Onyx-VR Weather

Onyx-VR Weathers is a weather module based on Obsidian Weathers, then tweaked and tweaked to suit the needs of SkyrimVR.

Mod description

This weather model has been in the works for a long time. It is started by Prog and SGSRules. I helped make some final tweaks, refinements, and get this mod ready for release.

The weather in Skyrim is tricky. There are a lot of weird spots, like the grass and the ground being lit in completely different ways, and it's often a balancing act trying to make things look consistent. This is especially difficult in VR, where some aspects of weather are different or disabled entirely (such as volumetric lighting). Onyx-VR Weathers is a mod based on Obsidian Weathers with weather color adjustments using custom scripts. The main purpose of this mod is to make the leaves look correct and have a natural night look.

Onyx includes five levels of nighttime darkness. 100% consistent with Obsidian, it was a relatively bright night. 20% is almost black. Most Dark Nights mods make things darker by editing the image space. This works, but unfortunately it darkens everything, including light sources like torches, lanterns, and campfires. This mod uses another technique where half the darkness is set by the image space and the other half is done by darkening the weather color itself. The result is that even on dark nights, the light source actually illuminates the night in a more natural way.

A side effect of this darkening of the night sky is that normal rain textures appear like bright noise or TV static at night. That's why Onyx Weathers also includes carefully crafted raindrops that strike a balance between visible during the day and less visible at night. Note that the rain and snow texture replacement may not work properly without adjustments.

Onyx Weather also includes an ENB version. This version of the mod "flattens" all weather colors so that enb has full control over colors and lighting. The optional files include SGS's custom ENB for Onyx Weathers, specifically made for Onyx's ENB version.

Onyx weathers also feature SkyVRaan compatibility. No water weather patch required!

Distant Fog by Cresty is another mod that looks great in VR. A version of Onyx compatible with Cresty's Mist is included in the fomod installer. Load Onyx Weathers after Cresty's Diststant Mist. No further tinkering required!

All screenshots have been taken in VR

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Recommended modules

Storm Lightning SE and VR

SkyVRaan-Shimmering sea water

Crispy distant mist

Solveig-Cinematic Sunglare (oldrim mod, but works great)

Smooth sky mesh SSE

SGSRules Night Sky (included in optional files)

Install

Download and install using your preferred Mod Manager. Select night darkness in fomod:

-100%->Bright Night (Same as Obsidian Weather)

-20%->Dark Night

-ENB->Controlled by ENB

compatibility

It is compatible with any water mod as long as you cover it with this water. But it was originally intended to be used with SkyVRaan, so

gives the best results. It should be compatible with every mod that Obsidian is compatible with.

credit

Prog and SGSRules were used for the initial concept and 99% of the work in creating Onyx-VR Weathers

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frazaman, flowlocka, Shizof and TheCangar1 for testing, troubleshooting and support

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Mod Description

This weather mod has been a long time in the making. It was started by Prog and SGSRules. I helped to do some final tweaks, polishing, and to prepare this mod for release.

Weather in Skyrim is tricky. There are many oddities, like grass and ground being lit in completely different ways, and it's often a balancing act to try to get things to look consistent. This is especially difficult in VR where some aspects of weather act differently …