» Thu Mar 28, 2013 7:15 am Description
SkyReal is a weather and lighting modification for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. SkyReal will bring an immense variety of new weathers to Skyrim. SkyReal focuses to bring balance between realism and fantasy, while at the same time achieve natural and stunning visuals. With new high quality cloud textures and fine-tuned lighting, SkyReal brings new life to Skyrim's sunsets, sunrises, days, and nights, as well as dungeons and interiors.
Variety
From mighty cumulus clouds to elegant cirrus clouds, from mourning rain clouds to majestic altocumulus clouds, SkyReal will deliver an unrivalled variety of clouds. Moreover, there will be a supreme variety of sunsets and sunrises; from fiery red to golden yellow. Finally, there will be a great variety of different kinds of lighting types, for instance: truly sunny days with blue skies, cloudy days with grey skies, dark moody sunsets, and bright lively sunrises. The skies and lighting have been fine-tuned to fit the climate of a northern environment, as Bethesda originally intended.
Realism and fantasy
SkyReal will focus to balance realism and fantasy, in order to make the world of Tamriel feel real, yet extraordinary. Most of the time the lighting and skies will aim to be realistic, but there will also be times when the lighting and skies will try to give you that fantasy feeling that should be in a fantasy world. For instance, the night lighting will not be pitch-black, but instead enough bright for you to be able to see where you are going without a torch, and will sometimes, but not always, have a slightly blue tint. In addition, on very rare occasions there will be nebulas in the night sky, blazing with astounding colours.
Natural and stunning visuals
The skies and lighting of SkyReal will also focus to bring natural and stunning visuals as a variety in Skyrim. There will be times when the skies and lighting deliberately aim to look unimpressive and simply calm and natural. However, there will also be times when the visuals strive to look stunning and to truly amaze the player; in other words, make your jaw drop to the floor. The reason for this is the already mentioned keyword: variety.
Screenshots
Days:
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/images/199080
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/images/223003
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/images/223560
Sunset and sunrises:
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/images/193262
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/images/195974
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/images/202018
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/images/223168
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/Images/223948
Nights:
To come later.
Dungeons and interiors:
To come much, much later.
Videos
To come much, much later.
The purposes of this forum thread
The main purpose of this forum thread is so that you can give me feedback on my work. I gladly accept constructive criticism so that I can further improve this upcoming mod. Other purposes for this thread are so that people can easily see the development stages of this mod. I also take advice; for instance if you want to see a specific type of cloud in the game, you can request it, or if you have a desire on how something should look, you can say it. Moreover, if you have taken some great cloud photographs yourself and would like them to be part of the picture library that I use to make cloud textures of, you can show them to me in this thread (or you can send me a PM).
The release date of this mod
I have no current release date of this mod, because it is an extensive project and I have an extensive ambition. I will work on this mod for as long as I feel like working on it, and for as long as I have time to do so. My saying to this question is therefore always the same “It will be done when it is done.”
