ENB fog and brightness

[SRSR333]

Hi guys.

 

I recently installed Zoner's High Performance ENB, and my SKyrim install just got a giant upgrade in terms of graphical quality. I've tried all other ENBs but they're either too bright, too dark, too red or too laggy (specs in sig; yes it's a laptop).

 

I've only got two issues with the game (and ENB) right now.

 

First, scenes are rather foggy in the daytime and in dungeons - comparison shots below. The dungeons are also excessively bright.

 

First set (Outside near Knifepoint Ridge):

ENB ON: http://i.imgur.com/mTnvK5z.jpg

ENB OFF: http://i.imgur.com/6JwLDga.jpg

 

Note how the shaded areas are brighter and it's easier to resolve detail with ENB switched on.

Second set (Same area, but facing opposite direction):

ENB ON: http://i.imgur.com/Rzbnx6r.jpg

ENB OFF: http://i.imgur.com/cKsUpna.jpg

 

Third set (Inside Knifepoint Ridge dungeon):

ENB ON: http://i.imgur.com/orXlUx0.jpg

ENB OFF: http://i.imgur.com/oreLIJ2.jpg

 

Note how bright it is with ENB on.

 

Fourth set (Further inside dungeon):

ENB ON: http://i.imgur.com/9yZLJL5.jpg

ENB OFF: http://i.imgur.com/qasryGm.jpg

 

Same case as earlier.

 

Second, night skies are ridiculously dark. The ground and scenes looks excellent but the skies are so dark I can't see any more stars. Likewise, comparison shots below.

 

ENB ON: http://i.imgur.com/FwaUFMB.jpg

ENB OFF: http://i.imgur.com/aa2DV6K.jpg

 

How do I adjust ENB parameters to fix all of these? Thanks in advance...

Edited March 27, 2015 by SRSR333

[kniggit92]

For ENB brightness open the ingame ENB menu: Color correction tab, gamma.

Edited March 27, 2015 by kniggit92

[SRSR333]

Thanks for the reply - but there's a weird mist/fog around in the sunrise. Images below. How do I reduce/get rid of it?

 

ENB ON: http://i.imgur.com/8HnCouQ.jpg

 

ENB OFF: http://i.imgur.com/k943Nw9.jpg

[BlackRoseOfThorns]

I used to run Z Enb on my laptop and didn't had such issues. Have you installed any weather / lightning mods?

 

From Zoners High Performance ENB (1_0) page:

 

Prerequisites:

• These settings utilize a Realistic Lighting with Customization template included with the download, but please do go and endorse the Mod if you haven't already.
• Optional: I highly recommend Sun and Clouds Textures for a nicer sky.
• Optional: IMAGINATOR helps you tweak the settings to your liking within the game in a matter of seconds.

 

From Zoners High Performance ENB 2_0 page:

 

My game looks nothing like your Screenshots!!

The following mods should NOT be active with this ENB (The game wont go bonkers, it just wont look the same)

• Realistic Lighting with Customization (RL)
• Revamped Exterior Fog
• Climates of Tamriel (CoT) - May do a CoT specific version later.
• Ultra Realistic World Lighting (URWL)
• Anything else that modifies lighting/weather settings in Skyrim.

 

From Z Enb page:

 

This ENB has been designed with these mods & textures in mind; others will look fine but it will look best with these mods are Active.

Enhanced Night Skyrim (Blue Galaxy Version)
Enhanced Lights and FX, With the Exteriors but WITHOUT the enhancer.
Sun and clouds textures, Necessary for seamless mountain/sky transistions.

[SRSR333]

For some reason, switching off CoT gives me a very weird, cloudless sky with lines and polygons all over. I noticed that StarIntensity under the [sKY] section of enbseries.ini was set to 0.40, and I jacked it up to 1.00 which fixed the dark night sky issue. Moving the GammaCorrection and Brightness in [colorCORRECTION] fixes the overly bright caves. And finally, SSAO (partially) fixes the outside fog, but then Skyrim crashes. I am using ENB version 0.265.

[SRSR333]

Bump?

[thesoundofthings]

I had the same issue while running the ENBseries. I opened the console editor (shift+enter) and turned off Bloom and the haze was gone (that's apparently its job). If you want to just lower the amount, there is a setting for that as well.