Skyrim Se - Complete Weather mods comparison
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- 17 Weather mods compared ( Vanilla included )
11 Meteo situations
The comparison has been made with NO ENB to be fair for all weather mods
only mountain fog and Storm lightning added
All weather mods have been compared on their vanilla custom weathers
Some weathers have really different and unique features, some have custom clouds included or mist effect or unique sunset and sunrise.
It's not a matter which one is the best, it's a matter of what are you looking for.
P.S.: Picturesque weathers overhaul result to be extremly dark cause it's suppose to work along it's own ENB preset
AEQUINOCTIUM
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Autumn Skies
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CATHEDRAL
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Climates of Tamriel
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DOLOMITE
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ELFX Weathers
( pick the option from ELFX )
HAZE
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Mythical Ages
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NAT
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Northern Saga
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Obsidian
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Picturesque
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Rustic
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SCANDINAVIAN SEASONS
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VIVID weathers
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Wander
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Please don't post linked time for just compare 2 or few weather mods as your preference, this video is and want to be a full comparison to give people the possibility to compare but also find out new or underated mods
*Meteo situations timestamps:*
Distance (on clear weather): 02:43
Sunrise: 04:29
Sunset: 18:37
Night: 11:33
Clear/Sunny: 13:19
Cloudy: 08:01
Fog: 09:47
Overcast Rain: 00:58
Rainstorm: 16:51
Overcast Snow: 15:05
Snowstorm: 06:15
Thank you Tigersoul for this menu :-D
Thank you for including nights. Most comparisons I have seen do not include nights. To me how a weather mod looks at night is just as important.
Nights are very important, especially if you don't use ENB without it you cannot modify the lightness or darkness
Great job. I'm sure this took a lot of time. It's to see a video that compares all these mods. Many under rated ones.
Hey Firemanaf! You've been spotted! Love your ENB you're awesome!
@@thirsty7281 Thank you. Appreciate it.
I can tell you put a lot of work into this, and it truly shows! This is a fantastic comparison video that covered SO much. I look forward to your videos in the future.
Very good and complete. You even chose to show ELFX Weather which nobody does. Thanks a bunch for the showcase!
Yep i had to do them all!! and i was quite surprise to find out that ELFX weather it's not so bad, it has really some good situations, many mods are so underrated just cause they don't get the right spot
Again, well done. Of all the mod videos we see comparisons, Weather is a big one. There are a lot of options. You go further adding a special ENB to correspond with a specific chosen weather, and then tweak yourself silly getting the coloration just right. Never too sure if your clouds are catching light just the way you want. It’s a long enduring process, for sure. Then trying to find the right time and place to start filming. I can only imagine some people have breathtaking views. Skyrim can really blow your mind sometimes. I recently added Morning Fogs, and adjusted my Sun, refined a Lens effect. Wife can’t understand what’s taking so long… there’s only like 800 options.
One of the best comparison videos I've ever seen. Nice work.
What an *excellent* Video! Is hard to decide, because you like one mod more than the other, depending on weather conditions. Thanks for this. I guess I need to watch it more than once to decide.
Thanks for this video. It helped me greatly.
For me its a tough call between Dolomite, Haze and NAT.... but I think I'll go with Dolomite for the next playthrough.
Best weather mod comparison to date, very thourough. :thumbsup:
This is an amazing comparison I been using Obsidian for years, but I'm really thinking about trying out Cathedral, it looked great in this and I like that heavy overcast.
Great presentation. Been looking for something like this (:
Thank you for your effort, much appreciated
Thanks for the video! It was very helpful 👍
Whoa, I've never seen anyone talk about Haze and it looks fucking amazing - the clouds and color grading are huge standouts. The file size is borderline criminal though, so I can see that aspect pushing people away. I'm moving away from Vivid Weathers so I might check it out. Thanks for this comparison!
Haze is a mix of few weather mods, has as a base mine Scandinavian Seasons and other small touch from other mods it is a great mod but as many good mods luck of supports of Enbs
Great work, much appreciated
Thank you for this video!
When I think of Thunderstorms...
I think of big black ominous clouds...
Sheeting black rain...
Terrifying giant bolts of lightning that fork
off in various directions along with flashes
that light up both cloud and sky followed by
powerful claps of thunder that shake the very
Earth mixed in with the sounds of rolling thunder
as the storm passes through...
The intensity of the rain ebbs and flows from the
very beginning of the storm to its end...
Don’t forget the smell of burnt ozone after a lightning
strike...!
I didn’t see that with any of them...
And don’t forget about the light drizzley rain that
happens along during the early day and afternoon
that just kind of lulls you into a deep relaxed state
and leaves the air smelling clean and fresh...
well it's a comparison to make you choose the best based on own taste, of course i can't show more in 10minutes, so it's up to a balance of what you like or not more, also lightning storm can be tweaked in frequency of lightnings sheets or forks
If you want exactly that check out Storm Lightning. It's the best thing for rain and lightning hands down and has a lot of what you're looking for.
Bravo e complimenti per il video!
Quale pensi sia la weather mod migliore in questo momento?
The author of Picturesque clearly doesn't like to see during the day :D diff'rent strokes! I like the vibrancy of Aequinoctium, the snow storms of Rustic and Cathedral/Obsidian as an overall pick.
[Edit] RE Picturesque: That being said, looking at their Nexus page, it seems it has an accompanying ENB, and their images appear to be much brighter. Maybe we didn't get the full Picture(sque) :P
It is mentioned in the description of the Video, This comparison is made without ENBs, cause enbs alter the visual of weather lightning, mentioned Picturesque as a weather mod but it comes with its own ENB so it results very dark
Picturesque wont function without its companion ENB, it was built for and with that enb
My personal favorite is Vivid Weathers. It expects an ini particle setting for snow of 6000, looks like you may not have done that. Obsidian and Rustic also looks good in most situations. I think you could go with nearly any of these mods and end up happy.
yeah probably i didn't setting correctly! but you are right every mods have some goods and bads, and it's just a matter of taste, if you like something extreme or balance or you prefer something soft..
Honestly ELFX and Mythical were really standing out to me here with Rustic being the runner up to those
Thanks for the review
Comments on a few of these mods. I have Obsidian right now and I'm mostly happy with it though at times certain parts of the landscape seem a little too bright. Adjusting the settings in the mcm helps with this. Obsidian is made by the same people that made Dolomite and is considered a better mod. (I've used both at different times) Autumn Skies looks really good and I might change to that sometime in the future. Cathedral IMO has waaaay too much blue filter. Climates of Tamriel in my experience is just a slightly upgraded vanilla experience. Lastly, Picturesque is supposed to look completely different than this. The darkness levels are caused by an installation issue.
Picturesque is suppose to work with its enb, but as i mention before it was not fair to not include it ( you still can see meteos features of it ), well to be honest all weather mods come from same authors, at least the bases are from authors that have created weather mods for skyrim le and moved to skyrim se with open assets, it is good that we have variety more than the previous version and we can choose what fit our taste
Vivid always looks the best . But mythical ages with some help from display enhancements is great too.
i havnt tried vivid yet . i like mythical ages , just kinda wish it was a little brighter n saturated on a clear sunny day
@@jasonh7554 I’ve switched to NAT now a days . But I kind of stopped playing Skyrim. I realize it’s a little boring for me now besides for the modding part. Lol
@@chrismayhem5447 haha ye i get that . i played it when it came out n again a couple years later. i havnt played it fr ten years . im modding it like crazy before i play it again lol. just tried nat . looks very bright n sharp . but it looks too bright in cloudy weather i feel . looking fr somthing inbetween mythical n nat now lol
@@jasonh7554 you can edit NAT with some display enhancements mod. Increase saturation and lower the brightness a little and it really is the best looking . Lmk if you have any questions. I consider myself a veteran Xbox modder at this point lol
@@chrismayhem5447 thanks man. was using mythical ages until it started raining n was getting frame drops. the stuttering was annoying . i use obsidian now . the performance is great on my series s. even in heavy rain. n the rain looks exactly the same... :S lol
My favorite one is Cathedral, especially with Re-engaged ENB preset. Looks great especially on cloudy weather.
Comparing Picturesque with other weather mods I think not correct. Picturesque was made working with ENB.
Wow. Vanilla weather actually looks really good when compared with the mods.
@CEO of Unpopular Opinions Yeah, I'm shocked. Some of them make it SO DARK. Or just a dark strip on horizon (the sunrises looked really badly).
The best seems to be NAT, but yeah, vanilla is totally in top 3. Which is actually sad.
That’s why wander is my favourite because it is just an enhanced vanilla. Plus it has the most balanced nights.
This video feels decieving. To be honest Obsidian and Aqeuinoctium and NAT... Even Elfx and Dolomite look far better than this. I've tried them all. No ENB.
In Vanilla withouth ENB everything is green/pale during the day and blue/grey and barely dark at all.
To each their own, ofc.
Edit: Not decieving on purpose, I just don't think it really shows their true nature. Video is great. But try before you discard.
@@DaFunkz I tried Wander but I hate how it looks too saturated. It can go from a sunny and saturated look, to a dark and gloomy fog in a matter of seconds. The color switching back and forth is too obvious, almost distracting.
Excellent and very detailed comparison! Congrats! Vanilla still looks the best overall and there are no scenes in which it looks bad.
Thank you for the video!
Cathedral and Vivid are the best
Somehow I have to agree with you.
cathedral has some killer looking snow climates but at night it looks so bad
mythical and obsidian seem like more consistent versions of that though, but theyre not as breath taking
Honestly I’m between Mythical and Obsidian, Obsidian does fog better but Mythical has much better nights and rainstorms.
I must say I am pleasantly surprised by ELFX lighting. It's almost like a fixed vanilla lighting. Aside from that I gotta say my top ones are Aquinoctium, NAT, Myhtical and Obsidian.
Muito bom mano!
For my personal tastes, Mythical came out on top in almost every comparison.
Mythical is really beautiful.
I'm moving to Scandinavian though.
Obsidian covers seasons and Mythical just covers weather..Van you use both together or will there be conflict...Currently running with Mythical..Had Obsidian for a minute
17:54 I finally saw a lightning hit the ground upclose
TYVM :-)
I love rustic it reminds me of the way HTTYD 2 looks - the movie
Question:
Are the clear skies in the video REALLY clear skies? Because in many of them there's suspicious amount of clouds and the sky isn't blue but white. (I wanted to compare the blue sky hues but couldn't.)
Yes they are all clear skies ( there are currently 7 types on vanilla and all are different ) the amount of clouds depends on which one of this 7 is and also change the color of the sky for all 7 clear type, some weather mods have a complete clear skies with no clouds at all but it is 1 on 7, i did this comparison randomly so one can be a clear-pineforest another one clear-marsh, there are also few weather mods with a consistante amount of clouds also in clear situation, i think aequinotium is one of this and also dolomite, anyway the sky color is easy to correct with ENB
Autumn skies is my favorite.
Elfx has always been the best weather mod, combined with interior and exterior lighting from elfx and it is quality unmatched
vanilla version looks pretty good to me too
All Weathers from Picturesque is Night, Darkness, full of sadness and have no life and light.
Have you tried Kyne's Weathers and Seasons?
Kyne s weather is a mix o multiple weather's of this compilation, I am not considering it as a weather mod but an attempt to make work 3/4 weather mods together and when it came out it was also broken cause the season feature was not working properly and when I point this out to author he simply answer me he was not interesting in making it work....., is offering something that is not and it is not a personal work but a batch of others works made badly, so no reason to mention it
@@L3st4tSkyrimMods Well I've been using it for a few years now and it's actually great. I haven't had anything broke whatsoever. It is the first weather mod that I have run that looks great without an ENB. The combo of the different weathers seems to produce a really balanced feel for realism with a touch of fantasy. I haven't found anything that would make me not use it.
@@ZephrusPrime i have not doubt in that, basicly you are using obsidian weathers that is well build and you will not see anything broken because you don't know how it works, Obsidian has a script for the season ( like all weather mods with season ), this allow to the mods to show a particolar meteo during a period ( lets say summer more clear sunny weather, autumn more rain and so on ), there are other things, but this would take long to explain! While Obsidian cover Vanilla perfectly, the other meteos that kynes add are not vanilla but were part of other mods that covered vanilla, they are not part of the script so they will work as a Vanilla based on Skyrim Engine overwriting the season script ( so breaking the season ) or they even will not work anyway ( so you will play with Obsidian ) or they will show a meteo situation that will result odd during the season (like snow during summer or suddently snow then sun ), this is the main reason a point, for example my Scandinavian Seasons has also different weathers from Vanilla but they are part of the season script so they will work as intended ( i have lightning storm that will happen only in summer for example, rain with cloudy/sunny happening mostly in spring and early summer ) this is the correct way to make them work, i am sure Kynes author has good intention to do it and sure he has some good mods done but not this weather batch mod.
Been using Vivid on XboxOneX for a while now but the Frame rate is become intolerable. I’m still hard pressed on which weather mod I should switch with :/
Mythical Ages
Obsidian
vanilla / wander
To me personally winners are 1. Mythical Ages 2. Rustic 3. Obsidian 4. Wander, and the bottom (worst) 3 is NAT, ELFX, Scandinavian Seasons
It is a matter of taste, no winner or loser all goods weather mods with different way to do things😉
There is always something off about each weather, all of them does something right however Aequinoctium produces the most neutral looking image, which feels natural and flat enough for ebs to work on, whch can fix its dark nights however it has a drawback...much less fog yet on the village blizzard scene its way too foggy?? that makes no sense and it'd be perfect if we could tweak these two settings to make fog a bit stronger, and i guess blizzard a bit less strong
i didn't get which scene you are mention about the fog and what you would like to tweak...but i Agree to the fact that all weathers mod have some good things and of course something that can be off, i think it's just a matter of taste, many goes crazy for Cathedral but for me it uses too much blue, other prefer obsidian, but for me obsidian nights are not so realistic, but it's my own taste maybe people like it as you prefer aequinoctium
@@L3st4tSkyrimMods Acquenoctium as far as I can see almost completely disables distant fog, which takes away from the atmosphere would be great to have it back
I like vivid weathers
Cathedral gets my vote
Is mythical ages avilable for LE??
Yes.
Mythical is beautiful on every preview!, second ELFX, ELFX is more realistic depressive colours and Mythical more fantasy nicer. I love NAT at distance preview. Other are just worst or very bad.
buen micro bro
Which mod has a elden ring look I can’t really tell
i can hear him but only from one side..
Dolomite wins.. no options
Great compilation! I can't get over how bad some of them look, though. Pictureaque is hot garbage, and Northern Saga and Scandinavian Seasons aren't much better. My favorites are Obsidian, Dolomite, and Rustic Weathers, though I can't get over how bright the sun in for Obsidian in some of these shots. Surely that's a bug?
Comparation is without enb preset, picturesque works only with enb this how author wanted to look, as for Saga with strong vivid colors was a way to push enb authors to do something different, as i always say, it is just a matter of taste, so i don't think some weathers looks bad or good, they offer different things and some are strong in some situation more than others
Aequinoctium - eraser lol
So I am choosing obsidian then
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Best weather for Xbox one?
i would say Scandinavian Seasons, but wait for the update
@@L3st4tSkyrimMods when is that?
@@kingfurbs6277 hopefully soon, i've been changing pc and apartment and still in the mess
@@L3st4tSkyrimMods Is Scandinavian Seasons still available on xbox?
To this day 2022 mythical ages still the best it's was the most consistent then all in this video the others one was to inconsistent at time good and other time look awful
Rustic has most realistic rain
3d trees with my Et3D and also bubblode expansions
To me the best are : Scandinavian, Nothern Saga, Mythical and Cathedral who each handle some aspect very well.
Scandinavians, mythical and rustic...
Rustic snowstorms are tooo intense though.
Hate the stormy weather lighting with cathedral
Picturesque is so bad it shouldn't even exist
I don't think is bad, it is build to work with its specific enb, reason it results so dark without it, i know it was not a good idea to show it like this, but i wanted a fair comparison with all weather mods
bro this is 2020 and yet you still have mono sound
Video is not about sound! 😂
youraudio is broken man
it's a video comparison about weather mods, not Master Audio showcase!