Does the SE look better with or without static mesh improvement mod?

[sick duck]

general discussions.

[Lermond]

Everything Skyrim related looks better with SMIM!

It’s a must have MOD for Skyrim or Skyrim RE, no questions asked, if you ask me.

It is a MOD that shows how much was missing in Skyrim vanilla and how sloppy Bethesda done it + RE adds only visuals, it does not fix any bugs.

[NIKFS]

Originally posted by Lermond:

Everything Skyrim related looks better with SMIM!

It’s a must have MOD for Skyrim or Skyrim RE, no questions asked, if you ask me.

It is a MOD that shows how much was missing in Skyrim vanilla and how sloppy Bethesda done it + RE adds only visuals, it does not fix any bugs.

re?

[Lermond]

(RE)Remastered or (SE)Special Edition

[♥ Barney ♥]

The special edition remaster doesn't improve any meshes, so the meshes in the game are exactly the same as Oldrim. So, basically SMIM and any other mesh mods that improve the original meshes will make SE look better.

[sick duck]

then whats the point of SE until SKSE is ready?

[smf5576]

Originally posted by nobody:

then whats the point of SE until SKSE is ready?

The game can be enjoyed modded as is right now. Plenty out there for SE to get an enhanced experience.

[Belanos]

Originally posted by Lermond:

It’s a must have MOD for Skyrim or Skyrim RE, no questions asked, if you ask me.

I wouldn't consider it that at all. I tried it with Oldrim and I didn't see a big improvement over the graphics because of it. Any changes it made were pretty marginal for the most part.

[gnewna]

Purely a matter of personal taste. If you like the changes it makes, it will make your game look better. If you don't, it won't. And in general gameplay you may well not notice.

The only things I really honestly notice being different in-game (as in, *notice* rather than *if I look for them they are noticeably better*) are a/ barrels and b/ those wooden fences around some of the smaller bits of farmland (such as in Falkreath). I also think things like the chains and ropes and stuff *do* look better with SMIM, but I never really noticed them looking bad before, and I rarely notice them looking better now, because, well, I don't really notice them much.

(Because it has a FOMOD installer, you can also pick and choose which elements to have, so I could, if I felt like it, go back and re-run the FOMOD installer and *just* pick barrels and fences, I think. Touch wood, I haven't noticed any performance loss with it fully installed though, so I'm leaving it for now.)