DOWNPOUR

DOWNPOUR is a retexture of the Skyrim rain, to make it more dramatic and heavy in appearance. The vanilla rain is a drizzle, this is a downpour.

DOWNPOUR was originally designed to make the vanilla rain effect more dramatic, but now we have fadingsignal's excellent mod True Storms - Thunder and Rain Redone. This mod takes the rain effect to another level, as well as greatly enhancing the sounds of thunder. It makes for a much more immersive experience when it rains in Skyrim. Because of this, my original DOWNPOUR texture was not a good fit. The True Storms mod increases the rain effect, so my texture becomes overkill. Therefore, I created a new rain texture to work with fadingsignal's enhanced rain effect. My aim was to make the Skyrim rain appear more transparent and realistic. I designed it to work with my retextures of the Wet and Cold drip effect and the Splash of Rain droplet. Hopefully, everything will look in balance now.

I'm keeping the original version of DOWNPOUR for people who are allergic to ESPs, but I strongly recommend that everyone at least try out True Storms - Thunder and Rain Redone for themselves.

UPDATE 5/20/15 - Version 1. 4 of the Combo Pack changes the folder name for the Splash of rain effect to fit the new Wonders of Weather mod, which combines Splash of Rain, Rainbows, and Shooting Stars into a single download. I've also added the Wonders of Weather Patch as a separate optional file.

UPDATE 3/25/15 - Version 1. 3 of the Combo Pack and version 1. 1 of the Splash of Rain optional download has a revised version of the splash droplet to make it more visible (especially with ENBs).

UPDATE 3/22/15 - Retexture of the droplet from the popular Splash of Rain mod added. This is tough to show in a screenshot, but I softened the effect so it doesn't look so much like a hard edged white opaque shape. It's quite a tiny texture, so nothing dramatic, but it should appear a little more realistic now.

UPDATE 3/22/15 - I've added a retexture I made for the popular Wet and Cold mod. Frostfall also use the Wet and Cold drip effect, so this replacer works for it as well. I thought the default rain drip effect on your character and NPCs had droplets that were a little too big (and opaque) to be entirely realistic. I retextured the effect to have finer droplets. Just a little tweak to make the effect more immersive.

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