What is Skylighting?

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What is Skylighting?

Hi Boris, could you explain what's skylighting? I noticed it's disabled by default in latest 182 ini. When i turned it on, the world just brightens a lot, but leave less shadow than direct light. Feels like something between direct and ambient light. Can't tell for sure, my eyes may have lied to me.

And I didn't find many options to tune skylighting like I can do with direct light in daytime. And why it can't be turned on/off in game?

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Re: What is Skylighting?

Sky lighting is a fake or "lite" AO that adds more depth and darkens the shadows cast from trees, NPC, leaves you name it.

AmbientMinLevel - Adjusts the amount of the Sky lighting with a range from 0 to 1, 1 is "vanilla"/brightest.

Then there are the quality settings

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0, High quality, 1 middle, 2 Performance.

And you have to enable it before you start Skyrim.

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Re: What is Skylighting?

--JawZ-- explained everything. It can't be toggled on/off at run time, because it require game shaders to be modified at their creation time (otherwise performance is wasted).
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