Detected!! Yikes.

The sky shots are great, with the clouds and aurora. Beautiful!

Now I want a conjured bow.

Ulvith Riding along the road to witness a burning piece of wood.

Then a dunmer find a stone and we see some more of her. Pic. By Azura! And there be fire! And there be hunting, and there be nirnroot The dark elf takes care not to fall in, and then we're back to

Ulvith. But where is she? Back above ground we ignore the impending doom(no, not really, you just don't get to see any of it) Ulvith reaches high ground and decides to admire the view. Which of course includes pictures of the sky.

There's that X), a lot I know. But a lot of pictures actually got lost when I uploaded them, or they left their spot in the line so completely that I don't have the energy to look for them. Now I just wish I could sleep, but there's school today *sigh*. On another note, Ulvith finished the main quest!

Those sky shots are stunning!

Wow it's really nice scenes. Especially that where you are not in mood

Thank you

Deesei went for a ride in the mountains, then she headed east to a tavern. And I must say I think she really liked the song! It was the first time I noticed it really. And then the trip went a bit further north.

Ekali fighting. 2 an 3. Scenery, again, and again. Then she met some forsworn who didn't attack her. Visited a stronghold and got some new armour! It looks really great so now I just have to figure out how to fit it into the story.

Nice screens! You may be interested (or not) in a mod that shows Khajiit ears through the helmets. Link

It's just something that has bothered me a little, but since Aravi doesn't wear helmets anyways it hasn't been a huge deal.

EDIT: is the armor a retexture of elven?

Though I don't think i'll try that mod, it's a good option. The way the ears come out look a bit to unnatural, so I think I'll keep the normal helmets.

Yes, it's a re-texture: Mystic Elven Armor by Sader. There are different versions though, so it doesn't necessarily overwrite the old elven armor and weapons.

To me it looks better with the light helmets, but not with the heavy helmets.

I like the armor. Aravi's been using armors from this armor pack. All of them are stand alone and craftable. It looks like the armors are even added into the leveled lists according to the info page. I'm in the process of updating my older version to the current one.

GAAAAH !!! How did you find Foresworn that don't attack? That is cool !! Love the new armor !!

Yeah!

Was it illusion? Or quest related? If it's a quest then put it in spoiler tags if you talk about it.

It's quest related.



Downloaded the armor pack, and it seems good. Especially the ranger armor.

Great screens! I love Ekali’s new armor.

That is pretty cool! My character has been wearing Foresworn armor (because upgraded it is awesome) - but I kind of hoped it would be like New Vegas where the armor you wore would fool factions into thinking you were sided with them.

Ekali on the road outside Whiterun.

Another new character after killing some wolves.
Staring into the flames.
Headshot.
In Dragonsreach.
On the road at night.
And there at last.

This place is to beautiful for me not to share this pic.

Love that place! My Khajiit went swimming there.

Ekali looks beautiful in her armor.

What is your new character's name?

Her name is Zharyn.
Click to see bigger pictures.

And Ekali again:
Screenshot that wouldn't show as thumbnail.

I see the Gladio!

Zharyn has gotten some new armor.

Neat! I love this one.

Very cool retexture of the nightingale armor!

The re-texture can be found here: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=5696

Jaeri, the Breton mage/necromancer:


I have way too many characters... And I haven't even shown you all of them, because some I want to keep a secret until I introduce them in Ekali of the Frozen Heights.

Jaeri looks great! I like the one with the moon and horse the best. I just tried the Ritual Stone with one of my characters. Necromancy is fun!

Zharyn in another new armor:

Irinwe

Jaeri:

And a few pics of scenery:

So, my computer is finally back in working order, I've installed all the mods I had previously, and a few new ones, and my saves are all working! Most of the new mods change the graphics, and I at least think it's a rather large improvement.

Zharyn's got some new armor

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I deleted my wood elves and created a new one. To be honest, I like her better. Her name's Caoilinn.

Mountain-climbing during the night, and then
Zharyn's headed into the reach.

Caoilinn took a trip in the snow,
visited the inn in Ivarstead
and then headed further into the Rift.
Pic 1, Pic 2

And it seems like I never posted this picture of Ekali;

These contain a bit of spoilers for Dawnguard:
http://i.imgur.com/40h4Al.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/VepOU.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/tRZUw.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/g4abu.jpg

But the rest are spoiler free

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Some of these are really pretty, but many are so dark I can't even see what they are depicting.

Okay, sorry. I can see what all of them are showing, but some are very dark. It's hard to find a good light-source sometimes. Not sure what I could do about it except for increasing the brightness of the pictures, but I think that kind of ruins them.

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That's definitely Ekali.

What ENB config are you using?

Imvisio ENB: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/19379

More specifically, the cinematic settings. But I've removed the depth of field effect and film grain that is the default, because I find them pretty annoying. And I think I modified the shadows a bit as well, because the original was way too dark for me.

They are still pretty dark. I actually like depth of field when it is more subtle, but some people make it way too strong. I think my favorite DoF settings were in this file.

Yeah, I think the settings I changed mostly affected the outside shadows during the day, so I'll have to look into changing the other ones as well. I found some great guide for changing the shadows sometime before I had to re-install Windows, but i haven't been able to find it since. There should be a good explanation somewhere though.
Okay. Yeah, I like the dof sometimes, but it gets annoying since you don't always look at the specific spot that the screen is centered on. It's great for taking pictures though.

You might like this mod. It is a DoF and SSAO toggle. I've been using it for a little over a week and it's pretty good.

Your textures and colors are Awesome! You must have one hugely powerful PC, LOVE these screens!

These screens are just epic. Your really good at taking screens. Do you have the high resolution texture pack, or are you using a gaming PC?

I mentioned a guide earlier about tweaking the enb settings, and I've now found it again. It can be found here: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/8005

The darkness problem was much easier to solve than I initially thought, and thus kind of annoying.

Skyrim with Enb but without the Skyrim Visual mods:

Skyrim with Enb and the Skyrim Visual mods:


The difference is clear as day even in such a well-lit place as a tavern, and why I didn't try to deactivate the mods earlier is frankly beyond me. In part I suppose that is because I've been reinstalling Windows on my computer, also installing everything over again, and haven't felt like dealing with Skyrim and all the mods until now.

However, I still think that Skyrim is too bright without the Skyrim Visual mods, so I'll just have to try and tweak the enb settings to hopefully manage to find some kind of middle ground.

King Coin: Okay, I've never really used SSAO as I don't think my pc could handle it, at least with Skyrim and the mods I'm using, but it might be a good idea to try DoF that way.

mALX: I don't know how to determine whether a pc is extremely powerful, as you put it, but I'm quite certain mine is at least quite good. Thank you

King of Beasts: Thank you. I've got a gaming pc, and though I've never used the official high texture pack, I've used other mods that enhance how the game looks. When I first got the game and ran it on this pc, I could run it on the highest settings with only a little trouble, however that's not possible with the mods and enb configuration I'm now using. I did try running the Skyrim HD - 2K Textures Lite version for a while, and while it looked amazing it was rather annoying when the game stuttered rather frequently.

Which visual mods are you using? I'm using Climates of Tamriel and I enjoy what it does. I got it mostly for the weather systems it adds, but it tweaks the lighting as well.

In the screen shots you posted, my favorite part of the visual mod is how it makes the firelight more red.

Something else you can try if you really are trying to squeeze performance out of your PC is totally disabling AA and use FXAA. FXAA can somewhat blur textures and make the menus look a little funny, but I used it for a long time before I was able to upgrade my graphics card.

Visual Mods:
The one that changes the most is of course the ENB I'm using, Imvisio.
Real Rain
Ethereal elven overhaul, which I only use with my dark elf.
Xenius' Character Enhancement
Towns and villages enhanced, which is a collection of mods
Skyrim Visuals - The Indoors
Skyrim Visuals - The Outdoors

I've looked at Climates of Tamriel and considered using it, do you know if it affects the performance a lot?

Yeah, I love how the firelight is more red when I use the mods, which is a part of the reason to why I've been using them for so long.

I've never used AA with Skyrim much just because of the performance hit.

"Extremely powerful PC" means it is much better than mine, lol. I am loving these screens! Your textures are amazing!