Need a viable solution to white aura around characters in front of sha

[zyg0tic]

I have been greatly annoyed lately by the white aura that appears around any character that is standing in front of a shadow.

 

One of the places in Skyrim where the issue is most apparent is the Dawnstar blacksmith.

 

I have tried many many combinations of ini settings to try and get rid of it, or otherwise greatly minimise its appearace.

 

I'm at the point where I'm willing to pay someone to find a viable solution so I don't have to spend however many more hours myself looking for it.

 

The solution can't be just to turn off shadows. The solution could be a mod, or a different .dll, or something, as long as it doesnt eliminate shadows altogether. Failing an ultimate and desirable solution, if anyone could please tell me just how to minimise/reduce the eyesore this issue causes, I'd appreciate that too. So far the best settings I've arrived at are to set blur to 2, however this causes shadow edges to be very pixelated which is a problem itself - and the white aura with blur 2 still looks terrible.

 

My theorized solution is to make the player character continually in shadow, and then brighten this shadow that's on the player character so that its back to normal brightness in appearance - my theory about this is because the white aura disappears when the character is also in shadow.

 

Here are some examples screenshots with different settings. For all the screenshots I used 4096 shadow resolution, iShadowFilter=4, iShadowMode=4.

 

iBlurDeferredShadowMask=2

iShadowMaskQuarter=10

fShadowBiasScale=0.6

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/2659/blur2bias06mask10.jpg

 

iBlurDeferredShadowMask=2

iShadowMaskQuarter=0

fShadowBiasScale=0.6

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9120/blur2bias06mask0.jpg

 

iBlurDeferredShadowMask=32

iShadowMaskQuarter=5

fShadowBiasScale=0.6

http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/7205/blur32mask5bias06mode4.jpg

 

iBlurDeferredShadowMask=0

iShadowMaskQuarter=4

fShadowBiasScale=0.3

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/4471/blur0res4096af16aa8mask.jpg

Edited December 14, 2012 by zyg0tic

[screendrop]

That's strange...

What mods have you installed? When did you notice this?

Have you added/removed any mods recently? Have you made/unmade any edits to the INI files or update the game recently?

List any other details of alteration or modification made to the game between now and when you first noticed it, also try to back track to before the mod.

 

Have you tried verifying the integrity of the game cache?

 

~SD

[zyg0tic]

I have since spoken with an accomplish lighting/shadows modder, and he confirms that this problem cannot be eliminated by ini settings other than turning shadows off completely. It's an unresolvable issue with the game engine we just have to live with. I have tweaked my settings so it is less defined, and try to stay in first person view more often and the white aura becomes less frequent and less noticeable, so not as distracting. Just have to live with it unfortunately.