Too bright in the dark

[candyhunt]

If caves too bright already answered please link

 

else...

 

I've been in real caves in my younger years... and without a miners head lamp... its BLACK , DARK and NO LIGHT

 

I enjoy Skyrim to the point where this issue annoys me. You would be creeping around with a torch and minimal light.. a monster attacks and you would be completely surprised

 

answers on a postcard please

[showler]

Because the majority of player would hate actually dark dungeons with the burning passion of a thousand suns.

[rkkn]

Vanilla Skyrim places random invisible lights all over the place in interiors. The only way to get dungeons and caves to be realistically dark---and in a way such that bringing a bright light source still makes it bright---is to go through and remove all these random lights.

Fortunately this mod takes care of that, and then some.

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/27043

 

I consider it one of the game's most essential mods. You'll also want the enhancer in the install options. This reduces the ambient light.

There's also a hardcore option, but I think it's a step too far since it removes *all* the lights, including braziers and whatnot. But that may be what you're after. Instead I made a personal-use plugin to further reduce ambient light.

 

 

there are other mods that darken things, but most of them just darken the imagespace. Which darkens *everything*, including light sources. So you go into a cave and it's kinda dark... but you break out a torch or cast Magelight and it's not much different. still pretty dark. Not realistic. (and not fun)

Edited July 16, 2023 by rkkn