Nordic Snow

Description

When Skyrim was released in 2011, I was disappointed by the snow textures. They didn’t resemble real snow and broke my immersion. Coming from Norway, a country known for its heavy snowfall and long, cold winters, I wanted to recreate the authentic look and feel of snow.

Nordic snow has a crystallized appearance with tiny reflective specks. I aimed to maintain the original color and brightness of the 2011 vanilla snow (not the Special Edition) to ensure compatibility with the game’s other materials, avoiding overly bright or dark textures. Additionally, I focused on making the snow look good across large, open landscapes, ensuring there were no visible tiling issues. I meticulously tweaked the texture to achieve the right look and feel in various environments, making it appear cold, unforgiving, and reflective of both sunlight and moonlight.

Vanilla looks like 'wet' snow, like -5 or -10 C. Mod looks like dry powder snow like -20 or -30 C. Thank for making this Canadian happy. Snow looks as cold as Skyrim now.

As fellow snow brother (i live in Switzerland) i approve this snow textures, well done

you sure do know your snows.

kudos and hats off, by far best looking snow i ever seen in skyrim.

ty very much.

My friend, I have to say that this is the best snow mod out there, no offense to the other snow mods but they lack realism big time, even smim's version, good job my friend..

- aundrejones Video Reviews

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    Performance?

    These textures are 2048x2048 which is also the same as the original snow textures in SSE. Hence, these textures won't cause you any harm as long as you can pull of the original (with some exceptions).

    Installation

    You can either use the nexus mod manager or you can install it manually. To install it manually you need to unzip the files to the Skyrim main folder:

    To find the Skyrim folder you just go to steam -> second mouse button on Skyrim special edition -> properties -> local files -> browse local files.

    New or old snow shader?

    This is down to personal preference; they will both work well with my textures.

    You can see a comparison gif HERE.

    The new shader tends to make the snow differ more in different s