Noble Skyrim is a great mod especially with LODs (e.g., Terrain Lod Redone and HD LODS Textures which are designed to work together). I do love the *Enhanced Vanilla Trees* a lot when sticking to Vanilla (Lush is very sweet). With regard to immersion, I find that I can not longer play in my own game without *Immersive Fallen Trees SSE.* It just makes the world more real (i.e., when you don't forest woodlands *fallen trees* are *everywhere).* With regard to floral overhauls, I have been a long time fan of *Skyrim Floral Overhaul* though I decided to change to *Skyrim 3D Trees,* because of the *Skyrim 3D Plants,* which does a mind blowing job on entire plant overhaul and makes the shorelines along lakes and rivers beautiful and much thicker with diverse vegetation... nicest part all in one mod for all those plants. In my mind, even if you did not use any other files beyond some of the base ferns and scrub, it would be worth it... but it's a single mod, covers tons, and does it right. Oh, and Trees & Plants billboards are included under optional (NOTE: I cannot remember if it was S3DP or EEKs or both that handles the horrible Vanilla Scrub and Dead Scrub used to hide bad landscape seams). With regard to *SFO* (and at present *3D Trees* ), I use *Real Forest Textures* and *Real Forest Textures [Aspin Plus]* for tree textures though I have had to use hidden files function in MO2 because of the additional crap. I love the textures for trees in this mod and it plays well with *Immersive Fallen Trees.* And, finally, I have come to include *EEKs Renthal Flora Collection* as a plant base with some overwrites (e.g., *Beware of the Swamp - Poisonblooms,* several of *Mari's* flower mods (because her work is a favorite and beautiful), and *Unique Flowers & Plants SSE* (hidden though I have a copy). Regarding, *EEKs,* I find most of the edits stunning and it replaces the BS *vanilla scrub-vines* ( *Bethseda's* answer to bad landscape texture seam covers) every where which a lot of folks use *Insignificant Object Remover* (which I now just use for pebbles) to remove - EEK's replaces them with some much more realistic and attractive plants. Billboards, too. Between S3DP and EEK's, hidden files are my friend (e.g., it's new to my own load order so I have yet to examine overlaps and preferences... but the truth is... how can you go wrong with these mods. Anyway, I thought I would share some thoughts... I know you have to balance a lot like hits to FPS and other such given you're recording for us and not just playing a personal game. I am sure you'll do a great job. Immersion is nice, but it's the character story line that keeps me coming back. Thanks for all you do... :) References (LODs, Flora, & Side Mentions): LODS: Terrain LOD Redone: www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/9135 HD LODS Textures: www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/3333FLORA (Overhauls) Immersive Fallen Trees: www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/8767 Skyrim 3D Trees & Plants: www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/12371 Real Forest Textures: www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/9943 (Clutter Must Be Hidden) EEK's Renthal Flora Collection: www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/13909 FLORA (Specific) Beware of the Swamp - Poisonblooms : www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/9837 Death Bells by Mari - www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/10871 Dragons tongue by Mari - www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/90918 (OLDRIM) Mountain Flowers by Mari - www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/10862 (Also Cover By EEK)And, if you really hated the 2-3 crap flora in the vanilla Creep Cluster [2K] - www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17070 *** IMHO - I am a fan of Mari though EEK's flowers are also awesome... personally, I want to do a side by side and hand select them out - lol - hidden files is great. Anyway, DB & DT still prefer Mari.
highly recommend all texture mods by Gamwich, especially RUSTIC Clothing also Embers HD is a must have mod, once you see the forge with it, you'll never want to uninstall it
totally agree. Gamwich's stuff is superb. I prefer his children overhaul as well to all that faffing about with all the others. Its simple and they look so much better for just new textures instead of ten tons of mesh changes
I love that you have Inigo in your let's play. He's the best modded follower! I hope you explore his mini-quest and his fleshed out dialogue. He's super interesting.
I totally agree on Verdant. Great standalone grass that will never disappoint. For Trees my personal recommendation has been for the longest time "simply bigger trees". It's very similar to the enhanced vanilla tress, but the trees are a lot larger in general and much closer to the scale of actual real-life pines. It also has the same lush option if you want really dense branches, but I think the standard also looks really great all things considered ie. they don't look artificially sparse. You might not think that sounds like a big change (That was my initial thought too before testing) but my OH MY GOD the difference it makes to ambience is AMAZING. That simple change makes forested areas feel dense, wild and even a bit intimidating compared to vanilla-size trees where it really feels very sparse and the trees feel much less like a part of the terrain and more like randomly scattered props (kind of the same feeling you get with grass if you run it with too low density). Very performance friendly too. Riverwood with simply bigger trees transforms the entire area and it finally dawns on you that "oh yea, this is a logging settlement nestled in the edge of the forest - I get it now". Can't recommend this one enough as a visual mod. Rarely if ever do you get so much bang for your buck (in the sense of the mod being such a small alternation to a single aspect).
Finally DynDOLOD, I did not think this would ever happen. You can even go one more step and disable the TreeLOD in the Ini to get "3D Trees" in the distance.
Performance can definitely take a hit, at least with slower memory. It pretty much needs a tree pack that comes bundled with 3d lods intended to be used with dyndolod's ultra/3d tree functionality (otherwise you will waste a lot of resources and polygons where it really isn't needed). I believe enhanced vanilla trees is one of the few that does support it though. Personally I got decent FPS with it but struggled with quite a bit of stutter when moving the camera, I suspect it simply was too heavy for my setup (the mesh folder for dyndolod increased from around 500mb to well over 2,5gb for me with 3d tree lods)
For tree pop-in the best thing I found was to up uGridstoLoad to 7. It wasn't stable at all in oldrim but I've found it to be completely stable in SE. Couple this with a tree billboard replacer (not sure if enhanced vanilla trees comes with billboards for tree LoDs) to more closely match the full 3d versions color-wise. I personally use Indistinguishable Vanilla Tree Billboards. It's in the oldrim section but still works fine when used with SSElodgen. It's nice because it has several different brightness options to choose from to match based on your weather mod or enb.
Bushallmighty Never cared for Noble all that much m'self. I dislike the way it changes the stone floors in the Inns, for one thing. I think Osmodious is not too bad, but none of them are perfect.
I actually looked forward to these visual changes. :) I know mods offer a lot to do but they also offer a lot to *see*. I have seen people online wonder about Skyrim fans returning to the game over and over and over again, but I really think it is Skyrim itself that keeps pulling gamers back. That is why the appearance of the world, of the land, is important. That being said, I also like it that the first chapter was a mostly vanilla experience. It makes the transition more noticeable and more enjoyable, too. I'm in awe at what modding can do. I now have a PC but I don't yet have Skyrim for it. Thanks for these modding videos. :) They help me pick out the better mods and see what's useful.
Trees LOD with shadows, peeps don't forget to try that one if you notice they look weird and bright in the distance. It's a HUGE difference from a tiny MOD.
just started my own modded playthrough, i added so many texture, and enhancement mods i got lost going from Whiterun to Riverwood and ive logged upwards of 2000 hours into Skyrim.
Yeah! I know you are hard at work! Thanks for all you do - just started to watch… let’s see how it turned out…. Okay, while personal experience may vary and just for the record, I am *already* missing Leonard. 😊😉
Noble skyrim is a great choice. It might be immersion breaking after seeing the base cities but jks skyrim is a must have. He has it completely brought over now. My favorite visuals so far are obsidian weathers+ nobles skyrim+ Jks skyrim. If you ever use jks skyrim the excuse could be that after the war that happens the citizens decide to rebuild :p. Or you can see about getting it done just for riften to simulate the growth from the thieves guilds success and mavens control if possible.
Gopher check out landscape fixes for grass mods. Get ur compatibility patches there! Also for DynDoLOD u gotta use the ultra 3d tree LOD option! No billboards and pop-in reduced! Change setting in SSE ini in DynDoLOD folder.
Will you post a Mod List video where we can see your full load order, once chapter 2 starts? I really like how you've maintained a vanilla feel while improving on visuals significantly.
Gopher Oh! Of DynDoLod. Sorry. : ) Edit: You are actually the first person I have ever heard pronounce it correctly, of all the videos and reviews I have seen. I should think it would be obvious if you look at the words the contraction is made from, but no one seems to be able to get it right, until now. :D
I highly recommend Fluffy Snow, Blended Roads, and most mods by LupusHegemonia and luxor for added terrain and building stuff. Plus everything by Gamwich. in 1-2k, won't take much performance but will massively beautify the game. I am also a big fan of Skyland - I use it on top of Noble, and then replace it with select textures by a few other people. For grass, I like Verdant a lot and it feels quite lightweight in comparison to SFO.
A reminder for everyone, as beautiful as gopher's skyrim looks, noble skyrim is NOT performance heavy! Neither is enhanced vanilla trees and verdant doesn't have to be either. These are not 4k, 8k, and crazy heavy mods. I've had people marvel at my skyim also, and they're stunned when I say most of it is not 4k textures! You don't need 4k to have quality.
When installing multiple mods with overlapping effects, has there ever been a discussion about how you decide when to pick one modification over another? For instance, textures included in SMIM, Noble, ELFX, Majestic Mt, etc affect the same things. Is there a rule of thumb to guide choosing one over another?
I highly recommend Skyrim Realistic Overhaul as a baseline. It by far has the most included textures and looks very vanilla, but just better. Then you can put your prefered textuers after that. Link: www.moddb.com/mods/skyrim-realistic-overhaul
I would recommend checking out Kajuan's mods for creatures,skeletons and stuff.They really fit in well with noble skyrim and gamwich's rustic textures Also i personally think that majestic mountains look less "doughy" and more realistic than what you have currently in this vid.Oh and i don't know if it's compatible with dyndolod or not but Terrain LOD redone by the same author of majestic mountains and blended roads is a must have mod.
DynDoLOD.... now we're talking mature modding :) Glad you decided to go with that, it really is a great tool. Did you also use the Ultra Trees version ?
My favorite texture Pack, and recommended by STEP, is "Skyrim Realistic Overhaul". Only found on ModDB, not on Nexus. Noble Skyrim has great landscape textures but I don't like how the towns and cities look with it.
Hey gopher :) Just want to give a tip for DynDOLOD. DynDOLOD has some rules for Legacy of the dragonborn, but it looks for legacyofthedragonborn.esp.... But legacy of the dragonborn recently switched to an ESM. To fix this, just go into DynDOLOD folder -> Edit Scripts -> DynDOLOD -> rules ->DynDOLOD_SSE_legacyofthedragonbornESP_high/low/medium.ini. Just change it to DynDOLOD_SSE_legacyofthedragonbornESM_high/low/medium.ini and change everything inside to ESM too.
I'm hoping for a forgotten city mod playthrough in chapter two :) I mean "riches beyond imagining" is definitely something that would interest Leonard, right ?
At the same time, I can see Leonard taking one look down that hole and saying "nope, I'm out, I'm letting you all stay dead so I can just get out of here"
SO looking forward to Chapter 2! This looks fantastic! May I suggest a mod? It's called 'Blowing in the Wind'. It gives movement to hanging signs and lanterns based on the wind. I love it! Cheers and thanks!
Looking good. Have you tried skyland? If so any thoughts? I am using skyland and NSM together, they seem to work well together so far. I love skylands mountains, they look better than majestic mountains IMO.
@Vox Nihili I installed Skyland for a Special Edition playthrough a while back. It's spectacular! The ground mesmerizes, feels like a next-gen glimpse.
You may want to test ELE and RS a bit more, I just tried it and the Bee and Bard was pitch black. It's fine in most places, but some others are broken.
Raycheetah At this point Lenny is already somewhat used to dungeons, hes seen how much shiny stuff can be found inside so hes willing. Besides, if hes planning to do the Legacy of the Dragonborn, hes gonna need to get used to getting down and dirty, and we all know hes going to want to do that just for the massive amounts of awesome stuff he can get
Gray Cowl of Nocturnal has a good quest design and world building but the voice acting is horrible, its definitely immersion breaking for the sort of roleplay that gopher aims for.
Gopher!! Please please look into the mod BLENDED ROADS ! It makes roads feel real instead of being flat and is compatible with everything including other texture mods.
gopher i just finished the dawnguard and went vampire this playthough and your mod for predator vision was a huge welcomed mod, the night vision was so bad and your mod helped for the darkest of dungeons for sneaking, thank you!!
Mod suggestion Blended Roads Roadstones are blended to the ground mesh instead of assigning a texture to an extra mesh. This eliminates a lot of road uvw issues. Link www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/8834/?
For grass mods have a look at Viscous Foliage. IMO it looks even better than Verdant and its placement is fixed when you also us Landscape Fixes For Grass Mods. If you want a new look for your potions try Awesome_Potions. Cloaks of the Nords will add new HD designs to Cloaks of Skyrim. +1 to everyone who has recommended you Gamwich and T4GTR34UM3R. You may also have noticed how some weathers make water edges look straight and ugly. Water's Edge Fix takes care of that, but at the cost of making foggy weathers much less foggy. You should use Smooth Shores instead. Something not visual: Check out SWIFT if you want a solid quest and immersive fast travel mod. Something like Death Alternative could also be interesting now that you have Inigo to save you.
Definitely - SMIM is a must have, High Poly Project looks amazing too. I really want to play Skyrim again, but with all the mods I HAVE to download it would take weeks which just burns me out on modding again (due to the internet being too slow, without any option to get a faster connection sadly)
Initially, I was really excited about HPP - but after a while, a few aspects started to grate on me - particularly its super-jagged stone walls. Having removed them, I'm quite happy.
Just seeing a mod list makes me far too excited to see chapter 2! quick mod suggestion: Distinct Interiors. fantastic improvements to shops and inns, modular but pretty much universally compatible, it will make Lenny want to sneak in everywhere all over again just to see what has been added, even if he wont be able to pilfer many of the new cosmetics.
watching this 1 year later is just pure comedy gold... "...I'm actually hoping some of the improvements they've made...Fallout 76...sixteen times the detail...hopefully means, the base games from now on will look better.." xDDDDDDD scamthesda really spawned one of the biggest memes in gaming history with that one ^^
@Gopher I'm still trying to figure out how to get OBS to work with the SKSE ... I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I can hear game sounds but it's only showing a black screen on OBS.. what are you using to record? I thought it was OBS.. also I looked on the minions page for an answer and even asked in the minion discord chat but nobody is answering
Karl Olson it's not compatible with many mods though. Loads of quest mods are not compatible with jks because they add stuff to the world in places jks build stuff
TheAciddragon069 it's hard to say essentially because jks adds tangible things into the game. This can lead to certain objects being missing which can break quests. Just looked it up and it looks like jks is better than most city mods for compatibility because it doesn't change much about the cities themselves so it should be fine for the most part. The only other issue is it is a performance drop
elliott collom "Just looked it up"?! So you were making a qualified statement without even knowing? Why do so many people do stuff like that? *Facepalm* I just don't geddit...
Maybe once I have all the visual mods sorted out and lighting set correctly for this sort of play through. Post processing is always the last thing to do and should only be done for specific things that can only be achieved with post processing in my opinion. Better shadows (Oldrim), better ambient occlusion etc. The icing on the cake, so to speak :)
I know this mod list may take a while to set up, but from what I have played (even though I get 1-14fps due to pc specs) this mod list is amazing wiki.step-project.com/User:DarkladyLexy/Lexys_LOTD_SE
How do you fix Frame Rate drop in certain situation? I have Open Cities installed and wondering if that affects. Or do you never had this experience before?
Please do use Quick Loot! I seem to recall you having some problems with it in the past? Maybe during the Richard playthrough? I hope it doesn't cause any issues this time around.
I did notice one problem with clearer distance viewing: the world looks smaller. Normally, things far away are either not visible or low-res (i.e., fuzzy). With everything this sharp, it all looks closer and the Whiterun area doesn't look as spacious. Of course, that's an actual problem in the game. I remember when I first started Skyrim, everything looked vast and amazing, but eventually I started to realize how small everything actually was, and how quickly you could run across the whole map, and it all got smaller and simpler. Which was sad, but kind of inevitable really. This does make it worse, imho.
I just got it working. There's 2 versions. Use this one and be sure to install the extra required files: www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/21085
It's a bit much to ask but can we get a mod list with links on gophervids? While i would love for Mod Sanctuary (and Mod Vault, for that matter) to come back, but that seems like asking for the moon and all that entails. Just a simple list where we can look and explore mods that we may or may not have heard of. P.S. also news of the TESR project would be awesome.
is there a quick easy way to download your profile and have vortex automatically detect and download every mod you are currently using? That would be lovely
Have you considered "Sleep to Gain Experience" in order to avoid the level up interruption during a fight? www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17791
Noble Skyrim is a great mod especially with LODs (e.g., Terrain Lod Redone and HD LODS Textures which are designed to work together). I do love the *Enhanced Vanilla Trees* a lot when sticking to Vanilla (Lush is very sweet). With regard to immersion, I find that I can not longer play in my own game without *Immersive Fallen Trees SSE.* It just makes the world more real (i.e., when you don't forest woodlands *fallen trees* are *everywhere).*
With regard to floral overhauls, I have been a long time fan of *Skyrim Floral Overhaul* though I decided to change to *Skyrim 3D Trees,* because of the *Skyrim 3D Plants,* which does a mind blowing job on entire plant overhaul and makes the shorelines along lakes and rivers beautiful and much thicker with diverse vegetation... nicest part all in one mod for all those plants. In my mind, even if you did not use any other files beyond some of the base ferns and scrub, it would be worth it... but it's a single mod, covers tons, and does it right. Oh, and Trees & Plants billboards are included under optional (NOTE: I cannot remember if it was S3DP or EEKs or both that handles the horrible Vanilla Scrub and Dead Scrub used to hide bad landscape seams).
With regard to *SFO* (and at present *3D Trees* ), I use *Real Forest Textures* and *Real Forest Textures [Aspin Plus]* for tree textures though I have had to use hidden files function in MO2 because of the additional crap. I love the textures for trees in this mod and it plays well with *Immersive Fallen Trees.*
And, finally, I have come to include *EEKs Renthal Flora Collection* as a plant base with some overwrites (e.g., *Beware of the Swamp - Poisonblooms,* several of *Mari's* flower mods (because her work is a favorite and beautiful), and *Unique Flowers & Plants SSE* (hidden though I have a copy). Regarding, *EEKs,* I find most of the edits stunning and it replaces the BS *vanilla scrub-vines* ( *Bethseda's* answer to bad landscape texture seam covers) every where which a lot of folks use *Insignificant Object Remover* (which I now just use for pebbles) to remove - EEK's replaces them with some much more realistic and attractive plants. Billboards, too.
Between S3DP and EEK's, hidden files are my friend (e.g., it's new to my own load order so I have yet to examine overlaps and preferences... but the truth is... how can you go wrong with these mods.
Anyway, I thought I would share some thoughts... I know you have to balance a lot like hits to FPS and other such given you're recording for us and not just playing a personal game. I am sure you'll do a great job. Immersion is nice, but it's the character story line that keeps me coming back. Thanks for all you do... :)
References (LODs, Flora, & Side Mentions):
LODS:
Terrain LOD Redone: www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/9135
HD LODS Textures: www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/3333FLORA (Overhauls)
Immersive Fallen Trees: www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/8767
Skyrim 3D Trees & Plants: www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/12371
Real Forest Textures: www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/9943 (Clutter Must Be Hidden)
EEK's Renthal Flora Collection: www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/13909
FLORA (Specific)
Beware of the Swamp - Poisonblooms : www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/9837 Death Bells by Mari - www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/10871 Dragons tongue by Mari - www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/90918 (OLDRIM)
Mountain Flowers by Mari - www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/10862 (Also Cover By EEK)And, if you really hated the 2-3 crap flora in the vanilla
Creep Cluster [2K] - www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17070
*** IMHO - I am a fan of Mari though EEK's flowers are also awesome... personally, I want to do a side by side and hand select them out - lol - hidden files is great. Anyway, DB & DT still prefer Mari.
highly recommend all texture mods by Gamwich, especially RUSTIC Clothing also Embers HD is a must have mod, once you see the forge with it, you'll never want to uninstall it
Dzurky
Ooh!
Thanks for the tip. Gamwich is so under-rated.
This. GamwichRim is pretty much mandatory for a modded Skyrim. KajuanRim is pretty important too.
I'd go as far to say use all of Gamwich's stuff
totally agree. Gamwich's stuff is superb. I prefer his children overhaul as well to all that faffing about with all the others. Its simple and they look so much better for just new textures instead of ten tons of mesh changes
+Hare deLune His Nexus account has over 1600 kudos, not that underrated :p
I love that you have Inigo in your let's play. He's the best modded follower! I hope you explore his mini-quest and his fleshed out dialogue. He's super interesting.
I totally agree on Verdant. Great standalone grass that will never disappoint.
For Trees my personal recommendation has been for the longest time "simply bigger trees". It's very similar to the enhanced vanilla tress, but the trees are a lot larger in general and much closer to the scale of actual real-life pines. It also has the same lush option if you want really dense branches, but I think the standard also looks really great all things considered ie. they don't look artificially sparse.
You might not think that sounds like a big change (That was my initial thought too before testing) but my OH MY GOD the difference it makes to ambience is AMAZING. That simple change makes forested areas feel dense, wild and even a bit intimidating compared to vanilla-size trees where it really feels very sparse and the trees feel much less like a part of the terrain and more like randomly scattered props (kind of the same feeling you get with grass if you run it with too low density).
Very performance friendly too.
Riverwood with simply bigger trees transforms the entire area and it finally dawns on you that "oh yea, this is a logging settlement nestled in the edge of the forest - I get it now". Can't recommend this one enough as a visual mod. Rarely if ever do you get so much bang for your buck (in the sense of the mod being such a small alternation to a single aspect).
not seeing the grass pop in 10 meters away from you is very nice. I needed a mod for that so thank you for bringing one to my attention
nobleskyrim is by far my favorite texture mod for skyrim. good choice gopher :) also these mod list videos are filling me with mod talk nostalgia.
Finally DynDOLOD, I did not think this would ever happen. You can even go one more step and disable the TreeLOD in the Ini to get "3D Trees" in the distance.
Believe it or not I had no idea that you could do that. I'll look into it and see how it affects performance.
Performance can definitely take a hit, at least with slower memory. It pretty much needs a tree pack that comes bundled with 3d lods intended to be used with dyndolod's ultra/3d tree functionality (otherwise you will waste a lot of resources and polygons where it really isn't needed). I believe enhanced vanilla trees is one of the few that does support it though. Personally I got decent FPS with it but struggled with quite a bit of stutter when moving the camera, I suspect it simply was too heavy for my setup (the mesh folder for dyndolod increased from around 500mb to well over 2,5gb for me with 3d tree lods)
That looks amazing Gopher. A good standard to start with for anyone booting up Skyrim.
Thank you! You give the best and most informative talks.
Noble Skyrim remains my absolute favourite texture pack for Skyrim, way better than the more popular '2k Skyrim' mod imo
For tree pop-in the best thing I found was to up uGridstoLoad to 7. It wasn't stable at all in oldrim but I've found it to be completely stable in SE. Couple this with a tree billboard replacer (not sure if enhanced vanilla trees comes with billboards for tree LoDs) to more closely match the full 3d versions color-wise. I personally use Indistinguishable Vanilla Tree Billboards. It's in the oldrim section but still works fine when used with SSElodgen. It's nice because it has several different brightness options to choose from to match based on your weather mod or enb.
Looks awesome at 1440 60!! Absolutely Amazing Mr Gopher! :)
Interesting, always like to see other mod lists :)
Love the way noble blends the roads
Really? To many small details makes them look like carpets to me. They look fake.
Bushallmighty
Never cared for Noble all that much m'self. I dislike the way it changes the stone floors in the Inns, for one thing.
I think Osmodious is not too bad, but none of them are perfect.
I actually looked forward to these visual changes. :) I know mods offer a lot to do but they also offer a lot to *see*. I have seen people online wonder about Skyrim fans returning to the game over and over and over again, but I really think it is Skyrim itself that keeps pulling gamers back. That is why the appearance of the world, of the land, is important. That being said, I also like it that the first chapter was a mostly vanilla experience. It makes the transition more noticeable and more enjoyable, too. I'm in awe at what modding can do.
I now have a PC but I don't yet have Skyrim for it. Thanks for these modding videos. :) They help me pick out the better mods and see what's useful.
Trees LOD with shadows, peeps don't forget to try that one if you notice they look weird and bright in the distance. It's a HUGE difference from a tiny MOD.
just started my own modded playthrough, i added so many texture, and enhancement mods i got lost going from Whiterun to Riverwood and ive logged upwards of 2000 hours into Skyrim.
Will wait for the continuation of the let's play :)
I should start using DynDOLOD too...
Dyndolod probably the best visual mod you install, it's amazing
This looks cool. Tinted a little much by brownish/greenish colors, but cool.
wow. as soon as Requiem is out on SE then ima be on it.
that LOD mod is calling my name.
Why do I enjoy these videos even if im not playing the game or having no connection with modding?
Oh man, I LOVE Noble Skyrim
xLODGEN combined with DynDOLOD make for some amazing distant landscapes. Creation process takes some time to do its thing, though.
Really looking forward to watching the Lennard lp. But first I gotta get back into Jack FNV first chapter. :D
I have to heartily recommend both Gecko's Nordic Ruins and Dwarven Ruins texture packs. They compliment Noble's wonderfully.
Yeah! I know you are hard at work! Thanks for all you do - just started to watch… let’s see how it turned out….
Okay, while personal experience may vary and just for the record, I am *already* missing Leonard.
😊😉
Noble skyrim is a great choice. It might be immersion breaking after seeing the base cities but jks skyrim is a must have. He has it completely brought over now. My favorite visuals so far are obsidian weathers+ nobles skyrim+ Jks skyrim. If you ever use jks skyrim the excuse could be that after the war that happens the citizens decide to rebuild :p. Or you can see about getting it done just for riften to simulate the growth from the thieves guilds success and mavens control if possible.
gopher a good visual mod you might of heard of or not is RUSTIC CLOTHING makes such a difference to the way vanila clothes look that i can't go back.
Gopher check out landscape fixes for grass mods. Get ur compatibility patches there!
Also for DynDoLOD u gotta use the ultra 3d tree LOD option! No billboards and pop-in reduced! Change setting in SSE ini in DynDoLOD folder.
Will you post a Mod List video where we can see your full load order, once chapter 2 starts? I really like how you've maintained a vanilla feel while improving on visuals significantly.
OMG correct pronunciation!
Gopher is the best!
And another thing: A Skyrim LP that just keeps getting better as it goes.
Need I say more?
Of what?
Gopher
Oh!
Of DynDoLod.
Sorry. : )
Edit: You are actually the first person I have ever heard pronounce it correctly, of all the videos and reviews I have seen.
I should think it would be obvious if you look at the words the contraction is made from, but no one seems to be able to get it right, until now. :D
I hope you look at the rest of the mods by T4gtr34um3r (Majestic Mountains) author. His work is absolutely brilliant!
I highly recommend Fluffy Snow, Blended Roads, and most mods by LupusHegemonia and luxor for added terrain and building stuff. Plus everything by Gamwich. in 1-2k, won't take much performance but will massively beautify the game. I am also a big fan of Skyland - I use it on top of Noble, and then replace it with select textures by a few other people. For grass, I like Verdant a lot and it feels quite lightweight in comparison to SFO.
A reminder for everyone, as beautiful as gopher's skyrim looks, noble skyrim is NOT performance heavy! Neither is enhanced vanilla trees and verdant doesn't have to be either. These are not 4k, 8k, and crazy heavy mods.
I've had people marvel at my skyim also, and they're stunned when I say most of it is not 4k textures! You don't need 4k to have quality.
I love Veydosebrom for the grass, it looks so damn good
Yeah, I got bored with Verdant after a couple years and switched to Veydosebrom. Loving it.
@@CeanHerzfield it looks great, but unfort it means when you kill bandits it's like impossible to find the bodies D: the grass is too tall! ha
When installing multiple mods with overlapping effects, has there ever been a discussion about how you decide when to pick one modification over another? For instance, textures included in SMIM, Noble, ELFX, Majestic Mt, etc affect the same things. Is there a rule of thumb to guide choosing one over another?
Can someone answer this?
I highly recommend Skyrim Realistic Overhaul as a baseline. It by far has the most included textures and looks very vanilla, but just better. Then you can put your prefered textuers after that.
Link: www.moddb.com/mods/skyrim-realistic-overhaul
I would recommend checking out Kajuan's mods for creatures,skeletons and stuff.They really fit in well with noble skyrim and gamwich's rustic textures
Also i personally think that majestic mountains look less "doughy" and more realistic than what you have currently in this vid.Oh and i don't know if it's compatible with dyndolod or not but Terrain LOD redone by the same author of majestic mountains and blended roads is a must have mod.
Kajuan's mods are superb. I use them with Gamwich's mods and it just looks great. They compliment each other well. Kajuan's Draugr are amazing.
Noble Skyrim is awesome. Same with DyndoLod though I am usually to lazy to install it
EVT was my ultimate choice for trees as well, and its so much easier to get it to play nice with Dyndolod
DynDoLOD.... now we're talking mature modding :) Glad you decided to go with that, it really is a great tool. Did you also use the Ultra Trees version ?
My favorite texture Pack, and recommended by STEP, is "Skyrim Realistic Overhaul". Only found on ModDB, not on Nexus. Noble Skyrim has great landscape textures but I don't like how the towns and cities look with it.
One of the distant terrain mods I use is built for Noble, and it is quite nice. But I can try the the one you suggested too.
There's a giant and his cow walking around this road regurlarly, it's normal.
Hey gopher :) Just want to give a tip for DynDOLOD. DynDOLOD has some rules for Legacy of the dragonborn, but it looks for legacyofthedragonborn.esp.... But legacy of the dragonborn recently switched to an ESM. To fix this, just go into DynDOLOD folder -> Edit Scripts -> DynDOLOD -> rules ->DynDOLOD_SSE_legacyofthedragonbornESP_high/low/medium.ini. Just change it to DynDOLOD_SSE_legacyofthedragonbornESM_high/low/medium.ini and change everything inside to ESM too.
I'm using the old version of Legacy with the .esp so I'm fine :)
DynDOLOD 2.37 and newer has fully updated rules for latest Legacy of the Dragonborn for SE ESM
I'm hoping for a forgotten city mod playthrough in chapter two :)
I mean "riches beyond imagining" is definitely something that would interest Leonard, right ?
At the same time, I can see Leonard taking one look down that hole and saying "nope, I'm out, I'm letting you all stay dead so I can just get out of here"
Jovian999 Or you know... he could bring a rope. Something that apparently no one in that mod has ever heard of before :P
Oh the reaction the first time he tries to steal something... LOLOL
Yeeeeesss Noble Skyrim Yeeess!!1!11!!!! Finally HD textures *-*
Would of thought Skyrim 3D trees would be in the loadorder. Though might pick up EVT
2:15 - You know, I don't think I've ever seen an NPC use that slow-turn-sit-on-wall animation before....
SO looking forward to Chapter 2! This looks fantastic!
May I suggest a mod? It's called 'Blowing in the Wind'. It gives movement to hanging signs and lanterns based on the wind. I love it!
Cheers and thanks!
Looking good. Have you tried skyland? If so any thoughts? I am using skyland and NSM together, they seem to work well together so far. I love skylands mountains, they look better than majestic mountains IMO.
@Vox Nihili I installed Skyland for a Special Edition playthrough a while back. It's spectacular! The ground mesmerizes, feels like a next-gen glimpse.
Really--I ran around looking at the ground for an hour.
And remember, have fun.
don't forget "SweetRoll 2k retexture" Gopher! Inigo needs his sweetrolls in 2k too haha
I hope you have Open cities! tahts great mode taht helps a LOT with immerssion. Have a nice day.
I think he didn't use that cause it interfered with Sewers of Skyrim or some mod like that
You may want to test ELE and RS a bit more, I just tried it and the Bee and Bard was pitch black. It's fine in most places, but some others are broken.
Gray Cowl of Nocturnal is what I am waiting for
Gray Cowl of Nocturnal is a definite must-have for this sort of playthrough, though Lenny won't like all the dungeon-crawling. =^[.]~=
Raycheetah lol true his character would hate it but the reward in the end is worth it.
Raycheetah At this point Lenny is already somewhat used to dungeons, hes seen how much shiny stuff can be found inside so hes willing. Besides, if hes planning to do the Legacy of the Dragonborn, hes gonna need to get used to getting down and dirty, and we all know hes going to want to do that just for the massive amounts of awesome stuff he can get
Gray Cowl of Nocturnal has a good quest design and world building but the voice acting is horrible, its definitely immersion breaking for the sort of roleplay that gopher aims for.
zoozi214 true that's the only that sucks is the voice acting
I really like the trees and the grass - will probably use them myself
Not so sure about the texture pack...a bit rich or something
Gopher!! Please please look into the mod BLENDED ROADS !
It makes roads feel real instead of being flat and is compatible with everything including other texture mods.
plus one
I have actually, I took it off whilst recording this but it is one I think I will be using over the top of Noble.
That is nice to hear and definitely is the right choice!
It's worth it
gopher i just finished the dawnguard and went vampire this playthough and your mod for predator vision was a huge welcomed mod, the night vision was so bad and your mod helped for the darkest of dungeons for sneaking, thank you!!
Mod suggestion Blended Roads Roadstones are blended to the ground mesh instead of assigning a texture to an extra mesh.
This eliminates a lot of road uvw issues. Link www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/8834/?
Gopher always love your videos, but can you add in some beautiful player house mods? Or several outfit mods? Either way, Skyrim looks amazing.
StarShot hopefully in Chapter 2 he starts using the Safehouse from Legacy of the Dragonborn
Wow your game looks good. Very jealous.
For grass mods have a look at Viscous Foliage. IMO it looks even better than Verdant and its placement is fixed when you also us Landscape Fixes For Grass Mods.
If you want a new look for your potions try Awesome_Potions.
Cloaks of the Nords will add new HD designs to Cloaks of Skyrim.
+1 to everyone who has recommended you Gamwich and T4GTR34UM3R.
You may also have noticed how some weathers make water edges look straight and ugly. Water's Edge Fix takes care of that, but at the cost of making foggy weathers much less foggy. You should use Smooth Shores instead.
Something not visual: Check out SWIFT if you want a solid quest and immersive fast travel mod. Something like Death Alternative could also be interesting now that you have Inigo to save you.
Is the mod list listed also the load order?
Gopher you need the High Poly Project mod its like SMIM but for even more things and it works with SMIM
Definitely - SMIM is a must have, High Poly Project looks amazing too. I really want to play Skyrim again, but with all the mods I HAVE to download it would take weeks which just burns me out on modding again (due to the internet being too slow, without any option to get a faster connection sadly)
Mathias Haastrup Bohnfeldt
Yup!
Also, the Forgotten Retex Project: www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/81792
Initially, I was really excited about HPP - but after a while, a few aspects started to grate on me - particularly its super-jagged stone walls. Having removed them, I'm quite happy.
Now for the PC to run it all...
Just seeing a mod list makes me far too excited to see chapter 2! quick mod suggestion: Distinct Interiors. fantastic improvements to shops and inns, modular but pretty much universally compatible, it will make Lenny want to sneak in everywhere all over again just to see what has been added, even if he wont be able to pilfer many of the new cosmetics.
How did you like 3d trees? that one is my favorite, eventough its the opposite of vanilla
Thom Faber *shudders*
watching this 1 year later is just pure comedy gold...
"...I'm actually hoping some of the improvements they've made...Fallout 76...sixteen times the detail...hopefully means, the base games from now on will look better.."
xDDDDDDD scamthesda really spawned one of the biggest memes in gaming history with that one ^^
Can't wait to see Fallout 76: Gopher's Mod List.
LMAO
Mod no. 1 : Don't buy F76
@Gopher I'm still trying to figure out how to get OBS to work with the SKSE ... I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I can hear game sounds but it's only showing a black screen on OBS.. what are you using to record? I thought it was OBS.. also I looked on the minions page for an answer and even asked in the minion discord chat but nobody is answering
How about a video on how to install/LOOT/whats the other things bash or scrub? these mods in Skyrim Special Edition?
Great mods included so far! Is it at my end or does anyone else notice micro stutters at some points in the video?
What mod (if it is a mod) is it that adds the tents for the carriage drivers?
Michael K Immersive Citizens
pretty sure it's immersive citizens. i have it and all the driers have tents at night and a spot around the stables during the day.
Ok, thanks :D
While browsing nexus I came across a mod called Basic Location Damage, it sounded interesting
What are you using when filming these clips? I see you have smooth accelleration, perhaps even control of the speed of your movement.
Check out skyland, its a good texture mod. Worth looking into imo
im a little confused by the Noble Skyrim mod i cant seam to find it anywhere for SSE just one for oldrim, am i misunderstanding what he ment?
nevermind the SSE and oldrim mod is one and the same my bad.
If you hadn't already started, I would recommend "JKs Skyrim". It is amazing what it does to the towns and cities.
Karl Olson it's not compatible with many mods though. Loads of quest mods are not compatible with jks because they add stuff to the world in places jks build stuff
which quest mods? just wondering since i have JKs mods and don't want to run into issues
TheAciddragon069 it's hard to say essentially because jks adds tangible things into the game. This can lead to certain objects being missing which can break quests. Just looked it up and it looks like jks is better than most city mods for compatibility because it doesn't change much about the cities themselves so it should be fine for the most part. The only other issue is it is a performance drop
eh performance isn't an issue for me so i'm not too worried about it
elliott collom
"Just looked it up"?!
So you were making a qualified statement without even knowing?
Why do so many people do stuff like that?
*Facepalm*
I just don't geddit...
You going to use an ENB at all Gopher?
Maybe once I have all the visual mods sorted out and lighting set correctly for this sort of play through. Post processing is always the last thing to do and should only be done for specific things that can only be achieved with post processing in my opinion. Better shadows (Oldrim), better ambient occlusion etc. The icing on the cake, so to speak :)
I'm not sure if you are using a weather mod or not but I would like to see more peril with the weather. It adds to the adventure.
Why not this?
Improved closefaced helmets
www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/824www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/82
I know this mod list may take a while to set up, but from what I have played (even though I get 1-14fps due to pc specs) this mod list is amazing wiki.step-project.com/User:DarkladyLexy/Lexys_LOTD_SE
Will you post a full mod list at the start of chapter 2 when the spoilers are no longer spoilers?
gopher, look into this mod for chapter 2 "Expanded Carriage Service" it adds carriages to all the cities. (not just the major ones)
Realistic windmills bc you missed last time lol. Idk if its on sse but it was on oldrim
Two weeks!!. I can't handle two days,
what mountain mod are you using in this video?
What kind of rig do you have Gopher?
How do you fix Frame Rate drop in certain situation?
I have Open Cities installed and wondering if that affects.
Or do you never had this experience before?
Please do use Quick Loot! I seem to recall you having some problems with it in the past? Maybe during the Richard playthrough? I hope it doesn't cause any issues this time around.
I did notice one problem with clearer distance viewing: the world looks smaller. Normally, things far away are either not visible or low-res (i.e., fuzzy). With everything this sharp, it all looks closer and the Whiterun area doesn't look as spacious. Of course, that's an actual problem in the game. I remember when I first started Skyrim, everything looked vast and amazing, but eventually I started to realize how small everything actually was, and how quickly you could run across the whole map, and it all got smaller and simpler. Which was sad, but kind of inevitable really. This does make it worse, imho.
Quickloot was one of the mods I really wanted to work in SE but could never figure it out, hopefully you can.
I just got it working. There's 2 versions. Use this one and be sure to install the extra required files: www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/21085
It's a bit much to ask but can we get a mod list with links on gophervids? While i would love for Mod Sanctuary (and Mod Vault, for that matter) to come back, but that seems like asking for the moon and all that entails. Just a simple list where we can look and explore mods that we may or may not have heard of.
P.S. also news of the TESR project would be awesome.
Will Reaver
Don't know if this will help, but Gopher generally posts his modlist in the video description of all his videos. : )
wait isnt noble skyrim for the regular one only so far. Is it possible to use those on SE?
is there a quick easy way to download your profile and have vortex automatically detect and download every mod you are currently using? That would be lovely
Have you considered "Sleep to Gain Experience" in order to avoid the level up interruption during a fight? www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17791
when are you going back to new vegas ?
3 Weeks of emptiness and no reason for existence! :'(
when in movement the grass becomes a huge blur and it is horrible to look at.
Did you use a controller when you recorded this?