TexGen and DynDoLod Settings

[Corinze]

I have a question about TexGen setting. I’ve done so much reading and have started playing with settings but I’m still a little confused on two things.

1) TexGen down the bottom the Diffuse and Specular settings. What is the difference between BC7 Quick and BC7 Max, and the other few settings? I found the BC7 Max is a better file format, but not knowing what it is or what is does, is not much of a help.

2) DynDoLod – Once osculation.esp is generated do I need to keep that checked? Or can I uncheck it and use the one loaded in game? Does it effect with making HD, QHD and 4K files?

What I do know, using my vast 30+ years on construction experience, I ran to google, texgen/dyndoload settings, images and found a pretty picture to follow. Using BC7 Max at 1024 and running Dyn with osculation with QHD settings, I ended up with a 17G file that took 12 HRs to generate. In game everything looked fantastic, I mean WOW, but getting off my horse to scan the sky to find the moons with a 0 to 3 fps, was a little rough. I bet if I could find the moons they would have grass and trees on them – lol.

I know I just need 512 setting with TexGen, but still need a little help with the 2 questions. Thanks

[Ilja]

That looks absolutely great.

I was thinking of making changes to my own build, which feels a bit too heavy. The Intrigued ENB I am using is also too "gamma rich" and required a lot of tweaking.

Now I am really curious what ENB and other mods you have used?

[Corinze]

Hey Ilja Thanks.

I’ve been using Patician ENB the past few months and have really enjoyed. Testing using the extra Emperior addon with nothing over 2k textures has been fantastic for me visually and performance wise. Using 4k and above textures really hits hard with the Emerior addon. Emperior version is what makes this ENB shine so I thought best to adjust mod quality to it. Plus it list which .ini files to adjust, which I like, I don't like tweaking ENBs either - lol.

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/77357?tab=description

It’s uses Solas Weather, Lux Suite and Water for ENB, Solas does a wonderful snow in the cold regions. Talking about white-out conditions. I did have to use brighter nights option with Lux, without it you need a torch inside a house.

I used all the mods listed as Requirements and mods from Highly Recommended. Some of the night sky mods overwrite each other and I played around and disabled a few after I found a combo I liked. Overhauls like SIMMs, Snazzy Furniture and clutter mods, everyone has their own preference but anything I tried looked great with this enb. I did use JKs Skyrim since it is simple and all the mods recommended have patches for the auto installer. No one likes patching JKs when you start grabbing individual files to use along with other town overhauls – geez.

Skin mods, Realore looks more fantasy but has a better tan look and BnP skins look more nature, especially indoors. Skin mods are 4k and 8k, plus makeup are above the 2k.

With adding Seasons of Skyrim and not knowing what the heck I was doing at first. I followed this guide for seasons and used their landscape mods, just to make sure I would not have issues. I personally thought Seasonal Landscape was nicer out of the 2 listed, plus I added the seasonal Aspen Trees.

https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/xg1g30/simple_guide_for_installing_seasons_of_skyrim/

Hope that helps some. I have not even mad it to Riften yet to test Fall Season. I got caught up flower picking walking to Winterhold