Real Skyrim Snowflakes - (Physical) Vivid Snow

Welcome to Real Skyrim Snowflakes - aka Vivid Snow

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What is this mod?

Real Skyrim Snowflakes differs from almost any other snowflake mod out there. It removes the fake Skyrim snow

particle system from the weathers and adds in-world snow particle systems (And optional PHYSICAL SNOW).

That way, snow gets lit by light sources

and effect lighting! It dramatically increases the feeling of snowy days & nights that way!

It also includes a fix for the Day 1 vanilla bug that visual effects disappear as soon the map was used!

(thanks to mattiewagg for the script!)

This Mod is part of the VIVIDIAN ENB Suite and available here as a standalone mod for better compatibility.

So far it does NOT add new Weathers but modifies Existing ones in your load order

PHYSICAL SNOW

Physical snow will be rendered in a certain Radius around the Player and normal Non physical snow is being used

for distant snow. Physical snow will react on all inworld objects and collides with them. This resoults in creating

a shelter effect as soon you are standing below a object. Physical snow though is EXPERIMENTAL. It will render alot

of Snow emitters and the quality of the effect strongly depends on your Rig and the ammount of heavy scripted mods

you already run with. As more laggy your scripts are as less script time there is to place snow emitters and as less

dense the physical snow will be. At the moment i do recommend it for screenshots and short term plays because

longterm Tests are still missing. Please have a look at the Bugs section for things that can occour.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

1. This mod is not made for people who count every FPS or have a weak rig! It will render several thousands

of snow particles in front of you, so expect a FPS loss.

2. For Proper function you MUST change the iMaxDesired value in your skyrimprefs.ini section to at least 6000

(I personally recommend even 10000 but that depends on your Rig (GTX 670 here))

3. You need SKSE for the map weather fix to function properly!

4. This mod will start to make real sense when using a ENB, since the vanilla nights & particles in Skyrim are simply too bright for the

lighting effect to be seen well. Weather mods like PW / Purity help there.

5. ENB Particle settings now apply to the snow, so you must rely that the ENB author does sensible things to particles at night

Compatibility[/