A simple way to use Night Eye with ENB and other lighting mods using a couple of mods...kind of a duh moment.

[CONTRABARDUS]

Pro tips for stealth characters who want to use Night Eye with an ENB:


If you want Night Eye in the game with any ENB, the easiest way is to download night eye ring mod. https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/3683 It doesn't work on its own, but read on to get it working.


You'll find stupid amounts of them in chests, and they are worth 5k gold. The description says "it's hidden in a dungeon somewhere..." but it's actually tied to a particular type of chest as loot. This can be a good and bad thing, but you don't have to sell them or pick them up once you have one if you don't want to be drowning in gold due to a cheat.


You may need to also install Realistic Night Eye if you're using something like ELE or ELFX, or some other mod that affects lighting. https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/1678 This does not fix it for the ENB, but it doesn't really need to.


Here's the part that will have people kicking themselves over the obvious solution that they just didn't think of...


Favorite the ring and bind it to a hotkey, then go into the ENB settings and set the same hotkey to the enable/disable ENB. This can sometimes fall out of sync, usually if you're taking it on and off frequently. If this happens, just manually take off the ring in your inventory and put it on again once you have the ENB off.


A more reliable method involves macros, particularly multi-key presets. Say a keyboard or mouse with macro keys or a Steam controller. You can set up a macro that presses the enable/disable and hotkey for the ring at the same time or one after the other. A cycle binding also works if that is an option. This seems to fall out of sync less frequently, but still does occasionally. This is the most reliable method for doing this I've found.


If you want to use a spell, simply disable the ENB whenever you activate the spell using the hotkey.


The Night Eye effect washes everything out anyway and messes with the shaders to begin with, so it doesn't look any worse even without the ENB than it would with it and still functions the same way. No need to mess with the ENB settings aside from the disable/enable hotkey when you use it.


The ring method is the easiest and isn't much of a cheat. Particularly if you're playing as a character that has it as a racial bonus.


If you want to be a purist just go with the other method and just tap the hotkey whenever you use a spell and then enable it again once Night Eye ends. Be sure it use Realistic Night Eye if you've got another lighting mod that messes with it. This is less convenient, but will let you use the spell without mucking about with ENB's settings and will look pretty much the same since the spell effect visuals would pretty much overpower the ENB stuff anyway.

 

EDIT:

 

You don't actually need a dual binding if you're using Predator Vision or the Night Eye ring.

 

Just equip the ring or turn on night eye via Predator Vision and just turn the ENB on or off to activate it. The ENB completely negates the Night Eye effect, so there's no need to toggle the effect on and off on its own as far as I can tell, it doesn't look any worse or do anything to the ENB visuals, doesn't seem to affect performance, and completely eliminates the possibility of the night eye and ENB getting out of sync.

Edited March 22, 2018 by CONTRABARDUS