Skyrim Special Edition

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L00 and The Riverwood Modder

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VR patch for THE ENHANCER ENB - A clean and optimized visual enhancer true to the original art-style of the game or any modlist, designed as a solid upgrade for the game's engine with a natural representation of color and lighting.

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THE ENHANCER by L00ping is a fantastic Vanilla+ ENB that brings more realistic lighting and colors to any modlist. Whatever your weather, lighting, and textures are it enhances the experience. Think of it as a remaster of the game using a newer up-to-date engine with additional features.
 
WHAT THIS MOD DOES
Due to the differences between the SE and VR versions of ENB many features don't work the same causing ENB presets tuned for SE to not look as intended in VR.
THE ENHANCER VR is a modified preset that tunes these settings for the VR version of the game.


ADJUSTED
  • Fixed lighting by adjusting Adaptation, Ambient Occlusion, and Skylighting to VR-friendly values.
  • People look more natural with updated values for specularity and sub-surface scattering.
  • Rain updated to look better in VR.
  • Better sun rays.  
  • Removed interior fog color to work properly with Interior Floating Fog Remover. 
  • Changed ENB menu keyboard shortcut to Shift+Enter so it doesn't conflict with Skyrim Upscaler.

DISABLED
  • Turned off features that aren't supported or don't work well in VR such as Lens and DepthOfField.

ADDED
 
INSTALLATION
CLEAN UP ANY PREVIOUS ENBs
1. Make sure to delete any previous ENB files and folder, enbcache folder, and any Reshade files from your game folder.

GET THE VR ENB FILES
2. Download the latest VR ENB binaries (v0.490)
3. Extract ONLY the d3d11.dll and d3dcompiler_46e.dll into you game folder, where SkyrimVR.exe is.

DOWNLOAD THE ENHANCER SE
4. Go to THE ENHANCER and download and extract all the content from v1.1 of THE ENHANCER.zip into your game folder. 
5. Don't forget to endorse.

DOWNLOAD THE ENHANCER VR AND OVERWRITE SE
6. Download and extract the version of THE ENHANCER VR that matches your weather.
7. Pick either Quality (Better looking) OR Performance (Better FPS) and copy all of the content from its folder into your game folder overwriting the SE files when prompted. - Only pick one

ADD CAS SHARPENING (OPTIONAL)
8. If things look fuzzy and you aren't using a different tool like VR Perf Kit or Skyrim Upscaler to sharpen, download Contrast Adaptive Sharpener for ENB
9. Extract "enbeffectpostpass.fx" and "enbeffectpostpass.fx.ini" into the "enbseries" folder alongside the other .fx files.
10. You can use then open the ENB menu by pressing Shift+Enter and use post pass effect to control the level of sharpening.

TO UNINSTALL
Delete the files copied in the steps above from your game folder to uninstall.
 
INSTALLATION FOR FUS USERS
1. Follow these instructions to update to the latest version of FUShttps://github.com/Kvitekvist/FUS#updating-fus
2. In the ENB and Reshade options section choose either the Performance or Quality verion of the Enhancer and check its box to enable it.
3. In the ENB mods section enable ENB Helper VR and Kvite's Light source patch.
4. In the Weather section enable Azurite Weathers for ENB and leave Azurite Weathers enabled as well.

TO UNINSTALL
Just uncheck the mods enabled in steps 2-4.
  
RECOMMENDED MODS
THE ENHANCER should work with any weather, lighting, and texture set, but a few recommendations to line things up with what I used in my pictures are:

WABBAJACK
For those of you who just want a one-click approach to modding, Wabbajack is a great way to get started:

WEATHER

FIRE AND LIGHT
LANDSCAPE AND TEXTURES

TREES AND GRASS
CREATURES AND NPCS
 
CREDITS
Special thanks to the following for making this mod possible:

 L00ping 
for making the Enhancer and letting me adapt it for VR
 
rudy102
 
for their weather location list

coldbomb1
for fixing the VR ENB white border issue

BorisVorontsov
for making ENB

CangarKvitekvist, and the support hero(ine)s
for helping the community muddle through modding Skyrim

Andy P and the others who have tested the Enhancer VR so far
and given feedback, comments, endorsements, and a reason to keep making it better

You
for reading this far and being awesome!