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I simply can't get enough of the far objects taking on the color of the atmosphere feature! That with the horizon fix should get everything looking much better. Great work! Very nice sunrise, I'm wondering if there's more depth to the colors planned, like when you see a sunset in real life with purple and pinkish clouds with orange sky, or sometimes a banana creme color sky with greyish blue clouds. Im also wondering what you have planned for majestic cloudscapes, if that will be included.

Hahaha wow, is this real life? #TeamReal The picture of the glaciers and the picture of the mountains with the sun are real photographs. My advice is, go with your heart and what you want to be in your game. People might even try to discourage you like saying "well I use such and such weather and lighting,there's no point to have this mod." I hope you don't let that get to you. You're awesome, your mod is awesome and you should be proud of yourself.

My bad, Lord Garon, my wording was totally bad. When I said "these people" I didn't mean to say all people that affiliate with this name or group, I just meant those opposed to the equal rights of others. I'll try not to be as ambiguous and I apologize.

Who's Glenn Beck? Haha I can't say I know much about the subject, I simply don't watch television. But if what you say is true, that these people are against the equal rights of the LGBT community, then they are wrong and history won't remember them kindly. That being said, if they have rights that are being denied, then I'm all for the restoration of their civil rights, regardless of whatever lame opinions that they have about people different than them. As long as everybody has equal rights, everythings cool.

Superb response, Maharg67! Such utilitarian, realistic, level headed ideas brought much inspiration. In a sane future, a basis of food, shelter, water, and clean air is given to all humans, and those that volunteer for all those humanitarian or environmental jobs are further rewarded than just the basic needs to survive, encouraging survival for all human species yet still maintaining incentive for people to do more. I entered the debate thinking nobody should have to work but realized from others that machines don't possess the ingenuity of humans and can't do all jobs, but also that we have a long way to go in creating meaningful jobs that actually do good for the world. I still think robots could be utilized to grow and harvest and distribute food, and build basic apartment units, and have better infrastructure for clean water.

Thanks for the explanation it helped. At any rate, I'm on my phone now but those WIP images look great! I think I can really see that distance effect where those mountains and trees in the back start to take on the Hue of the atmosphere which is a REAL nice effect indeed (looks like that in real life) I'm excited to see what effect the simulated Rayleigh scattering has on the sunrises and sunsets (I'm not sure if I got the terms right). If you included scenic shots of those you'd generate some killer interest, not just from the correctness of the lighting but the beauty of it (vanilla/after pics are great, so are Scenic timelapse videos) Thanks for your hard work, I hope it gets the love from the community. Haven't checked out any of your musical/audio talent yet if there's anything up, but I'm sure that will be great too when you get to that.

Let me guess, after you killed the 3 Thalmor justiciars, the prisoner they had ran off and reported the crime? Hahaha, that happened to me when I played on Xbox 360, it sure was a surprise and quite funny. If you kill the prisoner the witness is killed and no crime is reported. It's really quite odd behavior for someone who should be profusely thanking you for freeing them.

Wow, looks much better! However, I have one question about the horizon in the daytime fixed image. Where the sky ends (in the middle of the image), is that supposed to be the ocean? There's some blank space there that looks like it might be ocean, but in game near that location in Whiterun, Whiterun has all sorts of terrain and other things surrounding it and is generally lower altitude than what is surrounding it (I think). I wouldn't expect to see that ocean, but rather instead I would expect to see a scene of distant mountains or whatever is in that direction. Correct me if I'm wrong, I just thought there were more hilly areas and mountains north of whiterun which would prevent that weird horizon line. Of course, that might not be related to your weather mod project at all and instead fall in the hands of a different project in and of itself (some sort of rendering farther distance terrain project). Or it could be related to the fact that your character is floating off the ground to achieve that particular screenshot. The only reason I was asking is that the screenshot, with that blank space or whatever it is there, tends to give me the illusion that Skyrim is smaller than it actually is, or an odd feeling of being on top of the world when I shouldn't be and seeing the horizon all around me. Not really a problem with what you're working on (which is quite good), just a nitpick I think I've had with vanilla Skyrim. At any rate, I'm glad you've fixed the issue you had a problem with, but sorry it's going to lead to more issues. Best of luck mate!

A future where people don't need to work doesn't necessarily mean school wouldn't be encouraged or possibly mandated like today (and adults allowed to go to school for free). School could be a great place for field trips into nature, to teach the necessary skills for survival without technology. With all the free time people could have, I wouldn't be surprised if camping and general outdoorsmanship became a prevalent hobby, therefore increasing survival knowledge as opposed to the lack thereof in our current society of all work (at jobs that could have nothing to do with learning survival skills) and no play. What do retired people do, generally (no work to do and nothing but free time)? Or people on vacation/trips? Camping, fishing, hunting, mountaineering, hiking, swimming, surviving. Retired people are dependent upon income coming in, but they still go out and do these activities on their own. With the technology that affords them better survival :biggrin: , but still, the trend is there. The comment about disabled people earlier was very good and insightful, too. I believe with better technological infrastructure, these people would be afforded a better lifestyle as well.

Is this related to your new upcoming weather mod? If this is your goal to fix the ugly horizon, I can't wait! I'm sorry but I know nothing of modding myself to know how to change that. I'd say your assumptions and observations about the problem are pretty sound, though. I personally would try to find someone, like you mentioned, who creates world spaces. In the creation process they might come across something like this, whereas editors might pass over/not notice it (and I'm not sure I've seen any weather mods that get rid of the ugly horizon, but I could definitely be wrong, seeing as I don't really have a gaming PC yet and haven't tried out any mods). I wish the best of luck to you however.

Here are all my habits from when I played Skyrim on xbox. I could never disturb the original position of anything. If my character accidentally knocked over a plate, it's an instant reload, no matter how far back it took me. Because of the other habit, I always played stealth and prevent enemies from knocking over things too. I always tried to keep my in game stats at either 0, or any multiple of 10. If I stole once, I would steal 9 more times just to get it even. Any save I made had to end in either 10, 20, 30, 40, or 50 minutes even with zero seconds. If it didn't I'd have to try again. I had serious problems trying to enjoy the game with those bad habits...

Winterhold should be snowy, that's about the extent of my lore knowledge haha. By the way, the mod looks good, I saw your videos.

Thanks sukeban, you bring up many interesting points 1. Who will be the core that controls everything 2. What will their moral position be? 3. What will humans turn to with no work? I have many ideas for the last question. Water sports, mountain climbing, video games, space exploration, sky diving, there's way too much to do to ever get bored haha. From personal experience I don't need or want to work 3\4 of the best years of my short life away at a job that means very little to humanity, but I have to anyway. But I would happily volunteer the same amount of time if I got to live in a world where the basic needs were provided to all. EDIT: Thanks TRoaches, very insightful

Here are my recommendations for graphic mods and their mod number: Amidianborn Armor Retextures #24909 Enhanced Lights and FX #27043 Moss Rocks #31856 Natural Grass Texture Floor #30164 Remove Interior Fog V2 #29253 Static Mesh Improvement Mod #8655 WATER #13268

Very good replies, TRoaches and Colorwheel. Your insight, TRoaches, is incredibly clear and concise. The lack of empathy, in my opinion, is more of a lack of vision. Has anyone here heard of Maslow's hierarchy of needs? Imagine the 7 billion or however many people there are now, as having many more inventors due to receiving basic needs to live and an education. The technological prowess of the human race would increase many times over, allowing for more benefits for all. It would be more interesting to live in a cooperative society as opposed to a competitive society simply because of the implications of how we would think. Instead of competing and watching our fellow human fall, we try to raise them up because our group is only as strong as its weakest member, realizing that it could have been us born in their shoes.

Do you believe all jobs contribute equally to today's society? What if my job was an "account holder" and I collect interest off a large sum of money and your job (barely making ends meet) was to flip burgers which, on occasion I came to buy and eat, driving an expensive Lamborghini and wearing a super rich clothes made from sweat shops. Would you be opposed to a future where robots were burger flippers (and field harvesters, shelter builders, etc)? EDIT: most vehicle factories are automated now with very little human interaction

With the advent of new technologies today and in the future, it may be possible for all people, regardless of what situation they are born into, to have all their basic needs fulfilled without having to work, those basic needs being: food, water, shelter, education, transportation, a sense of security, privacy. How is this, one may ask. A look at recent technological advances shows a trend of mechanical, robotic, or computer processes that replace human workers. The agricultural, manufacturing, and now even the service industries jobs done by humans are being done now by automated processes (bank tellers replaced by ATMs, store clerks replaced by self checkout, the list goes on). Today, this means more competition and means many people can't survive. Tomorrow, this trend could mean freedom. There probably will always be human (volunteer) jobs, but should people be forced to work to survive? Would having the option to not work, but still have free access to clean air, clean water, sustaining food, and shelter from the elements, provide a sense of equality and justice around the globe? Would all the free time for leisure and education and self exploration promote a better psychological well being for billions of people? Would all that free time translate into more inventors and humanitarians and futurists determined to further improve the quality of life for our (and others) species? What do others think? Should humans be destined to toil?

Hi, here's a list of immersive mods that I think look good and their associated mod number (they might not necessarily work together, I don't have a PC to try them out)(some of them require SKSE and SkyUI): Boethiah for Good Guys #22818 ----Allows more choice for all character types Craftable Placeable Bedrolls #19943 ----Allows you to sleep mostly everywhere Dance of Death #10906 ----Control your killmoves frequency Dawnguard Delayed Start #26022 ----No more forced start if you pass by a guard Frostfall #11163 ----The most amazing mod you will currently find House of Horrors Alternate Ending #21700 ----Allows more choice for all character types The Choice is Yours Fewer Forced Quests #26359 ----Less forced quests The Paarthurnax Dilemma #18465 ----Allows more choice Thieves Guild Requirements #14157 ----Have to be a thief before Brynjolf annoys you Trade and Barter #34612 ----Customized pricing Wearable Lanterns #17416 ----Wear a lantern on your belt, great for combat in dark places Winter is Coming Cloaks #13486 ----Good combo with Frostfall, adds fur capes to game This isn't even my final list of mods, just a few gems I thought I'd mention. Hope this helped.

Thank you very much prod80, that was extremely helpful! The way you put it in a list helped. So it seems I will be dealing with a lot of cleaning because I will be editing the dialogue of several major NPCs. If I change Jarl Balgrufs dialogue so he doesn't mention the player being in Helgen before, I risk users losing cosmetic and other changes for Jarl Balgruf they use from other mods unless I got rid of those vanilla records that don't need to be in my plugin at all, which would make Tes5edit indispensable in creating compatible mods. EDIT: thanks ripple! I will definitely have to research more, but in the end it will be worth it. To me being clean with things has a definite beneficial psychological effect, like being clean, having a clean house, etc.

This thread has been interesting to me as a potential mod author. I have a few questions for anyone who wants to answer. However, not having ever modded before, some of the technical terms may confuse me. 1. Is there a certain way or process to follow when creating mods that only results in clean mods, therefore removing the need to clean after it? (Like using a stencil when drawing so you don't have to erase) (I can do with a simple yes or no, as I'm going to research more later) 2. OR Are all mods inherently dirty from the moment they were created, no matter the stringent work plan the author laid out? I'm asking because when I make my alternate start mod, I would like to utilize a work procedure that circumvents the need to clean it by having it 100% clean in the first place.

Thanks, your perspectives were helpful. I guess I was getting overzealous wanting to do something for those mod authors, based on how hard or tedious it seemed to make those mods and how much it added to the game. When I do get my gaming PC, I definitely will download, endorse, and donate, I was just worried that I would be too late by then and the authors would have moved on. For now, I'll leave thanks in the comments sections. Thanks again! :biggrin:

Frostfall - Hypothermia, Camping, and Survival is a great mod by Chesko that adds an interesting survival element to the game. The mod number is 11163 I believe. With it, you can suffer penalties or death from being careless in cold weather.

Hi Dark0ne, Would it ever be possible to be able to endorse a file without downloading it? Maybe by typing in Captcha code or something unique? My situation is this: I used to own Skyrim for Xbox 360, and soon became interested in the modding community and have lurked this site for about a year making a catalogue of mods I would download in the future. I am without Xbox Skyrim now, but plan to buy it from steam and also a capable PC in the future. After following so many great mods, I signed up to the site to show my appreciation to the mod authors. However, I learned I could not endorse files without downloading them. I browse from my phone. It's probably not a common problem as most people here are on gaming PCs I imagine. Anyway, thanks for all you do here, it's a great community.