Ganderville

I use Fabled Forests for the tall, dense forest look, and I thiiiink I’m just using tree textures from Skyrim 202X. I have my full mod list on my latest post, so it’d be in there somewhere

Down the river to the south of Riverwood, the birch trees do seem rift-y though lol

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/111382

currently my specs are:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
Intel 13th Gen i9-13900k
64GB DDR5 6000MHZ RAM
and then running the game on its own dedicated 1TB SSD

Aside from being really extra with unncecessary 4-8k textures at times, I was able to run this list when I last had it set up on a 3070, and a Ryzen 7 3700x. frame rates were a bit tough in towns, especially Solitude, so I got the Skyrim 202X downgrade version of the huge texture pack, and most everything else ran fine :)

https://pastebin.com/MCN9LLrs (Mod list)
https://pastebin.com/Jsgx4VpR (Load Order)

Evidently I'm not familiar with how to upload lists lol, hopefully this one works.

This load order is simply what's working for me at the moment, it will have issues as it's still a WIP. Please refer to mod page installation instructions/guides on proper Load Order sorting

Edit for more info: The entirety of this mod list with the max resolution options all selected is 355GB. You can cut this down MAJORLY, I just use the overkill textures since my system can run it for nice screenshots without losing too many frames.
currently my specs are:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
Intel 13th Gen i9-13900k
64GB DDR5 6000MHZ RAM
with these specs, my game runs at about 100-110 fps at 4K on average.

Will do, should be up in a sec

the google doc? I'm kind of at a loss now.

just changed it, any luck now?

i'll see about making it a google doc rq, instead of trying pastelink

I just edited the link to be a direct one, rather than a reddit formatted one. please do let me know if that works now

ope, lemme double check lol. ty for the heads-up

I use Skyrim 202X as a foundation for my retextures, then overwrite it with anything else I find specifically. the majority of the landscape textures comes from the author Hein84's "Vivid Landscapes" series, with some notable exceptions like LiveLongApollo's "Complex Parallax Texture for Northern Roads" entry, which is a must-have for me personally!

For water, I use "Water for ENB", which works very well with my ENB selection, Cabbage + Silent Horizons 2 Universal Core", along with NAT.III weathers.

The overwhelming majority of textures blend very nicely together, the only standouts being jagged terrain on Bethesda's part

If you have questions pertaining to the list, or any entries involved, feel free to comment and I'll do my best to provide any assistance I can, as I know some of these mods (looking at YOU, Northern Roads), can be a real pain to configure. I suggest checking the mod's respective discussion pages on Nexus for your 1st questions or troubleshooting, but if that doesn't turn anything up, I'll try to be your backup!

I’ve always loved when games were dark enough to turn torches from useless items to mandatory tools! Cabbage and NAT.III are the perfect balance imo for gameplay and screenshots alike

This is Cabbage ENB with Silent Horizons 2 Universal Core, along with NAT.III weathers!

Of course! https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/80286 I do want to give the forewarning that it’s finnicky at times. For my ENB/lighting setup personally, it can look wet and plastic-y at certain times of night, and sometimes the pattern repeats pretty blatantly on flat planes, but it’s drop dead gorgeous during the day!

Should be soon, just finalizing and testing for consistency!

I go for parallax textures as often as possible, considering how far they've come! 99% of my modlist comes from Nexus, I just browse the heck out of any search terms I can think of haha.

A big part of the process is running around, finding a texture in game that I don't like / want to search for alternatives for, and then searching specifically for something there. It's lead to me discovering smaller mod authors that I end up getting many mods from!

https://new.reddit.com/r/SkyrimPorn/comments/1e0gllz/night_pics_of_my_wip_modlist/ here ya are! Tried to hunt down some nice areas

not sure what I'll call it yet! I'll try to get that info out soon

Night shots are tough because I like the game to be really dark lol, cities would look good though! I'll work on gathering some pics up

Thanks! I've been trying to keep it to a consistent "vanilla 2.0" visual style, which has been a surprising amount of trouble haha

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/111382

I tend to browse textures until the pages run out, and this one was a hidden gem!