A list with the graphical mods I’m using. It might perhaps be somewhat useful to others as questions about which texture replacers etc. that are recommended are quite common. In some cases texture replacers are overlapping, which often means that I’m using a particular replacer over one in a pack, but sometimes means that I like different replacers and am switching between them. Also, some mods aren’t texture replacers per se, but I’ve included them under those categories, at least for the time being. As it is, the listing can be a bit confusing when it comes to categories, but I’ll try to make the list clearer and more logical.

GENERAL TEXTURE/MESH REPLACERS
http://wiki.step-project.com/Skyrim_Realistic_Overhaul – My favorite general texture replacer. Not available on TES Nexus, so easiest to google for it.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/35507/? – Excellent pack which complements SRO well.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/40512/? – My favorite parallax pack. There are several popular alternatives, but I find that the ones I’ve tried tend to overdo it. Comes with separate versions for different texture overhauls. Requires ENB.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/8655/? – Excellent ongoing project which replaces tons of vanilla meshes.

TEXTURE REPLACERS – LANDSCAPE ETC.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/4834/? – “This is a replacer for all of the LOD files (excl. the 3D-Map). … Texture resolution has been doubled and mesh resolution increased 2-20 fold, this depends on the surface curvature.” Comes in several different versions, both for meshes and textures.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/19446/? – “The Skyrim Distance Overhaul (S.D.O.) adds thousands of polygon-reduced objects to the distant-LOD of Skyrim to improve LOD quality…”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/1598/? – A replacers which “enhances the distant low-detail terrain by re-creating from scratch, a new more detailed and more defined texture map.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/39394/? – “This mod basically takes 6000+ LOD textures (yep really, but not over 9000 just yet) and applies the most amount of noise I could to them without making the landscape look too dark.” Has a version for Dragonborn.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/41076/? – My favorite water replacer. Lots of features. Has a version for ENB’s water parallax and displacement.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/48938/? – “This is just a simple plugin to change the color of the water making the Sunscattering effect of ENBseries more visible.” Requires ENB.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/5504/? – Mountain and rock replacer. Comes in several different sizes and variants.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/37256/? – My current favorite mountain and rock replacer. Superior Rocks Dark Grey Ultra-HD-4K to be more precise.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/31856/? – “This mod basically enables dynamic moss (much like the snow) on certain rocks that I hand-picked.” Comes in different sizes.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/40944/? – As above, but for Solstheim. Requires Dragonborn.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/46915/? – “Enhanced Wetness and Puddles brings more wetness to the harsh lands of Skyrim, it will give your coasts a more wet feeling by adding many new wet meshes such as boxes, barrels, tree trunks and thousnads of decals around the coast waters.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/85/? – My favorite replacer for the galaxy and stars.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/54349/? – “Completely new textures for the wonderful Masser & Secunda moons, in glorious 4K, 2K, and 1K resolutions, designed to retain the look and feel of the original vanilla creations.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/4910/? – Retexture of the vanilla clouds.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/56279/? – Retexture of the vanilla clouds.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/5388/? – My favorite ice replacer. A pack with several different variants.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/47176/? – Replacer for icicles, making them more transparent.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50316/? – Adds transparency and refraction to icicles, Frost Atronachs and Ice Wraiths.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/28419/? – My favorite snow texture replacer.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/10383/? – “A mod that changes the ugly, pure-white dynamic snow effect to actually use the default snow texture (landscapesnow01.dds). This minor change greatly improves the visual appearance of dynamic snow.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/52986/? – A retexture of the “blowing snow effects that are seen in the artic type areas of Skyrim.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/7405/? – Texture replacer for snowflakes. Comes in several different variants.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/42370/? – A mod which adds “new grass/flower types throughout the game world. These resources contain entirely new grass textures.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/3812/? – An add-on for Skyrim Flora Overhaul, replacing its trunks.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/51069/? – A reecolor of the aspen trees in yellow-green, red and orange colors. Comes with a version for Skyrim Flora Overhaul.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50418/? – A version of MannyGT’s Morning Fogs which comes with an MCM menu. Adds morning fogs to several locations. The MCM version requires SkyUI.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/1546/? – Texture replacers for flora.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/57688/? – Texture replacer for herbs.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/57514/? - – Texture replacer for thickets.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/54546/? – Retexture of the jazbay graqes.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/1731/? – Retexture of the spider webs.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/48861/? – “HD textures and normals for Spider Eggs.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/35857/? – A retexture of the falmer glow. Comes in different variants.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/28923/? – “A 2048x2048 or 1024x1024 (optional) detailed retexture of hanging moss, found in many places in Skyrim.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/44201/? – A replacer for dust effect textures.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/51462/? - This mod replaces the texture of the dandelion seeds that are seen floating around certain landscape exteriors of Skyrim. It now also replaces the forest mote texture (vanilla used snowflakes) with more seeds.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/30971/? – A replacer for the “ivy that hangs/grows on stone walls/dead tree stumps/logs/farm houses”.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/54085/? – “This mod retextures the rain effect that appears during bad weather in Skyrim.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/52733/? – “This mod replaces the textures of the falling aspen leaves and pine needles that are seen around the wooded areas of Skyrim. I have also changed the animation effects slightly to something a bit more natural.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/57720/? – Adds waterplants to Lake Illinata.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/45782/? – “This is a bump up in resolution, and detail, for Hermaeus Mora's realm Apocrypha, Miraak's Temple (simply because the exterior of Miraak's Temple shares textures...) and the mysterious Black Books.”

TEXTURE REPLACERS – ARCHITECTURE
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/6971/? – “Windows that look more like windows. All window glass, most frames, railings, and detailings have been replaced with new textures.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/54302/? – Retextures for windows.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/57774/? - Retexture for bridges.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/55518/? – “Real Roads for Skyrim aims to bring life to the dull roads by using 3D meshes. It covers all road meshes in all variations inc. the shiny Dwemer roads.” Has addons for Dragonborn and Dawnguard.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/57283/? – A retexture for Real Roads for Skyrim.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50324/? – The only mod from the Vivid series that I’m using, but check out the others as well for alternatives to Project Parallax Remastered and more.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/32635/? – Excellent retexture of Alduin’s wall.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/55658/? – “Noble and ordinary furniture retextures. Affects almost all the furniture in the game - tables, chairs, cupboard, wardrobes, tables, showcases and more.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/3506/? – Retexture for the grindstone.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/3634/? - Retexture for the workbench.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/2043/? – “New textures for alchemy and enchanting workstations.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/57692/? – Retexture for the marketstallroofs.

TEXTURE REPLACERS – CREATURES
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/3621/? – A mod which “provides new and modified textures for wildlife, domesticated animals, and creatures in the game.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/57691/? – A replacer for the “Wisp Mother textures so instead of looking like a glowing crone, she is now a mystical creature of beauty.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/54070/? – Texture replacer for Alduin. My favorite texture replacer for other vanilla dragons come with the Skyrim Ultra HD Pack.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/2764/? – “Red and arctic foxes retextured to look like their real life counter-parts. Includes pelts.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/51270/? – Retexture of the dwemer spiders.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/16291/? – “Using my own textures I have given the Skeever a more detailed, less pixelated look.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/57857/? – texture replacer for Netch and Siltstrider. Requires Dragonborn.

TEXTURE/MESH REPLACERS – CHARACTERS

[I'm using Alt Navetsea UNP Seamless and SG Female Textures Renewal, but as both mod pages contain pixelated nudity I can't link to them. Easily found on TES Nexus, though.]
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/36510/? – Texture replacer for vanilla hairs.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/13722/? – Texture replacer and/or addon for eyes.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/49963/? - Texture replacer and/or addon for eyes. Has addon for the Ningheim race.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/31665/? – HD replacers for makeup tintmasks. Requires SKSE.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/22701/? – HD replacer for lip tintmasks.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/34331/? - Texture replacer for the vanilla warpaints.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/4784/? - HD replacer for scars.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/30411/? – “Brows is a Skyrim texture mod that replace the existing eyebrows with high resolution hand painted eyebrows that are true to the vanilla style, but look so much more photo realistic.” Comes in different sizes and has a Ningheim addon.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/515/? – A replacer for the vanilla freckles.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/20343/? – “This MOD extends drawing reflection of lower position Eye.” Only for human female characters.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/54416/? – A replacer for the eye normal map “so it made the iris look concave. This allows the eye to reflect light and shine the way a real eye would.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/57083/? – Hand replacer and/or long nails for different for vanilla and different body replacers.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/26800/? – “A multi purpose skeleton for animation in skyrim.” I’m actually using XP32 Maximum Skeleton Extended which is hosted on a site we can’t link to, but easily found if googling for it.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/24273/? – nuska’s excellent revamp of the elf races of Skyrim. “It alters every aspect of their facial features to a more appealing look, while remaining faithful to the original work and striving for realism. EEO also affects every elven NPC in the game and comes with new presets.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/46067/? – EEO patches for the DLC’s and several mods.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/55555/? – Overhaul of the children, making them look less generic and better.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/19730/? – Makes older peoples bodies match their faces.

TEXTURE REPLACERS – CLOTHES, ARMORS & WEAPONS
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/24909/? – Excellent texture replacer for weapons, armors, unique items and creatures. It also has a content addon. Don’t miss the Bonemold and Skyforge hotfixes.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/42404/? – “Hi resolution retexture of stormcloak and city guards armors (helmet, gloves, boots, cuirass and shield) following vanilla design and variations for each city.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/39870/? – Reshaped and improved weapon meshes.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50737/? – “This modification changes thickness of all bows and crossbows in vanilla game and both DLC by ~25 or ~50 percent.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/33292/? – Replacers for lots of the unique weapons.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/32905/? – “This mod provides a complete HD texture overhaul for the bows and quivers - standard and unique - of the fantastic Dragonborn DLC.” Requires Dragonborn obviously.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/53067/? – Replacer for Stahlrim weapons and armor adding refraction and optional transparency.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50445/? - Texture replacers for “all of the classical vanilla mage and mage related robes and offers all of the previously released robes + Thalmor, Greybeard, Psijic and Mythic Dawn in one single consolidated download pack.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/40592/? – “This mod offers a lore friendly quality texture makeover for mage related vanilla gear which includes staves, Daedric artifacts like Spellbreaker or Azura's Star.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/51947/? – “This mod offers a massive high quality and lore friendly texture overhaul for almost all new items introduced by the Dawnguard DLC including all armors, weapons and clothes as well as most of the statues, creatures and clutter items.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/2674/? – 2K replacer for the vanilla clothing. Two versions plus an expansion pack.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/5603/? – “A fine tuned, remixed, high detail, re-texture of the clothing in Skyrim.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/45642/? – “This mod replaces textures of existing child's clothes in Skyrim and Hearthfires DLC. There are four separate optional files.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/3623/? – Retexture of children clothes.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/35089/? – “This retexture want to set a new standard for all the players who plays as Archmage and want to use traditional robes…”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/34914/? – “High Definition Retexture of the great Psijic robe.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/35965/? - The "Dragonborn Mages Robes Retexture Pack" replace the main and powerful magical clothes that appears in the Dragonborn DLC. Requires Dragonborn.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/55640/? - HD retexture of all vampire armors. Requires Dawnguard.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/21701/? – “This mod adds a subtle embossed leather texture to both the male and female armor, as well as the Royal Vampire Armor.” Requires Dawnguard.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/3104/? – Texture and mesh replacer.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/37724/? – “Draugr clothing rags dark/tan retexture for draugr Rags Prison Replacer by tattooedillusions. It will change the rags worn by female draugr too.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/27038/? – Texture and mesh replacer for rings and necklaces.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/6495/? – Texture replacer for vanilla circlets.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/46932/? – “This mod aims to adapt the setup that the clutter gems use in order to make all circlets that have gems (not onyx or moonstones) uses it, in order to truly look like gems.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/52266/? – A replacer for “all jewelry gemstones with actual transparency and depth, as opposed to flat, vertex coloured plastic. Currently covers all craftable vanilla circlets, rings and necklaces.”

TEXTURE REPLACERS – ITEMS
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/14227/? – “Ruins Clutter Improved is a retexturing project, which covers some of the ugliest objects in the dungeons of Skyrim. It improves the visual experience of catacombs and ruins by adding more detail to common clutter like pots, sconces, candles, doors and many other stuff.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/1192/? – Texture replacer for food and ingredients.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/37181/? – “This mod has 4 new 2K sets of replacement textures for the Bethesda vanilla pelts of Skyrim.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/18799/? – “This mod adds over 150 new textures, each 1K in resolution, and each specific to the potion or poison bottle it's assigned to.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/54078/? – Texture and mesh replacer for the White Phial. Comes in different variants.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/13429/? – Excellent retextures of all hold banners, including the ones from the DLC’s.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/29608/? – Excellent retexture of rugs.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/9912/? – “This mod replace all ore and ingots textures in Skyrim by new HD ones.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/22707/? – Replacers for linen wrap, ink well and quill and hides.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/48933/? – Mesh and texture replacer for gems, adding more polys and refraction.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/3595/? – retextures of the lamp and some other items.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/3483/? – “Complete re-texturing for urns, including normal maps.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/57578/? – Replacer for shop and inn signs.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/54523/? – Texture replacer and mesh fixes for Stahlrim. Requires Dragonborn.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/38236/? – Texture replacer with several variants for the pickaxe.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/54757/? – “New Custom Textures for the Candleflames.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/2127/? - Texture replacer for the axe.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/37556/? – “High definition texture replacer for the charcoal pile near smelters.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/38479/? – “High definition texture and mesh replacers for the Stone Quarry and Clay Deposit resources added by the Hearthfire DLC…” Requires Hearthfire obviously.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/362/? – “Better Gold (Skyrim) (Mesh and Texture Replacer)”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/34592/? – And alternative retexture of golden Septims.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/51769/? – Mesh and texture replacer for dragon claws, with transparency and refraction.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/31195/? – Texture replacer for bread. Requires Hearthfire.

NOTE: See http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1506892-list-mods-for-book-collectors/ for book and paper texture replacers.

TEXTURE REPLACERS – WORLD MAP
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/4817/? – “This is a replacer for the LOD files which are responsible for the 3D-Map.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/4929/? – Better textures with detailed roads for the ingame map. Complements High Quality 3D Map perfectly.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/10093/? – Full screen world map, smaller icons and more.

FLORA OVERHAUL

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/141/? – vurt’s wonderful overhaul of the Skyrim flora. Lots of variants and version for Dragonborn.

WEATHER OVERHAUL
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/17802/? – My favorite weather overhaul. Also has modular lighting and audio plugins plus a version for Dragonborn.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/39799/? – Excellent patch for Climates Of Tamriel.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/28110/? – Adds new snow weathers to CoT. It also has a version for vanilla.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/27022/? – “This mod tweaks the vanilla snow and rain storms weathers by making them more.... Extremely intense!” Has a version for CoT.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/47173/? – Stars replacer for vanilla, but it also has a version for CoT.

LIGHTING AND FIRE MODS
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/27043/? – My favorite lighting overhaul. Modular, with versions for Dawnguard, Dragonborn and SMIM.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/18916/? – “This mod add lanterns to main roads, villages, towns and settlements.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/28642/? – “After retexturing the fire effects of the torch, I thought it would be nice to have better fire textures for the whole game. So here is the next step getting better fire textures in Skyrim. The Ultimate HD Fire Effects!”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/2692/? – “High definition, colour corrected flames and explosions.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/836/? – Replacer for smoke, embers, ash and Giant’s Fire Wood.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/23352/? – Replacer for embers.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/39759/? – Makes it so that spells emits light and more. Requires SKSE and SkyUI for the MCM menu.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=101419466 – Fire and Storm Atronachs emit light.

MISCELLANEOUS
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/41052/? – Texture replacer for magic runes.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/48287/? – “The mod adds opening/closing and idle animations to several objects that should be animated in my opinion for the sake of greater ‘realism’.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/40564/? – Adds “animated waterfalls at a distance! And I also distantly animated windmills and waterwheels along the way.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/52694/? – Adds bobbing to boats without clipping issues.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/27563/? – “Dynamic wet and cold related effects.” Highly configurable via an MCM menu. Requires SkyUI for the menu and SKSE for some features.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/31968/? – “An unofficial, official addon for Wet and Cold, which extends cold effects support to Solstheim and adds various ash related effects.” Requires SKSE for some features.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/25666/? – Adds rainbows, from “partial rainbows to the elusive full lunar rainbow”.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/25022/? – “During clear weather from 8:30 PM to 6:00 AM you will see shooting stars.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/37873/? – “Rain impact splash effects appear on most uncovered surfaces during rain.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/34399/? – “This mod adds a brief animation to the Dwemer Lift Load Doors found all over Skyrim.” Has a version for Dragonborn.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/34981/? – “This mod disables the glowing edges activated by the use of some spells.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/60/? – “Bloodier combat experience with higher resolution and detailed textures with included features such as decapitated spasms, low health blood drops blood pools, green blood for spiders and oil for machines.”
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/22745/? – “Adds footprints to the player, NPCs, and creatures.” Also has a version for Solstheim.