Water Effects Brightness and Reflection Fix

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Description

• []Makes water effects not glow at night: they will remain dark unless illuminated by lights or sky. How much light is present depends on your enb, light, and weather.

  []Removes neon green reflection

  []Improved UV maps on some effects

  []Fixes Whiterun rapids animation when loading into whiterun from another save game

  []Fixes z-fighting with some water foam

  []Includes USSEP and SMIM mesh changes

  []Details:

  []Sets BSEffectShaderProperty lighting influence to 255: removing own glow

  []Sets BSLightingShaderProperty emissive multiple to 0: removing own glow

  []Give some waterfall BSLightingShaderProperty decal and dynamic_decal flag: remove neon green reflection (this preserves specular effect on the water while other fixes don't)

  []Add missing effect_shading flag to BSEffectShaderProperty: make effect react to light

  []Add soft_effect flag to BSEffectShaderProperty: make effect less bright during certain night weathers

  []Adjust Soft Falloff Depth after adding soft_effect

[]Includes replacers for vanilla Dyndolod dynamic waterfall lods. If you were using vanilla waterfalls, you don't need to regenerate Dyndolod. How this works might change in the future.

[]Optional file to fix black waterfalls in Nchardak Aqueducts

• []Nchardak Aqueducts waterfalls are set to have completely black lighting by Bethesda

  []This wasn't a problem because the waterfalls also glow

  []With the glow removed, they appear completely black

  []The optional module is an ESL-flagged ESP file that changes the Nchardak waterfalls to not use completely black lighting and simply use the lighting from the environment

[]Optional file to fix the broken gradwhitewater.dds from Skyrim Particle Patch

• []For some reason, Skyrim Particle Patch changed this file so waterfalls became very dark

  []Skyrim Particle Patch changed other gradient textures to be bluer, but only this file is changed to be dark

  []Included fix is just a bluer version of the vanilla gradient

  []Fix demonstration: pic1, pic2

Known Issues

• []Some Dark dungeons with no ambient lighting will have dark water unless lit

  []Waterfalls are subject to the 7 lights per mesh limit, this was the case in vanilla, but since waterfalls glowed, it wasn't obvious. and this will make it more obvious.

Related Mods

Installation/Uninstallation/Upgrade

• []Whenever

Credits

• []Static Mesh Improvement Mod - SMIM

  []Brumbek

[]Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch

• []Arthmoor

[]FYX - Water Splash[*]Yuril - I just looked at the file names for thing that needed fixing