Plugin: SnusAmbience 2.0 Date: April 2017 Author: Snusmumriken Website: www.oblivion.lima-city.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Difference to NehrimAmbienceForTES: ================================== - new plants, new textures (plants, trees, rocks, terrain) - a more saturated ambience but still on the darker side - new weather in SnusAmbience.esp with more contrast: darker nights, brighter days, heavier snow, more intense thunderstorm, etc. - thunder soundfiles with more depth - landscape-lod now with Anequina region Description: ============ You should not install this plugin if you don't like contrasts. With this plugin it's sometimes dark and sometimes really bright, sometimes really colorful and sometimes quiet desaturated. Sometimes it's a bit burdensome for the eyes. And I've got the feeling that on one day the view with the same weather is pleasantly bright and on the next day I find it too dark. I just don't know - BUT I'm happy with it and don't want to play without it anymore. I've also noticed that with Oblivion default setup the scene swaps between bright and darker .. a strange thing. The view shown in the image-gallery can only be achieved with the esp plus with HDR enabled in your game settings. It's all based upon (http://cs.elderscrolls.com/index.php/Weather) HDR settings in the weather types of SnusAmbience.esp. I've especially increased the values SunlightDimmer (makes sunny places brighter), GrassDimmer (makes grasses brighter) and decreased the value TreeDimmer (for darker trees). I don't know how the ambience looks when using other weather plugins! Plugin-list (completely or partially used and adapted other plugins): ==================================================================== - Improved Trees and Flora by Mikal33 - Improved Trees and Flora 2 by Mikal33 + Update - Lush and Gaudy Floriana Gloria by Brittainy - Landscape LOD Textures by Blade9722, Iliana, shaya - Realistic Normal Maps with Faked Terrain Shadows by gruftikus - Darker Canopy Shadows by miniorty - BetterSun by Michael Wells - SonicEthers Beaming Sunglare by SonicEther - Immersive Skyrim Thunder V5 by Wordeee - Really Textured Normal Maps for Vanilla by Jarod - Landscape Retexture HQ by Lougian - Arboretum - retexture for a tree-hugging crowd by maczopikczo - Verdant Anthesis The Imperial Ecology v3 by Discovery1 - HoddminirGroundTextures by elinen Requirements: ============= Not an oldie of a computer! Incompatibilities: ================= .. with all plugins which change weather and environment textures! (Incompatibilty doesn't mean that it's impossible to use another plugin of that type too - just keep in mind that the last plugin loaded overwrites plugins loaded before!) Installation : ============= Manual installation via copy and paste the content of this plugin into your Oblivion/Data directory. To let Oblivion know that there are new texture files it's necessary to work with the ArchiveInvalidation strategy. I recommend using the installer version from http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/10724/? Since CanopyShadow.dds is a 1024 size texture the Oblivion.ini must be set correctly: iCanopyShadowScale=1024 fCanopyShadowGrassMult=10.0000 (to get a darker canopyshadow .. not sure if 1 is max) iShadowMapResolution=1024 (not sure if this is needed) Improvement Tips : ================= - Compressing the texture files to DXT1 / DXT5 level (http://cs.elderscrolls.com/index.php/Choose_the_right_DXTC_compression_algorithm) with tools like "Optimizer Textures" (http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/42116) Note: I cannot compress texture files for own use since my textures then look not ok (black, shivering, etc.) - I guess it's a problem of my graphics card - Making a bsa out of it (http://cs.elderscrolls.com/index.php/Creating_your_Own_BSA_files) using "BSACommander" or a similar tool; it didn't work for me .. I just don't know .. - and other methods I'm not familiar with (maybe making a bain archieve with WryeBash) Deinstallation: ============== Remove all you have added in the Installation process and maybe change back your Oblivion.ini settings Credits (see also plugin-list above): ==================================== Bethesda, TES ConstructionSet, Niftools-Team, The Gimp, Blender Qarl and Timeslip - http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=OblivionMods.Detail&id=7219&id=2345 Wordeee - http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1702 Quazzy - http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=10724, Mikal33 - http://tes.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=8500, http://tes.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=11891, Brittainy - http://tes.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=41118, Blade9722 - http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/7212 shaya - http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2182, Iliana - currently not available, gruftikus - http://tes.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=41243, miniorty - http://tes.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=16186, Michael Wells - http://tes.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=4178, SonicEther - http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/16533, SureAI - http://www.sureai.de/ Jarod - http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/38204 ".. I am very grateful for your work - thanks a lot!" (The order of listing does not express some kind of importance - everything was and is important!!) Legals: ====== I give you full permission to use content I created for further work. You may not use any content for commercial use and please give proper credits according to the plugin-list above - thanks!