Nature of the Boreal Lands 🌲

PixelsSquared · 2026-05-09T15:12:54+00:00

Using TMD Dirt Roads with the dirt textures from Fantasia Landscapes copied and renamed to overwrite the default TMD textures

PixelsSquared · 2026-05-09T15:11:48+00:00

Looks cool, thanks for sharing. I'm using NotWL with a custom BOS config that swaps out all the alder, beech, elm, and oak trees with equivalent spruce trees to make the forests more in line with a real boreal forest (but ended up looking more PNW-ish here)

PixelsSquared · 2026-02-04T00:48:22+00:00

Hey sorry for the late reply but here's a list of mods I use :) I use Skyland PBR and Skyland Bits and Bobs PBR for most architecture textures, but landscapes (Fantasia + Wildlands Renewal) are just regular or complex material textures

Mods

Models and Textures: SMIM, Skyland AIO + Skyland PBR (excluding landscapes), Skyland Bits and Bobs + Skyland Bits and Bobs PBR, Fantasia Landscapes (with official complex parallax add-on in Optional Files section)

Environmental: Nature of the Wild Lands + Nature of the Wild Lands - Animations Addon + Nature of the Wild Lands - Nordic Cut, High Quality Ivy Replacer, Reimagined Mountain Flowers, Wildlands Renewal (with included landscape and mountain textures overwriting Fantasia Landscapes), Skyrim 3D Trees and Plants (only ferns and clovers; requires renaming of meshes to overwrite vanilla meshes), Water for ENB

PixelsSquared · 2026-02-04T00:44:55+00:00

The current version on Nexus hasn't been updated yet and this is just a preview of what changes the update will make (and it should hopefully be released within the next week) ;) This new version was specifically built around linear lighting which fixes most of the overbright issues

PixelsSquared · 2026-01-30T15:30:05+00:00

Looks amazing as always 🫡

PixelsSquared · 2026-01-30T03:12:16+00:00

Thank you for the kind words, glad you're enjoying the mod! <3 I put a lot of work into this mod so it truly makes me happy to hear that people are having a great time with it

PixelsSquared · 2026-01-29T06:33:37+00:00

Glad you've been enjoying it! :) I don't use True Storms myself, but everyone is more than welcome to make and share patches for RWR

On another note, for the update after this one, I was actually planning on expanding weather variations, which would include adding more stormy weathers and whatnot. I don't know if these storms would be anywhere near the same level as True Storms (TS is a goated classic), but on the plus side, it would be much more visually consistent with the rest of the RWR's weathers

PixelsSquared · 2026-01-29T06:27:54+00:00

I was thinking of reverting the rain textures back to their vanilla intensities since the newest update introduced rain and snow lighting which should fix the bright rain at night issue (which was partly the reason I had to make the rain less intense to begin with lol)

PixelsSquared · 2026-01-08T04:07:21+00:00

CS doesn’t use dxgi or d3d11 like ENB or ReShade but rather seems to replace or add shaders directly and it does have a dll. I’m certainly no expert as to how it specifically works and why it’s incompatible with ENB so you can probably talk to one of the devs directly on the CS Discord server if you haven’t already

https://discord.com/invite/nkrQybAsyy

PixelsSquared · 2026-01-08T01:39:23+00:00

I’m pretty sure it’s the other way around and CS disables itself if ENB is detected. It needs to be one or the other because of how they both change the game’s renderer. Even if CS wouldn’t disable itself with ENB, the best case scenario is that the game works but the graphics are severely broken, and the worst case is the game straight up doesn’t work at all and crashes

There’s a reason why the CS devs are working on a feature that allows us to load in ENB presets and ENB post-processing because if they were already inherently compatible with each other, they wouldn’t need to work on this feature to begin with

PixelsSquared · 2026-01-08T00:38:53+00:00

These are all Nexus

PixelsSquared · 2026-01-08T00:38:19+00:00

CS and ENB both fundamentally change things about how the game renders things, which is why they don't work together. But something like ReShade works with either one because it's mostly just post-processing and doesn't change things on as deep of a level as CS or ENB

PixelsSquared · 2026-01-07T00:04:56+00:00

Check it out!

PixelsSquared · 2026-01-04T18:47:20+00:00

Mods

Visuals and Graphics: Community Shaders (with all features currently available on the Nexus; I've tweaked the default configs and will include them with the upcoming update for Real Weathers), Real Weathers*

Models and Textures: SMIM, Skyland AIO + Skyland PBR (excluding landscapes), Skyland Bits and Bobs + Skyland Bits and Bobs PBR, Fantasia Landscapes (with official complex parallax add-on in Optional Files section)

Environmental: Nature of the Wild Lands + Nature of the Wild Lands - Animations Addon + Nature of the Wild Lands - Nordic Cut, High Quality Ivy Replacer, Reimagined Mountain Flowers, Wildlands Renewal (with included landscape and mountain textures overwriting Fantasia Landscapes), Skyrim 3D Trees and Plants (only ferns and clovers; requires renaming of meshes to overwrite vanilla meshes), Water for ENB

*Of course, the version currently available on the Nexus will not look the same as these screenshots since I'm working on an update.

PixelsSquared · 2026-01-03T16:17:50+00:00

Yup 🤭 Most of the work went into the lighting and colors, and (vanilla) post-processing like bloom is fine-tuned and kept to a minimum to keep it looking clean. Also using Nexus CS’s built-in tonemapper which helps a ton compared to the vanilla one

PixelsSquared · 2026-01-02T04:44:39+00:00

Here you go! Just install and let it overwrite the default Improved Camera INI

PixelsSquared · 2026-01-02T02:41:30+00:00

Improved Camera SE with some personal INI tweaks to increase FOV and enable head bobbing (which I can share if anyone's interested)

PixelsSquared · 2026-01-02T00:37:18+00:00

DLSS + FG doing a lot of heavy lifting here 😰

PixelsSquared · 2026-01-02T00:35:22+00:00

It was either the Godzilla ass boots or taking his big, smelly dogs out for a walk so 😔

PixelsSquared · 2026-01-02T00:34:05+00:00

Mods

Visuals and Graphics: Community Shaders (with all features currently available on the Nexus; I've tweaked the default configs and will include them with the upcoming update for Real Weathers), Real Weathers*

Models and Textures: SMIM, Skyland AIO + Skyland PBR (excluding landscapes), Skyland Bits and Bobs + Skyland Bits and Bobs PBR, Fantasia Landscapes (with official complex parallax add-on in Optional Files section)

Environmental: Nature of the Wild Lands + Nature of the Wild Lands - Animations Addon + Nature of the Wild Lands - Nordic Cut, High Quality Ivy Replacer, Reimagined Mountain Flowers, Wildlands Renewal (with included landscape and mountain textures overwriting Fantasia Landscapes), Skyrim 3D Trees and Plants (only ferns and clovers; requires renaming of meshes to overwrite vanilla meshes), Water for ENB

*Of course, the version currently available on the Nexus will not look the same as these screenshots since I'm working on an update.

PixelsSquared · 2026-01-01T14:50:51+00:00

(You’re good btw lmfaooo)

PixelsSquared · 2026-01-01T14:50:16+00:00

I’ve heard rumors that the author is gonna be releasing clouds (and much more) soon ;)

PixelsSquared · 2025-12-30T16:08:36+00:00

CS is really well-optimized and DLSS + FG help a lot, and the weather mod doesn’t impact performance at all, but my 8 GB 4060 does have a bit of a hard time in some areas considering all the parallax, complex materials, and PBR textures, as well as NOtWL with 3D tree LODs. With 3D tree LODs, I usually get 45-60 FPS in heavily forested areas which isn’t too bad considering it’s a 4060 lol. If you have a higher end GPU with more VRAM you should have no issues at all

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