Dear fellow Skyrim modders,

With great pleasure I do this first post here and am very positively surprised that you are up and running immediately after the start of the game, prior to the realease of official modding tools.

I have got a humble request I already tried myself a little but failed miserably so far:

To make the water non-transparent.

I tried the commands falpha=1 and busewaterdepth=0 within Skyrim.ini and SkyrimPres.ini for My Documents/My Games/Skyrim folder, but no avail. Even when write protecting these two files afterwards.

Perhaps any of you knows a way of achieving this non-transparency (or opaquenes)? It would be much appreciated.

P.S.: This would help me avoiding some nasty graphical glitches when using the water in stereo 3d mode.

Many thanks in advance and keep the modding growing strong

Best wishes

youngneil

You could fix the problem in Fallout by turning off water refraction. It looks like there's an option to do that in SkyrimPrefs.ini (bUseWaterRefractions=0) but so far changing it from 1 to 0 hasn't had any effect for me. Also tried adding the line to Skyrim.ini (both the my documents/games/skyrim copy and the common/skyrim/skyrim copies). No luck.

Other than that, I'm pretty impressed with the game's 3D, especially after what Todd Howard was saying about 3D in general. Only problem besides the water (and the usual 2d crosshair) is probably the nighttime skybox, and it isn't even that bad, should be modded soon anyway. I really like the skill constellations in 3D.

Heyas Imp of the Perverse,

many thanks for chiming in and trying out bUseWaterRefractions=0.

That theoretically sounds very promising, but indeed it doesn't work for me either. I wonder if something else has to done for the ini changes to work at all.

The stereo 3d is very impressive indeed, I would say actually it's the best I have seen ever. And I, too, think that we are exrtremely lucky it turns out so brilliant in the end with no offcial support at all.

Concnenring the skybox there's a nice fix by 3d4dd over at the nvidia forums: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=215250&view=findpost&p=1325622′

It's a cloud/stars remover, so it's not perfect. Nonetheless, the sky changes colour deopending no weather and day/night time and looks rather atmospheric, too. Really worth a try.