Water Effects Brightness and Reflection Fix

Description

• Makes water effects not glow at night: they will remain dark unless illuminated by lights or sky. How much light is present depends on your enb, light, and weather.
• Removes neon green reflection
• Improved UV maps on some effects
• Fixes Whiterun rapids animation when loading into whiterun from another save game
• Fixes z-fighting with some water foam
• Includes USSEP and SMIM mesh changes
• Details:
• Sets BSEffectShaderProperty lighting influence to 255: removing own glow
• Sets BSLightingShaderProperty emissive multiple to 0: removing own glow
• Give some waterfall BSLightingShaderProperty decal and dynamic_decal flag: remove neon green reflection (this preserves specular effect on the water while other fixes don't)
• Add missing effect_shading flag to BSEffectShaderProperty: make effect react to light
• Add soft_effect flag to BSEffectShaderProperty: make effect less bright during certain night weathers
• Adjust Soft Falloff Depth after adding soft_effect
• Includes replacers for vanilla Dyndolod dynamic waterfall lods. If you were using vanilla waterfalls, you don't need to regenerate Dyndolod. How this works might change in the future.
• Optional file to fix black waterfalls in Nchardak Aqueducts
• Nchardak Aqueducts waterfalls are set to have completely black lighting by Bethesda
• This wasn't a problem because the waterfalls also glow
• With the glow removed, they appear completely black
• The optional module is an ESL-flagged ESP file that changes the Nchardak waterfalls to not use completely black lighting and simply use the lighting from the environment
• Optional file to fix the broken gradwhitewater.dds from Skyrim Particle Patch
• For some reason, Skyrim Particle Patch changed this file so waterfalls became very dark
• Skyrim Particle Patch changed other gradient textures to be bluer, but only this file is changed to be dark
• Included fix is just a bluer version of the vanilla gradient
• Fix demonstration: pic1, pic2

 

Known Issues

• Some Dark dungeons with no ambient lighting will have dark water unless lit
• Waterfalls are subject to the 7 lights per mesh limit, this was the case in vanilla, but since waterfalls glowed, it wasn't obvious. and this will make it more obvious.

 

Installation/Uninstallation/Upgrade

• Whenever

Credits

• Static Mesh Improvement Mod - SMIM
• Brumbek
• Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch
• Arthmoor
• FYX - Water Splash
• Yuril - I just looked at the file names for thing that needed fixing and implemented the changes independently

 

FAQ

Q: is this compatible with some water mod?

A: this is compatible with Water Mod - ENB Displacement Textures. As for the rest, understand how mod managers work, look at the files, and decide for yourself.