CS Particle Patch

CS Particle Patch

Allows effect meshes and particles to be lit with direct light from any source. Additionally, shadows cast by the environment finally affect both effect meshes and particles, with shadowed regions receiving the same ambient light as any other mesh. Smoke & steam particles now also react to the wind, as do some other particles where it makes sense.

Requirements

• []Community Shaders (hard requirement)

  []Light Limit Fix (hard requirement)

  []Terrain Shadows (soft requirement, for shadows on distant effects)

  []EVLaS (soft requirement, for lighting to make sense - just use it)

  Installation

  • []Install the required mods as outlined above.

    []Download and install this mod with your preferred mod manager. Let these meshes win any conflicts. Manual installation is not supported.

    []If you use any PBR overhauls, you will need to re-run PGPatcher. If you don't know what that is, you can skip this step.

  Recommended

  • []NAT. CS III - The peak weather mod for Skyrim, its liberal use of clouds around distant mountains provide for some spectacular sunrises and sunsets. Bottle has my permission to include the cloud meshes in NAT. CS, hence why if you're already using this you may see this effect on your distant clouds even without this mod.

    []Cloud Shadows - Greatly enhances the distant clouds with subtle shading depending on the current weather's cloud textures.

    []Ambient Clouds - The new lighting detail makes these clouds sing. Alongside the mountain fogs from NAT. CS, you really feel like you are high up in the clouds.

  • Mists of Tamriel - Much like ambient clouds, early morning fogs can look incredible when the sun is casting nice long shadows.

    Compatibility

    They're just meshes, so should be compatible with pretty much everything, except other mods that make changes to these same meshes and/or particles. Note that this already includes the same fixes as Water Effects Brightness and Reflection Fix and Rudy fix for Smoke, rendering their use with this mod redundant (you should endorse them anyway). The original Particle Patch can still be used if you wish, just load it before this mod; bear in mind Particle Patch was designed for use with ENB and this