Stronger Vanilla Ambient Occlusion

Description

Pretty simple INI tweak to up the intensity of AO. Good enough if you like strong AO without ENB. Performance impact should be the same as the default AO.

Specific tweaks:

bSAOEnable=1

fSAOBias=0. 75

fSAORadius=175

fSAOIntensity=17

If you'd like to tune things further to your liking and need a reference, these were Skyrim's default values:

fSAOBias=2. 5000

fSAORadius=250. 0000

fSAOIntensity=15. 0000

Only known "complications" are that some low poly landscape meshes may have worsened tiling. It's a potential occurrence with vanilla INIs too, just less apparent. You can maybe try leaving out the fSAOBias tweak if you want, which should lessen it's likelihood. As I said though it can still happen with vanilla settings.

99% of the credit goes to SLXJ for their FO4 mod Heavy Ambient Occlusion. Most of the INI edits were borrowed from theirs.

Install & Uninstall

To install, add the aforementioned lines to your SkyrimCustom INI file in the "Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition" folder.

Alternatively, if you don't want to edit anything, you can download and install my plugin version. Load order doesn't matter as it only loads the included INI.

To uninstall, remove those lines from your SkyrimCustom INI file. If you're using the plugin, you can just delete the plugin and it's INI.

Btw, no, the plugin version of the tweaks can't directly edit INIs. So don't worry about any residual INI edits still applying later.

Compatibility

Should be compatible with any mod/tweaks that don't edit the same lines in any of your INIs.

Same with the plugin version, as it has no records and only loads the INI tweaks for you at runtime.