fog: Obsidian Mountain Fog + Azurite Mists
- Lights: ENB Light + ENB Lights For Effect Shaders (and a lot of ENB light mods)
- LOD: Dyndolod 3 Alpha + Texgen + xLODGen
- Parallax / Complex material: ParallaxGen
- Outfit: DX Witch Hunter
- Weapons: Dark Hierophant Magic + Holy Templar Magic(White sword and Orange shield, edited meshes for less light)
- Too many more to list, ask in the posts tab if you want to know anything specific; my load order is not a secret.
Credits:
- Silent Horizons 2 ENB
- Pi-Cho ENB
- My color-perfect-out-the-box Philips BDM3270 Monitor for forcing me to make so many edits to SH2 Universal for my screenarchery needs
- A guy who posted his water values on one of the water mods' comments section along with screenshots. Sorry I didn't take your name down; if you see this, lemme know it's you and I'll credit you :P
- elpuertorro for publicly posted eye reflection values in the ENB Dynamic Cubemaps comment section.
Last but not least, please endorse the preset if you like it! ;)