CATHEDRAL Weather & Landscapes | FPS Friendly Skyrim Mod Guide

you don't need a high-end PC for a high-end experience designed for performance designed for beauty this is your Skyrim three key areas weathers and Seasons Landscapes grass and Flora let's begin open a browser window and navigate to Nexus mods ensure you have selected Skyrim special edition and not Skyrim navigates to the mod page for Cathedral weathers and Seasons the importance of always reading the mod Pages becomes clear with this mod as an example if you were to scroll down the page you will see why we removed our ENB in the previous video download the main file using the mod manager option download the cathedral weathers and Seasons update patch also to your mod manager Now search for Cathedral weathers MCM mod configuration menu this will allow you to personalize the mod options to your liking when in game using the MCM tool download the cathedral weathers MCM settings loader this will keep your personal choices saved and load them into the game whenever you launch it open mod organizer 2 before installing our Cathedral mods we want to First remove any existing Flora mods that we already have installed this will ensure our mods do not conflict with each other which can cause clipping or Texture issues in game it will also ensure we do not add too many environment mods of different kinds which can put high demand on your PC resources without making it worthwhile for the complete guide followers we have installed three environment mods we want to remove vados Brom regions eek renal flora and eek Mountain FL flowers Cathedral weathers has its own sky and galaxies meaning our mod ethereal Cosmos could be removed however because ethereal Cosmos focuses on the night sky and not the weather you can choose to have it load after Cathedral weathers for a combination of the two alternatively you can remove it as you are about to with the others right click on each of these and select remove mod with all three uninstalled it's onto our Cathedral weathers we start with the main mod file double click to install and select okay next our Cathedral season update patch this patch contains a few minor fixes to the overall experience next up is our mod configuration menu and lastly for weathers our MCM settings loader make sure you enable these four mods by checking the boxes to the left of the mod name the order of these four will be as we installed them our main mod first then the patch for it and any additional tweaks or settings for it such as the MCM in our case select the four mods and move them up under the environment category if you're sticking with ethereal Cosmos ensure it's placed after Cathedral regarding the placement of these mods in M2 as with a lot of mods their Position will likely change as your mod list grows understanding load order and mod priority will prove to be invaluable when it comes to your own builds off to a flying start good job next up Landscapes return to Nexus mod mods and search for Cathedral Landscapes Cathedral Landscapes will provide a base for our flora and tree mods to follow this lightweight mod is a great place to start designed to work seamlessly with Cathedral weathers up next Skyrim landscape and water fixes this mod targets pesky bugs and glitches in the Skyrim World terrain no grass in objects will Target elements in the game world that have issues with clipping where grass will appear out of elements it shouldn't landscape fixes for grass mods this is strongly suggested to work alongside no grassing objects if you remember back at the beginning of the complete guide after installing our Flora mods the path becomes overgrown and Flora and grass started appearing through the roads and walls the cause is likely the addition of more grass across the map where originally it shouldn't be all the detail and size changes made by the mods caused them to poke up out of areas they wouldn't have been seen previously here is another great example of reading the mod Pages as what may not be clear at first are the need for patches download the main mod to your mod manager but we will also need a patch for cutting room floor an alternate start these will be listed under arthor Town's patch we will also need to download the patch for JK Skyrim up next Cathedral water overhaul and Bug fixes and to wrap up with landscape search for fabled forests on Nexus mods fabled forests was kindly suggested in a post I had made as I tried searching for a performance friendly tree mod and what a suggestion it is tree mods are notorious iously hard on performance and it was important that the mods selected were performance friendly to allow as many to follow as possible to download fabled Forest to your mod manager and you can hop on back over to mo2 for their installation we begin with Cathedral Landscapes the faux mod will appear on screen leave the first option as it is and click next As for the grass color whilst green may appear to be more vibrant and preferred by selecting ing the green grass the cells that have loaded the grass will appear much more obvious to you compared to the ones in the distance as the base color beneath the grass is closer to Brown because of this it can spoil the immersion you can always reinstall with the other option at a later time with Blended roads your decision will depend on your performance needs naturally the really Blended option is more demanding as it's more detailed choose which you prefer and install moving on to our fixes we start with our landscape fixes for grass mods then our first patch arthor tones where you will need to manually select the options with your installed mods in this case cutting room floor and Alternate start this is another example of a mod that would require reinstalling should you add any of the other mods it patches later down the line onto our Skyrim landscape and water fixes no grass in objects Cathedral water overhaul and Bug fixes and finally fabled forests for fabled forests you will be able to choose your preference remember the different options will have different impacts on your game's performance ensure you enable the mods by checking the boxes to the left of the mod names and now let's move them into position we want Cathedral Landscapes just after Cathedral weathers as we have to make sure our fixes are after all the landscape and Flora mods so they can apply the changes to them the only exception are our patches for landscape fixes for grass mods for arthor towns and JK Skyrim which we will need to place further down the list ensuring they are after the mods they patch it's time for our Flora mods there are a large number number of these and each one focuses on a single plant type in game you can choose which you wish to install and which you wish to leave out it's entirely up to you these mods will replace the in-game plants with 3D versions providing much more depth to the landscape and improving the overall immersion so back over to Nexus and we want to download the following Cathedral 3D mountain flowers Cathedral 3D Pine grass 3D Tundra cotton 3D snow berries 3D lavender 3D clover plant 3D thistle 3D death bell 3D rocky shores 3D sword ferns 3D Nightshade 3D Dragon's Tongue whichever color you prefer 3D Thicket and dead shrub 3D Pine shrubs 3D solstein grass 3D Tundra shrubs and 3D Stone crop a couple of bonus ones Cathedral mushrooms and Cathedral plants we will also want Cathedral 3D mountain flowers Hearthfire patch this will be under the mountain flowers mod page under files these are very simple to install simply double click and click okay 3D Nightshade has a faux mod and there are a couple of choices to choose from up to your personal preference once installed remember to enable them by checking the boxes then let's move them up under environment between our fixes and Cathedral weathers as for their order this is the perfect opportunity to play around with the priority of the flower mods and see what what impact it has in game some will overwrite others in certain places just ensure you're only moving around these ones and keep the fixes and the main Cathedral mods in the same location with that done let's sort our plugins navigate to the plugins and click sort once complete you can close out of this window sorting your plugins is a good habit to get into and we'll soon be looking at installing installing loot for more control over our load order the function within2 has been perfect for our needs so far but as we move on we will want to have complete control over their order by manually making changes through the loot tool it's time to load the game through skse and jump into your new Skyrim and that is a perfect time for a brew

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Published: Thu Mar 21 2024