Incredible video man, Loving the content!!! This for me confirmed what I was thinking after trying most of these, Tamrielic textures by an absolute mile, I can't recommend that texture pack highly enough, I was mixing and matching and trying texture packs with Majestic Mountains and so forth and settled on TT, That mod covers everything, the mountains are incredible and all the landscape textures blend pretty much seamlessly
This was a really helpful tour, especially when you gave the closeup followed by a larger view -- I've watched videos where you only got the close up, and I don't have the visualization skills to imagine how that fits in with the rest of the landscape. The landscape choices can be overwhelming, so thank you for picking a manageable number, too. I also love seeing in the comments how people have chosen different favorites -- it's great that the community has created art that appeals to a wide range of tastes.
This is an excellent comparison. The inclusion of both close ups and whole scenes is incredibly useful. I thought by the first half I knew for sure Tamrielic was my favourite. But taking into account the whole image and not just looking directly at the ground. Skyland is maybbeee a little more seamless with the rest of the world even if it doesn't look as nice. Serpentrional looks amazing but you can really see the photogrammetry work which makes it look a little too real for the game world. Parallax 2020 for towns I think really stands out due to all the stonework (but none seen here) but I think more than a couple times I think the stylistic choices didn't fit as well.
So, after seeing this incredible video I know one thing : not one of them is “the best”. There is something in each of them that looks great. That means : creating one big texture pack from bits and pieces from all of the shown textures. I feel an all-nighter coming up :0 Thank you so much Waza for your efforts to put this video together for us. Very much appreciated! Cheers -=DD=-
Hide feature is good but i have created a new mod at bottom of load order with my favourite textures and meshes. Its tedious at starting but very helpful in long run.
I think aMidianborn was the best one. The color scheme for most of the landscapes appealed the most to me due to how dark it is and it has excellent river beds.
Septentrionial Was the winner for me personally, just can't argue with those big scene shots. These are so damn good though! I still think back to the 2012/2013 days of texture mods and the difference is startling, it's nuts how far this community has come.
Excellent video comparison. I'm using Tamrielic Landscapes in combination with Septentrionial Landscapes; I really like the dark road texture in Septentrionial. Note that winedave has a separate landscape package, Northern Shores, plus Septentrionial provides complete landscape coverage. I will wish more of the big landscape mods had such a modular approach.
I get the impression that Skyland is the most consistent and diverts less from the vanilla landscape. Tamrielic really is great, probably better than Skyland quite often, but it seems to default to picking warmer and sandier textures. 2020 Parallax can be amazing, but it seems like they really want to show off the parallax so they tend to make tends more busy. The snow one is a good example.
Daniel Skyland seems to have a problem meshing many different landscapes together I find. Another one not on this video that is much smaller in size and possibly worth looking into is Vivid Landscapes all in one. Also much friendlier on many levels.
For as hard as snow is to do texturewise, all the mods had really nice snow textures. I liked the Tamrielic textures a lot and of course Skyland...but I'm partial. Skyrim2020 is a standout too.
I am using tamrielic textures. However, I am adding the river files from Skyrim 3D Landscapes Groundcovers for aquatic plants. I'm adding a water lily mod, skyrim 3d landscapes and skyrim 3d rocks mods. It doesn't even require complex parallax.
I love the comparison since it shows the same animations at the same time of day in different places for each comparison. I love the variety of times of day and settings selected too. This is one of those videos that I wished I had watched before I just installed a texture replacement mod. Variety is great since people have different preferences. Short breakdown: I ranked these in order of lighter/fantasy (at top) to gritty/busy realism (at bottom): Tamrielic Textures SE 1 (My Personal Favorite) Skyrim 2020 Parallax by Pfuscher Septentrional Landscapes Skyland - A Landscape Texture Overhaul Skyrim 3D Landscapes aMidianBorn Landscape
Using Skyland in my mod list. Damn... had a hard 5 days figuring out how to mod this game "To the next level" and at last I was able to do it. ENB is fucking awesome.
After watching this and skipping between the textures for a while... surprisingly I might have to go with amidianborn’s They offered a good level of consistency and I felt like the colors more match the cold harsh environment that I’m trying to go for
I use Skyrim 2020 by Pfuscher. It's the most detailed for my taste. And I use the full coverage of his base mods - Skyrim 2018, Skyrim 2019, Skyrim 2020. But his mountains look a bit odd and out of place so that's the only thing I replaced with Majestic.
Personally I enjoy the simple and reliable Vivid Landscapes - it's the only landscape mod I've used that blends well from side of road to the grass line. Only thing that you have to fix with that overhaul are the dirtcliffs, they are pretty low quality. I believe the author of that mod is also working on brining parallax in a future update for SE.
And the winner is... Septentrional for me, runner up by aMidianBorn and 3rd place Tamrielic Textures.. 4th i'll give to Skyland, 5th Skyrim 2020 Parallax and last one to Skyrim 3D Landscapes.. couldn't even compete with most other textures.. Septentrional looked even realistic in some scenes.
This seems to me the best would be a blend of Skyland base, aMidian riverbeds and Pfuscher 2020 snow. Would take some work individually editing the install order
Caught between Skyrim 2020 and Septentrional... Damn. Wish we had Skyrim 2017 TPTC ported over with the parallax effect, that one's still unmatched in my eyes :(
On the very first comparison shot with the sand, does anyone know which textures these are? It's the only area where Tamrielic is not my preference and I assumed the textures to overwrite would be the 'coast' files, but when I let Skyrim 3d overwrite those textures I'm not getting the expected result.
People wanna name 1 winner, but to me, it's all about preference. People like tamrielic because its a more colorful and vibrant look. But me personally, I like making Skyrim have a Dark Souls type of atmosphere, so its not appealing to me.
My first intention when I load a new texture is to look near the lumber mill at riverwood for seams as that's a place with different terrain such as dirt, grass, rocks, and the waterbed all right there. Septentrional has really bad seams. It's not just there at riverwood but in many other places as well. In the marsh at solitude. I tried using his mountains (without majestic) and many boulders are missing textures. Too many seams and they're not subtle so septentrional is definitely a pass on this list in my opinion. Skylands are fantastic but then you have to hide all his dds files with 32's in them if you want your roads to show up on qwm and there are ton of them. I haven't tried amidian or 2020 but from what I have seen in this video they look great.
When your title says "six biggest" is this based on the idea that the landscape mod includes more things such as mountains, or are you basing this on popularity?
Did it ever occur to you to use a font color that contrasts the background image so we can clearly see which mod is being shown since you took the time to make the comparison video you would think that you would want to make sure that people watching know what they are looking at. Also maybe not have the master volume level be recording in at ear piercing levels and if possible EQ frequency level of the flutes highest pitch to a level that is equal to the rest of the music or put a high pass filter on it to cut out the volume level of the glass shattering levels of the flute. I think I lost some frequency range in my hearing due to this video!
Did it ever occur to you that you sound like an absolute twat. You must not be able to hear yourself ay? Also, how the hell can't you tell which is which? Did the uploader blind you with the snow textures as well? Fucking idiot.
Thanks for the comparison! It must have been a headache to get them all in and out!
Only the vanilla comparison was missing, apart from that excelent video bro
Incredible video man, Loving the content!!!
This for me confirmed what I was thinking after trying most of these, Tamrielic textures by an absolute mile, I can't recommend that texture pack highly enough, I was mixing and matching and trying texture packs with Majestic Mountains and so forth and settled on TT, That mod covers everything, the mountains are incredible and all the landscape textures blend pretty much seamlessly
This was a really helpful tour, especially when you gave the closeup followed by a larger view -- I've watched videos where you only got the close up, and I don't have the visualization skills to imagine how that fits in with the rest of the landscape. The landscape choices can be overwhelming, so thank you for picking a manageable number, too. I also love seeing in the comments how people have chosen different favorites -- it's great that the community has created art that appeals to a wide range of tastes.
This is an excellent comparison. The inclusion of both close ups and whole scenes is incredibly useful. I thought by the first half I knew for sure Tamrielic was my favourite. But taking into account the whole image and not just looking directly at the ground. Skyland is maybbeee a little more seamless with the rest of the world even if it doesn't look as nice. Serpentrional looks amazing but you can really see the photogrammetry work which makes it look a little too real for the game world. Parallax 2020 for towns I think really stands out due to all the stonework (but none seen here) but I think more than a couple times I think the stylistic choices didn't fit as well.
So, after seeing this incredible video I know one thing : not one of them is “the best”. There is something in each of them that looks great.
That means : creating one big texture pack from bits and pieces from all of the shown textures.
I feel an all-nighter coming up :0
Thank you so much Waza for your efforts to put this video together for us. Very much appreciated!
Cheers
-=DD=-
Winchester-BornIn1973 : it’s a WIP at this point, I’m doing too much stuff at the same time 😂
BrainyCabde D : And do that every time I reinstall my mods for a new play through? No thanks
Hide feature is good but i have created a new mod at bottom of load order with my favourite textures and meshes. Its tedious at starting but very helpful in long run.
@Nikola Tesla : that *is* my face… purrr
So did you make the apack?
I think aMidianborn was the best one. The color scheme for most of the landscapes appealed the most to me due to how dark it is and it has excellent river beds.
Septentrionial Was the winner for me personally, just can't argue with those big scene shots. These are so damn good though! I still think back to the 2012/2013 days of texture mods and the difference is startling, it's nuts how far this community has come.
Excellent video comparison. I'm using Tamrielic Landscapes in combination with Septentrionial Landscapes; I really like the dark road texture in Septentrionial. Note that winedave has a separate landscape package, Northern Shores, plus Septentrionial provides complete landscape coverage. I will wish more of the big landscape mods had such a modular approach.
I get the impression that Skyland is the most consistent and diverts less from the vanilla landscape. Tamrielic really is great, probably better than Skyland quite often, but it seems to default to picking warmer and sandier textures. 2020 Parallax can be amazing, but it seems like they really want to show off the parallax so they tend to make tends more busy. The snow one is a good example.
Daniel
Skyland seems to have a problem meshing many different landscapes together I find. Another one not on this video that is much smaller in size and possibly worth looking into is Vivid Landscapes all in one. Also much friendlier on many levels.
For as hard as snow is to do texturewise, all the mods had really nice snow textures. I liked the Tamrielic textures a lot and of course Skyland...but I'm partial. Skyrim2020 is a standout too.
Very relaxing and well put together comparison
Thank you so much for this video, I was using a different texture pack but after this comparison, I absolutely LOVE Tamriellic!
It so hard to choose, there is something good in each of them, but at the moment I'm most inclined to either Skyland or parallax2020.
I am using tamrielic textures. However, I am adding the river files from Skyrim 3D Landscapes Groundcovers for aquatic plants. I'm adding a water lily mod, skyrim 3d landscapes and skyrim 3d rocks mods. It doesn't even require complex parallax.
I love the comparison since it shows the same animations at the same time of day in different places for each comparison. I love the variety of times of day and settings selected too. This is one of those videos that I wished I had watched before I just installed a texture replacement mod. Variety is great since people have different preferences. Short breakdown:
I ranked these in order of lighter/fantasy (at top) to gritty/busy realism (at bottom):
Tamrielic Textures SE 1 (My Personal Favorite)
Skyrim 2020 Parallax by Pfuscher
Septentrional Landscapes
Skyland - A Landscape Texture Overhaul
Skyrim 3D Landscapes
aMidianBorn Landscape
Using Skyland in my mod list.
Damn... had a hard 5 days figuring out how to mod this game "To the next level" and at last I was able to do it. ENB is fucking awesome.
After watching this and skipping between the textures for a while... surprisingly I might have to go with amidianborn’s
They offered a good level of consistency and I felt like the colors more match the cold harsh environment that I’m trying to go for
I use Skyrim 2020 by Pfuscher. It's the most detailed for my taste. And I use the full coverage of his base mods - Skyrim 2018, Skyrim 2019, Skyrim 2020.
But his mountains look a bit odd and out of place so that's the only thing I replaced with Majestic.
I prefer the lighter brighness of Skyrim 3D Landscapes and Septentrional Landscapes
Very nice showcase mate :)
Just fyi @ 6.20 isn't my septentrional on the left, perhaps I forgot to make that texture
Cheers winedave, appreciate that. Ok well that texture would be from Skyrim HD SE part 3 then. Thanks for the heads up 👍
Skyland, Septentrional Landscapes, and Skyrim 2020 Parallax stood out as the best to me but all of them had something great to offer
I literally just got your 300 mod list to work tonight and now I wanna tweak it. lmao
Definitely going have to do some mixing/matching here.
Damn skyland. What a masterpiece. Septentrional is good too tho
Hey Waza, you're on a roll lately. Keep 'em coming! Great work, as always. []-)
I saw Skyrim 6 and was happy for TES6 :/
Personally I enjoy the simple and reliable Vivid Landscapes - it's the only landscape mod I've used that blends well from side of road to the grass line. Only thing that you have to fix with that overhaul are the dirtcliffs, they are pretty low quality.
I believe the author of that mod is also working on brining parallax in a future update for SE.
And the winner is... Septentrional for me, runner up by aMidianBorn and 3rd place Tamrielic Textures.. 4th i'll give to Skyland, 5th Skyrim 2020 Parallax and last one to Skyrim 3D Landscapes.. couldn't even compete with most other textures.. Septentrional looked even realistic in some scenes.
Made a game out of this to decide.
Tamrielic won and second place went to septrional. Last place went to Skyland and 3D.
Same to you, but just in the other side. Tamrielic and Septentrional to the bottom.
This seems to me the best would be a blend of Skyland base, aMidian riverbeds and Pfuscher 2020 snow. Would take some work individually editing the install order
nice comparison video.
Time to do a grass + terrain generated lods comparison. I am excited for your new video.
best comparison, thanks!
Great video thank you! What tree mod did you use in this video?
Holly sh*t your game looks amazing
Skyland!
Great video! Is there a difference in fps between these mods?
I like hard shadows, so I have to try aMidianBorn.
Thanks mate! I would say aMidianBorn is the easiest on frame rate due to some lower res textures but the others are comparable at 4K textures.
What is the opening mod with the water?
Does anyone know what grass goes well with Amidianborn?
Caught between Skyrim 2020 and Septentrional... Damn. Wish we had Skyrim 2017 TPTC ported over with the parallax effect, that one's still unmatched in my eyes :(
On the very first comparison shot with the sand, does anyone know which textures these are? It's the only area where Tamrielic is not my preference and I assumed the textures to overwrite would be the 'coast' files, but when I let Skyrim 3d overwrite those textures I'm not getting the expected result.
septentrional landscapes is the one you are lookin for
skyrim 2020 parallax looks too bright alot of times in my game so ive been looking for a replacement
Landscape mods showdown
PERSONAL SCOREBOARD
Sky land 6
A MidianBorn 5
Skyrim 3D Landscapes 2
Skyrim 2020 Parallax 9
am i the only one who likes skryim 3d?
People wanna name 1 winner, but to me, it's all about preference. People like tamrielic because its a more colorful and vibrant look. But me personally, I like making Skyrim have a Dark Souls type of atmosphere, so its not appealing to me.
My first intention when I load a new texture is to look near the lumber mill at riverwood for seams as that's a place with different terrain such as dirt, grass, rocks, and the waterbed all right there. Septentrional has really bad seams. It's not just there at riverwood but in many other places as well. In the marsh at solitude. I tried using his mountains (without majestic) and many boulders are missing textures. Too many seams and they're not subtle so septentrional is definitely a pass on this list in my opinion. Skylands are fantastic but then you have to hide all his dds files with 32's in them if you want your roads to show up on qwm and there are ton of them. I haven't tried amidian or 2020 but from what I have seen in this video they look great.
and at the end of all my back and forth I ended up with winedave's because not only does it look good but it's the easiest to work with in my opinion
This video put me to sleep 🤣. Also Amidianborn has the best snow.
Thank you.
i am quite shocked how bad skyrim 2020 pfuscher looks - everyone hypes that thing so hard and i just dont like it at all
Downloading these are me trying to kill my PC.
When your title says "six biggest" is this based on the idea that the landscape mod includes more things such as mountains, or are you basing this on popularity?
Popularity
It's so relaxing to watch videos like this and then Bethesda comes along and ruins everything.
i can here again to revised my choice for modding and septrional wins.. tamrielic is a close second.
Did it ever occur to you to use a font color that contrasts the background image so we can clearly see which mod is being shown since you took the time to make the comparison video you would think that you would want to make sure that people watching know what they are looking at. Also maybe not have the master volume level be recording in at ear piercing levels and if possible EQ frequency level of the flutes highest pitch to a level that is equal to the rest of the music or put a high pass filter on it to cut out the volume level of the glass shattering levels of the flute. I think I lost some frequency range in my hearing due to this video!
Complain much? Entitled prick
Did it ever occur to you that you sound like an absolute twat. You must not be able to hear yourself ay?
Also, how the hell can't you tell which is which? Did the uploader blind you with the snow textures as well? Fucking idiot.
2:10
Wow i will never leave my house again. I will just live in this world.