Vanilla Weather Reworked - Performance Friendly Weather (Updated)

The original weather has been overhauled using only in-house resources. Lightweight ESP.

Prefix:

Far Harbor

Nuka World DLC

Image Space Tweaks - FO4 (not required in advance, just named as the source of production):

Inner City Ambience - An Urban Soundscape (optional, if using compatible version):

Original address:

~~### The standard version and compatible moderator files have been packaged and uploaded together. You can choose to install according to your needs. ~~

Updated on October 6th:

Version 4.0

Very subtle tones at dawn and dusk

Revised rain particle geometry values ​​slightly increased to α through materials. Tested with original rain, but you can choose personal texture

More rainy days, including lightning, non-radioactive rainstorms

Aurora meshes/maps have been redesigned and will be used in regular Radiation Storms and the new Rainstorms

Added gray radiation storm

FOMOD reworked: Added optional version with more haze effects when clear

Removed many camera-attached special effects to improve clarity and performance

Weather: Chance/Transition/Persistence/Effect Start-End Rework

Distant fog on clear days, darkening at sunset

Updated on January 4, 2026:

Version 3.0.2

The weather pool increases when selecting all possible weather plugins (NW) and FH

Updated on December 17th:

Version 3.0.1

Fixed some brightness and intensity issues with weather fog, especially in water scenes that looked a bit off

Updated on November 9th:

Version 3.0

• Description updated
• FOMOD rework: new FORMID, ESP, different installation settings
• Added all-in-one "Author's Choice" version ESP for manual installation/easy patching
• Added more weather and made many adjustments to existing weather
• IMSP redone
• Option to configure night brightness via IMSP
• Modular option for Glowing Sea, adding vanilla-like options to GS+ to eliminate background radiation effects
• Modified FH Crawler ingestible records to match new fog weather
• Complete rework of GodRays and SunFlares

Updated on January 16th:

Version 1.2.2

Reduced the intensity of Godrays at night/Fixed black haze from radiation storms at early sunrise and late sunset

Updated on January 15th:

Update 1.2.1

• Fixed fog distance on clear weather
• Overall less powerful Godrays

It is safe to uninstall/update mid-game, but please back up your saves and enter internal areas.

Only tested on Fallout 4 version 1.10.163 (will also work on next-gen versions)

A performance-friendly, subjective overhaul of Fallout 4 vanilla weather.

This mod adds a bunch of new sunny/creepy/grim/colorful/bleak/dark weather without introducing any new scripts: it's made in xEdit using only in-house resources. Lightweight ESP, ready to install safely; you may have to wait a while before new Weathers come out, you can install it inside the inner cell, or you can install weatherID in the console.

It won't leave any unattached scripts in your save if you want to delete it, but be sure to wait a while inside the cell, back up your save, and you can safely delete it.

It is completely built on the modified image space of Image Space Tweaks.

An optional Inner City Ambience compatible version of Zorkaz is available.

Main features:

• World space climate and regional weather opportunities reworked
• Overall GodRays intensity reduced at night

Very very subtle GodRays - on my system (rtx3060/i7 11k/32gb Ram/SSD) the performance during the day is almost like the original. It's a little more demanding at night due to the god rays, but honestly I don't see any noticeable difference

• More noticeable rain
• Depending on the current weather, it may change at night

Dark - Weather persistence timescale value between 10 and 20 (20 is vanilla)

• 23 new weather types. The Glowing Sea region in the original game

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