Visibility - Performance-Friendly Lighting Mod

I can’t take much credit for this mod as it was really the result of an unresolved mod conflict that I discovered how amazing Ambiance’s torches looked in vanilla lighting. After that I focused on that great torch light as a foundation and this mod was the result. I think the results turned out pretty good considering I don’t use an ENB or any other lighting mod. The other great detail about this mod is that I focused on prioritizing gameplay over visuals and kept interiors well-lit enough to navigate without a torch while also giving dungeons a sense of dread.

I’ve provided several versions as a result of my tinkering including regular, brighter, and darker options. The brighter version is courtesy of editing values from Luminosity’s imagespaces and only really brightens homes and inns while dungeons remain dark. I’ve also added two brighter night patches for Aequinoctium as I feel it’s a good complementary performance friendly weather mod (Note: If making a patch for brighter nights for any weather mod you only need to change

the directional night lighting). Lastly, I’ve uploaded my personal Reshade preset that has little to no performance loss while sharpening the graphics. The preset only requires Lightroom, Vibrance, Pirate_LumaSharpen, or LumaSharpen.

Compatibility-wise this mod is great as there are no cell edits to patch. The only conflicts it does have are with mods that edit torch and candle lights (not the spell).

Compatible Mods

Relighting Skyrim

Window Shadows

Technically Compatible Mods

Luminosity– The warm lighting doesn’t work particularly well with darker imagespaces.

Ambiance by TheMilesO – For his great imagespace changes and open permissions

Luminosity by JonnyWang – For the brighter version imagespaces

Darker Nights by unforbidable – For the example I used when making the brighter nights patch