¶ Welcome to the ENB Migration Guide
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This page outlines a guide on migration from an ENB based modlist to one that is based around CS.
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- Basic conversion:
- Full Conversion:
- Effect11 Post Processing: COMING SOON
¶ Basic conversion
In this section a basic outline will be given on how to get CS up and running with the least amount of work.
¶ Step 1: Removing the ENB binaries.
CS disables itself when it detects the enb DLLs, this means that firstly we need to remove the ENB DLL files.
Normally these are either located in your game root, where your skyrim.exe is located, or if you're using Rootbuilder in a mod that has a Root folder.
The file names you're looking for are: d3d11.dll and d3dcompiler_46e.dll.
¶ Step 2: Removing ENB specific and incompatible mods/files.
ENB is usually set up with ENB specific mods that are not necessary with CS, either because CS has a replacement for these or CS is not compatible with them. They will need to be removed.
You may have some following mods installed that need to be removed:
- Enhanced Volumetric Lighting and Shadows (EVLaS/AELaS)
- Trainwreck
- ENB Extender
- KiLoader
- ENB Worldspace Weatherlists
- ENB Helper SE
- ENB Input Disabler
- Sky Reflection Fix for ENB
- ENB Helper Plus
- Bright Waterfall Fix for ENB
- ENB Anti-Aliasing
- ENB Frame Generation
- Skyrim Upscaler Both paywalled and free versions are not supported.
- ENB Light and all other ENB Light mods such as ENB Lights For Effect Shaders and all the Rudy ENB Light mods. ENB Light is not supported by CS.
Be aware that Particle Patch is suppored by CS and doesn't need to be removed.
¶ Step 3: Installing the CS requirements.
CS has its own set of requirements, be sure to download and install all of them.
The following are minimum requirements:
- Address Library for SKSE Plugins
- Crash Logger SSE AE
- SSE Engine Fixes
Specifically for SSE Engine Fixes you will need to install the SKSE64 Preloader into your root folder, where you had your ENB binaries that you removed before.
¶ Step 4: Installing CS.
CS consists of the core mod and the addons, the core mod is always required and should be loaded first, then you can load all the addons after, you can pick and choose which ones you want and like.
First you install the Core mod.
Then you can choose which ones of the following you want to use:
- Cloud Shadows Adds shadows cast by clouds (CS Exclusive).
- Extended Translucency Improved shading of translucent materials (CS Exclusive).
- Grass Collision Adds physics collision to grass.
- Grass Lighting Adds better shading to grass and supports complex grass.
- Hair Specular Advanced rendering of hair (CS Exclusive).
- Inverse Square Lighting Adds a new more realistic light bulb type for lighting mods, doesn't do anything on its own. (CS Exclusive).
- Screen Space Global Illumination (SSGI) Adds more realistic lighting through the occlusion and bouncing of light, significantly higher quality than ENB SSAO/IL (Very heavy).
- Screen Space Shadows Adds small scale shadows.
- Sky Sync Replaces EVLaS and AELAS, synchronizes the direction of light and the sun position, allows for adjustment of the sun path.
- Skylighting Adds shading under covered areas such as overhangs, trees and in structures. Significantly higher quality than the ENB version.
- Subsurface Scattering Adds simulated light bounce under semi-transparent materials like skin.
- Terrain Helper This addon is also used by ENB, adds support for extra textures for terrain.
- Terrain Shadows Adds large scale shadows cast from LODs over large distances, employs heightmaps generated by xLODgen/DynDoLOD.
- Terrain Blending Blends meshes with the terrain mesh, prevents an ugly seam.
- Terrain Variation Removes tiling from textures on the terrain mesh. (CS Exclusive)
- Upscaling Replaces Skyrim Upscaler, adds upscaling and frame generation.
- Water Effects Adds support for water parallax and caustics.
- Wetness Effects Adds new wetness effects when it rains, including rain ripples on water.
¶ Step 5: The weather mod.
While ENB relies on wetaher mdos to form a base for its visuals, CS relies a lot more on the weather mod for the visuals of exteriors.
There are many options, but some suggestions are as follows.
- NAT.III:
If you're using NAT.III based ENB, you can install NAT.CS. This will adjust NAT.III to look correct with CS. - Obsidian Weathers:
If you're using an Obsidian based ENB, you can install Obsidian CS. This mod will adjust Obsidian to work well with CS. - Azurite Weathers:
If you're using Azurite 3, there are multiple mods you can use to adjust it to work with CS. Some of these are: Azurite III - HDR, Azurite III CS and Azurite Weathers III - Enhanced. - Dedicated CS weather mods:
There are also plenty of weather mods specifically designed for CS such as: Astralite, Nirn Whispers and Real Weathers.
¶ Step 5: the Lighting mod.
¶ Full conversion
In this section a full guide will be given on how to convert your whole modlist to CS, to full take advantage of all the features CS offers.
¶ Effect11 Post Processing
This feature is currently in development and as soon as it becomes available this section will be updated.
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