Modding guide, hosted on patreon・ / redshift1
In this video, we'll be completely remastering and improving Skyrim's graphics with mods. We'll be overhauling everything, from the ground and grass to the towns and cities.
List of mods・docs.google.com/document/d/1P...
Timecodes
0:00・Introduction
0:14・Ground Textures
0:43・Mountain Textures
1:05・QW’s Grass
1:26・Nature of the Wildlands
1:40・Tree Overhaul
2:07・Cave Overhaul
2:25・Dwemer Ruins Overhaul
2:52・Nordic Ruins Overhaul
3:09・Water Overhaul
3:39・Whiterun Overhaul
4:09・Overhauling the other Cities
4:36・ENB and Weathers
4:56・Interior Lighting Overhaul
5:20・SMIM
5:44・Overhauling the little things
6:20・Dragonbridge Overhaul
6:48・Karthwasten Overhaul
7:08・Shor’s Stone Overhaul
7:26・Ivarstead Overhaul
7:44・Falkreath, Morthal and Dawnstar.
8:38・Winterhold Overhaul
9:11・Armors and Weapons
9:44・Rustic Clothing & Traveler Clothing Redraw
10:14・Skin Textures
10:37・Hair Overhaul
11:05・NPC Overhaul
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thanks 4 watch
Dear Mr.Redshift , is there any low-end graphic overhauls ? My pc is a toaster !
Do you have your pc specs posted anywhere?
Are you planning to add the combat mods as well to your nexus collection? Thank you for making the list
how much storage does this take up?
hi, when i clicked on your google doc link to nexus mods it consistently gave me an error message where it could not upload the page, do you have any idea how to circumvent that? i cant seem to find the mods individually as i cant quite get the names even with englis autogenerated subtitles and i would love to download these mods
Finally a full graphical upgrade I can rely on. Thank you Redshift, you make all our lives far easier. And each video you make helps to make them better.
Wait I know you
what gpu do u have? and how well does it run
@@Acute_Thunder It is two months later and I've only just figured out who the devil you are
You quickly became one of my favorite Skyrim youtubers. You have a very straight to the point content and It's high quality.
It's funny when you see the updates to the faces. People blame the Creation Engine for Bethesda's ridiculously bad faces but when you see what mods can do, it becomes immediately apparent that it really wouldn't have been that difficult for Bethesda to make vaguely human looking faces for Starfield....
I remember when bathesda pushed the limit to what an rpg game should be like, to see how far they have fallen is saddening
@@angryvaultguyit’s truly tragic. Makes me really worried- TES6 might be garbage too😭
@@jacenolmsted6293After seeing Starfield I got no hope for TES6😭
it will, don't worry
I appreciate you taking the time to update the doc with the updated list. Big time saver
Thank you, was looking for a mod list to play Skyrim for the first time in 8 years. This’ll be perfect
Great video dude. I am an experienced modder but I've recently returned and have been scouring youtube lists. I absolutely love the cities and the architecture overhauls you featured here. For folks installing that may be new to modding a few tips. Start from the ground up, quite literally, almost the way he has listed them in the video, Do your landscapes, then your mountains, your grass, and trees, mesh improvements and architecture, and only after you are done with all of that should you pick an ENB and weather mod. Make sure that you enable complex paralax in the ENB ini after you download it. When it comes to armor textures, upscales etc, you are pretty safe to slap those on whenever, and are generally safe to remove them. The way I usually do it is I will download improvements as they start to populate the world, So ebony upscales when it's time etc.
These graphical overhauls are absolutely stunning. Great showcase!
Your mod choices are always excellent. 👍
Thanks for your modlist ❤, I just installed it and wow ... the game is sooooo beautiful, I am shocked fr 👍
Just gotta say, redshift you have a great voice and are very easy to understand. Please continue making great videos!
Bro, why are you so awesome! Tyvm for this video. I just been looking for a nice basic overhaul
I love how true to original your modded game looks, just what I'm trying to accomplish
Man, I wanted to play your mod list badly, I tried so much but couldn't get it to work. I really like your mod list, since it doesn't go too far away from vanilla, but still improves the visual and immersive quality of the game.
Wow great quality content. You're now my go-to for Skyrim mods.
Thank you so much! ♥you're my go to youtuber for skyrim mods, I love the way you set up your videos and you've added so many good mods to my collection. thank you once again ♥
Excellent video! I was looking for something like this!
Thank you! This is the best mod list ive seen and your guide is very helpful. :)
before trying to install this modlist make sure you were in AE 1.6.1130. not anything before or after ( steam update to 1170 couple days ago use downgrade tools if you were updated) i use this modlist and did several modification to suite my need: 1. replace the enb to cabbage enb, it has more vivid and realistic colours. also the dof were much more smooth during transitioning. i also has better fps ( 55-70 oustide comparing to 40-60 on rudy enb) 2. use ae content picker. its personal preference while i like having new extra side quest but some quest reward is immersion breaking ( daedric armor and dragonbone armor as reward? i remember back in 2012 i had to grinding my smithing level to 80-90 just so i could craft one and now they gave you right at the start?) i also disable camp, backpack, and fishing i had RDR2 for that lol 3. MCM helper, its a must because lot of mods depends on it 3. utilities and bug fix ( scaleform translation,sse engine fix, bug fix sse,sound fix for larger sector, console utile ng, papyrus util se, papyrus tweak, jcontainer se,powerofthree tweak, recursion monitor) 4. SSE display tweaks. i cant stress this enough. you need this mod if your monitor refresh rate is above 60hz. its also support gsync/freesync. whats the point of having 4k, 8k texture, parallax meshes if you only run it on 60 fps? it also has better vsync implementation than game native or enb. 5. sky hud, truehud, and on top of that nordic UI. it gave my game fresh and new look. also sovngard font pairs nicely on nordic ui. too bad compass overhauls isnt supported now on 1130. 6. TKAA renewal with bnp child skin to make the kids looks less annoying 7. bijin npc, waife,warmaiden. 8. i havent touch combat or animation mods but i put precision mod so you really feel when you hit someone and you had recoil when hitting wall/stone. everything is customizable via mcm
Ugh. Ive seriously been considering playing skyrim finally while I wait for Gold Road on ESO. The mods won't work for the newest version?
@eni I can get some to work, but others seem to be broken. The textures on the mountains are metallic looking and smooth. Some of the NPC's, male and female, have a pitch black face like it's missing a texture file. There are some mods on here that will work for the latest version, but most are broken.
subscribing, this is probably the second or third video of yours I've watched and I have been impressed continuously. keep up the good work dude
after having some of these mods for myself and being immersed in it, it really became apparent too me how beautiful this game can really get 😮especially with Rudy + ENB NAT 3
As much as I love Happy Little Trees, Traverse the Ulvenwald is a fantastic choice, paired with QW's 2 I think it would look amazing, although if you don't want to switch "Remastered Tree Bark" for HLT is a great texture replacer, keep making videos man, love to see them.
I litterly came back to playing skyrim today, and You drop this masterpiece!!!
Holyyy, I watched your other video about combat as well, thats a sub
I always recommend the Immersive Citizens mod as well. Adds some cutting room floor dialogue and interactions, some NPC's will actually travel to other villages, NPC's that have a home will actually visit it and not just stay at an inn 24/7, they shop for food, all sorts of stuff. Really fleshes out the game.
I'm so new to modding I just will never be able to do this by myself. This looks absolutely amazing!
Great list I especially like the lighting and npc improvements. I’m having a problem with the weather enb though, had to disable it. When it would rain or snow I couldn’t see anything, and it was gloomy and gray 80% of the time. Nighttime would start at like 5pm, I think it was bugged for me because it was just awful.
Nature and wildlife does look great ,wish they kept some color pallete though ,i like playing the original atmosphere ,but visually it does look stunning
This was a fantastic vidoe. Well done😁
Beautiful compilation. I kinda wish my current playthrough crash and force me to restart building a modlist again.
I really like SRP Landscapes. If I'm being honest they might actually be my favorite landscape textures. Unfortunately the mountain texture has a parallax bug so if you're going to use SRP Landscaped a mountain replacer is essential.
I need help with this idk what mod to get to fix it
You have the best modlists man I had an issue with my game after installing a bunch of mods where it had base form 14 null so I decided to start over. I’m hoping your modlist can get me started as a base I’m commenting before downloading I hope I can just put it in the folder or mod manager. The only part that’s ever hard to me is the ENB I always had the message about shader cache pop up and it would take a while to load into the game plus I never understood what settings I had to change in the .ini exactly for Rudy
Having trouble with the mod load order would you mind making a video on your setting? Thanks Nice vid!
Your mod you using is very nice and its easy to install thanks
Looks absolutely great! Gonna download the collection when I get home. Should I install the Skyrim anniversary content before downloading the collection?
Doesn't matter - up to you!
I don't know if I should be happy or mad that I found your video. I've been feeling a bit of the Skyrim itch lately and my main excuse for not installing the game again is I didn't want to spend tens of hours looking for, installing, and sorting out override orders of graphics mods. Now here you come along with a video promising to make the headache of installing graphics mods way easier. Now what excuse am I going to use?
thank you very much for this! Can you share some tutorial for newbies that wants to try modding?
thats it, imma yoink that modlist rral quick
EDIT: NM, some of the mods don't work with the GoG version (1.6.659). I'd like to avoid the Steam version if I can. It would be a good idea to make that known on the collection's about page :) Thanks for the guide. I just spent a couple days installing Nolvus, and it's now uninstalled. It was a bit too overwhelming and unstable for my liking. I'll start my newest Skyrim install with this guide, and work my way up from there.
Runs surprisingly well, my own modlist uses Community Shaders instead of ENB but I get roughly the same FPS on your setup. Thanks for putting this together!
Really? That's actually very surprsing
Thanks for the video, that's a great mod list! What mod manager do you use or how do I install these in the video? I'm new into modding and want to enhance my experience! :)
Hello! Great mod pack. One question, the mod load order in MO2 is the same as you presented here? I am trying to understand how the mod overwrites the files and sometimes I see that you can mismatch roads and textures.
Love the video, can you just drag and drop them through vortex? I don't really get all the file stuff 😅
I'm enjoying the video so far. You have good mod recommendations, I'll give you that. Will the mod list ever expand past graphical changes, though?
I've done combat already - what else did you have in mind?
Pushing my PC to it's absolute limits. Wish me luck!
Halfway thru installing, can't wait to put my poor 1080ti thru it again lmfao! Great vid.
Use the upscaler my bro
@@redshift1 Does that work with 10-series? I thought you needed RTX hw to run dlss?
You can use Flss or xess which look worse but still work
bro my 570 will suffer....
When it comes to the internal patches you need to select in vortex which ones do you select there are tons!!
This is perfect!! Quick question tho, do these work with your other modpacks like the combat one or exploration one? This video made me redownload skyrim again lol
Yes it does.
I downloaded everything but I keep getting missing masters. Also where do I put the ENB binaries after I download them? do they go into vortex? @@redshift1
I assume that you also use some additional setup to get parallax working, and something to adjust your LODs right? IMO finding good looking mods is the easy part, the actual hard part is all those external things you have to do to actually get this look to work well as a whole. I assume that's something you keep behind your paywall though specifically because that's the "hardest" part. I'd also wonder if anything on this list specifically no longer works in the most recent 2024 update?
ANOTHER SKYRIM BANGER, thank you! Is Parallax necessary? Not sure my PC can handle it. Thanks again!!
No its not you'll be fine without it
I seem to be having a texture glitch with the mountains? It’s that weird grey texture. I assume it’s an issue with the parallax shader?
I feel like I've been using the same old stuff, like aMidianBorn, JK's Skyrim, Skyland, Noble Skyrim, etc... cool to see some alternatives that I probably would have never found on my own.
Did you add SMIM after the texture mods as is shown?
In your previous list, you had combat related mods. Do you recommend installing them along with this collection?
You can do, this was more just a graphics list
Hi Red, what's your opinion on SRP Vs Omnibus as a texture overhaul? I noticed you mentioned you use both in 2 different videos, is SRP your new go to?
Both are great I I'm just liking SRP at the moment
Just so I know. Is this mod list up to date? Like do the mods still work or are the compatibility issues with some of them? I want to get into modding skyrim but I really cant bother doing all the stuff to check every mod for compatibilities and such. Thats why im looking for collections but most I find seem outdated in some way or another, so just want to make sure. Thanks.
what about other mods you using, like HUD ? also, all of these mods for Anniversary Edition?
First 10 seconds and it already shows how the soul was taken away from Skyrim and replaced with cheesy oversaturation.
Does this collection work with the latest Skyrim update? or do I have to downgrade it?
Is the Visual effect on the weapons the visual animated enchantments mod?
Atlantean is also a great landscape mod with complex parallax, paired with ERM - Mountains and Northern Roads = 🤌 not a lot of seams in-game.
BEFORE YOU TRY TO INSTALL THIS PACK!!! The newest versions of skyrim on steam and gog both don't work with this pack right now, also it's not easy to install at all. just download the mods you want separately and 1 at a time for best compatibility, check each one for version against your copy.
Looks amazing, really wish more of these were available for Xbox.
Same
Would you ever consider doing a similar video for console? I've been trying to make a mod stack
@@CODikr I am working on one rn, hopefully it will be out soon! Idk I’d redshift knows what kinda mods would be on Xbox tho.
Do you recommend any mods to change the looks of males and females in skyrim? Weapons, hud, etc. that sort of thing
Does everything here still work? I've seen a lot of videos popping up lately that says there was a patch the broke mods.
Great list. Been thinking about coming back to skyrim again after a while. Curious what sort of graphics card you would say is needed for this modlist to run properly? Is vram an issue with so many high res textures?
The ENB is definitely the main problem - it can eat like 50fps. For this set-up I got like 35-60 on my 1060 without the upscaler
Thanks a lot !!! Can we unlock the framerate ? Cause it stills at 60 everytime for me
Do you think this mod setup would work "out of the box" with Seasons of Skyrim (well other than adding necessary patches)?
Probably once you add all the patches
good list. would have liked it if u mentioned the other mods that you need for installing the ones you listed
You can see a list of mods on the collection page
@@redshift1 hey redshift do u know why the game is mixed in german and english for me or even sometimes no voice at a dialog at all ? my steam is in english so is my game and the mods too. do i not to download an extra string mod or smth to fix it ?
I honestly don’t know I’ve never heard of that issue - I’m guessing you want it in English? Perhaps just uninstall and reinstall the game
agreed
Let's goooooo
Downloaded the modlist, and loved it. However, it is not exactly like yours. Is it possible for me to have your current full modlist load order list?
Thanks for this nice video! just a quick question, do you use another mod to change like the opacity of your game and make the colors looks better or something like that?
Hmm I don’t really know what you mean.. like a reshade ? I do not use one
I love your mod choices but I'm not sure if you could help figure out some missing textures, my male npcs and old women have purple heads, I've been trying to play around with Nordic faces but nothing seems to work...
Also, you should reinstall GGUNIT's impoverished Whiterun and don't select the parallax version. It will fix the way your planks are floating above the dirt. GG even recommends this and I don't think it's even necessary without Parallax wood textures.
Thank you!
what load/install order should the Whiterun stuff be? I can't get those muddy cobblestone in lower Whiterun... all I have is 3d/extruding planks
I"m pretty new to modding so I bought the Patreon subscription for only $3 (definitely worth it if you're brand new to modding). My only issues are I have to download all creation club content every time I open the game, some rocks are untextured, and some NPC's are invisible. Any tips?
Which mod are you using to change the look of the Spriggans?
Is this compatible with Skyrim VR? I adore this modlist, and would love to improve VR using it :)
I'm using the PRT XII - PhotoRealistic Tamriel 12.4 enb by 100ping. Will this conflict with the mods mentioned in this video or can I continue with it?
How did you give your sword that cool white slashing effect on hit?
This: www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/86071
The install instructions mention having to do a few things manually which is fine but there is no mention of DynDOLOD, are the files for this already generated in the mod package?
2nd question man is the mod list only for 1.6+ or can I use stable 1.59
how do you get the cloth on the armor to move or other attachments to move when your character moves
Which armor
Heya mate! great vid. subscribed to patreon and downloaded your modlist on nexus as well. Curious though, falkreath seams to have missing textures. the ground outside the high hall is missing. was wondering if you ever found a solution to that? using your default mod list with nothing added so im curious if you have this problem as well
Could you send a screenshot over on discord: redshift0. That’s sound strange.
@@redshift1 sure mate! Will do it and tag you in a bit. But btw I've checked your patreon as well and some of the comments do echo the same issue I have with falkreath. I've ultimately just disabled the falkreath mod cause I've read that it's folkrave grass mod causing the issue
Hello! Do you think a rog ally can handle your mod pack?
Do you have an updated load order you'd be willing to share? I'm on Xbox Series X.
I dont know, the Impoverished Whiterun always looks weird to me, Ro uses it too and it looks like the Planks are floating, the idea is great though.
Hey! I'm having trouble looking for I believe it was bits and pieces skin (RBT), Can't find either your collection for some odd reason, nor the mod. Did it go down? the mod, and the collection i mean. Nevermind i lied, just found it! still, thanks for the video, I haven't played skyrim before so yknow, this will probably make my skyrim experience much more pleasing.
Nice Video, but how do you get anything more than 30 fps in Towns. I have neraly the same mods and do get 20 fps in settlements sometimes.
Well its all down to your PC, you could try disabling some ENB features, or getting the upscaler
Just found your channel and subbed. What concerns me is what version of Skyrim will be best for these mods, and if GOG can play these mods? Will Vortex install these mods or should I install them manually? Ty.
Vortex, GOG will be fine for most things
@@redshift1 Thank you, this is such a great channel, love your voice.
I love your mod list because it actually looks like Skyrim. what are your pc specs? I have a 3080 ti
4070 - easy 120 fps. On my 1060 is was about 40fps at the lowest so you’ll be fine
does it work with special edition or only anniversary edition
Which is the mod that makes my game way too dark at night? Looking to disable it but no idea which one it is, was from the collection.
did someone know if those mods are compatible with Skyrim together ? looking for game mods to pair with coop
hey, i really like this mod list, however i was wondering if there was a way if we could see the load order, i just dont know if that would be a patreon thing or not
The load order doesn’t really matter - though you have to follow the instructions on QW’s grass for it to work properly
I'm writing this message because I've seen a lot of people say that this modlist doesn't work. (both here and on Nexus) The list works, you just have to install it correctly and follow the instructions CAREFULLY. Remembering to modify the files that need to be modified manually, downloading and installing correctly the two Mods not present on Nexus and installing the files for the ENB from the official website. I installed this collection twice, once on my PC and another on a friend's PC because it didn't work for him. And both times everything worked fine.
first time ever installing mods, I did everything you mentioned but none of the mods are active and my mountains look like gray blobs now. I have no idea how to fix or how to even get my skyrim back to normal now :(
Hi, may I just ask what Skyrim version you are using?
The latest version available on Steam@@Inoooo
ty man
Amazing man. What FPS you averaging? And what are your PC specs? Thanks!
120-200 on a 4070. On a 1060 I use to get about 40-80.
At 1:09 what's the mod you use to make your enchantments look like that
Visual Animated Enhchantments 2.
Indeed
Hey Red, I had a question. I installed this mod list of yours and I was adding on some of favorites and one's from your previous videos. Fairly new to modding and just wanted to know, if I want to add JK's Skyrim to this, will it cause any conflicts with the Cities of the North? Or will it be fine as long as I have CotN load first? I want Cities of the North to take precedence but I really love a lot of JK's
They work together but you'll need a patch which you can easily find on the nexus: "Cities of the North - whateever city - Patches"
Thanks @@redshift1! Appreciate it and love the vids :)
I love these videos. They have made want to buy skyrim. Is there any way to use pi cho enb with these mods instead of ruby? Thanks a lot
Yes that would be totally fine - it’s just a matter of personal preference