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**** Realistic Colors and Real Nights ****

RCRN 2.1 HDR

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RCRN grants you an immersive gameplay experience without ruining the original feeling, it also provide an incredible dynamic experience, weathers and lighting sources are dynamically generated and managed with our Hybrid Shaders engine!
RCRN also adds HDR, a better FXAA antialiasing, Darker nights, Dynamic DOF and a Realistic Color palette.
FPS drop is minimal, about 3/4 fps only in certain locations!

INSTALLATION:
RCRN comes with an handy autoinstaller, just few clicks and you are ready to use it!
There are 3 presets available:

RCRN Legacy : balanced colors, lesser contrast and slightly brighter nights than RCRN Classic, realistic dynamic lighting, enhanced weather conditions, torches not needed. (recommended for newcomers)
RCRN Classic : balanced colors, dark nights and realistic dynamic lighting, enanched weather conditions, balanced preset, torches suggested.
RCRN Pure : the ultimate Skyrim experience, pitch black nights, scary dungeons, ultra-realistic weather conditions, torches required.

DOWNLOAD & QUICK-REFERENCE GUIDE: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1875

EXTENDED MULTILANG DOCUMENTATION: http://www.themaskedgamer.com/skyrim/

VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xArmdyjTl3A&hd=1&t=7m11s - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2vB0NR1YGk&hd=1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahHarHE_jc - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94HzabREpjQ&hd=1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQID16aOoxg&hd=1&t=3m48s - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-MpbeumHbw

IMAGES:
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If you are having Questions/Issues, our live chat is open, and i'll be glad to help you, you can join us via http://widget.mibbit.com/?channel=%23RCRN&autoConnect=true (please use your Nexus username)

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CHANGELOG:

**2.1** (12/03/2012)
- solved an issue regarding markarth interiors, especially affecting shrine of talos
- Windhelm is now using a NEW and brighter interior lighting setting
- solved a shadow flickering issue experienced in the player owned houses
- solved an issue regarding the blacksmith in whiterun that was using a too dark imagespace
- clouds on certain weathers now stand out more
- added a new look for certain dusks
**2.0** (28/02/2012)
> UPDATED “Hybrid Shaders v2″ lighting system:
— realistic lighting for dungeons
— improved reflections
— reworked “Depth of Field”
— further enanched dusks
— further enanched dawns
— fixed some too washed out skyboxes
— solved the issue related to the too bright snow
— fixed a problem with some too bright waterfalls
— added Hybrid Shaders for foggy weathers
— added Hybrid Shaders for rainy weathers
— added Hybrid Shaders for snowy weathers
— updated Hybrid Shaders for clear weathers
— updated Hybrid Shaders for clear nights
— updated Hybrid Shaders for cloudy nights
— updated Hybrid Shaders for foggy nights
— updated Hybrid Shaders for rainy nights
— updated Hybrid Shaders for snowy nights
> NEW “Adaptive Torches” illumination system for Static Lights and Torches:
— Torches now casts light correctly
— Torches now are using the correct hue
— Torch range extended
— Torch duration extended
— Torch flickering reworked in order to solve the flickering bug
— Static Lights now casts light correctly
— Static Lights are now using the correct hue
— Static Lights range extended
— Torches and Static lights are now displaying reflections correctly on the player character
— Dragon Fire Shout now casts a more realistic lighting
— Dragon Fire has a more vivid hue
— Candlelight spell it’s brighter in Classic and Pure presets.
> Global:
— added the Pure preset, for an extreme Skyrim experience.

[Dragonz Dancer]

RCRN Has already very nice balanced colors, but as always someone like to play some more with the colors, and may not want to edit the injector .h file, so combined with The Imaginator it′s now really easy to adapt rcrn to the desired results.. here 3 examples where the saturation was raised a bit.

http://static.skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/images/1875-1-1332327046.jpg
http://static.skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/images/1875-1-1332254305.jpg
http://static.skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/images/1875-2-1332327047.jpg
Pics by Manigoldo

[Racheal Robertson]

Where excatly is the "Dynamic DOF" ? I don't see any DOF enabled at all! Even though it's on in my skyrim/pref.ini

[Bereket Fekadu]

Where excatly is the "Dynamic DOF" ? I don't see any DOF enabled at all! Even though it's on in my skyrim/pref.ini

Dynamic DOF doesn't mean Bokeh dof!
Our dof changes in relation with the weather, not in relation with a "focus", you can experience it during cloudy/foggy/stormy days

Here is a video about this subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahHarHE_jc&hd=1

[Alada Vaginah]

Yeah.. Depth of Field, check the Trees at the end of the Landscape.. how "blurry" or not it gets depending of the weather conditions... in the Video you dont even see all the conditions, f.e. foggy weather, were it gets really noticeable. If you want the other DOF , changing the Focus depending if you are close to something or not, we recomment to use Dynavision along with it.

[Spooky Angel]

I wouldn't recommend Dynavision at this point. The effect is crude and it doesn't focus properly. Perhaps with some improvements it would work better.

[Ross Zombie]

My experience with torches for realistic lighting and candlelight spell with RCRN is that the torches had a greater radius (as expected) and the candlelight spell radius was small (probably as it should be). My preference is not to use a torch (so I could use a shield) and just stick with candlelight. But the candlelight spell has a small radius and does not use the colors I would expect (yellowish similar to a torch flame).

So if it is working well for you, we either have different perceptions of what to expect (most likely ) or something else is messing up my visual lighting (possible). I do not use any other mods that would necessarily mess this up, unless HD texture mods do. I have a similar experience in Oblivion using Ampol's high rez cave textures. The torches used in there and light spells used, all work at 40% efficiency. So I guess my test should be to remove my HD textures and see if they affect my experience.

For The record I use the DLC HD textures and the Skyrim HD pack (the popular one).

Either way, this is a great mod and my choice for lighting.

[lillian luna]

Well Peter ID, seems like there was no Mod about increasing candlelight range around Nexus.. so I just did one and added some optional fun colors to it ^^ , I hope your problem its solved this way

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=13550

Edit: I will also do a "yellowish similar to a torch flame" file if you want.. we just need to agree what color exactly are you looking for

[Kahli St Dennis]

You are awesome, thanks. Downloaded now and will try this in game. I went back to Oblivion for a while (the game updates just got on my nerves) but I will try it this morning.

EDIT: Works like a charm I think the vanilla color with 2x range and longer duration works best. Only alternative I see that may be popular is a torch light color (yellowish), as candlelight suggests a flame color. Thanks for making this.

[Cathrin Hummel]

EDIT: Works like a charm I think the vanilla color with 2x range and longer duration works best. Only alternative I see that may be popular is a torch light color (yellowish), as candlelight suggests a flame color. Thanks for making this.

Nice. I can make the candlelight have the same color as the actual torch in game.. maybe more yellow and less red. i will do it in the coming days. Also People started to request, for the colores version, to have the orb colored aswell.. thats not so easy, but i will see what i can do

[Shiarra Curtis]

A new Dungeon Comparision Video , for whoever cant decide which of the 3 presets may like most.

http://youtu.be/94HzabREpjQ

[Benito Martinez]

Dynamic DOF doesn't mean Bokeh dof!
Our dof changes in relation with the weather, not in relation with a "focus", you can experience it during cloudy/foggy/stormy days

Here is a video about this subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahHarHE_jc&hd=1

I normally hate dof, for the same reason I hate motion blur or other stuff that my eyes already do, that is my eyes are ready do it. But this dof seems different, am I correct in saying that this DOF has nothing to do with faking what my eyes do, but simply enhances, hazy or foggy environments to look more realistic?

[naomi]

I normally hate dof, for the same reason I hate motion blur or other stuff that my eyes already do, that is my eyes are ready do it. But this dof seems different, am I correct in saying that this DOF has nothing to do with faking what my eyes do, but simply enhances, hazy or foggy environments to look more realistic?

Correct, this is a blur effect to visualize foggy environments. You won't see it with any other type of weather. It's not related to simulate eye focus.

[Jessica Raven]

Gopher just released the 2nd part of his RCRN 2.1 video review, it's an absolute must, don't miss it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2vB0NR1YGk&hd=1

[Nathan Risch]

- solved an issue regarding markarth interiors

I unsubscribed after I entered a house outside Markarth. The interior was almost pitch black. Does this mean it's not anymore?

[Imy Davies]

- solved an issue regarding markarth interiors

I unsubscribed after I entered a house outside Markarth. The interior was almost pitch black. Does this mean it's not anymore?

No problems in Markarth, here is an interior screenshot from RCRN Pure preset (the darker one): http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/4970/screenshot6975.png

[Skivs]

And the houses outside? At the mine area.

[Miragel Ginza]

A brand new Video I have done. You can see how RCRN looks on different times of the day and weathers.. =)

http://youtu.be/5kHbf7M4X34

[Mrs. Patton]

I loaded Classic version and went to check that house outside Markarth near the mine. Still almost pitch black.

[Megan Stabler]

I loaded Classic version and went to check that house outside Markarth near the mine. Still almost pitch black.

yeah sorry, i forgot to reply to you, i checked it yesterday night, it's using a wrong imagespace, we already corrected it in the upcoming version that will be out during the next days. Thank you for your report, unfortunately Skyrim is really large and may happen that we miss something

[Laura Richards]

We just released RCRN PONIES and CANDIES, check it out: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1875

[Stacyia]

Thanks! Gonna be waiting for it .

[Crystal Clarke]

Not sure if you're interested or not... but here's the latest version of my patcher, except, this one's tied in with the plugin name for your pure version.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/56852942/Realistic%20Lighting%20-%20RCRN.zip

There's some editing instructions inside. Of course, if you haven't edited an area listed, then it won't have an effect. But if you have any interest at all, it's there - only took a few moments to change, thought I might as well.

Makes it easier if you want to make quick changes, especially. It won't modify anything you have, it'll export everything into a RCRN Patch.

Edit: Oh, and target lum 2 is the same as white in the CK. And it only edits imagespaces, not the rest.

[T. tacks Rims]

Not sure if you're interested or not... but here's the latest version of my patcher, except, this one's tied in with the plugin name for your pure version.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/56852942/Realistic%20Lighting%20-%20RCRN.zip

There's some editing instructions inside. Of course, if you haven't edited an area listed, then it won't have an effect. But if you have any interest at all, it's there - only took a few moments to change, thought I might as well.

Makes it easier if you want to make quick changes, especially. It won't modify anything you have, it'll export everything into a RCRN Patch.

Edit: Oh, and target lum 2 is the same as white in the CK. And it only edits imagespaces, not the rest.

Hello Pluto, sorry for the late reply but i didn't check the beth forum for almost 2 days, we are near to release the new version and i'm a bit busy with it.
Thank you for your offer, i'll try it out asap, it's for sure a nice thing, but i need to test it a bit more, editing the RCRN .esp it's always a bit critical due his relation with the injector, so for users may be a bit hard play with it, anyway i'll evaluate it.

Oh i also need to speak with you regarding a project, i'll send you a PM with all the details during the next days (just after release, when i should have a bit more time )

thank you again!

[Britta Gronkowski]

Is there any way to add a bit of a film grain effect? I love how cinematic this mod makes the game, but that's the only thing I'm still missing. Great mod, btw, guys. This has best approached my vision of how Skyrim should look.