Open Shaders

A Community Shaders fork with a different philosophy. See added features:

Added Features:

• []Visuals: Shadow Limit Fix, Cloud Relight, Foliage Lighting, Grass Wetness, Contact Shadows, and Particle Lights.[/]

  []Upscaling: Native AMD FSR4, Multi Frame Gen Support (DLSS-G), and VR upscaling.[/]

  []Shader Cache: Prebuilt Shader Cache and Smarter Shader Cache.[/]

  []VR: Effects11 in VR, VR Stereo Optimizations, and Foveated Rendering.[/]

  []Tools: Scene Selector and DevBench support. [/]

  Included Features:

  Advanced Skin (Beta)

  Cloud Relight

  Cloud Shadows

  Exponential Height Fog

  Foliage Lighting

  Frame Generation

  Grass Collision

  Grass Lighting

  Hair Specular

  Image Based Lighting

  Inverse Square Lighting

  Linear Lighting

  Post Processing (Alpha)

  Screen Space Global Illumination (SSGI)

  Screen Space Shadows

  Skylighting

  Subsurface Scattering

  Terrain Blending

  Terrain Helper

  Terrain Variation

  Unified Water (Beta)

  Vanilla Fresnel

  Wetness Effects

  Installation:

  • []Open Shaders is a complete, all-in-one replacement for Community Shaders that includes all features listed above. Install one or the other, not both.[/]

    Doodlum and the original Community Shaders team for presenting the first open source shader project in Skyrim.

    Thanks to meh321 (RE) and doodlum (HLSL) for their work on light limit fix.

    Source Code:

    Built on Community Shaders by its authors and contributors; licensed under GPL-3. 0. Yes, we use generative AI. I'd like to think my reputation from before AI became mainstream is enough, but if you don't want that, please use a different mod.

    Bugs can be reported on GitHub.

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