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More Alien Skyrim - Sky and Light Beta release


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MAS - More Alien Skyrim - Sky and Light
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No mods except this mod are used in the screen shots! No ENBs, no texture packs, NOTHING but this SweetFX based mod!

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Intro

This mod was made with one intention, and one intention only - To make exploring Skyrim a visually exhilarating experience. I eventually intend to release animal texture replacers, armor texture replacers, and even a plant replacer! But for now, I have created MAS SKY - A total sky and lighting overhaul! A MAJOR update from the Demo version I had up until now! It's basically not even the same mod, and because of this, you will have to totally uninstall the old version first!

The previous version of this mod was based on making skyrim look as if it was an alien moon, orbiting some giant planet. The new version actually digs more into the TES world, and throws all former remnants of logical astronomy out the window(kinda like vanilla skyrim); But not in a bad way. You see, Nirn isn't like the Earth at all. It isn't even orbiting a star, but rather floats aimlessly in a void near a giant hole that was ripped in said void by magnus some time ago. This giant hole, is the sun, and all the other stars are tiny holes; THAT is legit TES lore. I take that a step father, and say, there are tons of OTHER planets floating aimlessly around this void. The result?

Masser shuffles between 7 large, gas-like planets, pretty to look at, but not much going on with them. Secunda shuffles between 7 rocky or watery planets, some of them can be very interesting to look at. NONE of them should be remotely recognizable! (no saturn, no earth, etc)

Other updates?

I took the large blue ring planet out, because the way it's moonshadow worked created lots of glitches with the new system this mod is set up under. I would have been forced to disable secunda, and I want MORE moons in the sky, not less, so I voted to take it out, and replace it with shuffling planets instead!

I added a SweetFX lighting mod to this, which is designed to make the world look similar to normal, yet very vibrant and wowing, without overdoing it on the bloom or saturation!


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Installation

Extract the contents of the ZIP file to a separate folder if you aren't sure how much of this mod you want to install, or if you are new to manually installing mods.

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If you want to install the entire mod;

Make sure you are not using any ENBs! This mod is intended to work like an ENB, and thus will likely go horribly wrong when combined with one.

Merge the "Skyrim" Folder with your "Skyrim" folder. Make SURE you say "YES" if it asks you to overwrite anything!

Activate the More Alien Skyrim.esp. Load order position shouldn't matter, but to be safe, put AFTER anything that edits the sky or lighting!

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If you want just the mod itself WITHOUT the SweetFX;

Enter the "Skyrim" folder, ignoring EVERYTHING accept the "data" folder. Merge just that "Data" folder with your "Data" folder, and make SURE to say yes if anything asks to overwrite!

Activate the More Alien Skyrim.esp. Load order position shouldn't matter, but to be safe, put AFTER anything that edits the sky or lighting!

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If you want just the SweetFX preset;

MAKE SURE you do not have an ENB installed or this will likely blow up!!

Enter the "Skyrim" folder, and DELETE the "Data" folder. Back out to the main folder, and merge the "Skyrim" folder with your "Skyrim" folder, making sure to say yes if anything asks to overwrite!

That's it! No ESP to activate! You may need to adjust the brightness, as this is intended to be played 1/4 to 1/2 of the way up the slider.

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If you do not want the moon shuffle;

Either pick two moons from the 14 you can download with this mod and rename them appropriately to replace masser and secunda respectively.

Or delete all "masser' and 'secunda' files and use the vanilla moons, or simply install a new moon replacer OVER this mod! Note- use of this mod with other moons might result in odd unforeseen visual glitches.

It is not my job to make your mod setup work together, if you want to use this with other moons besides the given ones go right ahead, but it's not my problem if your sky melts and dagoth-ur comes parachuting out of it and steals all your sweet rolls.

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Uninstalling MAS Demo;

Delete the MAS Sky Demo esp, then go to your textures/sky folder and delete every file with 'masser' or 'secunda' in it's name, moonshadow.dds skyrimgalaxy.dds skystars.dds and sun.dds and sunglare.dds if you downloaded the optional sun file.

Installing the newer version of this mod will automatically overwrite all of these files EXCEPT Moonshadow.dds! Make sure to delete that file if you are updating, as it will create glitches with your moons!!

If you want to uninstall the full version of this mod, follow the exact same instructions, but do not delete moonshadow.dds. Also, delete the 'itn' folder in your textures/sky folder, as well as well stars.nif in your Meshes/Sky folder.

If you want to delete the SweetFX go to your Skyrim main install folder delete the entire SweetFX folder, d3d9.dll, d3d9.fx, dxgi.ddl, dgxi.fx, injector.ini, shader.fx, SweetFX_readme.txt, SweetFX_preset.txt, and SweetFX_settings.txt


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Troubleshooting

My moons are solid black! - This is a vanilla moon problem, Skyrim displays the 'new moon' phase as a blank, solid black disc that can not be edited, and have yet to discover a way around this. This issue should only persist until the moon(s) ends it's phase at the end of the night. Do not contact me about this glitch.

Secunda is in front of Masser and it's semi-transparent! - I have no idea why this happens, but apparently they decided to make the moons auto-fade into one another if they overlap into the sky. I have not found a work around for this glitch. Do not contact me about this glitch.

Everything is to bright/dark! - First are you using an ENB? Use of this mod with an ENB is not supported, and it's likely causing the issue. If not, try moving the 'brightness' slider in your display settings. If the issue persists, post and make sure to let me know what other lighting mods you are using!

The moon is in front of my sun and the sun is shining through the moon! - I am pretty sure I fixed this glitch by making the moon avoid the sun, but if you still experience it, please let me know! Also, make not of what day/month/time it was!

Something not described here is horribly wrong with my sky! - Take a screenshot, make not of the time of day, day of the week, and month of the year it was, as well as any mods you have that could be causing it! MAS DOES NOT SUPPORT ENBS AS THEY WILL CAUSE SEVERE ISSUES WITH THE SKY MOST OF THE TIME.

HELP! My ENB does not work with, or is destroyed by this mod! - This mod MAY work with SOME ENBs if you know how to tweak them right, but your completely on your on, because for the most part this mod is designed to REPLACE an ENB and use of it with one is NOT supported in any way!


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Suggested Mods

Tropical Skyrim

Climates of Tamriel


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Credits

A lot of work from a lot of people went into this mod! All content in this mod is used by ArtMurder with direct permission from the makers,
or with indirect permission through their Asset Use Permissions on The Nexus Mods website.

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Art Murder - SweatFX Preset; Sticking this entire thing together with duct tape and bubble gum.

HXP - Galaxy and star Textures

Kriskos - Nebula

AnOldFriend - Sunglare

Uses SMAA. Copyright © 2011 by Jorge Jimenez, Jose I. Echevarria,

Belen Masia, Fernando Navarro and Diego Gutierrez.

Uses InjectSMAA by Andrej Dudenhefner ( mrhaandi )

Uses shaders from FXAATool by Violator, [some dude], fpedace, BeetleatWar1977 and [DKT70]

DPX shader by Loadus

Lift Gamma Gain shader by 3an and CeeJay.dk

SweetFX, LumaSharpen, Dither, Curves, Vibrance and Splitscreen by Christian Cann Schuldt Jensen ( CeeJay.dk )

Paint.net + Various Plug-Ins, I.e Shape 3d.

Various texture libraries (licence free.)

Various DeviantART Planet resource textures.

http://www.spacetelescope.org/ - Public free to use pictures of wonderful things in space.

The Hubble Telescope

Adobe Photoshop CS6(+CS2).

Nexusmods.com

Bethesda


If I have missed you, or you wish for me to no longer use something of yours in this mod, despite the permission given, PLEASE CONTACT ME(ArtMurder) ON THE NEXUS FORUMS!

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