Enhanced Vanilla Landscapes
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Install in this order, then this mod last — most mods fail to load without their framework and dependencies in place.
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 1.6% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #38 of 43 Environmental mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
This is an upscale of the vanilla landscape textures that uses generative AI to add details to the textures. All textures were upscaled one at a time and touched up in Photoshop to add more detail and maintain proper texture tiling.
Most of the textures are in 2k. Mountains, dirt cliffs, bridges, and glaciers are 4k.
Compatibility
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[]Terrain Blending Fix Compatibility - All required textures have been made and are in the correct folders.[/]
[]Terrain Helper - All the required _p textures should be present. I have not tested with this mod.[/]
[]Enhanced Rocks and Mountains (ERM) - Will work with the non-parallax, parallax, and complex parallax versions.[/]
[]Icy Mesh Remaster (IMR) - All required textures are provided in this mod in it's current state.[/]
[]Static Mesh Improvement Mod (SMIM) - Up-scaled bridge textures included.[/]
[]Blended Roads - Should work with any version of this mod[/]
Installation
Download the main file, it should have everything you need in it.
If you plan to use Terrain Parallax, there are a couple of prerequisites:
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[]You need to have either ENB Series or Community Shaders with Terrain Parallax enabled.[/]
[]For the parallax effect to work properly, you also need to have Terrain Parallax Blending Fix or Terrain Helper installed. If you get spiky landscape textures, that means you have Terrain Parallax turned on in ENB Series/Community Shaders but do not have Terrain Parallax Blending Fix or Terrain Helper installed.[/]
What's Covered?
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[]Mountains[/]
[]Dirt Cliffs[/]
[]Glaciers, ice floes, and icicles[/]
[]Coasts[/]
[]Bridges[/]
[]Roads (compatible with Blended Roads)[/]
[]Tundra[/]
[]Pine Forest[/]
[]Reach[/]
[]Fall Forest/Rift[/]
[]Snow[/]
[]Volcanic Tundra[/]
[]River Edge and Bottom[/]
[]The Frozen Marsh[/]
[]Solstheim[/]
[]The Forgotten Vale[/]
[]Soul Cairn[/]
Credits
All credits for the original landscape textures go to Bethesha.
The following software products were used in the creation of this mod:
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[]Gigapixel - used for AI-upscaling[/]
[]Photoshop - for fixing tiling and color correction[/]
[]Substance 3D Sampler - for creating normal and height maps[/]
[]Substance 3D Designer - For dirtcliff root normal map[/]
Permissions[/b
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[]Gigapixel - used for AI-upscaling[/]
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[]Mountains[/]
Enhanced Vanilla Landscapes up-scales vanilla landscape textures using generative AI to add detail, aiming to improve visual fidelity without changing the game's art style. With 169 endorsements and over 10,000 downloads, it's a modestly popular environmental enhancement for players who want crisper ground textures.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Solid download-to-endorsement ratio (10,580 downloads, 169 endorsements) shows it's getting used
- AI up-scaling can bring out details without a full texture overhaul
- Keeps the vanilla aesthetic, so it won't clash with other mods
⚠️ Cons
- AI up-scaling can sometimes introduce artifacts or unnatural patterns
- Only covers landscapes, so you'll still need other mods for buildings, items, etc.
- Compatibility with other texture mods is unknown—load order might matter
For players who want crisper ground textures without changing the game's look. If you're into heavy visual overhauls, this might be too subtle. Skip if you prefer hand-crafted textures over AI-generated ones.
💡 Beginner Tips
- If you're using other texture mods, place this one early in your load order so it gets overwritten by more specific mods.
- Check the mod's images (if any) to see the up-scaling quality before installing.
- Since it's AI up-scaled, compare in-game ground textures to vanilla to spot any weird artifacts.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Skyrim Mods
- Author
- ICFur
- Version
- 1.08
- Downloads
- 10,580
- Endorsements
- 169
- Category
- Environmental
- Created
- 3/9/2025
- Updated
- 5/10/2026
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