Suggested lighting mods for players with vision problems?

[osmiacyril]

Hello!

 

My apologies if I am posting this in the wrong part of the forum! I am very new to this and I was not sure if I should put this here or in Skyrim Mod Requests, but since I'm not really requesting a new mod so much as asking if anyone has any suggestions for an existing mod that might work well I figured it would be ok to go here.

 

I have pretty terrible vision. Even with my glasses, I often get migraines if I strain my eyes too much. When I was playing through vanilla skyrim I noticed that, even with high brightness settings, spending a lot of time exploring caves or even being in interiors that were kind of dark (sky haven temple, for instance) would sometimes give me migraines. So basically I'm wondering if anyone knows of any simple lighting mods that just make interiors brighter as a whole, or even mods that are designed with people with vision problems in mind?

[Dusty4life]

Try this out - brightens things up somewhat and you can adjust the brightness, too.

 

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/17605/?

[BlackRoseOfThorns]

Your best bet is ENB. You will be able to set ambient lightning level for interiors and night to your liking. It also comes with "Adaptation", which adjust brightness level according to your personal Min-Max values. Usually setting both to 0.50 will lock the brightness at medium value in all conditions (after that you can up the brightness with either ENB gamma setting or Skyrim menu slider).

 

In the past my eyes were strained due to how much contrast there was with vanilla lightning. ENB presets with gentle Bloom effect fixed that for me. There is a couple hundred of custom presets for ENBs, but this one is my favourite one:

 

 

You will need main file (d3d9.dll and enbhost.exe located in Wrapper folder) from ENB site (scroll to the bottom of the page and press download button) and preset from nexus. More detailed installation instructions can be found on Rudy ENB page. It's highly customizable and can be adjusted for more performance once you familiarize yourself with the ingame UI (Shift+Enter to open). I would recommend installing Rudy ENB for Vanilla lightning first, since it doesn't require any additional weather mods from nexus.

[dalsio]

I've never experienced the problem myself, but you might also consider playing with a higher FOV. A lot of people report having issues with low FOV in first-person games and skyrim's FOV is set to 70 by default (if I remember right). Setting it in the console to something like 90 or using a mod that enables FOV changes to 90 might help.

[Project579]

Or just change FOV on the .ini (that is the best way to do it). Even Vividian ENB brights up the environment: http://Vividian ENB - Weather and Lighting - Vivid Weathers - CoT5 - RCRN - Pure Weather - Purity - NLA

[osmiacyril]

Thank you all so much! I'll try looking in to this stuff. The only thing I don't think I can do is use an ENB because I don't think my computer will be able to handle it, but thanks anyway!

[dalsio]

An ENB doesn't necessarily have a noticeable performance impact. It simply refers to a program that modifies the visuals of the game after the game produces them but before they are rendered to your monitor. While it it usually used for graphical enhancements, it can do a variety of things depending on the addons, settings, or presets but by itself you wouldn't see any change whatsoever. Further, simple changes to lighting or colors wouldn't have much of a performance impact as long as no other visual-enhancements were attempted.