modhatter6811

I've been trying to make a soul gem translucent and refractive. The problem I'm having is setting the proper alpha flags to achieve this effect in all backgrounds. No matter what I change regarding src alpha, testing, blending, thresholds, etc., I end up with graphical issues depending on the background. Sometimes I can get it to be visible everywhere in game, but it disappears in water, or I can get it visible in water and in the game but it no longer shows in the inventory, or it shows up in game and in water but loses its translucency and lighting properties... I've tried also adding the "dynamic decal" option, which works, but makes the soul gem super huge if water is in the background, and also appears to travel behind the scenery. I've also tried doubling theNiTriShape data with its alpha properties and setting different flags for variables as described here, near the bottom of this mod... http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/33602/? And for reference, my texture is dxt5>with mipmaps, and uses and alpha mask. (Maybe thats an issue?) If anyone knows how to achieve this or help me out I'd greatly appreciate it.

I know its been a few years since you typed all this up, but I still wanted to drop a huge THANK YOU!!! This is the most in depth information I've found yet. Most people who understand how to do these things, are not able to explain it with such great detail. Just having the definitions for the property functions has saved me months of tedious research. Awesome job!

Your cpu is overheating, that chip has a maximum safe load temperature of 72.6°C if you're hitting 80°C that's a problem, Intel cpus can usually take higher heat than whats recommended, but make no mistake it can and will cause damage and shorten its life span. Most cpus are guaranteed to last at least 5yrs, so if its been running for 3yrs hitting 80°C on the regular then your i5 is probably going to die. Do a virus check also. Reformatting the hard drive does NOT get rid of all viruses. The kind people who make viruses know that trick and have for a long time, so most trojan viruses have a way of protecting themselves from a hard drive reformat. Either by looking like an already reformatted section or simply moving itself to a newly reformatted section of your hard drive while its being formatted.

I'll try to explain this better, my "narrow slice" used to be almost the entire pie in the gaming world.(fps? fp-wha?)I came from the Nintendo days when graphics sucked so much that developers had to think outside the box and come up with something ingenious or risk immediate failure. If it didn't bring something to the table you were done for. The story and game play had to be good, and needed to be an experience to last. The Zelda series has been in it for over 20 years now, admittedly they have made remakes, and have reused old gameplay elements, however their main success with the series was a result of them always trying to do something unique, new, and memorable. I have actually given most of those games a try already, and was very disappointed in their content. Resident Evil is starting to flop as is Final Fantasy because of reusing the same "everything" as their last titles ad-nauseum. So is it really me being narrow when I dont want to fight another war in the middle east with newer guns, or shoot zombies in a new city? Or are game developers the being narrow in their creations?

Its called FOV or Field of Depth view, somewhere in enb series ini file should see a line that says something like FOV=1 change it to FOV=0 if it says FOV=true change it to FOV=false, I dont have the enb ini pulled up right now otherwise I'd be more specific. Fear not you did nothing wrong.

I'm really glad to get some responses from others who are picky, I do have Morrowind (overhauled of course), forgot to throw Portal 1&2 into that list of enjoyed games. I really feel they don't make games well anymore. Its as though developers have run their imaginations dry, so they repeat the same games year after year, slightly better graphics, change some guns, make a new map, then bam! Profit! I may have some tight requirements for what I would call a "good" game, however I would hardly say that I'm missing much by not wanting to play the same fps shooters in slightly different wrappers, or the latest "something gun" or "dead whatever" or "insert war name". Its okay though, those who disagree can waste time and money on the same game year after year. Hopefully for they people like me, I'll get my ass in gear and get back to working with CryEngine or UDK and make something worth playing. I'm full of ideas that developers have yet to touch. I must say its a huge relief knowing more and more people are seeing the "trends" and getting sick of them.

So where are they? Seriously. I cant find any at all. Suggestions please! (PC only) What I do NOT want 1. War based games (CoD, splinter cell, Bf3, etc.) 2. MMO games of any kind 3. Zombie games 4. Racing 5. Sports 6. Crappy graphics (I'll make exceptions for ones with legit mods) 7. Simulation games 8. Free to play (ftp) 9. 3rd person gameplay (unless it controls like zelda games or mario) Here are some games that I have enjoyed very much. Oblivion, Skyrim, Dishonored, Bioshock, Fallout 3+New Vegas Good luck, I know the criteria are strict.

So I downloaded L3DT v11.11 hoping to create a height map, I read through the nexus forum tutorial, however when I get to step 4 where I need to enter the horizontal height field scale, the box wont allow more than 5 decimal places, so I cannot enter the correct scale for skyrim, I also tried going to operations>heightfield> change horizontal scale, but the "change horizontal scale" part is grey and unusable. Any solutions? Please help! Thank you.

I'm having the same issue with only being able to enter a few decimal points on step 4, I tried going to operations>heightfield>change horizontal scale but the option is greyed out and unselectable. Using L3DT v11.11 please help! Do I need an older version? How do I fix this?

I know how to fix this issue! please share, no need to roll back drivers, you get better frame rates and performance with the 320 set, Open your enb series ini in the skyrim exe folder, then find under the heading labeled [Fix], ForceFakevideocard=false and change it to, ForceFakevideocard=true