Making Skyrim Special Edition look next-gen with only 10 visual Mods
With the release of Skyrim Anniversary Edition, the game has successfully gone past the decade mark.
It is rare for a single-player RPG to still be relevant enough for a re-release ten years down the line even if you take into account Skyrim's caliber. Skyrim was a milestone success on release for various reasons, and for its own merits as a game you could play for years.
What really kept it alive through two entire generations of consoles, though, was its lively mod community. Thanks to their breakthroughs, a modded Skyrim can match the visual standards of 2022 releases.
The re-release's 64-bit engine comes with volumetric lighting and texture upscaling, but the models were left more or less untouched by Bethesda. SMIM, short for Static Mesh Improvement Mod, succeeds at revamping numerous notoriously low-poly objects in it.
Additionally, SMIM fixes gameplay issues by redoing the vertices and collision files of many objects - such as arrows failing to slip through openings that it should be able to.
High Poly Project is a newer, more modern complimentary mod that replaces objects like hay bales, wood piles, tents, sconces, stone walls, sacks and various other miscellanea with high-fidelity lifelike remodels. These two mods also added their own HD textures to the objects that they touch.
On the Nexus, one can find an array of texture replacements for all things from fort walls to garlic breads. But the inordinate busywork to replace them one by one is largely made unnecessary thanks to large-scale texture packs like Noble Skyrim. One of the community favorites in the category, Noble Skyrim covers roughly two-thirds of everything in the game within the span of its hand-made careful redisgn project.
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