A Dragonborn's Fate

Visuals

Creating a Separator in MO2

Right-click the empty space in the left pane of MO2 and select Create separator.
Name the separator Visuals.

Static Mesh Improvement Mod - SMIM

Improves the look of many models.

Installation instructions

Main Files - SMIM SE 2-08
You will be prompted with a FOMOD installer:
1. Install

Assorted mesh fixes

Fixes various issues with vanilla meshes that causes them to render incorrectly.

Installation instructions

Main Files - Assorted Mesh Fixes

Static Mesh Improvement Mod Improvement Mod

Improves some meshes from SMIM.

Installation instructions

Main Files - Static Mesh Improvement Mod Improvement Mod
You will be prompted with a FOMOD installer:
1. Dwemer post alternative
2. Next
3. Install

Load Screen Shading Fix

Fixes the shading of many loading screen models.

Installation instructions

Main Files - Load Screen Shading Fix

Installation instructions

Main Files - Azurite Weathers III
Azurite Weathers - MCM and Settings Loader
- Main Files - Azurite Weathers - MCM and Settings Loader
Azurite III - HDR
- Main Files - Azurite III - HDR

Dynamic Interior Ambient Lighting (DIAL)

Dynamically adjusts interior ambient lighting based on the time of day.

Installation instructions

Main Files - Dynamic Interior Ambient Lighting (DIAL)
You will be prompted with a FOMOD installer:
1. Next
2. Next
3. Azurite Weathers III
4. Install

Security Overhaul SKSE - Lock Variations

Adds new visual variations to locks and acts as a framework for other mods.

Installation instructions

Main Files - Security Overhaul SKSE - Lock Variations
Security Overhaul SKSE - Lock Add-ons
- Main Files - Security Overhaul SKSE - Add-ons
Security Overhaul SKSE - Regional Locks
- Main Files - Security Overhaul SKSE - Regional Locks
Security Overhaul SKSE - Extra Locks - 11 New Locks
- Main Files - Security Overhaul SKSE - Extra Locks

All Security Overhaul mods use the same FOMOD options: select 1K resolution and click Install.

Splashes Of Skyrim

Adds projectile based water splashes, ripples, and underwater explosions.

Installation instructions

Main Files - Splashes Of Skyrim

You will be prompted with a FOMOD installer:
1. Install

Simplicity of Sea - Water Mod with ENB Displacement Textures

A water retexture with parallax support.

Installation instructions

Main Files - Water Mod

You will be prompted with a FOMOD installer:
1. 2K defaultwater.dds
2. Include Water Tweaks - Vanilla Colors, No Flow Map
3. Install

Grass Sampler Fix

Makes grass look sharper and more lush by forcing it to use anisotropic filtering.

Installation instructions

Main Files - Grass Sampler Fix

Unique Map Weather

Allows unique weather to be added to world maps.

Installation instructions

Main Files - Unique Map Weather
Unique Map Weather - Vanilla Additions
- Main Files - UMW - Vanilla Additions

Weather of World

Redone weather and lighting for the world maps.

Installation instructions

Main Files - Weather of World

Community Shaders

Community Shaders is a framework that fixes rendering bugs and allows adding new graphics features through addons. The performance impact depends on which modules are used in addition to the main one, which, by itself, doesn't have a significant impact.

CS requires a DX11.1 compatible GPU, you can check if yours is compatible by looking it up here, then refer to the Graphics Features list.

Installation instructions

Main Files - Community Shaders
A Dragonborn's Fate Resources
- Main Files - Community Shaders - DBF Configuration

Recommended Addons:

Grass Lighting - Improves grass visuals with directional lighting, subsurface scattering, and fixes UV-mapping issues for complex grass. Includes normal and specular map support.
Grass Collision - Makes grass collide with the player and NPCs.
Screen Space Shadows - Adds extra shadow details to objects, plants, and your character that wouldn't normally cast shadows
Light Limit Fix - Removes the game's light limit (not the shadow limit) while adding particle lights and contact shadows.
Subsurface Scattering - Adds screen-space subsurface scattering to characters to simulate realistic skin.
Wetness Effects - Rainfall creates realistic wet surfaces, puddles that persist and evaporate over time, and dynamic ripple effects, while precipitation occlusion ensures raindrop visuals appear only on exposed areas.
Water Effects - Simulates water caustic effects and adds optimised parallax support.
Terrain Shadows - Enables rough terrain shadows with infinite distance, in game and on world maps.
Screen Space Global Illumination (SSGI) - Simulates ambient occlusion and indirect lighting using screen space information.
Cloud Shadows - Allows clouds to cast shadows.
Skylighting - Simulates large scale world-space ambient occlusion.

The DBF Configuration file applies the following settings:

Switched AA method from TAA to FSR 3.1 (native), massively improving visual clarity for a GPU performance hit of about 10%.
- If you are using an RTX GPU, you should switch from FSR 3.1 AA to DLAA, which gives a similar result but with better performance.
Increased sample count for Screen Space Shadows from 1x to 3x.
SSGI set to quarter resolution - the full and half resolution options are too heavy to be recommended on most systems.
Enabled contact shadows for LLF.

CS Particle Patch

Fixes lighting on water effects, smoke particles, cloud meshes, and more.

Installation instructions

Main Files - CS Particle Patch
You will be prompted with a FOMOD installer:
1. Next
2. Next
3. SMIM
4. Azurite III
5. Install
No Camera Attached Smoke or Fog (Improves performance when using the CS Particle Patch)
- Main Files - No Camera Attached Smoke or Fog

Distant Objects

LOD Guide

A guide to generating better LODs, improving the look of distant terrain and objects. This will also improve the look of world maps and generate new heighmaps, as mentioned earlier.